There shall be light! That’s what God Canon created with the soon to be announced EF-M 28mm f/3.5 IS STM macro lens! The lens is the first Canon with built-in LED light! Check out those Digicameinfo leaked images:

Crazy right? But it looks cool :)

Here are the full lens specs:

• The world’s lightest macro lens
• Image stabilisation (IS)
• Hybrid IS
• Standard lens of conversion 45mm corresponding to the flexible for a variety of subject
• Built-in macro light. It can automatically illuminate when needed
• Maximum magnification is 1.2 times
• AF motor stepper motor
• One UD lens and two aspheric lenses

P.S.: The Yasuhara lens for E-mount does the exact the same thing as the new Canon…

via Canonwatch

We got two new lens rumors today:

CanonWatch reports:

Canon will announce a EF-M 35mm f/1.8 STM lens during Summer or late Summer 2016, in any case before Photokina 2016.

And Fujirumors reports that the 120mm XF is off the table in favour of another lens:

A trusted source just told me, that it will be an XF80mm macro lens, very likely F2.8.

The public russian agency Novocert registered a new Canon lens. It’s the new EF-M 28mm 1:3.5 IS STM macro. We can expect the lens to be announced within the next 1-2 months!

via Digicameinfo

The brand new Samyang 50mm f/1.4 FE autofocus (yes autofocus from Samyang!) promises to become quite a popular lens! Eggry.blog just reported that Samyang managers said the lens would cost less than $600 in USA! This is by far the cheapest f/1.4 lens in the Sony FE range. And he also added some more info:

1) AF lenses is not named yet. They’re conducting naming contest in Kora. That’s why it’s just engraved like AF 14/2.8 FE.
2) 14mm f2.8 is not ready for the exhibition so no hands-on time.
3) 560g. almost double of FE55.8ZA but it’s f1.4. Sigma 50.4 Art is 860g even without adapter.
4) closest focus distance is 45cm which is not suprising in Fifties.
5) Aluminum casing feels good, very similar to Sony lenses.
6) Unfortunately, focus ring is focus-by-wire. They confirmed it.
7) Sharpness at 1.4 is not surprising. It improves vastly at f2. There’s some amount of CA from 1.4 to 2. from 2.8, there’s nothing bothering in my eyes.
8) AF is good. not fast as 55.8ZA but I guess faster than 50.8. for sure it’s faster and reliable than Sigma 50.4 with MC-11. Wobbling is bigger than Sony lenses. Noise is not big but noticable than Sony.
9) Movie AF is not satisfying. You can check it another article here.(also sharpness and Bokeh test! sharpness at f2 is certainly wrongly focused.)
http://www.popco.net/zboard/zboard.php?id=samyang
10) Price is not finalized yet. Samyang is listening visitors’ opinion. I said 600 USD with tax and they said it won’t be that expensive. The other said 400 USD and told it will be more than it. So I guess it would be around 500 USD. I think it’s good positioning.
11) All lenses are beta version. so it can be improved when launched.

And the korean site Popco (Click here) posted some image samples too!

Fujirumors leaked the first image of the Fuji X-T2 grip. You can see a “Boost” function on the grip which raises the frame rate. And as you can see the grip takes 2 batteries. The X-T2 and the new grip will be announced in June/July. It has to be seen if the recent earthquake damage to the Sony Komamoto sensor production plant will affect the announcement and/or shipping date for the new camera.

P.S.: Yes, Sony produces the Fuji designed sensors.

SonyAlphaRumors reports that Samyang will soon announce two new FE lenses. And these will be also the first Samyang lenses with autofocus:

50mm f/1.4 FE (Full Frame E-mount).
14mm f/2.8 (Full Frame E-mount).

It’s quite a big news for the Sony folks! Finally a “cheap” alternative to the somewhat overpriced Sony-Zeiss lenses!