Adobe Lightroom 5 is now officially available. The different pricing options are listed here.
Adobe Camera Raw 8.1 and DNG Converter 8.1 can be downloaded here.
Overview of some of the main LR5 features can be found here.
Online retailers will start shipping the ne Adobe Lightroom 5 on Tuesday, June 11th, 2013.
The new Photoshop CC will be released on June 17th.
Pentax will announce the K-50 DSLR in the next few days. The camera will start shipping on or around July 5th, 2013. You can see the detailed specifications here. The K-50 will be available in 6 different colors.
Pentax is also rumored to announce the Q7 mirrorless camera that will have a 1/1.7 inch sensor. The previous Q10 model had a 1/2.3″ sensor. There will be a new 07 Mount Shield Lens pictured below – basically a lens cap that ca be used as a 11.5mm f/9 pinhole lens:
Lomography has published a series of teasers on their website for a new Konstruktion product which will be unveiled on June 13 and most likely will be some kind of a DIY modular film camera:
Canon New Zealand announced that a new firmware update for the EOS-M mirrorless camera will be announced at the end of June, 2013. The slow autofocus has been one of the major complaints for Canon’s first mirrorless system camera. The firmware will make the AF 2.3x faster:
Canon UK announced the EF-M 11-22mm f/4-5.6 IS STM lens for the EOS-M mirrorless system. For some reason, there was no official announcement in the US. Here are the key features of the new lens:
Update: more images of the new X camera are available here.
Those are the updated specifications for the upcoming Leica X Vario Type 107 camera that will be announced on June 11, 2013:
The French website digit-photo has a listing for a new Pentax K-50 DSLR camera priced at €699. The main specs are:
Here is the Google translation of the camera’s specifications:
Digicame-info just published this first picture of the preciously rumored EF-M 11-22mm IS STM lens for the Canon EOS M mirrorless system. The official announcement will be in the next few days.
Photograph: Koelnmesse
AP reported that Fujifilm will be cutting their compact camera line by 50% and is planing to launch more mirrorless system cameras this fiscal year (probably a smaller, entry level X version). The information was given by Hiroshi Tanaka, general manager of Fuji’s Optical Device and Electronic Imaging Products Division in a recent interview with Nikkei newspaper.
In addition to the X line, Fujifilm has a huge number of point and shoot cameras:
