Photo Rumors

Panasonic to announce a new Lumix S 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 OIS mirrorless lens for L-mount

By PR admin | Published: February 1, 2021

Panasonic is rumored announce a new Lumix S 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 OIS mirrorless lens for L-mount. The new lens was spotted in the product listing of an online US retailer with a price of $1,247. The lens has been on the Panasonic L-mount roadmap for a while (see all current Panasonic L-mount lenses):

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Canon 2020 fiscal year financial results

By PR admin | Published: February 1, 2021

Canon released their 2020 fiscal year financial results. Here are the numbers for the Imaging Business – most reported numbers are better than previous projections, but still a significant drop when compared YoY:

Nikon also recently revised upward their financial forecast as they see Q2 recovery trend of business activities mainly in the Imaging Products Business.

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Lomography is teasing a new lens

By PR admin | Published: February 1, 2021

Lomography is teasing a new lens that will be officially announced on February 3, 2021, at 11:00 am CET:

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BCN Ranking published their latest full-frame cameras market share report for Japan

By PR admin | Published: January 31, 2021

BCN Ranking published their latest full-frame cameras market share report for Japan (translation):

BCN Ranking collects real sales data from approximately 40% of the Japanese retailers – this is not a worldwide market share report. Previous BCN reports can be found here.

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What else is new?

By PR admin | Published: January 31, 2021

The Ricoh GR III camera is now $100 off (coupon code included)

New Leica 35mm APO Summicron lens reference spotted in a firmware update

Fujifilm Introducing the GFX100S and GF80mm Plus 3 Things You Might Have Missed

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The 2020 Worst Camera of the Year Award goes to…

By PR admin | Published: January 30, 2021

Here are the results of the 2020 Worst Camera of the Year Award poll – the winner is the $6,000 Zeiss ZX1 fixed lens camera with integrated Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (see previous ZX1 coverage):

Posted in Other, Zeiss| Tagged Worst camera of the year, Zeiss ZX1, Zeiss ZX1 37.4MP sensor developed by Zeiss, Zeiss ZX1 full frame fixed lens camera| 21 Comments

The Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 150-400mm f/4.5 TC1.25x IS PRO lens is delayed again

By PR admin | Published: January 29, 2021

The Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 150-400mm f/4.5 TC1.25X IS PRO lens is delayed again… the second time around… because of a large number of customers who ordered the lens… Just another entry for the photo gear wall of shame that has “greatly exceeded” expectations. Here is the translated press release: