Another film camera gets out of production. The Zeiss Ikon!

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The world of film cameras is getting smaller every year. A Japanese Zeiss retailer announced that the [shoplink4583 ebay]Zeiss Ikon ZM[/shoplink] now has been officially discontinued. This is (or was) a high quality M-mount camera.It filled the gap within the superbly made (and expensive) Leica M film cameras and the cheap (and not so well made) Voigtlaender cameras. A bad news (again) for the film lovers like me :(

You can still grab some new Zeiss Ikon ZM on [shoplink4583 ebay]eBay (Click to see the auctions)[/shoplink].

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via ZR and TP.

X trans finally supported with the upcoming Capture One update?

One of the big downsides of the Fuji X RAW files is that they are not native supported by current RAW converters. I mean, they do the job, but none of them do it flawlessly. The good news is that Lionel12 of the Phase One Crew writes in this forum (click here): “Let me be a bit on lim here, all you Fuji lowers – look for next Capture One release – real soon now.” Rumor says that Capture One will be the first software to 100% support the X-trans sensor characteristics.

And the second little good news is that Rico Pfirstinger (author of the X PRO 1 book) shared me two links with a preview to his books:
For the English sample version click here. To see the book at AmazonUS click here (47% price drop).
For the German sample version click here. To see the book and read customers reviews at AmazonDE click here.

via Fujirumors.

The Christmas Camera dreams from TheCameraStoreTV team.

Chris Niccolls and Jordan Drake shared their Christmas Camera dreams. I particularly like the idea of a digital version of the Mamiya 7 medium format camera. There were rumors floating around about Hasselblad doing a camera like that but nothing happened. At that point it would be already a miracle to see a Leica M competitor in 2013 :)

The faked Fuji fullframe :)

Plenty of reader here are waiting the day someone will release a Full Frame mirrorless that doens’t cost like a car. The dream is growing that much that a Fuji X E-1 owner added some gimmicks on his camera to make it look like a Leica M camera. Found via Fujirumors!

FF mirrorless roundup: No new Fuji nor Sony mirrorless FF system any time soon?

Fuji and Sony are both hot candidates to launch the first Full Frame mirrorless system competing the expansive and luxury [shoplink 100116 ebay]Leica M series[/shoplink]. For months now I am working to collect info about their 2013 strategy and form what I got from trusted and also from new sources neither Fuji nor Sony will announce such a system within the next 8-10 months. At the same time I have been told that both are developing a FF system but there is a series of challenges that will have to be solved first. Both Fuji and Sony for example have to develop lenses for their current X and NEX systems. They cannot afford to launch a new system yet.

 

After all these years that Leica is cashing money on the [shoplink 100116 ebay]Leica M series[/shoplink] I am still surprised that nobody ever made a competitor!