Canon will challenge the Sony RX100? EOS-M with lens sells for $399.

Canon Rumor

The Sony RX100 showed us hot to make a “real compact” camera with larger sensor. And it sounds like Canon is going to make a competitor with the same size btu with even larger APS-C sensor! CanonWatch reports that “Canon may be working on a compact camera with a large sensor. Not a successor of the PowerShot G1 X (price & specs), but a camera like the PowerShot S110 (price & specs), just a bit a larger. The camera should have a fast lens and the new APS-C 18MP sensor featured on the Rebel Sl1/EOS 100D (price & specs), and the DIGIC 6 Image Processing Unit. No viewfinder. Pricing should be less than the PowerShot G1 X when it was released. We expect Canon to announce this camera at the end of Summer 2013.“

APS-C compact of the same size of the RX100? I have to see it to believe it!

Still no rumor from the Canon EOS-M mirrorless system. But Canon is lowering the price of the camera and you can now grab it with lens(!) for $399 only at .

Zeiss explains how the new Touit Lenses have been developed! 50mm macro to ship from October 1.

Thanks to BHphoto (Click here) we now have the estomated shipping date for the third Touit lens, the Zeiss 50mm f/2.8 macro. It will ship form October 1.

Zeiss (Click here) posted an article about “How an extraordinary family of ZEISS lenses were developed“. They explain why they didn’t go Micro Four Thirds: “In order to stay true to the high quality standards of the ZEISS brand, it was decided to focus on cameras with an APS-C sensor“. Some new image samples shot on the Fuji X camera can be found at SystemKameraForum.

Zeiss preorder links:
12mm f/2.8 at BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and Uniquephoto (Click here). In Europe at FotoMundus.
32mm f/1.8 at BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and Uniquephoto (Click here). In Europe at FotoMundus.

Coming soon: Fuji’s entry level X system camera!

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Patrick at FujiRumors got feedback from trusted sources and they confirmed a new X entry level system camera is coming soon from Fuji. These are the key info:

– It will be announced in Summer
– It will be smaller than the current [shoplink 100016]Fuji X-E1[/shoplink]– It hess less controls and dials than the X-E1
– There is no built.in viewfinder

There is also an anonymosu (also not trusted source) that said that the Body + Lens price is around $550 and launch in July. For that price you get a lens and the X-trans sensor? If ture it would be easily a hotseller.  But to be honest the “rumored” price sounds too low to be true.

First Zeiss unboxing video and image samples!

Dunkelkammer (Click here) is the first website that has published image samples and comparison between the new Zeiss “Touit” and Fuji lenses!

And shortly after Dunkelkammer aslo Fujirumors posted  a Zeiss versus Fuji comparison: “The Quality of the Zeiss is beautiful, the feel is gorgeous, I like them, but image quality wise, they do not seem to be better than the Fuji’s.“

Zeiss preorder links:
32mm f/1.8 at BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and Uniquephoto (Click here).
12mm f/2.8 at BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and Uniquephoto (Click here).

X PRO 1 for $1,119! X PRO 2 only due for 2014.

There are some nice price drop on the X-PRo 1:

You can grab it for $1,119 with free shipping via top rated seller . And European can get it for 1.000 Euro only at Digitalrev (import tax and shipping costs included!). Does it mean the X PRO 2 launch is on the horizon? Nope, two trusted sources told us that the X PRO 2 is coming in early 2014 only. Too bad they didn’t unveil the specs yet. But I hope they will come back to me soon with some good news :)

First renderings (fake) of the new K-02…

 

Someone sent me this (fake) K-02 image. It has a viewfinder placed in the corner. That would certainly be a nice addition on the K-0 series. As you know the K-01 has been marked as discontinued but it has to be seen if a K-02 will ever be made or not.

Thanks to the anonymous sender of these images! Click on it to see the full size version:

(UPDATE) New Zeiss Touit lens gets priced in Europe and US

UPDATE: The official US pricing can be read at Uniquephoto (Click here).

The big and well known German store Sauter posted the full price info for the new Zeiss Touit lenses:
Touit 32mm f/1.8 for 799 Euro (Click here).
Touit 12mm f/2.8 for 1099 Euro (Click here).

Obviously the price is the same for X and E mount lenses.

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