An anonymous source (Thanks!!!) told us the Panasonic GF7 will be unveiled next week. There are no specs and images yet. All I got so far is that official Panasonic patent image for a GF camera. Not sure the GF7 will look like that…
Let’s hope this isn’t just a joke form those crazy Dutch guys. But the store fototuerlings.nl is already accepting preorders on the NX500!
The camera costs 999 Euro and has the following specs:
28M BSI CMOS sensor
Hybrid Auto focus system (phase detection + contrast AF) with 205 AF points
9 frames per second continuous shooting
New SMART option: GEO tagging, 4x faster Wifi connection, Bluetooth etc.
2.5K (Quad HD) movie
UHD Time Laps Video
Tilt flip-up Super AMOLED display with Touch
Dual control wheel
This morning we also spotted another camera named NX3300 which will be the new very entry level NX camera and cost 499 Euro (Source: Fotosemeins.nl). But that NX500 could really become a hotseller. NX1 sensor in a smaller and cheaper package…has to be great :)
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found via Photorumors.
Digicameinfo leaked the very first images of the new Olympus E-M5II and 14-150mm II lens. Specs have been disclosed by 43rumors:
Same E-M5 16MP sensor
Update processor (improves slightly the IQ)
No PDAF
New sensor shift shooting that allows to combine 8 pictures in one to create a 40 Megapixel image
Improved 5 axis stabilization
It does have clean hdmi-out
all common frame rates and video optimized af-algorithm.
50Mb/s all 1080p (no 4K recording)
The camera will be announced the first week of February!
SamsungCameraRumors got the final proof of a new Samsung NX camera that is coming at CP+. They spotted the name registration in China.
It’s pretty much obvious the camera is going to be announced before the CP+ show!
Quick rumor: Fuji will announce the new X-A2 and lot of new fixed lens compact camera within the next few hours.
And the first images of the XQ2 compact camera have been leaked via Fuji France:
Source: Fujirumors.
Byungdeok Nam, Senior Vice President of Samsung’s R&D team has been interviewed at Dpreview. I really like what Samsung is doing on the technological front but I have to say their market prediction regarding mirrorless were always wrong in the past. So I wouldn’t trust the latest statement they made in their new interview:
I wouldn’t like to say, but since 2008 when mirrorless systems were announced, mirrorless didn’t grow very rapidly. In the last year, however, market reports are predicting that in 2018/19 mirrorless cameras will outsell DSLRs.
It’s certainly more interesting to read about the NX1 development story. To design and make the NX1 sensor they worked for three years. And the NX1 development goal was:
Full-frame, high-end DSLRs. The ones around the $5000 level. That’s our benchmark.
They certainly did an extremely good job with the NX1!
