After the somewhat disappointing Olympus announcement what can we expect from other brands?

1) Samsung will announce the NX100 on September 14. It will be the first compact NX camera and it uses the same NX10 sensor.

2) Panasonic will announce the GH2 on September 21. This is really one of the most interesting product announcements!

3) There were “weak” rumors about a mirrorless camera announcement right before Photokina. Accoridng to Canonrumors “someone had see 2 pancake lenses from Canon for the new camera. A 24mm & 55mm.“

4) A big surprise could come from Pentax. They already announced that they will make a mirrorless camera which will be very different from current models from other brands. The question is, when are they going to announce the camera? On September 9th?

For those of you waiting for new MicroFourThirds primes skip Photokina! According to 43rumors sources Olympus will announce two new MicroFourThirds zooms:

1) The new M.Zuiko ED 75-300mm f/4.8-6.7 (equivalent of 150-600mm in 35mm)
It is the world smallest 600mm zoom lens. It weighs 430 grams and has a diameter of 7cm and 11.6cm length.
It allows nearly silent HD movie recording.
The new lenses are made with ED (extra-low dispersion)
It will be available in December 2010 for $899.99

2) the new M.Zuiko ED 40-150mm f/4.0-5.6 equivalent of 80-300mm in 35mm)
It weighs 190 grams.
It will be available in November 2010 for $299.99

Nice lenses but is that what we were looking for???

May you recall that few days ago there have been a NX100 leak. One of our readers “decodified” the single elements of the leaked images!

Click on picture to enlarge!

Today Voitgländer announced the Nokton 25mm f/0.95 lens. This lens has been designed for MFT and you don’t need to use any adapter! The Lens is manual only (no autofocus). Expected price $1000 and availabilty by October/November.

Source: Photoscala

BUSTED! Klaus Schroff from Photozone revealed that five new Sony NEX lenses will be tested soon. But he forgot to mention that those are not SOny lenses but just Third-party lenses tested on NEX cameras!

Inside a dpreview forum post he said that: “There’ll be 5 more NEX tests in the near future so we’ll have a better guidance about the quality of these Sony lenses … “

SO will Sony not announce any new NEX lens at Photokina?

The japanese website Egami.blog found a new Ricoh patent application 2010-175627 (published August 12, 2010, filled January 27,  2009) . It appears to be a new 35mm f/1.8 Macro lens with following specifications:

• focal length f=33.1mm
• aperture Fno=1.80
• image circle 28.4mm
• macro 1:2
• floating focus mechanism

Found via photorumors

One of our very good sources told us that a new “exceptional” mirrorless product will be announced on August 26 (Japan time). The product is “unexpected” and no rumor website since now suspected that this was coming! So we are the first to talk about that ;)

That new product will certainly be one of the highlights at Photokina! Follow mirrorlessrumors and as soon as we receive some news about that camera we will post it!
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