Pentax officially announced the QS-1. Specs and price info can be read at Adorama (Click here). In short these are the highlights of the new camera:

Pentax QS-1 Features

1/1.7 inch, back-illuminated CMOS image sensor
Q-Mount Compatible with system of lenses
Customized Quick Dial
Smart Effects Modes & Creative User Modes
In-body Sensor-Shift Shake Reduction (SR) Mechanism
High-speed continuous shooting at 5 FPS and shutter speeds from 1/2000 to 30 seconds
Large 3-inch LCD Monitor with advanced anti-reflection coating
Bokeh Control
ISO Sensitivity up to 12800
Traditional DSLR Modes
In-body RAW development
HDR Capture
Full 1080p h.264 HD video recording
HDMI Port
Built-In Pop-up Flash
SD, SDHC, SDXC, Eye-Fi card compatibility
Optional External Viewfinder Available

Image on top on courtesy of Personal View (Click here).

The Japanese agency Cipa (Click here) published the camera worldwide shipments data for the month of June. And Personal View (Click here) ordered the data in many nice graphs. There are a couple of interesting trends:

1) Mirrorless camera shipment from Japanese companies are growing (+9% over the previous month)
2) DSLR shipments are falling (-11% compared with to May).
3) Mirrorless shipments increased in the “not-so-mirrorless-friendly”  US (+18%) and European market (+10%).

In short: In these time of crisis the DSLR market is falling dramatically while the Mirrorless market is slowly growing.