Well known and very reliable Pentax source “Asahi Man” just shared this on the Dpreview forum:

It’s time to put this senseless speculation to an end…
Nope,Pentax will not going out of photo business…
There is a very, very internal roadmap…. Cameras and lenses…
A nice fullframe line up is in sight, no sign for going out of business.
Next year is the big anniversary,don’t forget this point.
I know,the most forum users here, will be surprised.

My speculation is that also Pentax will launch a new Full Frame Mirrorless next year. I hope they will noin one of the existing FF mirrorless systems. I really cannot see them competiting all alone against the big giants.

These are the first two leaked images of the new Leica M10-D. Announcement coming within the next weeks.

via Nokishita

The endless and justified complains against the weak Sony APS-C E-mount support finally had some effect. Mr. Tanaka from Sony confirmed in an interview at Pronews.jp that they will now focus on APS-C again.

In his words Sony had to complete the FF camera line first before to move on to APS-C again. As rumored weeks ago Sony is expected to launch a new High End APS-C model soon. It will have:

• EVF in the center
• larger body
• 20fps
• new around 30MP sensor?

Let’s hope some nice APS-C glass is going to be announced too…

Nokishita leaked the first images of the soon to be announced new Zeiss Otus 100mm f/1.4 lens. There is yet no info about pricing and official release date. As usual expect this lens to be available in native Canon EF and Nikon F mounts. But you can use it on any mirrorless system camera with the proper adapter.

Nokishita updated the list of cameras that have been registered in Asian public agencies. Those models will be officially announced within the next couple of months:

There are some rumors about Canon announcing a new professional level EOS-PRO camera in January-February. From what I heard this camera will take quite a bit longer before it goes on market and I don’t see it ready by early 2019.

And Digital Camera World talked to Canon about the possibility of adding on sensor stabilization on future cameras:

We [i.e. Canon, editor’s note] feel that in-lens IS is the optimum system for image stabilisation […]

With an in-body IS system you are creating something that needs to work over lots of different types of lenses and different lens groups, so you don’t get a dedicated system for that particular lens.

All lenses move in different ways, and you get different types of shake depending on what kind of lens you’re using, so dedicating the IS system to the particular lens is, for us, the optimum way of doing it – but that’s not to say that we aren’t looking at in-body IS.

via CR via Canonwatch

From a pure marketing point of view Sony got heavily beaten at Photokina by the L-mount alliance announcement, the Canon EOS-R and Nikon Z. Sony missed to bring any kind of possible new “mass distraction weaponry” and left the conference room with a general hint about 12 future E-mount lenses.

But they seem to find their way back to the headlines with this: SAR reports that they will soon announce a new kind of High End APS-C camera with EVF in the middle just like the Fuji X-t3 and Panasonic GH5. This will be the new jewel on Sony’s APS-C crown and bring Sony A9 alike features for the masses. New lenses will be announced too (no specs yet).

And if Full Frame is your thing the next camera should be the A7sIII which will be announced sometimes in early 2019.