Fujirumors spilled out the first specs of the new GFX 50R camera that Fuji will annnounce on September 25:

• 2 way tilt screen (and not 3 way, like GFX 50S or Fujifilm X-T3)
• dual SD-card slot
• button layout/look similar to X-E3 (joystick etc), with a few differences, such as the MCS switch on the back of the camera instead than on the front like X-E3.
• no more “cooling box” (meaning the “brick” at the back of the LCD that the Fujifilm GFX 50S has)

More over this camera will be priced at around $4,500 making it the cheapest digital medium format camera ever made!

This has been an exciting time in the mirrorless world and we still have some Zeiss, Sony, Fuji, Ricoh announcement ahead. But ther very single announcement that excites me most is the one from Panasonic on September 25.

It’s rumored they will launch a completely new Full Frame mirrorless system camera. We have no relaible info yet and here I am only going to sum speculations and low ranked rumors I found on the web:

– Very hybrid focusd camera like the GH series
– High Video quality performance
– Takes current MFT lenses with adapter (crop mode)
– Preorders will open in January and shipment start in March
– Sensor made by Panasonic and not Sony

I see the potential for this camera to be superior to the current Canon and Nikon offerings. But still, I think it will be very hard for Panasonic to gain customers on this new system. They would really need to WOW us a lot to win over people.

The NX1 still sells for $2,460 on Amazon

We know Samsung is capable of doing great APS-C sensor (just look at the NX1 camera). And many still wish Samsung will come back doing APS-C or FF sensors for other manufacturers. There is yet no evidence supporting that’s really going to happen. But there is a big discussion within the Korean Forum Seeko.kr that attracted my curiosity. According to a user report Samsung is doing this:

1. Samsung Electronics has just built a full-frame sensor in meaningful quantity. Those are not just an engineering samples.
2. They will start mass production next year and plan to deliver them to Japan. But they did not mention a particular company. They plans to supply it to multiple customers.

O f course this is just forum talk for now and has near zero credibility. But I keep fingers crossed this will be true. it would be about time to get an alternative to Sony’s domination!

As reported today by SonyAlphaRumors this is the new updated list of Photokina press conferences planed by the big companies on September 25:

Some of these companies like Canon and Nikon could announce no product at all and “only” introduce their new systems. Panasonic has the potential to be make the biggest announcement with a new FF system camera.

The Zeiss FF camera teaser

After all the Canon, Nikon and Fuji announcements it’s time for Sony (and Zeiss) to show their cards. let’s start from the smaller one:

Zeiss will announce the 40mm Batis and a new fixed lens Full Frame camera. Zeiss has scheduled a press conference for September 27.

Sony has multiple announcement ahead:
On September 14 they will announce a camcorder
On September 18 they will announce some E-mount stuff (probably a new High End APS-C E-mount camera)
On September 25 they will have an official press conference at Photokina with maybe some more new gear (new lenses?).

While it’s a good bet to think the new High End E-mount camera will be announced soon it’s possible Sony will not launch the new A7sIII any time soon. After all the A7sII still has no direct competition. I wonder if Sony could announce something else that could take away some interest from the new Canon and Nikon offerings…

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via SAR

Image on tops shows the current S2.

Not only Fuji (GFX-50R) but also Leica will announce a new medium format camera named S3 at this years Photokina. No info are rumored about the possible specs…

via Nokishita

Nokishita leaked the full Fuji X-T3 specs (Translation via Fujirumors). The camera will be announced tomorrow:

• Equipped with back-illuminated “X-Trans CMOS 4” sensor with newly developed effective pixel number of approximately 26.1 million pixels (Low pass filter less)
• High-speed image processing engine “X-Processor 4”
• By increasing the number of phase difference pixels to about 4 times the current ratio, the image plane phase difference AF area is expanded to the entire screen area (about 100%)
• Extended the low illuminance limit of phase difference AF from conventional -1 EV to -3 EV
• 4K / 60P 4: 2: 0 Compatible with 10-bit SD card recording in the camera. 4K / 60P 4: 2: 2 Also supports 10bit HDMI output
• “Sports finder mode” function is newly installed. Blackout-free high-speed continuous shooting at the maximum speed of 30 frames per second is possible within a frame equivalent to 16.6 million pixels (1.25 times crop)
• Newly equipped “pre-shooting” function that starts shooting from the time when the shutter button is pressed halfway and records the shot image by pressing the shutter button all the way
• “Monochrome adjustment” function is newly added to “Film simulation”
• “Color Chrome Effect” function is first installed as “X series”
• USB Type adopts Type-C (USB 3.1 Gen 1) standard
• Standard ISO: 160 to 12800 (extended ISO: 80/100/125/25600/51200)
• Continuous: About 11 frames / sec (mechanical shutter), about 30 frames / sec (electronic shutter, 1.25 times crop)
• EVF: 0.5 type organic EL finder Approx. 3.69 million dots 0.75 times
• Rear liquid crystal: 3.0 type approximately 1.04 million dots 3 way tilt type touch panel liquid crystal
• Film simulation: 16 modes (including ETERNA)
• Wi-Fi · Bluetooth 4.2 installed
• Battery: NP-W126S
• Number of storable pictures: approx. 390 pictures (in normal mode)
• Size: 132.5 × 92.8 × 58.8 mm
• Weight: 539 g (including battery and SD memory card), 489 g (body only)
• Color: Black / Silver
• Reservation start date: September 6, 2018
• Scheduled to correspond to movie shooting with hybrid log gamma method and “Simultaneous film simulation / F-Log simultaneous output” by firmware update through 2018