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.