Not only Fuji but also Olympus will soon launch new mirrrorless products. This is what we will see soon:

1) New Olympus OMD E-M10 camera. Specs:

– 16MP sensor (same as E-M5 and with no PDAF)
– True Pic VII processor (same as E-M1)
– Very small body
– integrated flash
– 3 axis stabilization
– comes with new compact zoom as kit lens

2) 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 EZ ED

As small as the superb Panasonic 12-32m lens but with 10mm more at the tele end and 2mm less wide open. The compact zoom will come in Black and Silver and cost 35,000 Yen ($335 or 250 Euro). And it has a smart protection cap.

3) 25mm f/1.8

Also the 25mm Olympus will come in Black and Silver and cost 35,000 Yen.

4) New accessories:

There will be also a new lens cap (BCL-0980) in Black or White (10,000 Yen= and a new macro converter (MCON-PO2).

Announcement will take place the coming days…

Raf007 at Dpreview forum got some interesting info about the current and future Samsung strategy. He writes:

“Ive found some interesting info from Samsung’s last week conference in Beijing. At first some more or less known facts:

NX30 AF speed up to 30% faster than NX300, better focusing in low lights, shorter shutter lag
16-50mm has four stops stabilisation
faster focusing than 45mm 1.8
ED-SEF580A is based on Metz 58 AF-2

Now come some more interesting facts/rumours from the conference

Samsung is going to release entry level NX3000
New flagship model is going to be released probably next year
50-150mm 2.8 water and dust resistant is going to be released probably next year too
300mm 2.8 is it the works. Apparently Samsung had a prototype of the lens already in 2011″

Fuji itself doesn’t make any mistery anymore and listed the Fuji X-T1 under their support page.

Fuji Photographer Ray Ohara first posted (and then removed) this picture of himself with a Fuji camera. And as you can see this Fuji camera clearly has an EVF bump in the middle.

Now, we already had one photographer last week showing a fake Fuji camera. this may be part of a Fuji campagn to create some buzz around the new camera???

And finally we will see the real (and no fake) Fuji weather sealed and Olympus OMD alike camera with X-mount! It will be officially unveiled on January 28!

Here is the specs list (via Fujirumors):

announcement January 28th (trusted source)
bigger (extra-large) and better (high performance) EVF / (trusted +  anonymous sources)
APS-C X-Trans sensor II (16MP) / (trusted +  anonymous sources)
double SD-card slot / (trusted sources)
weather sealed body / (trusted sources)
price range between X-E and X-PRO line / (new and anonymous sources)
FujicaST-like design / (source who was right in the past, but not yet upgraded to the elite-team of trusted sources)
faster AF than the X-E2 / (new source)
additional battery grip / (anonymous source)
name: X-T1 / (anonymous sources)

Sounds great! I am pretty sure real images will be leaked soon!

Fujirumors got some bits about the new Fuji X-T1. The camera will be announced in late January and it is said to have the best Electronic Viewfinder on market yet. And “anyone thinking of getting an OM-D should hold off until the end of the month. So worth the wait.”

Sounds like a hell of a camera. Hope they fix the slow autofocusing too!

About time! The new NEX-7 successor will be announced before the CP+ show in February. There are no specs or price info yet. The few rumors circulating on the web do suggest that the Megapixel number will not change (24Mp) and there may be a second “R” version without Anti Aliasing filter.

That’s all for now, but I am pretty sure more info will leak out soon!