Hasselblad announced a new $32,995 H6Ds medium format camera. What’s more interesting for us is that CEO Perry Oosting clearly hinted that they are working on a new kind of “portable” medium format camera. He told at ePhotozine:

“The new H6Ds we are launching have the best in class ergonomics in terms of handling, but they aren’t the most portable.. Portability will be key – but how and which ways it will be portable is yet to be announced.”

Sounds likely that this will be Hasselblad first mirrorless medium format camera!

A Sony A9 rendering (not the real thing)

In just one week SAR got two rumors about a new Sony high end E-mount camera. This should become the new Sony A9. A bigger and more powerful FF camera. Probably the first camera that could play in the league with the very big Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras. Here are the two rumors:

Rumors One:

“The next generation flagship mirrorless camera from Sony will be a giant leap. It will drop a huge bomb in the imaging industry. It will not be A7III or A7RIII. It will be a new model above A7 series. I would say A9 (let’s name it as the new model). So the new A9 will have dual XQD card slot, no CFast version, only XQD. A9 can do UNLIMITED RAW burst, UNLIMITED. The camera wont pause for buffering.”

Rumor Two:

“a7Riii the new sensor will be between 70 – 80 Megapixels. They are working on improved IBIS as well. Although officially the new lenses per the 24-70 F2.8 GM and the others have been tested for QC at 60+ Megapixels and 6K+ Video they achieve even better results than that.“

Sounds great!

The japanese folks over at Digicameinfo do not make any April Fools Joke today! They leaked a real thing…the new Panasonic GX80!

SPECS:
– 16MP sensor
– About 10% improvement in resolving power by getting rid of the low pass filter
– New Venus engine
– 4K video, 4K Photo
– 5-axis camera shake correction (on sensor+lens)
– AF 0.07 seconds. DFD technology
– 4K post focus (focus Select)
– 2.764 million dot EVF. Magnification 1.39x (35mm equivalent 0.7-fold)
– 3.0 inches 1.04 million dot LCD monitor. Tilting. 80 degrees upward and 45 degrees tilt down
– Wi-Fi built-in
– Creative style. 22 types of filters. New Monochrome mode.

Financial times interviewed CEO Perry Oosting and there are some important news.

1. Perry Oosting: “Without breaking the news embargo, I can say confidently that, in the case of one wholly new model in particular, photography fans will be over the moon.“
2. The.me also says: “Hasselblad will bring everything back to Götheborg and not rebrand or badge any Sony other other camera anymore, a clear reference to Hasselblad’s previous ruinous strategy Oosting is rather critical of. No more pimped up Lunars and Stellars.“

It’s just my guess but I see a high chance Hasselblad will use the new 101 MP Sony sensor to make a mirrorless system medium format camera. That would be a unique proposition and certainly something that could bring “ photography fans over the moon“!

We now got a total of three different Olympus Full Frame lens design patent. The latest one is the 24mm f/1.4 Zuiko FF lens. Now the question is: Will Olympus launch their own new FF mount system or join the Sny E-mount?

What would you prefer to happen?

NAB Show interviewed MR. Tim Smith, Senior Advisor, Film and TV Production at Canon. And he said:

We will be showing not only our existing product line, with a few surprises, but we will also be showing working 8K cameras and 8K displays that look into the future of production.

Not certainly THE mirrorless system camera we are waiting to get from Canon. this will be a camcorder and not a photo-centered device. But still exciting to hear Canon is now pushing to become innovative again!

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via CanonWatch.

We already got the new PEN-F and GF8 this year. And now the MFT fellow will get two more new cameras within the next few weeks:

1. Olympus E-PL8 with 16MP sensor
2. Panasonic entry level camera (20MP sensor?)

The High End stuff is expected to be announced at Photokina in September. Probably a new GH5 and E-M1II will be shown at the show!