Sony has gathered the jounrlists for a major product announcement. For sure we will get new E-mount lenses (135mm f/1.8 GM and maybe some more pre-production lenses). There is likely no new camera announcement. The A7sIII si rumored to be ready in late 2019 only. Sony A9r and A7000 are just wold rumors for now…
Olympus:
Olympus registered a new camera in Asia. This is likely to be a new OMD model (E-M5III or E-m1III). For sure this is NOT a PEN-FII because this line seems to have been killed by Olympus :(
The new OMD will be announced during the second half of the year.
Sony:
Sony confirmed it’s committment to the APS-C line in an interview released at DC.watch. They also made it clear new APS-C products will be released in 2019 and that “high end” APS-C is also a priority.
Within the next few days we will also get this three new cameras:
Canon G5X Mark II
Ricoh GR III
Ricoh G900 (20MP sensor and super weatherproof)
Leica Q2 (47MP sensor)
via Nokishita
As reported by Nokishita the new Ricoh GRIII will be finally released this week.
Here are the first leaked images of the new Leica Q2. Specs:
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via Nokishita
Nokishita spilled out some info about the soon to be announced new Leica Q2:
Yesterday we had announcements from Fuji, Canon and Nikon. But there is still one more announcement ahead of us: Sony will announce new E-mount lenses before the start of the WPPI show (which opens on Feb 25).
For sure we can expect to get a new 135mm f/1.8 GM lens. There is likely going to be no camera announcement. A new E-mount mirrorless and a new RX0II will be announced in Q2 (between April and June).
