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It’s hard to spell it but Panasonic invented a new “Leica” name for the 42,5mm f/1.2. it’s called Nocticron! Sounds like some sort of magic letal machine :)

Preorders price and specs:
Silver GX7 body at Amazon US (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and Wex UK (Click here).
Silver GX7 with 14-42mm lens at Amazon (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and WexUK (Click here).
Black GX7 body at Wex UK (Click here).
Black GX7 with 14-42mm lens at Wex UK (Click here).
Black GX7 with 20mm lens at Wex UK (Click here).
Silver GX7 with 20mm lens at Wex UK (Click here).

Previews, reviews and tests:
First impression review at Dpreview, Hands-on by ePhotozine, Preview at Techradar, Spanish Hands-on at DSLRmagazine, Toma de contacto Quesabesde, Hands-on pics at Photographyblog.

Surprise:
Panasonic also announced the Leica 42,5mm f/1.2 Nocticron (Source: Panasonic Japan). No price or release date unveiled.

Image Samples:
Photographyblog,

Videos:
First look by WDC, Introduction Video (Panasonic), Koji Ueda (Panasonic), Bernie DeChant (Panasonic), Kyoto (Panasonic), Praxistest in German (Chip.de), Scandinavian Photo,

Worldwide Press releases:
42,5mm lens at Dpreview.
GX7 at Dpreview, ePhotozine, Photoscala (German), Quesabesde (Spanish), DC.watch (Japanese), Panasonic (Japanese), Zoom (Dutch), LeMondeDeLaPhoto (French), Focus Numerique (French), LesNumeriques (French), Fotografidigitali (Italian), Photographyblog, Fotomagazin (German).

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The X100s just got dpreviewed and earned a Gold award. The Fuji X100s is amazing, but long live the original X100! The camera just got a huge price drop and is available for $899 at Amazon (Click here) and Adorama (Click here). And it sounds like the 130,000 X100 owners will soon get a nice present. At dpreview user Mistur said: “There will be an update for the X100 that will add approximately 50% of the 72 new features found in the X100s. While there has been no official announcement yet, I heard about it at a recent Fuji event for the X-M1.”

Great!

found via Fujirumors.

Japanese Q7 commercial (found via RiceHigh)

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Galaxy NX test at FunFunHan.
Sigma DP3 Merrill review by Ming Thein.
Voigtlander Discontinues Its Bessa A Series Rangefinders (ThePhoBlographer).
Samsung NX300 and NX210 DxOmarked.
Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom review: a messy marriage of smartphone and camera (Engadget).
Samsung NX2000 review at ThePhoBlographer.
Samsung NX2000 Review at Digitalcamerareview.
FotgaLens Mount Adapter for Nikon G Lens to M4/3 (ThePhoBlographer).
Sony RX1R test at DSLRmagazine.
Zeiss Touit test at Quesabesde.

Fuji (Click here) just released a new firmware update for the X-Pro1 just a couple of days after an issue with movie recording was discovered. That was a quick response from Fuji!

Reminder: One more Fuji X interchangeable lens camera will be announced in one month! It will be an entry level camera.

The just launched new Sony RX cameras are now in Stock and shipping:
RX1R FF camera shipping at , Amazon US (July 26), BHphoto (July 31),
RX100MII camera is shipping at , Amazon US (July 26), BHphoto (Click here), ,

DC.watch (google translation here) reports that Ricoh-Pentax started a new customization service for the Ricoh GR. As you see form these pics you can change the top cover, knobs and the grip color. I see some Pentax influence here :)

One more GR news: There is a new review at Imaging Resource.

Fuji just released the new updated lens roadmap. It shows a new lens which is the XC 50-230 f/4.5-6.7 OIS. The full press release can be read here:

Updated FUJIFILM X-Mount Lens Roadmap

FUJIFILM Corporation (President: Shigehiro Nakajima) is today publishing an updated version of the FUJIFILM X-mount lens roadmap. This is further to the last XF lens roadmap issued in April 2013.

A total of 10 high quality Fujinon XF lenses will be on the market by early 2014 and now an additional 2 Fujinon XC lenses have been added to this list. When you combine this with the 3 Zeiss lenses already announced, it brings the total number of X Mount lenses available to 15.

New XC Lenses
In response to market feedback and requests from users, Fujifilm is expanding its line-up of lenses to offer a new category of XC lens. These are “compact and casual” lenses and are perfectly suited to the mid-range X-M1 compact system camera. They feature all-glass elements and are lightweight and portable.

In conjunction with its X-M1 compact system camera, Fujifilm announced the launch of the first XC lens, an F3.5-5.6 standard zoom lens that covers a shooting range of 16-50mm (24-76mm in 35mm equivalent). Today Fujifilm is announcing a second XC lens, an F4.5-6.7 telephoto zoom lens that covers the shooting range of 50mm to 230mm (75-350mm in 35mm equivalent). This will be available by the end of the year.

Fujifilm will continue to strive for the development of lenses that cover a wide range of focal lengths and offer bright and high resolution reproduction even at the periphery, so that users can enjoy the high resolution features of FUJIFILM X-Series cameras.

*1 For enquiries or information about the Carl Zeiss X-mount lenses, please click on the following URL: http://lenses.zeiss.com
*2 35mm format equivalent

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