Panasonic will have a major announcement on May 31. This is what we will get:

• New Panasonic S Cine Camera
• New 10-25mm f/1,7 MFT lens
• New 1.4x and 2.0x teleconverters for L-mount

In summary what we know so far about the new Panasonic S camera (via L-rumors.com).

Panasonic Cine Lumix will be announced on May 31
It’s L-mount
New Full Frame sensors
Cinematography dream gear
It’s built like a tank.
Slightly bigger than the S1-S1R for better heat dissipation

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Here are the leaked images of the lens and teleconverters:

via Nokishita

Nokishita leaked these images of the production ready Fuji GFX-100.

And here is the Fujifilm GFX100 vs GFX50s vs GFX 50r – specs comparison via Fujirumors:

Surprise folks!

Panasonic has scheduled a big press event for a “top-secret” product announcement. All we know so far is that this is a Cine oriented LUMIX L-mount mirrorless camera. It will be Full Frame of course!

More info about this camera will be posted on L-rumors.com. Now let’s see if Sony will finally react to this news and launch the A7sIII.

Nokishita leaked the full GFX100 specs (via Fujirumors):

Fujifilm GFX 100 Specs (google translated from Japanese)

• Equipped with a backside illuminated CMOS sensor with 102 million pixels
• High-speed image processing engine “X-Processor 4”
• Achieves high-speed AF with up to twice the speed of the current model and excellent in moving object tracking
• 3.78 million image plane phase difference pixels are placed on the entire surface of the image sensor (coverage ratio about 100%)
• The accuracy of “face and pupil detection AF” has dramatically improved
• In addition to face detection of objects farther away, it is also possible to achieve high followability even when the face turns sideways or is blocked by an obstacle.
• Equipped with a 5-axis camera shake correction mechanism in the body that has an effect of up to 5.5 steps
• Equipped with 4K / 30P video shooting function
• Recording to an SD card 4K 30p 10bit 4: 2: 0, recording to an external media via HDMI 4K 30p 10bit 4: 2: 2
• The first “GFX Series” to be equipped with “ETERNA” mode
• In addition to rear liquid crystal monitor corresponding to 3.2 type 3 direction tilt, we adopt 2.05 type rear sub monitor newly
• The newly installed 1.80 top screen sub LCD monitor can use “Virtual dial mode” to display dial design
• Newly developed 5.76 million dots organic EL electronic view finder
• View finder magnification 0.86 times, optional EVF tilt adapter “EVF-TL1” can be attached
• It supports “16bit RAW” “16bit TIFF” recording
• Newly developed Smooth Skin Effect, a new function that automatically performs skin retouching
• We realize small size, light weight of thinnest part 48.9mm, approximately 1400 g (including two batteries, memory card, electronic view finder)
• High dust and water proof performance and low temperature resistant structure with 95 places sealing
• First to support “IEEE 802.11ac” as “GFX series”
• Since two “NP-T125” can be mounted, approximately 800 images can be taken when using the rear LCD monitor
• Power supply and charge from USB terminal is possible

Announcement on May 23!!!

This week on May 23 fuji will finally launch the new GFX100!

Fujifilm GFX 100 official and rumored specs via Fujirumors:

• Name: Fujifilm GFX 100 – Fujifilm EU leak
• GFX100 Sensor data sheet in this article
• Backilluminated 100 Megapixel BSI IMX461 sensor
• Sensor already used by Phase One here
• cost around $10,000 (as we already told you in December 2017)
• around $10,000 – Fuji US manager said $9,995
• announcement May 23 (rumor here)
• shipping within the end June
• 4K @ 30p, 4:2:0 and 10bit internal recording (official leaked media slides here)
• 4K @ 30p, 4:2:2 and 10bit external recording (official leaked media slides here)
• 4K @ 30p with no crop (Fujifilm manager said it here)
• 4K/30p with H265 coded and 400 mbps (press report here)
• 16 bit RAW (Fujifilm manager here)
• pixel shift multishot (rumored in October 2018)
• pixel shift multishot not available at launch (rumor here)
• full sensor phase detection coverage (official leaked media slides)
• X Processor 4
• resistant to up to -10°C
• 5 axis IBIS (as we already told you in December 2017)
• Fujifilm GFX 100 size comparison vs Fujifilm GFX 50R and Canon, Sony, Nikon cameras
• batter life around 400 shots (leaked media slide here)
• dual SD-card slot (official mockup images)
• 5.76M-dot interchangeable EVF & Tilt Adapter (leaked media slideshere)
• 50% faster autofocus (leaked media slides here)
• Phase Detection work down at -2 EV @ F2 (leaked media slides here)
• up to 5 stops IBIS (leaked media slides here)

Sshort roundup of the rumored cameras for the year 2019:

Leica SL2: coming the second half of the year with same Panasonic S1R sensor
Hasselblad X1D-100: To be on the market by the second half of the year and featuring the new Sony 100MP sensor
Fuji GFX100: Will be announced on May 23 (we know all specs about that camera)
Canon High End EOS-R camera: Probably features a new 64 Megapixel sensor and will be announced in autumn
Canon EOS-M500: Entry level APS-C camera coming this autumn
Sony A9II: To be announced in September and feature some revolutionary advancements (particularly on the sensor level)
Sony A7sIII: To be announced with or slightly after the Sony A9II
Olympus E-M5III: To be announced in late summer/early autumn and maybe featuring a new 32MP Sony sensor

Nikon may not announce a new Z camera this year. While it’s unclear if Panasonic will already gave us a glimpse about their new 8K GH6 camera in 2019.

All companies released their yearly financial reports. Some are doing well (Sony and Fuji), some are doing not so great (Canon and Nikon) but one company really did pretty bad in 2018: Olympus!

Their Imaging segment reported a -19% drop in revenue and 17,1 billion YEN loss. Olympus claims that the move of their factory from China to Vietnam has to take the blame for this. They also said that they will launch a lot of new gear in 2019 which they expect will allow them to meet their break even target for this fiscal year.

It’s rumored that Olympus will launch a new compact fixed lens camera within the next few weeks. But two more MFT cameras and some new PRO lenses are expected to be launched this autumn.

Olympuss confirmed multiple times that they won’t gor Full Frame and they wont go Medium Format. I hope they will one day not regret not having doing so…