There are plenty of new mirrorless camera to come soon. The ultracompact Panasonic GM1 will be announced on Thursday (October 17). The new Sony A7 and A7r FF E-mount cameras will be unveiled on Wednesday October 16 and the new Fuji X-E2 on October 18. Here are some more tidbits about the Fuji camera (via Fujirumors):

1) the WiFi on the X-E2 will have more options as the WiFi on the X-M1 (what option would you like to have?).
2) it will have face detection as the X-M1.
3) the Q menu moved to another, better position (where would you like to have it?).
4) video mode will be improved and allow full manual control.
5) no tilt screen / no touch screen.
6) the second generation X-Trans sensor with phase detection AF
7) faster EXR II processor
8) better LCD

Obviously the X-E2 will almost exactly look like the X-E1. I wish Sony would use the Fuji design team for their FF mirrorless camera design :)

Sony will launch their first Full Frame E-mount photocameras on October 16. And it looks like Sony’s goal was to price the new cameras as low as it gets! Here are some info:

The A7 has 24Mp and on sensor PDAF. It has a built-in EVF (middle of the camera) and is weather sealed. Price should be around 1600-17000 Euro/Dollars for the body and close to 2000 Euro/dollars with the 28-70mm FE kit lens.

The A7r has a 36MP sensor. Like the A7 it has a built-in EVF (middle of the camera) and is weather sealed. price is around 2,300-2,400 Euro/Dollars for the body. No info on the kit price.

The A7 and the A7r have exactly the same look but a different sensor. All current E-mount lenses will work in crop mode on these cameras. The new Full Frame E-mount lenses coming along the camera are the 24-70mm Zeiss (not sure about the aperture but it could be f/2.8), 28-70mm f/3.5-4.5, 35mm f/2.8 Zeiss and a 55mm f/1.8 Zeiss.

It may be that more high end FF E-mount cameras will come in early 2014 already!

That rumor is coming via multiple trusted sources and is indeed a huge surprise for everyone! On October 16 Sony will launch two new E-mount Full Frame cameras that will look similar to the current Olympus OMD cameras. The EVF is in the middle and the body size is very small (close to current RX1). It has a grip just like the NEX-7. The cheaper model (under 2.000 Euro!!!) will feature a 24MP sensor. The more expensive model will feature a 36 Megapixel sensor (around 2.500 Euro).

It’s a bold move from Sony to not rely on the successful NEX-7 design. They want to go in a new direction with the E-mount FF cameras. Is it the right one?

Fujirumors spotted an official Fuji Japan statement saying that new products will be announced on October 18. And according to our sources (and Indonesian agency leak) this will be the X-E2 and XQ1.

And Fuji France confirms that the new X100 firmware will be coming in October-November too!

The public Indonesian agency Postel is now listing two new Fuji and two new Sony cameras. The Fuji X-E2 is the E-1 successor while the XQ1 is a fixed lens compact camera. The Sony camera names are very weird. It could be just a code name and not the final product name. But these should be the two new mirrorless Full Frame cameras  a cheap $2000 and a more expensive $3000 model).

UPDATE: There is also a new Sony ILCE-5000 camera in the database!

All four new cameas will be announced in mid October!

We finally have some more details about the upcoming announcements:

Fuji:
Fuji will announce the new X-E2 on October 18. Fujirumors reports that “It will have the X-Trans sensor II of the X100S (16MP), a better LCD, Lens Modulation Optimizer and WiFi.“. There will be also a second Fuji camera but details are yet not known.

Panasonic:
In early October Panasonic will launch the world smallest mirrorless camera with interchangeable lens mount. It’s going to have the size of the Sony RX100 but with a large FT sensor inside. It will also get rid of the mechanical shutter to save some space. It uses a fully electronic shutter instead! As kit lens there will be a new 12-32mm pancake zoom.

Sounds like we will have some greta new cameras! The highlight will certainly be the new NEX-9 that will come with a new 28-70mmf /4.0 FE G as kit lens!

I am trying to collect the exact announcement dates for all photo companies. I now learned that Ricoh-Pentax, Nikon, Panasonic, Canon, Sony and Fuji will have product announcements exactly between October 8 and October 18. Six announcements within 10 days. And while I am still not 100% certain there could be an Olympus and Samsung announcement too!

Ricoh-Pentax and Nikon will announce new DSLR stuff.
Canon the new EOS-M2 (and likely new lenses)
Panasonic the new ultra compact G, the 42,5mm Nocticron and the 12-32mm compact zoom.
Olympus the XZ-3 (not sure about the name yet)
Samsung the leaked NEX300M
Fuji likely a new X-E2
Sony the new NEX-9, the NEX-7R and four new FE (FullFrame E-mount Lenses)

Sound slike PhotoPlus show in new York will become as famous as the Photokina show in Koeln!!! :)