Canon proft falls 21%. Reuters says they are missing the mirrorless market.

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Reuters reports about the new quarterly financial report from Canon:

Japan’s Canon Inc said quarterly operating profit fell by a fifth as demand for digital cameras slumped and it spent more on developing new businesses, but it nudged up its full-year earnings estimates on a sharply weaker yen.
The consumer shift to smartphones for casual photo taking has pummelled demand for compact cameras, while the growing popularity of lighter mirrorless cameras has taken away market share from higher margin single-lens reflex cameras.

Time to get serious on mirrorless Canon! Where are our new EOS-M lenses?

via CanonWatch.

 

Olympus working on new PEN line and also ready to launch the 300mm PRO IS lens!

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43rumors reports two news about future Olympus products:

  1. Olympus will launch a completely new kind of PEN line in Spring 2016
  2. Olympus will launch the new 300mm f/4.0 PRO IS lens soon (probably in 2 months or so).

What else can we expect from Olympus in 2016? Well, Olympus managers said fast prime lenses are high on the priority list. And it’s also easy to guess the new E-M1markII will be launched at Photokina in September!

Sony will give us a glimpse on their future FE lenses in November.

The Sony marketing machine is warming up. The PhotoPlus show is over and as we have seen lately from Sony their product announcements are now made off the big shows. I have been told Sony product announcement(s) are going to be made in November. So maybe we will finally get a glimpse into the new FE lens roadmap. Back in September Sony stated eight new FE lenses would be announced between now and Spring 2016. Time to see those!

Sony buys Toshiba sensors business.

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Sony will buy the Toshiba sensor business for $165 million. They get one step closer to the total domination fo the sensor market. Toshiba also makes the sensors of some Fuji camera models and it’s pity we have one player less on the market.

Canon EOS M3 Hands-On Field Test by TheCameraStoreTV

TheCameraStoreTV team tested the new EOS-M3 and in very short says: “It’s well designed but it’s to expensive for what you get.“. I think Canon will show us more exciting mirrorless cameras in 1-2 years when they willl launch their Full Frame mirrorless system…