In a recent AP interview, Dirk Jesper (Product Manager for Professional Products and Product Planning at Nikon Europe) called the speculation that Nikon bought Samsung’s NX camera business a “hoax” and added that there was never even a talk about it:
Shortly after Nikon announced their first KeyMission 360 action camera (pricing not yet available), GoPro also confirmed that their own 360º camera is in development. It seems that Samsung is also working on one:
JK Imaging (I think) quietly introduced a new Kodak Astro Zoom AZ901 camera with a 90x optical zoom (FIY: the Nikon Coolpix P900 camera has “only” 83x zoom). This is all the information we have so far:
Today I received confirmations on the dates for the upcoming Fuji and Olympus announcements: Fuji will have an announcement on January 15th, expected: Fuji X70, X-Pro2, X-E2S, XP90 cameras and XF 140-400mm f/4-5.6 R LM OIS WR lens Olympus will have an announcement on January 27th, expected: new Olympus PEN-F digital camera
A reader reported few days ago that there was not a single Samsung camera or lens on display at the 2016 CES show in Las Vegas. There have been multiple reports in the past few months that Samsung is/will be pulling out of the camera business. There is still no official confirmation from the company.
A quick update on the upcoming Fuji announcement: in addition to the Fuji X70, X-Pro2, X-E2S cameras and XF 140-400mm f/4-5.6 R LM OIS WR lens the company will announce also a new waterproof FinePix XP90 model (replacement for the current XP80). Via Digicame-info
In addition to my CES coverage here on PhotoRumors and NikonRumors, here are few other photo related products that got announced during the 2016 consumer electronics show (full list with pricing is available here and here):
The new Canon EOS 1DX MKII flagship DSLR camera is rumored to be announced in February/March timeframe. Shipment will start in April, 2016. The new camera is expected to have 4k video and costs around $5.999.
