Voigtländer announced the first lens for MicroFourThirds – the new Nokton 25mm f/0.95 priced at $1,199.00:
The lens is manual focus only and is expected to hit the stores in October/November.
Cosina (Voigtländer) officially joins Micro Four Thirds System Standard Group.
… and to prove it, they successfully developed the world’s first APS-H-size CMOS image sensor with a resolution of 120 megapixels, which is a new record in the MP war:
Press release:
TOKYO, August 24, 2010—Canon Inc. announced today that it has successfully developed an APS-H-size*1 CMOS image sensor that delivers an image resolution of approximately 120 megapixels (13,280 x 9,184 pixels), the world’s highest level*2 of resolution for its size.
Compared with Canon’s highest-resolution commercial CMOS sensor of the same size, comprising approximately 16.1 million pixels, the newly developed sensor features a pixel count that, at approximately 120 million pixels, is nearly 7.5 times larger and offers a 2.4-fold improvement in resolution.*3
Carl Zeiss is planning to release new lenses and accessories at Photokina. No further details were provided, but one of the lenses will probably be the already leaked Zeiss Distagon ZF 1.4/35 ZF.2. Carl Zeiss claims that this will be the first time they will be releasing “accessories”.
Full press release after the break:
AmateurPhotographer just posted an article about the new Sony Alpha 33 and Alpha 55 cameras. Check it out before it gets removed.
Those are the rumored Pentax K-5 and K-r specs from the Pentax forum:
Pentax K-5:
Pentax K-r:
Both DSLR cameras are expected to be released for Photokina. A new EVIL camera from Pentax is also expected to be announced (or at least shown) at Photokina.
Ricoh filed a patent application 2010-175627 (published August 12, 2010, filled January 27, 2009) in Japan for what appears to be a new 35mm f/1.8 Macro lens.
I covered the details over @ LeicaRumors. If you are into rangefinders, definitely check it out.
Sony leak du jour: today, we have pictures of the Sony a560 and a580 cameras (see specs here):
Sony a580 back
