UPDATED: Canon 55-200mm M lens announced!

Canon announced the new 55-200mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM EOS-M lens:

Compactness and precision image quality is achieved through a new type of 5-group zoom system making use of short back focus and aspheric lens
Uses a UD lens to correct chromatic aberration for excellent image quality throughout the zoom range
The focusing mechanism employs a stepping motor and lead screw to provide quiet and smooth movie servo AF for shooting movies
Image Stabilizer equivalent to a shutter speed 3.5 settings faster
Maintains the EF-M lens design concept of projecting from the mount in a straight form
Lens disposition and coatings are optimized to minimize ghosting and flare
Uses a 7-blade circular aperture for exquisite blurred areas
Fast autofocus is achieved for still images using a rear focus system, high-speed CPU, and optimized AF algorithm

Angle of view (horizontal, vertical, diagonal) 23 ° 20 ‘~ 6 ° 30? · 15 ° 40 ‘~ 4 ° 20? · 27 ° 50 ‘~ 7 ° 50?
Lens constitution 17 pieces in 11 groups
Number of blades diaphragm 7 pieces
Minimum aperture 2-32
Minimum focusing distance 1m
Maximum magnification 0.21 times
Filter diameter 52mm
Maximum length × diameter ?60.9 × 86.5 mm
Weight 260g
Camera shake compensation effect 3.5 stages
(CIPA guideline compliant)

Info in Spanish at DSLRmagazine.

New crazy fast and expensive Handevision 40mm f/0.85 lens available for preorder at BH.

If you want the world’s fastest lens for any digital mirrorless system than grab the Handevision 40mm f/0.85. You can preorder it now in four different mounts at BHphoto:

Handevision IBELUX 40mm f/0.85 Lens for Canon EF-M Mount (Click here)
Handevision IBELUX 40mm f/0.85 Lens for Sony E Mount (Click here)
Handevision IBELUX 40mm f/0.85 Lens for Micro Four Thirds Mount (Click here)
Handevision IBELUX 40mm f/0.85 Lens for Fujifilm X Mount (Click here)

Fuji X-T1P goes 4K…with the viewfinder :)

This could upset the brand new X-T1 owners but Fuji is really already going to offer a new hardware updated X-T1P camera soon!

Fujirumors reports that among the hardware changes there will be a new 4K viewfinder! And now, this doesn’t mean the X-T1P will have 4K recording capability. The new X-T1P will have the same “sub-par” video performance.

The camera will be officially unveiled the beginning of July. And I am wondering why Fuji hurried that much to bring an updated X-T1…

Look at this: First Sony Full Frame curved sensor image!

We saw it only as a sketch on Sony patents before. But now we have it in real! This is the new Sony curved sensor and it comes in two variations: Full Frame (43mm) and for Mobile Phones and Tablets (11mm).

The Full Frame sensor is likely to find his way in the new RX2 because this is also what Sony patent were showing us: a FF curved sensor used along a 35mm f/1.8 lens.

As far as we know Sony is the only company offering such a sensor and Sony also said at the 2014 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits event that they developed a special production technique to produce it in mass.

At the end what matters is that: With such sensors corners become 2x more sensitive and have a lot less of issues. And lenses can be designed in a more compact way.