Olympus Japan announced today that they are shutting down all camera-related production in China and will consolidate all future digital camera production in Vietnam (update – the English version is available here).
Last year Nikon also closed their camera factory in China:
Nikon officially announced the closure of their camera plant in China
As I already reported earlier, today Hasselblad officially announced their new XCD 21mm f/4 medium format mirrorless lens – the company’s widest lens ever. The US price of the lens is $3,750.
Here is the updated Hasselblad XCD lens roadmap for 2018:
Technical specifications, lens design, MTF charts and additional information can be found here and here.
Press release:
The new Sigma 105mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art full frame lens was announced back in February, but the official pricing is still not available (check US product listings for updates). A store in Lithuania (efoto.lt) has listed the lens for €1,999 or around $2,400:
As previously guessed Hasselblad will announce a new XCD 21mm f/4 medium format lens on May 7th. The US price will be $3750. Shipping will start in a few weeks.
The lens profile was already included in the latest Adobe Lightroom update together with three other XCD lenses.
Hasselblad currently has four XCD lenses available for sale.
The Fujifilm X100F camera will soon be available also in brown color. The specifications and functionality will be the same the regular X100F. You can see additional pictures of the new X100F version at Ivan Joshua Loh’s website. There is still no official information from Fuji, but the new model is already listed for sale in some markets.
Via FujiAddict
Imaging Resource published a new interview with Shigemi Sugimoto, Head of Imaging Business Unit, Olympus Corp. Here is the recap courtesy of 43addict:
Beach Camera leaked the upcoming Fuji Instax SQ6 camera (see cached page, PDF brochure available here):
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