New US deals on Sony, Olympus and Panasonic stuff.

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Sony and Hasselblad:
$900 off on the Sony RX1R at [shoplink 300908 ebay]eBay US (Click here)[/shoplink]. Sells with 1 year US seller wararanty.
The Hasselblad 18-200mm E-mount lens sells for $499 only (Click here). That’s $350 less than the Sony version.
Hasselblad 16mm E-mount lens costs $100 less than the Sony version.

Olympus:
Olympus US repaired a huge amount of MFT products which they now sell as refurbished and with big discounts. Check out those links: GetOlympus refurbished cameras (Click here), GetOlympus refurbished lenses (Click here).

Panasonic:
Quickndone is selling the brand new Panasonic GH4 for $1,069 only on their [shoplink 300906 ebay]eBay Store (Click here)[/shoplink].

Fuji X-PRO 2 will be announced on January 15th!

(High credibility rumor):

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Fujirumors reports the X-PRO 2 will be announced on January 15th! And I am 100% sure he is right on the date info. The reliable specs according to FR are:

– APS-C sensor)
– 1/8000 of a second mechanical shutter speed
– weather sealed
– 4K video
– Faster Processor EXR III

So if the X-PRO 2 is coming in January…what will Fuji announced at the big Photokina event? X-T2 with organic sensor? Me dreaming I know :)

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!