Canon EOS-M worldwide shipment started.

The first Canon mirrorless camera is now finally shipping in Japan (Source: Canon and Amazon Japan). It will ship in US on October 15th according to BHphoto (Click here). This is a great little camera, and I don’t think Canon is telling us the truth when saying they do not care about a M PRO version with viewfinder. I bet we will see such a camera in 2013!

Canon EOS-M preorder links:
Full presentation page on Amazon (Click here).
EOS-M Black at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M White at BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M 22mm pancake at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M 15-55mm kit lens at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M adapter at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M Flash at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).

Canon repeats: No plan to make any PRO mirrorless camera…

Spanish DSLR Magazine (machine translated) published a long interview with Richard Shepherd, Senior Product Specialist for the EOS system, Canon Europe. And once again it becomes clear that unlike Fuji and Sony Canon has no plan yet to go into the PRO market with their mirrorless M system. I guess that they will wait until Fuji and Sony will release their FF mirrorless cameras in 2013 to see the market response.

 

Canon EOS-M Preorders and specs:
Full presentation page on Amazon (Click here).
EOS-M Black at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M White at BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M 22mm pancake at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M 15-55mm kit lens at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M adapter at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M Flash at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).

Sony and Olympus will work together on the mirrorless camera market.

Today we have a huge news! Sony and Olympus have signed an agreement where Sony will become Olympus largest shareholder. And they already anticipated that they will work together in the medical and camera business. What this means for the future of the NEX and Micro Four Thirds system has yet to be seen. But I think this may not be good news for Panasonic…

Just my two cent. Sony urgently needs lenses for the NEX system while Olympus needs the Sony sensor for their cameras. They may keep challenging each other with their own systems but saving costs on the development front.

 

Full rpess release with strategy goals is available here (.pdf).

 

First Full size image sample of the Sony RX1.

We still have to wait to see the first Full Frame interchangeable mirrorless system that is not an expensive Leica M. But meantime we can watch closely at the Sony RX1 camera that comes with that superb fixed Zeiss 35mm f/2.0 lens. Sony just posted the first Full Size image samples on Flickr (Click here). And it delivers an impressive performance. Sharpness is great through the full frame. ISO performance is also great (just look at that 6.400 ISO image here on top). Imagine of that camera would have an interchangeable mount. I bet even some Canon and Nikon user would switch over to Sony. Can’t wait to see that FF NEX-9 coming next year…

You can check the price and preorder options of the camera at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Wex UK ,Wex Germany, Sonystore US, Sonystore DE–UK–FR–IT–ES–NL–SE–FI–CH, Wex UK, Wex Germany and more links at Alphacameradeals.

Everything you need to know about the Fuji X-E1.

One of the star of the now ended Photokina show was undeniably the new Fuji X-E1. It won the Photokina Star Award (Source Fuji) and had plenty of people visiting their booths. So here is a useful roundup:

There are some new hands-on and news around the Fuji world:
Fujifilm X-E1 in comparison with Competition (youtube)
Compare the Cameras Fujifilm XE1 & X-100 (youtube)
Fujifilm X-E1 Feature Training Video (youtube)
Compare the Cameras Fujifilm XE1 & X-Pro 1 (youtube)
Match Technical Developing Thumbs Up for Fuji X-E1 at Echenique.
Fuji XF1 hands-on by Engadget.
Fuji X-E1 hands-on at Engadget.
Brandon Remler (Click here) is one of the first to show us some image samples taken with the new Fuji X-E1. He also tested the Leica 90mm Summicron on the new X-E1 (Click here to see these shots): “The camera works great with focus peeking at both 3x and 10x magnification.  The EVF is bright and sharp!”
Than we have Photokina hands-on pictures by DC.watch. XF1 first impression review at Digitalcamerainfo. Prototype X lens hands-on at Photographyblog.

Preorders:
Black Fuji X-E1 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Silver Fuji X-E1 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Black Fuji X-E1 with 18-55mm lens at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Silver Fuji X-E1 with 18-55mm lens at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Fuji 14mm f/2.8 lens at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Fuji 18-55mm f/2.8-4.0 OIS lens at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).

DxOmark: E-M5 versus best mirrorless camera comparison.


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Yesterday DxOmark published the full Olympus E-M5 sensor test. DxOmark still didn’t test some cameras like the Fuji X-PRO 1 (same sensor as the new X-E1)the Samsung NX20 and the Canon EOS-M. But I stitched together all best mirrorless cameras to get an overview of the quality of the different mirrorless systems/sensors.

All we can say is that Sony sensors are on top. The Sony NEX-7 is the best ranked camera and close behind we have the Pentax K-01 (with Sony sensor). On third place the Olympus E-M5 (again Sony sensor). Of course, this alone doens’t say if a camera is good for you or not. There are many other aspects that DxOmark doens’t analyze (like resolution, Image stabilization, RAW quality and so on). So don’t be to serious when talking about these results :)