The Japanese website BCNranking displayed the latest data about the Japanese camera market. 31% of all sold interchangeable cameras in May were Mirrorless! And those are the detailed results

Most sold cameras with interchangeable lenses:
The first two position are held by the two entry level cameras from Nikon and Canon. But on position three you can already find the first mirrorless camera the E-PL2 with 6.4% of the whole volume share. The Panasonic GF2 is on Position 5 with 6.2%. The is on Pos. 7 with 5.3%. And on position 9 you can find the in Japan only available E-PL1s.

Mirrorless Market Share (January to May 2011):
Olympus volume share is 37.95% of the whole mirrorless camera. Right behind you find Sony (32.02%) and than Panasonic (30.03%). The year 2010 ended with following shares Panasonic (38.7%), Sony (32.2%), Olympus (29.1%). As you see Olympus made a huge step forward.

Market share for all interchangeable cameras:
If you count the all interchangeable cameras (Mirrorless and DSLR) than Canon leads with 29.3%, followed by Nikon (27.4%), Sony (15.0%), Olympus (12.7%) and Panasonic (9.7%). Canon and Nikon both loosed market share during the last months.
P.S.: Those are the links to the Amazon TOP 20 cameras:
Amazon US rankings (Click here)
Amazon DE rankings (Click here)
Amazon UK rankings (Click here)
Amazon FR rankings (Click here)
Amazon IT rankings (Click here)

Quick video test made with the new Leica 25mm f/1.4 lens.

Ricoh GXR System Camera test at Outbackphoto.

Fujifilm FinePix X100 First Look (Digitalcamerareview).

Fuji FinePix X100, una pequeña joya en un envoltorio irresistible (Microsiervos).

Leica X1 vs Fuji X100 by Alex Koloskov (Link1 and Link2 via Noisycamera)

Test terrain du Fujifilm X100 (Photopassion.fr)

Cámaras sin espejo y objetivos antiguos: una combinación con muchas posibilidades (Quesabesde).

Ricoh GXR+A12 verus GF2+14mm F2.5 versus Leica X1 versus Fuji X100 at Zol (Chinese).

I will continually update this page. Latest additions will be on top of each category!

Hot details

It uses a 12 MP Sony 1:2.33 inch backlit sensor. Reminder: An APS-C mirrorlress camera will come in autumn!
External Viewfinder Available Separately.
Price 700 Euro with the 47mm lens.
28-83mm equivalent f/2.8-4.5 lens will, cost $299 and offer a built-in ND filter and lens shutter.
There wil be five lenses (Photographyblog).

Previews and Reviews

Imaging Resource
Hands-on at Dpreview.

Image samples

First studio image samples at Imaging Resource.

Video

Hands-on video on Engadget.

Links to Press release

Akihabara
Engadget
Photoradar
Photographyblog
Photographybay
TheOnlinePhotographer
Quesabesde (spanish)
Colorfoto (german)
CNET (too little, too late and too much?)
Amateur Photographer
Photoclubalpha
PCworld
Focus Numerique (french).

Specifications

12 Megapixel
1:2.33 inch sensor
Records 1080p video
5fps
JPEG and RAW
1/2000 to 30 Second Shutter Speeds
HDR Capture
In body IS
Built-In Popup Flash
3 inch LCD screen
HDMi port and SD, SDHC, and SDXC Memorey Cards
Bokeh Control Filter and Smart Effects Mode

Poll

Leica found a way to aks even more money for the fullframe Leica M9 ;) The new Leica M9-P comes wthout that red Leica logo, a new cover glass made of Sapphire, a new Vulcanite leatherette cover and old style Leica engraving on top of the camera. For that you wil have to spend $500 more than the current “normal” M9.

And than we have a new expensive Leica Super Elmar M 21mm f/3.4 ASPH lens you can already preorder on Adorama (Click here) for $2,995.00.

UPDATE: Ken Rockwell is pretty upset with that anouncement: “Same as the M9, with the sapphire screen Leica removed from the M8 when it introduced the M9 in order to give themselves this upgrade path as we predicted them to do back in 2009 when they cheated us out of the sapphire that the M8 had. Leica is getting like the Japanese: two steps forward (full-frame and no IR filters needed), and one step back for future upgrades (remove the sapphire cover in 2009 so they can add it in 2011 and claim something new).“

The Fuji guys are tweeting the info about the upcoming Fuji X100 firmware.

The new firmware should be announced within the next days!

Reminder: Check the Fuji X100 in Stock status by clicking those direct search links: [shopcountry 100018].

The new Sony NEX-3/4 firmware version 4 is now available for download at Sony Japan (Click here). It’s a multi-language version!

The new firmware adds the peaking mode (see video on top) and the picture effects (the equivalent of the art filters form Olympus).

Today Panasonic announced the new GF3 and Leica 25mm lens. Full news and reviews coverage is available here at 43rumors. And Panasonic gave already some hints about the future product. There will be a professional GF camera, a GH2 successor and two more lenses in autumn!

Black GF3 with 14mm lens at Amazon (Click here).
White GF3 with 14mm lens at Amazon (Click here).
Red GF3 with 14mm lens at Amazon (Click here).
Brown GF3 with 14mm lens at Amazon (Click here).