EOS-M shipping in US. RX100 is camera invention of the year (according to Time)

The EOS-M is back in Stock at Amazon US (via third party reseller). And this helped to push the EOS on the top position of the popularity ranking (CLick here). But guess who became the camera invention of the year according ot the Time magazine? It is the Sony RX100! Check out the full best 2012 invention list. You can find many sometimes very funny stuff!

P.S.: I got the news that the EOS-M Gariz case release has been delayed to early 2013! Reaosn si that Gariz wants to push the Fuji X-E1 case first. There is already a case for the RX100 (Click here).

Samsung is alive! NX300 spotted (an Android camera)

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As you may recall Samsung said that they will not announce any camera this year. But Photorumors spotted an image of what appears to be the future NX300 camera. I guess the camera will be announced in early January right before the CES show and be based on the Android OS. Will this new strategy finally help the Samsung NX system? I sure hope they will!

CR speculates about a possible EOS-M 55mm f/1.3 lens release in March

This news falls into the category “very unlikely rumors“. CanonRumors reports that Canon may announce a new 55mm f/1.3 lens in March which he speculates to be an EOS-M mount lens. The only thing I heard (and I reported it yesterday) is that new EOS-M mount lenses will be announced in Spring 2013. But i haven’t heard about a 55mm lens yet. Anyway, would be a welcome addition to the EOS-M range! Something similar is going to be announced by Panasonic, to be more precise it is the 42,5mm f/1.2 lens. This one is not a rumor. Panasonic said it will release it in 2013.

Fuji X-E1 and Canon EOS-M Gariz cases coming next week!

If you are going to be a Fuji X-E1 or Canon EOS-M owner than you may be interested to know that next week Gariz will launch the new cases for both cameras. Gariz is well known for making high quality leather cases for mirrorless cameras. You can find a long list of these on Slidoo eBay (Click here and slide / register slidoo to have fulls earch access).

Meantime a new Fuji X-E1 review can be found on Fujirumors.

Japan: Full Mirrorless market analysis

Japan is the one country that leads the mirrorless revolution started by Olympus and Panasonic four years ago. And the latest market analysis released by BCNranking (translation here) shows how 50% of all sold system cameras are mirrorless. And it is expected that the growth will continue at cost of the DSLR systems. The graph on top shows how Olympus leads the market with 28.6% closely followed by Sony (23.5%), Panasonic (17.3%) and Nikon (12.8%). The real winners of the year are Sony and Canon. Sony managed to surpass Panasonic and Canon is actually selling the new EOS-M that well that it almost caught up with Nikon. In October these were the most sold cameras in Japan: E-PL3 (10.6%), NEX-5N (10.3%), EOS-M (9.2%), GF5 (8.9%).

New Canon EOS-M reviews at Lensrentals and Cnet Asia.

The EOS-M is now shipping in every country and reviewers testing the camera do share the same impressions.

Shawn Low from Cnet Asia posted a full EOS-M review: “We were impressed by the EOS M’s excellent low-light performance and fluid touchscreen interface, but were let down by its slow autofocus performance–a factor which prevented us from awarding it with our Editors’ Choice.“

Roger Cicala from Lensrentals got his first bunch of EOS-M cameras and says about the camera: “This camera gives me great, great image quality in an amazingly small package. Will it replace an OM-D or SLR for my everyday shooting? Absolutely not; its AF is too slow and there aren’t many native lenses yet. “

This is the first Canon mirrorless camera and certainly not a perfect one. But if you can live with the slow AF than this may be the right camera for you. As small as the smallest MFT cameras but with a larger sensor. Not bad. But let’s hope Canon didn’t really mean it when they said that the EVF technology is not that important for their mirrorless system…

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In Europe the EOS-M is massively in Stock (just check slidoo ebay). And also some US stores are selling them (again on slidoo ebay).