Four new Olympus MicroFourThirds lenses at Photokina (2 zooms and 2 primes)

(Olympus M43 lens roadmap from November 2009) Click on picture to enlarge.

Now that the LX5 has been leaked we have to go back to our usual 43 and M43 rumors :)

We are trying to filter the rumors we do receive and day by day we feel that we are getting closer to the final correct lens and camera roadmap. We learned that Olympus will announce a minimum of four new MicrFourThirds lenses at Photokina. We have been told that there should be two new primes and two new zooms. One of our source told us the 50mm and the 70-300mm would come at Photokina (but we still have to confirm the rumor with a second source). The Olympus roadmap itself shows also the 12mm(?) wide angle lens and the 8mm(?) fisheye (Panasonic just announced the 8mm f/3.5 ED Fisheye Lens)

Reminder: We are almost certain that Panasonic is working on very fast new primes (faster than f/1.4). The first prime is expected to be on market by end 2010 early 2011.

New Ricoh GXR firmware (ver. 1.18)

The new firmware is available here http://www.ricoh.com/r_dc/download/firmware/gxr/

Changes:

Version 1.18 (2010. 07. 15)
No. Model applied Details
A12 S10 P10
Modified the following phenomena.
1 applied applied applied In case of attaching the cable switch (CA-1), when half-pressing the shutter release button of the CA-1, it may turn off the camera.
2 applied — — Macro AF Distance Limit option (On) may be disabled (Off) in some conditions like; replacing a camera unit from the A12 to the other one.
3 — applied — Even if a shutter speed is changed, the aperture value will not vary in case of the conditions below; S mode, AE locked.
4 — — applied Noise sound may be recorded into movies when the electrical viewfinder (VF-2) is attached.
Revised or corrected the following.
5 applied applied applied Revised the ISO sensitivity range conditions when shooting with the combination below; S mode, Shutter speed Auto Shift On, and ISO Auto/ISO Auto-Hi.
6 — applied — Corrected the display of focus distance as 19mm when the conversion lens (DW-6) is attached.
7 — — applied Revised the upper limit of the ISO sensitivity range as ISO 3200 when shooting in S mode.

Nikon mirrorless camera before March 2011?

According to Bloomberg Nikon Corp. plans to introduce a new type of single-lens reflex camera as early as this fiscal year, President Makoto Kimura said.
The “new concept” model will probably have an enhanced function for video recording and may adopt the so-called mirrorless structure, Kimura said in an interview today in Tokyo. “It could be any time this fiscal year or the following year, as new models are starting to sell,” he said, declining to specify when the product will be available.

First Sony NEX5 + Leica lens test

Sawamura Tetsu from DC.watch tested the $loc = $_SESSION[‘geoip’];

if ($loc == ‘GB’ OR $loc == ‘UK’)
{ $sel = “1”; ?>Leica Super-Elmar-M 18mm }
if ($loc == ‘ES’)
{ $sel = “1”; ?>Leica Super-Elmar-M 18mm }
if ($loc == ‘IT’)
{ $sel = “1”; ?>Leica Super-Elmar-M 18mm }
if ($loc == ‘AT’)
{ $sel = “1”; ?>Leica Super-Elmar-M 18mm }
if ($loc == ‘DE’)
{ $sel = “1”; ?>Leica Super-Elmar-M 18mm }
if ($loc == ‘BE’)
{ $sel = “1”; ?>Leica Super-Elmar-M 18mm }
if ($loc == ‘AU’)
{ $sel = “1”; ?>Leica Super-Elmar-M 18mm }
if ($loc == ‘FR’ OR $loc == ‘FX’)
{ $sel = “1”; ?>Leica Super-Elmar-M 18mm }
if ($loc == ‘NL’)
{ $sel = “1”; ?>Leica Super-Elmar-M 18mm }
if ($loc == ‘CA’)
{ $sel = “1”; ?>Leica Super-Elmar-M 18mm }
if ($sel != ‘1’)
{?>Leica Super-Elmar-M 18mm } ?> on the new Sony-NEX5. Click here to read the google english translation.

By the way, the Leica Super-Elmar-M 18mm is a very expensive lens…$loc = $_SESSION[‘geoip’];

if ($loc == ‘GB’ OR $loc == ‘UK’)
{ $sel = “1”; ?>available for 3.000$ on eBay }
if ($loc == ‘ES’)
{ $sel = “1”; ?>available for 3.000$ on eBay }
if ($loc == ‘IT’)
{ $sel = “1”; ?>available for 3.000$ on eBay }
if ($loc == ‘AT’)
{ $sel = “1”; ?>available for 3.000$ on eBay }
if ($loc == ‘DE’)
{ $sel = “1”; ?>available for 3.000$ on eBay }
if ($loc == ‘BE’)
{ $sel = “1”; ?>available for 3.000$ on eBay }
if ($loc == ‘AU’)
{ $sel = “1”; ?>available for 3.000$ on eBay }
if ($loc == ‘FR’ OR $loc == ‘FX’)
{ $sel = “1”; ?>available for 3.000$ on eBay }
if ($loc == ‘NL’)
{ $sel = “1”; ?>available for 3.000$ on eBay }
if ($loc == ‘CA’)
{ $sel = “1”; ?>available for 3.000$ on eBay }
if ($sel != ‘1’)
{?>available for 3.000$ on eBay } ?> :(

Sony NEX-7 rendering (not real images!)

I just found a new Sony NEX-7 rendering. This is not the real camera but a product of imagination ;)

UPDATE: The author of the rendering is Qing Xiang (http://timberwolf.zenfolio.com)

Reminder->There eas a rumor a while go that said that the NEX-7 would be announced at Photokina and:

“Design totally different to NEX5/3, and more bigger size
Spec unknow yet
Support XDCAM recording format
soonest release is on Sept, unless Panasonic announce GH2“