In addition to the Olympus E-M5II camera, the Indonesian communication agency has listings on their website for two new Olympus compact cameras: Olympus SH-2 and TG-860. The official announcement will most likely be at the CP+ show in Japan next month.
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It seems that a firmware update for the new Samsung NX500 mirrorless camera leaked online. Here are some of the rumored specifications:
Today at the CES show Canon announced new printers, camcorders, five PowerShot compact cameras and a Connect Station CS100 media hub used for photo and video storage. For pricing and availability, check this link. The full press releases can be found here. The Canon EOS 6D DSLR camera is now also available in a kit with the EF 24-105mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM lens.
Here is a video demo on the Canon Connect Station CS100:
→ Fujifilm and Globe-Trotter have announced another “exclusive” and “luxury” kit based on the Fujifilm X-T1 Graphite Silver camera. You can see the previous Globe-Trotter/Fuji edition kits here and here.
→ The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7 camera body is listed as discontinued at B&H.
→ Kodak already has a website for the Instamatic Android based devices I reported last month. The official announcement will be next week during the 2015 CES show. Here are the details:
The Chinese based Yongnuo already has 50mm f/1.8 and 50mm f/1.4 lenses for Canon DSLR cameras. The company will soon release also a new 35mm f/2 lens. Here are the technical specifications, lens design and MTF charts:
The current 2/35 and 2/50 Zeiss Loxia models
In a recent interview, Richard Schleuning from Carl Zeiss casually mentioned that new wide and tele prime lenses will be on market by the end of 2015. The new Loxia product line contains manual focus lenses designed for full frame mirrorless cameras like the Sony a7.
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After the DC.Watch interviews with Nikon and Canon, here is a quick recap of the remaining Q&A with Ricoh, Fuji, Olympus, Sony and Panasonic:
Fuji interview – not a big surprise here: the company has currently no plans for a full frame or medium format cameras and will concentrate on the development of a high resolution APS-C sensors.
The interview with Olympus did not reveal any interesting information – it seems that most of the mirrorless camera manufacturers (with the exception of Sony) are running out of ways to improve their sensor technology and are mainly concentrating on new features and cameras with a more appealing design.
In the interview with Sony executives, the main topics of discussion were high-megapixels cameras, improved AF and future sensor development. Any plans for a Sony medium format camera were denied.
DC.Watch also interviewed Panasonic – they are also working on a high-megapixel camera and 8k video recording capabilities.
As of today, I have not seen any reliable rumors for a new Fuji camera – obviously there was no full frame X-Pro 2 at Photokina and I doubt a Fuji medium format mirrorless camera will ever come to life. Now it seems that Fuji will not even have a booth at the 2015 CES show in Las Vegas (they only have meeting rooms). Of course Fujifilm may still announce some new products, but I doubt they will be of any significance, since they have nothing to display them on. In the meantime I will continue not to publish every silly rumor that circulates the Internet.
Canon filed a patent for a EF-M 70-400mm f/4.5-7.2 STM lens designed for APS-C mirrorless camera.
Canon also filed a patent for a 20-100mm f/4 lens designed for APS-C based cameras.
Canon filed a patent for eliminating the star trails during long time exposures of the night sky.
Tamron filed a patent for a 18mm f/2.8 macro lens designed for 1″ sensors (for Nikon 1?).
