Fuji announced the new XF 16mm f/1.4 WR lens which you can already preorder at BHphoto and Adorama. To learn all you need to know about the lens click over at Rico’s hands-on at Fujirumors.

We have a couple of MFT news coming from the NAB show:

Blackmagic announced two new MFT cameras. The Blackmagic Micro Cinema Camera and the Blackmagic Micro Studio Camera 4K.

Panasonic will release a new firmware for the GH4 by end of this month. It adds in camera support for anamorphic shooting, improved HDMi out and V-LOG.

If you were hoping to get an APS-C or even FF mirrorless camera from Nikon you will have to digest that. In an interview at Dpreview Nikon said:

We still believe that Nikon 1 has room for further evolution. This is the area we want to put effort in to, rather than making bigger sensor mirrorless cameras.

We have two different categories: the D-line and the 1-series, and with these lineups, we believe we’ll meet all the needs of customers.

[Samsung SMART CAMERA NX1] Enchanted Icelandic Aurora Caught in 4K/UHD Time-Lapse

Samsung NX500 Shooter’s Report at Imaging Resource.
5 Lessons Learned Switching from DSLR to Mirrorless for Travel Photography (DPS).
The Mirrorless party 2015 by Thecamerastoretv.
Island life: Samsung NX500 Shooting Experience (Dpreview).
Retro, refined: Fujifilm X100T reviewed (Dpreview).
Sigma dp0 Quattro Hands-On Preview at ePhotozine.
Fuji 16-55mm review: An excellent versatile lens (Theinspiredeye).
Samsung NX1 review at Dpreview.

Canon Japan announced the XC10. It’s a 4K camera with a 12MP sensor and it will be released in mid June 2015.

Key Features

The new product, aimed at professionals and advanced amateurs users involved in video production, is the 4K video camera that was both high image quality and compact and lightweight. Video production and media, such as promotional videos and documentaries, as a sub-camera of digital cinema, making it suitable for a variety of applications such as the shooting of the scene that require mobility.

The high-quality 4K video can be video production immersive high definition

And 1.0-inch CMOS sensor of high sensitivity, 4K video lens equipped with a 10x optical zoom, image processing platform DIGIC DV 5 performs arithmetic processing in high speed, the newly developed all of Canon’s proprietary video format “XF-AVC”, I realize the shooting and recording of high-quality 4K video. Compression method 4K video adopts the Intra Frame for achieving high bit rates up to 305Mbps, while maintaining the high quality of 4K video Through the high compression, can reduce the data capacity. In addition, it is equipped with a video recording system that has been adopted in video production equipment CINEMA EOS SYSTEM, you will be able to shoot a high-luminance portion and the overexposure and underexposure less impressive video even in dark. Furthermore, by adopting a high-speed recording media CFast 2.0 card to 4K movie recording, you can built-in recording of 4K video.

About 12 million can be cutting out the still image from the high sensitivity of the still image shooting and 4K video pixel

The installation of an effective pixel count about 12 million pixels 1.0-inch high-sensitivity CMOS sensor, you can still image shooting of ISO20000. In addition, it is equipped with a mechanical shutter, camera is ready to take a picture not only quickly moving subject also distortion (Strain). Furthermore, in “4K frame capture”, I can record still images of about 8.29 million pixels moment from 4K video of 30 frames / sec.

Contributing to video production that require mobility

About 125 (width) × 102 (height) × 122 (depth) mm, and has realized the size and weight of about 930g ?. Furthermore, by adopting approximately 90 ° rotatable grip front and rear tilt type liquid crystal and the vertical, such as high-angle and low-angle, allows shooting from an arbitrary position and angle of the user, requiring mobility image I will contribute to the production.

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Market trends in video production equipment

With the digitization of the video production industry, and at the same time respond to 4K video progresses rapidly in productions such as movies, efforts to practical use of 4K broadcasting has begun in many countries in the broadcasting industry. From input to output, by 4K of the video production workflow progresses, it is of course, the needs of the digital 4K video camera suitable for video production in a compact and lightweight come increasingly in the future equipment is a high-resolution and image quality It is expected that. (Canon survey)

Personal View posted the graphs of the February digital camera sales. As you can see there is no big news. Camera sales are still bad compared to the previous year (which was alreayd a very bad year). And this time both DSLR and Mirrorless camera shipments were lower than the same month 12 months ago. Wondering when this will ever end to fall and fall…

The full detailed numbers can be see on that CIPA PDF.