The latest rumor is that Fujifilm will add a new Fujinon XF 15mm f/3.5 tilt-shift lens to their roadmap. The announcement will happen today during their CES press conference. If this turns out to be true, Fuji will become the first major manufacturer to release a tilt-shift lens for mirrorless camera. Please note that I do not have […]
Pentax updated their lens roadmaps for 2013. The K-mount roadmap now includes the recently announced 18-270mm f/3.5-5.6 and 560mm f/5.6. For 2013 the company plans to announce to following new lenses: 12-28mm DA wide zoom lens 24-38mm DA zoom limited lens 120-380mm DA tele zoom lens 18-85mm DA zoom lens DA AF RC 1.4x teleconverter The new Q-mount […]
FujiFilm officially published a slightly different roadmap for the X-Pro1 camera line. The initial roadmap had all zoom lenses with fixed f/4 aperture – now two of the upcoming zoom lenses will have variable aperture. In 2012 you can expect two new lenses: 14mm f/2.8 18-55mm f/2.8-f/4 OIS. The rest of the lenses for 2013 are: 56mm f/1.4 27mm […]
After the K-mount, Pentax released also the 645 mount roadmap that reveals a new wide (24-45mm), standard (45-90mm) and tele (90-200mm) zoom lenses to be announced in 2013 or later. The Pentax Q mount roadmap shows plans for a new 80-300mm telephoto and 15-35mm wide zooms, a telephoto prime and a mount cap lens (pinhole lens):
This is is Sony’s E-mount (NEX) roadmap for 2012-2013: G high performance standard zoom High magnification zoom Standard zoom Wide angle zoom Mid-magnification zoom Large aperture standard prime Middle telephoto prime Pancake (prime)
Pentax Japan released images of their upcoming lenses for 2012:
Pentax published their K-mount lens roadmap for 2012-2013. Here are the approximate focal lengths of the expected lenses: 50mm DA standard lens (2012) 18-200 DA high magnification zoom lens (2012) 12-28mm DA wide zoom (2013) 24-38mm DA zoom limited lens (2013) 120-380mm DA tele zoom (2013) 18-85mm DA zoom lens (2013) DA AF RC 1.4x teleconverter (2013)
In addition to some new compact cameras, for CES Panasonic aslo announced four new conversion lenses compatible with selected Lumix lenses (see press release at the bottom): DMW-GWC1 ($129.95): magnification .79x, compatible with H-PS1402 & H-H014 DMW-GTC1 ($129.95): magnification 2.0x, compatible with H-PS1402 power zoom DMW-GMC1 ($99.95): magnification .35x, compatible with H-PS1402 & H-H014 DMW-GFC1 ($149.95): […]
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