Sony and Panasonic announcements tomorrow at 5am London time!

Big showdown coming soon at 5am London time. Sony and Panasonic will announce new products:
Sony will unveil the RX1R (no AA filter) and the RX100MII (hots show, tilting screen, wifi and 20MP Exmor sensor).
Panasonic will announce an updated 20mm f/1.7 II MFT lens.

If you are expecting major NEX or MFT news than wait til August. Plenty of new cameras and lenses coming by then!

images via Digicaminfo.

Tomorrow Fuji X-M1 announcement. Full specs leaked!

Our Japanese friend and source from Digicaminfo got the full specs of the X-M1:

– 16.3 million pixels X-Trans APS-C CMOS
– ISO200-6400 (100,12800,25600 as extension)
– -1/4000 Seconds 30 seconds, shutter speed (160 seconds in the S / M mode) sync 1/180 sec
– 920,000 dot 3.0-inch, 3:2 aspect ratio can tilt up and down.
– The shooting speed (for 10 consecutive frame 50 continuous frames, in RAW with JPEG) 5.6 frames / second
– Video 1920×1080 30p, 1280×720 30p
– Sound Linear PCM Stereo
– Mode dial
– Advanced Auto function
– Can be operated with one hand
– Wi-Fi, smart phone transmission function
– Built-in flash, super i flash function
– Media SD / SDHC / SDXC
– The size is 116.9 x 66.5 x 39.0mm
– 330g (including battery, media), 280g weight (only body)
– Expected Release Date (body color of some September) July 27
– Estimated retail price of ¥ 75,000 before and after body

Stay tuned! Announcement is expected tomorrow (June 25) at 6-7am London time. I will be here to give you all live updates!

Fuji X-m1 now leaks in “Brown” too!

Unlike the other X interchangeable cameras the soon to be announced X-M1 will also come in a third color version…Brown! And according to Digicaminfo the camera will ship in Japanese stores in late July only. It means you likely can’t get it in time for your summer vacation :(

There is also some new info about the two new lens designs: The 16-50mm zoom has a 12 lens in 10 groups design, 3 of them are aspherical lenses. The new 27mm pancake length is 23mm and weights 78g.

Reminder: Official announcement on June 25!

New Fuji X-M1 images leaked!

And here it is the new entry level Fuji X-M1 (images via Digicaminfo). As we “rumored” before the camera has no viewfinder, a titling screen and there is the new 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 and 27mm f/2.8 lens. The camera, lens, the 27mm pancake and the new X PRO 1 and X-E1 firmware update will be announced on June 25.

That is the long expected Fuji for poor people :)

Fuji entry level camera (X-M1?) coming on June 25.

According to trusted sources Fuji will announce a new X-M1(?) entry level camera on June 25. This will be a sort of little X-E1 sister without viewfinder but with tillable LCD screen. Also two lenses, the 27mm pancake and a new 16-50mm zoom will be announced along the camera.

I have been told the camera is 30% cheaper than the already discounted Fuji X-E1 (priced at $800 now).

 

Reminder: Samsung will announce the NX tomorrow (June 20), Sony will announce the RX1R and RX100MII on June 27.