Pentax K-m is now discontinued according to Pentax Japan (Google translation) and so is the DA 50-200mm f/4-5.6 ED lens.
The new Pentax K-x is considered to be the replacement of the K-m model. Pentax USA website also doesn’t list the K-m as an available model.
This rumor is coming form a Chinese forum: the expected Ricoh’s EVIL (Electronic Viewfinder with Interchangeable Lens) camera may have a “slide-in” interchangeable lens mount system and not a k-mount like previous speculated. This idea is not new and has been discussed before on dpreview.
There is also a patent granted to Ricoh a while back “where lenses were split into two parts – basically the lens elements in one and the iris part in another. The iris part was then built on the camera body as a fixed part. The interchangeable bit was only the lens and presumably the focus mechanism only” (source).
Two weeks ago, during the Paris’s Photography Show, Ricoh representative said (source): “We are going to issue a small interchangeable lens system instead. It will have a APS-C sized type sensor…. It will be as small as the GX.”
Red announced some detailed specs for two of their “Digital Stills and Motion Cameras”. The first one is the high-end EPIC-X which will sell for $28,000. Pre-production version will be available this year and full production in 2010:
Those are the specs of the Scarlet 2/3 inch camera which will be Red’s entry level model (no price announced for now):
I just received another announcement date: November 6th, which is Friday (a week from now). Friday is a weird day to release a new product because the weekend kills the momentum of the announcement and people tend to get distracted. I would say expect the announcement in the next 7 days, the actual date may vary based on your time zones.
Sony a750 leaks on Sony Style website. No detailed specs are available at that time but a 14.6 MP full-frame sensor is expected. Based on previous Sony Style leaks, expect announcement in the next 30 days:
Olympus EP-2 leaks continue to show up online which is a good indication that announcement is imminent and very close:
The next picture is the electronic viewfinder VF-2 (Google translation):
An external installation, E-P2-specific high-resolution electronic viewfinder, which has 1.44 million pixels, 100% field of vision and 1.15x magnification, while the ultra-high contrast and brightness characteristics of the video camera can even add an external color comparable to the viewfinder. It also provides a refractive adjustment function.
External microphone adapter EMA-1:
Shoe accessory attachment port and allows you to use the optional stereo microphone to achieve high-quality stereo linear PCM recording.
* Can not be installed on the accessory shoe used in conjunction.
Yes, you read this right – the rumor is Kodak’s “entirely new type of camera” could be a 3D DSLR camera. Kodak used to make DSLR cameras before and it seems that they have found a niche market and decided to explore it. Just few days ago Kodak reported 26% drop in sales (source: WSJ) and I can imagine how the company can become more aggressive and try to introduce something new.
I cannot mention the source of this rumor, but I consider it serious enough to publish it here.
At CES (January 2010 in Las Vegas) Kodak is also expected to announce a new version of the Kodak Zi8 pocket camcorder.
Update: the E-P2 link is still there and it leads to a page with a broken image link:
Coming to you directly from the Olympus website in China:
The official announcement is expected on October 31st:
