(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:

 

Two flagship with price drops (and replacement in summer)

Sony and Olympus flagship mirrorless cameras recently got a price drop in US stores. You save up to $100 on the OMD at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto. And after a new $50 price drop the NEX-7 has the lowest price ever at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto (Click on the store name to check the deals).

And this may not be casual. According to multiple trusted sources both cameras will get replaced in late summer! We still have no specs but I am sure first features and leaks will pop out soon.

The (impossible?) Pentax FF mirrorless camera rumor!

The current K-o1 mirrorless and K-mount APS-C camera.

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It doesn’t happen often that I get Pentax rumors. But this one is very exciting and at the same time…anonymous. That’s why you should take it with a grain of salt. But I hope this rumor can be read by other (known) sources so that they can confirm or deny it. Here it is:

The new source told us that “Pentax’s new fullframe “might” be a mirrorless, using a newly developed hybrid mount that accepts current K-mount lenses and adds the ability to use newer short flange lenses as well.“

Editor’s note: The Pentax FF camera almost became a “myth” in these years. So many time we heard that it would come and…it never came :)

Mirrorless News Roundup.

Ricoh GR hands-on at DC.watch.
Leica M test at Luminous Landscape.
PENTAX Q10 + Ana8200 8mm F1.1 at DC.watch.
Nikon Coolpix A test by Der Spiegel.
Leica Monochrome tets bei Der Spiegel.
Nikon J3 review by Der Spiegel.
Pentax MX-1 test by Der Spiegel.
Sony NEX-3n at Der Siegel.
Nikon S1, Olympus E-PM2, Panasonic GF5, Samsung NX1000 y Sony NEX-F3: frente a frente (Quesabesde).
leica m type 240 with canon adapter (Flickr).
firmware 1.02 for the X100S here.
DC.watch (google translation here) Mitakon 35mm f/0.95 lens test. The lens can be bought on .