Today Fujifilm announced a new 0.8x wide angle conversion lens WCL-X100 for the X100 camera which will transform the focal length to 28mm equivalent. The lens is available in silver and black (to match the black X100 limited edition):
The price is $350 – very high considering that the Fuji X-Pro1 28mm equivalent lens cost $600.
Update: Fujifilm also released firmware update Ver.1.30 for the Finepix X100 camera.
By 2015 Canon is planning to implement a complete robots/machines only camera production. This move was triggered by the expensive yen and the trend of Japanese companies to move productions in other parts of Asia. Read more on Yahoo and Engadget.
Some rumored Sony A99 specs found on xitek.com:
And few other interesting points:
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Next week, on May 17th, Sony will announce their new Sony a37 and NEX-F3 cameras. You can find the detailed specs in this post. Images of the new cameras can be found here and here.
Samsung reminded us again that they want to become “the biggest mirrorless camera vendor by 2015 with a more than twenty-percent market share“. In order to achieve that, the company will be slowly phasing out its point and shoot cameras production and concentrate entirely on mirrorless solutions: “low-end compact camera offerings will gradually be reduced, as we are now concentrating on the mirrorless segment” according to the WSJ.
Samsung recently announced three new mirrorless NX cameras and is planning to announce more mirrorless products during Photokina 2012.
Via The Verge
If you are not following LeicaRumors, this is what Leica announced today:
Olympus filed a patent in Japan for a 12-120mm f/4-5.6 lens with several different variations:
SLR Magic plans to release a new 25mm T0.95 lens for Micro Four Thirds cameras and a new 35mm T0.95 lens for APS-C sized cameras (I assume for Sony NEX). The new lenses will be on the same quality level as the full frame SLR Magic HyperPrime 50mm T0.95 lens, which looks and performs very similar to the $11,000 Leica Noctilux – see also the sample images in this post:
The Lens/Focus Shifter is a low budget ‘follow focus’ product which attaches to lenses with circumferences from 176mm to 308mm, or lenses like the 50mm f/1.8 to the larger zoom lenses. The great thing about this product is that it attaches to these lenses without the need of rails, with the simple attachment mechanism it simply slides onto any size lens, making it a very flexible, low priced and innovative product. Using this product will definitely improve focusing skills for photography and cinematography, as critical focus points can be pre-focused and marked with the marker pen to ensure the focus puller/camera operator reaches those critical focus points during filming or taking photos.
It’s currently available for $45 on Kickstarter:
Today Olympus announced the previously leaked TG-1 iHS Tough camera. This is probably the best rugged camera on the market today.
Main Features:
Amazon is already taking pre-orders for the TG-1 iHS for $399.
