First time in Stock in USA: New Ricoh GR.
The brand new Ricoh GR is in Stock for the first time at . And new image samples can be seen at ePhotozine. Great cam!
Panasonic GX2 coming in August. Zeiss Full Frame lenses for E-mount in 2014.
In August and September we will have a new huge wave of mirrorless product announcements. We expect a new Olympus OMD camera with Sony’s new sensor (and on sensor phase detection AF). In late August Panasonic will announce the new GX2 (specs not out yet). And Sony will announce the new NEX-7 successor.
What is also very interesting is that Zeiss Lens Roadmap that hints a completely new line of lenses. The chance is very high that this will be the new Full Frame E-mount lenses coming along the Sony NEX-9 full frame camera. That stuff will be announced mid 2014 (probably right before Photokina). Start to save your money now because the prices of the lenses will be around $2,000 :)
A mirrorless pinhole camera made of wood!
Nowadays we are used to talk about new digital cameras only. But from time to time you still can find some “dreamer” developing film cameras. And the camera you see on top is a 4×5 pinhole camera made of wood! But this isn’t the only one made by Ondu (Click here). They also made 6×12, 6×6, 135 panoramic and a 135 pocket camera version. And if you think this camera will never have a sales success you proved to be wrong. The project already earned five times of the pledged money on Kickstarter. And that in one week only!
Going to buy one? :)
The Fuji X showdown. Two new X mount bodies to come this summer?
As we told you before there will be no new X-E2 and no new X-Pro 2 this year. But according to latest rumors Fuji will focus on the entry level market soon by releasing not one…but two(!) new mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras!
According to Fujirumors the two cameras will have “two different sensors. One should be announced in the second half of June and the other one later. The price of one of these bodies should be of $700.“
I think it’s a smart move from Fuji to offer a low priced compact camera with high quality X-Trans sensor. But I am surprised to hear that there will be two entry level bodies! One would be enough or not?
Samsung releases the source code for the NX300 and NX2000.
Samsung released parts of the NX2000 and NX300 codes. You can download them at http://opensource.samsung.com/. Those of you reaidng this and being programers may take a look to it to see if it’s posisble to use it to create a “tweaked” operative system for those cameras.
Amazon huge price drop on the Canon EOS-m (-$200).
A couple of days ago we posted the rumor about a possible new EOS-M camera that may be announced in summer. And “coincidence” wants that today the Canon EOS-M with 22mm kit lens got a $200 price drop at Amazon US (Click here). The lens alone costs $250! Guess what, I really think the new EOS-M announcement is very close :)
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deal found via Dealsrunner (Thanks Jim).
Sony goes full mirrorless! A and E-mount!
Matrix agent’s would say…It was inevitable MR-Anderson! Panasonic and Samsung dropped the DSLR world, Olympus will do it soon. So, what is Sony going to do? According to very reliable sources Sony is going to transform their A-mount cameras in pure mirrorless by getting rid of both the classic mirror and their unique semitransparent (or translucent) mirror tech. Some of you may wonder why at that point Sony is not going the E-mount route only. Apparently the A-mount mirrorless will keep the DSLR form size while E-mount cameras will focus on compact size. Plus, A-mount camera have on sensor stabilization while the E-mount has not.
The first A-mount mirrorless cameras will come in early 2014. Now let’s see how long it takes until Canon and Nikon will get “serious” with mirrorless too!