Mirrorless news roundup….

New official NX1 commercial.

Olympus 40-150mm PRO lens review by Luminous Landscape.
Fujifilm XF 50-140mm F2.8 R LM OIS WR Review at Photographyblog.
Zeiss Loxia Biogon 35/2 Review at VeryBigLobo.
Samsung 16-50mm f/2-2.8 lens review at SLRgear.
Sigma DP2 Quattro full review at Mirrorlessleassons.
Ikelite Underwater Housing for the LX100 Released (Ikelite)
Samsung NX1 First Impressions (MirrorlessLeassons)
What Matters Most: NX1 plus Alex Webb (SamsungCameraRumors).
A 1000 fps C-mount camera on Kickstarter.
Samsung NX1 review at Luminous Landscape.
Lytro Illum Review at Photographyblog.
Samsung NX1 Review (Photographyblog).
Samsung NX1 review by Digitalcameraworld.
Samsung S 50-150mm f/2.8 ED OIS Review (Photographyblog).

Sony A7II now in Stock in USA. European Store to ship right before Christmas!

The brand new 5 axis stabilized Sony A7II is now in Stock in USA stores at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto and Sony US.

And it will ship next week in Sony Europe stores like Sony Germany, Sony UK, Jessops UK, Sony France, Sony Italy, Sony Spain, Sony Austria, Sony Switzerland, Sony Netherland, Sony Belgium, Sony Portugal, Sony Sweden, Sony Finland, Sony Norway.

There are many reviews out there about the camera and the interesting info are:

1) It uses a completely different tech from the Olympus E-m1 5 axis stabilization. This because the Olympus version cannot work with the much larger sensor. And it would be too noisy and overheated

2) Manual third party lenses with no electronic contacts only get access to the 3 axis stabilization. This because Sony doesn’t know where the exact focal point is.

3) The A7II start up time is much faster. And so is autofocusing (about 30% faster than on the A7).

 

TCSTV’s Best and Worst Cameras of 2014 (Sony rules, Canon not)

I am pretty sure soon Canon and Nikon will wake up from their conservative lethargy and strike back with their huge power. But for this year the title of best cameras on the market still goes to Sony and Panasonic mirrorless cameras. At least according to the yearly Chris&Jordan best cameras of the year list :)

 

Updated Samsung NX400 specs: Will compete against the Sony A6000!

Current NX300 vs A6000 (CameraSize).

Redcrow and SamsungCameraRumors are spilling out info about the next Samsung NX400 camera that should be announced in January/February.

– Same 28MP NX1 sensor
– Same NX1 autofous system
– Built-in EVF
– smaller buffer than nx1 but triple than nx300.
– 4K recording (although not 100% sure yet)
– no weather sealed body
– Price around $900 with kit lens.

Those features would push the NX400 in direct competition with the Sony A6000. But if the price gets confirmed it’s quite above the $798 you spend now for the A6000 double lens kit!