NEX-6 unboxing

CameraDiner-Fuji love show: Paul Genge just sent me this text: “LIVE on www.cameradiner.com tomorrow night at 7pm (UK) 8pm(CET) we will have photographer David Kai Piper who is a professional photographer using X-PRO1 and published by Fujifilm UK. Because its a LIVE show the viewer can interact and ask questions directly through the chatwall.“

new Gariz case for the new Olympus E-PM2 (here), E-PL5 (here) and Fuji X-E1 (here).

Canon EOS M noise test at CameraLabs (Click here). Image samples by Dpreview.

Leica X2 at PcMag.

Leica M Monochrom test at Shoottokyo.

Full NEX-6 review at ePhotozine (Click here).

You are not going to jump for joy for this but Canon US just released the new Canon EOS-M double kit lens package you can already available at Adorama. It was already available in Asia (here on Slidoo eBay).

Speaking of Asia…to be precise Japan. At BCNranking you can check out the latest week top system camera sales. You will notice that actually the cheapest mirrorless cameras are top sellers in the mirrorless segment. There is even the Pentax Q camera that sells like a hotcake :)

It’s time to look a bit more into some new Nikon 1 related news!

Let’s start with a deal on refurbished J1 camera at Cameta (now $259 only). As you know it has been replaced by the J2 but the DxOmark sensor test demonstrates that there is no real image quality improvement on the newer model. And image samples of the new V2 model have been posted by the Russian Prophoto site. The surprise comes from the Nikon Q2 financial report that showed that the new DSLRs and Nikon 1 are selling well in face of the economic crisis (Engadget). I may underestimated Nikon’s capacity to sell the Nikon 1 mirrorless cameras :)

We start the new week by showing you two new MFT products!
First product is the new updated Panasonic AG-AF100A Micro Four Thirds camcorder. It’s a small update that among other new features also adds 28Mbit 1080/60p recording and 10 bit SDI out. More news on 43rumors.
Second product is the new . That lens was already available in E and X mount (List here on slidoo).

If you are going to be a Fuji X-E1 or Canon EOS-M owner than you may be interested to know that next week Gariz will launch the new cases for both cameras. Gariz is well known for making high quality leather cases for mirrorless cameras. You can find a long list of these on Slidoo eBay (Click here and slide / register slidoo to have fulls earch access).

Meantime a new Fuji X-E1 review can be found on Fujirumors.

Japan is the one country that leads the mirrorless revolution started by Olympus and Panasonic four years ago. And the latest market analysis released by BCNranking (translation here) shows how 50% of all sold system cameras are mirrorless. And it is expected that the growth will continue at cost of the DSLR systems. The graph on top shows how Olympus leads the market with 28.6% closely followed by Sony (23.5%), Panasonic (17.3%) and Nikon (12.8%). The real winners of the year are Sony and Canon. Sony managed to surpass Panasonic and Canon is actually selling the new EOS-M that well that it almost caught up with Nikon. In October these were the most sold cameras in Japan: E-PL3 (10.6%), NEX-5N (10.3%), EOS-M (9.2%), GF5 (8.9%).

A short news about another very unique camera. The 8 and 16GB Lytro cameras are now in Stock and shipping at Amazon (Click here). And Lytro cameras are also getting parallax effect and 3D display support. More about it on Engadget.