In addition to the Sony E-mount roadmap from yesterday, there is also a new Ricoh GXR roadmap. The big news here is that in 2011 Ricoh will also offer expansion units but the roadmap does not specify what mounts will be supported. Previous rumors already suggested MicroFourThirds module and even Leica M mount and Hasselblad mount prototypes were floating around few months ago.
You can see all currently available GXR products and prices on Amazon.
This is the latest Sony NEX (E-mount) lens roadmap till 2012:
The expected lenses for the next two years are:
At that point there is nothing really new to report from Photokina. Here are few links from day 5 of the show:
Kenko is best known for its photography equipment accessories and converters (they also produce camera lenses under the Tokina brand name). Kenko was suppose to display a prototype of their new digital camera with interchangeable lenses at Photokina, but the prototype… got lost (?)… so they only had few pictures to show:
credit: DC Watch
Specs after the break:
Plenoptic technology is developed by Adobe and it lets you select which part of the image you want to be in focus. A Plenoptic camera contains an array of microlenses between the front lens and the sensor and it captures a series of small images from different viewpoints that can later be extracted and manipulated by special software in order to reach a certain depth of field during postprocessing.
Todor Georgiev is one of the scientist from Adobe that worked on that project and on his website I even found a picture of the the first plenoptic camera on the market produced by the German company Raytrix:
Photokina news are slowly fading away as we approach the end of day 3 of the biggest photography show. Quick update on the latest:
First, a slideshow from Photokina 2010:
