
It’s time again for our 3rd annual Worst Camera of the Year Award.
Please vote and share this poll. Here are the nominees in a random order:

It’s time again for our 3rd annual Worst Camera of the Year Award.
Please vote and share this poll. Here are the nominees in a random order:


I recently registered FujiRumors.net and SonyCameraRumors.com domains and they now point to the corresponding Fuji and Sony sections of this blog for an easy access (in case you are interested only in a particular brand). I already separated PentaxRumors.com into a separate blog. Stay tuned – there are some more “exciting” news coming soon.

For some odd reason Samsung is already listed/registered to be part of the 2016 Photokina show that will take place in September (thanks for the tip Tinus). Maybe they registered before they decided to kill their camera business or maybe they really have something new to announce?

→ Canon EF 24-300mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens patent.

→ Canon CN-E 70-200mm f/2.8 lens patent (Super 35mm).

→ Canon has an interesting patent where the sensor of a DSLR camera is moving forward in order to use the camera with EF-M lenses.

→ Canon EF-M 55-300mm f/4.5-6.3 DO IS STM lens patent.

→ Sigma has a new patent for a 120-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Sports lens.

There is a new Lexar memory cards sale over at Adorama (link to all):

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: