Full Fuji X-T10 specs leaked.

The X-T10 will be announced on May 18 and those are the 100% bulletproof leaked specs:

– 16.3MP APS-C X-Trans CMOS II sensor
– Ultrasonic sensor cleaning mechanism
– Continuous shooting 8 frames / sec in the AF tracking
– Upper limit of the ISO sensitivity 51200
– Automatic scene recognition auto mode
– Intelligent hybrid AF of AF 0.08 seconds. AF point is 49 points
– EVF is 2.36 million dots. 100% field of view, magnification 0.62 times. Time lag is 0.005 seconds
– Start-up time of 0.5 seconds. Shutter lag is 0.05 seconds
– Quiet and high-speed electronic shutter (60 seconds -1/32000 seconds)
– 3.0 inches 920,000-dot tilting LCD monitor
– Video 1080p 60/50/30/25 / 24fps. Manual possible exposure
– Wi-Fi built-in. Remote control possible from smartphones and tablet
– P / S / A / M exposure modes
– Five types of auto bracket mode. 8 types of advanced filter
– Peaking and digital split image
– Built-in flash. Pop-up
– Interval timer. Time-lapse
– Capable of shooting in RAW + JPEG
– The body is made of metal. Five dial
– Exposure compensation plus or minus 3EV
– The battery is NP-W126. The number of remaining shots is 350 sheets
– Kit lens XC16-50mm F3.5-5.6 OIS II

via Digicameinfo (Translation via Fujirumors).

X-T10, G7 and Olympus PRO lens rumors!

Let’s start the week with a couple of new mini-rumors:

Fujirumors report:

Thanks to a new source, we now know that, instead of an ISO dial, the Fujifilm X-T10 will feature a function dial! They have basically made a big dial out of the little one under the ISO dial. So you’ll still have a dial to set BKT, CH, CL, Double Exposure, Panorama…

43rumors reports that Panasonic will display the G7 and Olympus the new 7-14mm and 8mm PRO lenses at an event in Berlin on May 29.

Mirrorless news roundup…

Fujifilm X-A2 Review (ePhotozine).
Samsung NX1 Shooter’s Report Part II (Imaging Resource).
Samsung NX3000 review (CameraLabs).
Waiting for Azulejos (shot on the A7).
Nikon 1 J5 Review (ePhotozine).
The Leica M Monochrom (Typ 246) Brings B&W Photography to New Dimensions (Bhphoto).
10 Amazing Sports Photographers Who Use Mirrorless Cameras on the Job (Mirrorlessons).
Full-frame DSLRs gone by 2025 claims Dr. Rajiv Laroia, imaging startup Light (Imaging Resource).

Worldwide camera shipment analysis for 2014. A very bad year for DSLR and Compact cameras.

Graph 1

Based on the latest CIPA data Dicahub drew those useful graphs. Note that the CIPA data shows the worldwide “shipped” cameras sold by Japanese companies (Samsung and Leica for example are not included).

Graph 1 (on top of this post):
It shows that camera shipments are decreasing over the last two years. Compact camera sales crashed, DSLR fell down and also Mirrorless had a small decrease of shipments.

Graph 2:
A really small good news is that compared on a year to year basis only compact and fixed lens cameras had a small increase compared to last year (remember that graph 1 showed a decrease based on a two year basis).

Graph 3:
compacts are increasing (I think the reason is large sensor high-end compacts.)

figure 4
5. [2012.01-2013.07] mirrorless ratio of system camera was mostly under 20%.
6. [2013.11-2014.12] mirrorless ratio of system camera was mostly about 25%.
7. mirrorless ratio looks like stepped-increasing; [~2013.07] & [2013.11~], except [2012.10-2012.12] 8. we can’t know mirrorless ratio will be stepped-increasing.
9. panasonic forecasted mirrorless ratio would be reached 28% in 2014, but it was not realized.
10. samsung forecasted mirrorless will sell more than slr in 3 years, but I think it is difficult.

Fuji X-T10 will definitely be announced on May 18!

I am pretty sure Fujirumors is spot on here: The Fuji X-T10 will be announced on may 18! I got similar rumors from my sources and there is little that can go wrong now.

The X-T10 has no ISO dial, X-E2 EVF and built in flash. The real question is how much you will have to pay for it. I hope it will be really cheap because otherwise I doubt it will sell fine!