The Ricoh GRII will be announced tomorrow (June 18) and Digicameinfo leaked some specs:
– 18.3mm f/2.8 lens
– GR ENGINE V
– Improved auto white balance
– Improved high sensitivity noise
– Wi-Fi and NFC
– smartphone sync function
– Limited special accessories premium kit available
Sony:
Sony updated the A7, A7r, A7s FE cameras The start up time is now faster. But the big update is for the A6000 which now gets XAVC-S recording!
Enter your model name and download the software on Sony sites like Sony US, Sony Germany, Sony UK, Sony France, Sony Italy, Sony Spain, Sony Holland, Sony Belgium, Sony CH, Sony Austria, Sony Portugal, Sony Sweden, Sony Norway, Sony Finland.
Olympus:
E-M1 firmware info:
+ WB to OFF.E-M5II firmware info:
The “Underwater” function was added to Picture Mode.
+ WB to OFF.Luminous Landscape posted that interview with Leica to discuss the new Leica Q camera (preorder here at BH).
To learn every single detail and MTF graph about the new Batis lenses. check out the newly posted PDF files from Zeiss:
Leaflet: zeiss.de/content/dam/Photography/new/pdf/brochures/batis/batis_leaflet_en.pdf
Batis 85mm Technical Specifications: zeiss.com/content/dam/Photography/new/pdf/en/downloadcenter/datasheets_batis/batis_1885.pdf
Batis 25mm Technical Specifications: zeiss.de/content/dam/Photography/new/pdf/en/downloadcenter/datasheets_batis/batis_225.pdf
Sony is the crazy horse of the camera industry. They keep turning things up side down to succeed in the digital camera market. Unlike Nikon and Canon they at least bring to us some excitement at almost every camera release :) Check out these two BH articles that sum up the Sony camera history:
1) Infographic: Inventive Camera Designs from Sony (Click here).
2) Innovative Journey in Camera Design and Technology (Click here).
The Sigma Dp0 Quattro with the 21mm f/4.0 lens will cost $999 and ship in July.
found via Sigma Rumors.
The digital camera market is shrinking dramatically but Sony seems to have found the way out of the crisis. Their focus is on premium mirrorless system cameras and premium fixed lens cameras.
On a press conference in New York Imaging Resource shared this picture of a Sony slide showing how Sony’s digital camera sales are growing!
Of course Sony doesn’t show their “cheap” entry level compact fixed lens cameras sales. They are basically down to zero :)
