APS-C Leica T type 701 to be announced in April?

A couple of weeks ago Digicameinfo reported the registration of the name “Leica T type 701” in Taiwan. This is likely a new interchangeable and mirrorless system. According to Leicarumors the camera will be launched in April and feature an APS-C sensor.

As far as we know the prime lenses will be made by Leica in Germany. The camera body and the zooms will be made by Panasonic (and sold with Leica name).

Fuji X-Ti coming in two weeks!

According to Fujirumors there will be a new Fuji X-T1 announcement in two weeks (end of January). It will be an SLR alike designed X-mount camera with addtitional battery grip and shutter release. It uses the same sensor of the X-E2 and has an extra large EVF. It is likely to use a double SD-card slot and it has a weather sealed body. Price will be in between the X-E2 and X-PRO1.

Sounds like a great camera!

Panasonic shows a GH 4K mockup at CES show in Las Vegas.

Giulio Sciorio from SmallCameraBigPicture took this picture of a Panasonic GH camera having 4K video recording feature. It is on show at CES in Las Vegas. There are no other details coming a long that image but I am pretty sure this is a mockup and not a prototype or final version of the camera.

I guess that “4K” will be the big marketing word for 2014. Also Sony is supposed to launch 4K mirrorless cameras this year.

Next Fuji leak: Black Fuji X100s image!

On Monday morning (January 6 at 5-6 am London time) Fuji will announce the spectacular new 56mm f/1.2 lens and the Black Fuji X100s. The image of the camera just got leaked via Digicameinfo. Fuji will also announce some other stuff:

– S1 FinePix: 50 times zoom, F2.8-5.6
– FinePix S8600: 36 times zoom
– S9200 FinePix: 50 times zoom, F2.9-6.5
– FinePix S9400W: 50 times zoom, F2.9-6.5, Wi-Fi
– XP70 FinePix: 10m waterproof, Wi-Fi

See you on Monday to follow live the announcement!!!!

UPDATE: New Fuji X-W1 gets leaked by Fuji Photographer (and he says it’s fake)

What a surprise! Photographer Dominik Fusina first posted the full clear picture of the new Fuji X-W1 on facebook and today admitted he created a FAKE :( The full size pic can be seen here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=741542789208619&set=a.508861135810120.130927.412285615467673&type=1&theater

UPDATE: More pictures have been posted on his website: http://photo.fusina.net/news-Exclu__des_images_du_futur_FUJI_serie_X_-77.html

Don’t know what to think about the design. Looks quite non proportional to me and it somewhat reminds me of the new Nikon DF.

 

Fuji 56mm f/1.2 and Black X100s to be announced on Monday. Fuji also says X-PRO 2 is not ready yet.

Let’s start with the biggest news: In an Interview with Fuji managers released by DC.watch Fuji claims that the X-PRO-2 will not come any time soon. Their goal is to wait until they can deliver a “major breakthrough” on the camera development front. This is just my guess but I think they are working on a Full Frame X-Pro 2.

They also said that they want to offer a total of 20 XF lenses as soon as possible (this means 8 more lenses to come this year).

And now to the real new stuff coming soon: The XF 56mm f/1.2 and the Black X100s will be announced on Monday (January 6th).

via Fujirumors.

Still one more Samsung camera to come: The NXF1 gets approved at Indonesian agency!

Samsung isn’t done with their mirrorless camera announcement. We can expect a new NXF1 camera to be announced within the next couple of weeks too! The camera just got approved for commercial use by the Indonesian agency Postel.

Still, I don’t think that “F” inside the name stays for “Full Frame” or so. It will be a sort of NX3000 successor. That’s just my guess…