New rumors: Next Sony FF E-mount camera and 4K firmware update for the E-M1?

If you think Sony is done with releasing new Full Frame E-mount camera you might be wrong! The Indonesian agency Postel registered the name of a new Sony interchangeable camera having the code “WW024382“. That sort of code was used in the past for the Sony A7 cameras. Sony could release that new model in August. No specs are known yet.

And Olympus is said to release a new firmware update for the E-M1 that adds 4K video recording. Is it really that easy? We will see it soon…

 

Camera market will shrink by 10% yearly by 2017 (says ICinsights).

Icinsights posted a forecast about the camera market till 2017. And the market is expected to shrink:

Worldwide DSC shipments are expected to fall by a CAGR of -10% between 2012 and 2017 compared to an annual average growth rate of just 1% in the 2007-2012 period and nearly 31% per year in the 2002-2007 timeframe.

But there are two positive news: The System Camera Market is expected to growth further. And that’s also the most profitable business for the camera producers. And the “non-conventional” camera market for Tablet-smartphones-medical-car-surveillance is expected to grow too!

More Samsung NX400 and NX400EVF details…

Image on top shows the current NX400

I got more details about the two NX400 and NX400EVF cameras:

Presentation beginning 2015
Two versions: nx400 and nx400-evf
Former with optional tiltable evf and flippable display, latter with embedded tiltable evf and tiltable display
1/8000 mechanical shutter
28mp sensor with ospdaf II
6/8fps full res
Tripled buffer compared to nx300
Embedded gps
Expected prices: 650$ and 850$
 

Olympus E-Pl7 coming soon and Fuji X200 next month!

Image on top shows the current Fuji X100

More details about two upcoming mirrorless cameras spilled out on the web:

1) The Olympus E-Pl7 will be announced the next few days. And it has the same E-M10 specs but comes without the built-in EVF from the OMD

2) The Fuji X200 will be announced late August right before Photokina. It will feature a 24MP X-trans (APS-C) sensor. It will also have a new fixed lens (no specs known yet).

 

Possible Fuji X-Pro 2 specs…

Sounds like the big hit from Fuji at Photokina will be the new X-Pro 2 with hybrid viewfinder! These could be the camera specs:

APS-C sensor
24MP sensor
available in 2015
tilt screen
WiFi
Non organic ASP-C X-Trans sensor
Announcement at the photokina 2014

via Fujirumors.