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.

To get notified when these lenses will be sold on eBay join my Slidoo-eBay website and save this searches: Touit 32mm and Touit 12mm. You will can change the country in your settings. And here is the HowTo to learn how all this works (P.S.: Slidoo Amazon is in the works and will be announced in a few weeks).

 

New Olympus E-P5 leaked in all his glory!

Mobile01 posted this real Olympus E-P5 pictures! The camera clearly takes inspiration from the but unlike the PEN-F it comes without built-in EVF. The camera will be announced around May 10. It will come along three Black prime verisons (17mm, 45mm and 75mm) and the new external 1,3 Million dot VF-4 viewfinder.

Zeiss officially unveils the two “Touit” lenses for the Sony and Fuji mirrorless systems.

Zeiss finally unveiled the specs of the new 12mm f/2.8 and 32mm f/1.8 Sony NEX and Fuji X mount lenses. They also gave the new range lens a name of a bird…”Touit“. Not really sexy :)
Both lenses should ship in June while a third lens (the 50mm f/2.8 macro) will come in late 2013. You can read all about the new lenses at lenses.zeiss.com.

Here are the lens characteristics: