I really hope the rumor I got is wrong. Because it tells me that the new Leica Mini may be an APS-C compact camera with zoom lens. And not a compact Full Frame as (I) hoped. Anyway, let’s see ina few days if the rumor turns out to be correct…
UPDATE: Leica updated the teaser and now shows a smal portion of the camera.
Leica is teasing the launch of a new “mini M” Leica camera. That beaty will be announced on June 11. As you see it’s placed right between the Leica M and the X2 Micro M. It almost sounds like this could be a sort of fixed lens Full Frame camera like the Sony RX1. You have a good guess what this could be?
Source: Leica Camera (found via LeicaCameraForum).
Panasonic is close to launch the first MFT camera with built-in titlable EVF in the corner. It will also have that cool Panasonic L1-LC1 design (they were FT mount cameras). And it doesn’t stop hear. They will also match one of the features that was a unique feature from Olympus…in body stabilization! Basically Panasonic put all most requested features in one single package. The camera will also feature a brand new 18 Megapixel sensor (highest resolution sensor of any MFT camera). The camera is going to be announced in mid-late August and I am sure it will sell like hotcakes!
As you know Fuji is going to launch two new X camera with X mount this summer. One should come in June and one in September. According to Fujirumors a camera will come without X-Trans sensor. It will be very cheap and sold with one or two new lenses.
Still not confirmed by trusted sources yet: That camera+kit lens could be priced at $550!
In August and September we will have a new huge wave of mirrorless product announcements. We expect a new Olympus OMD camera with Sony’s new sensor (and on sensor phase detection AF). In late August Panasonic will announce the new GX2 (specs not out yet). And Sony will announce the new NEX-7 successor.
What is also very interesting is that Zeiss Lens Roadmap that hints a completely new line of lenses. The chance is very high that this will be the new Full Frame E-mount lenses coming along the Sony NEX-9 full frame camera. That stuff will be announced mid 2014 (probably right before Photokina). Start to save your money now because the prices of the lenses will be around $2,000 :)
As we told you before there will be no new X-E2 and no new X-Pro 2 this year. But according to latest rumors Fuji will focus on the entry level market soon by releasing not one…but two(!) new mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras!
According to Fujirumors the two cameras will have “two different sensors. One should be announced in the second half of June and the other one later. The price of one of these bodies should be of $700.“
I think it’s a smart move from Fuji to offer a low priced compact camera with high quality X-Trans sensor. But I am surprised to hear that there will be two entry level bodies! One would be enough or not?
Matrix agent’s would say…It was inevitable MR-Anderson! Panasonic and Samsung dropped the DSLR world, Olympus will do it soon. So, what is Sony going to do? According to very reliable sources Sony is going to transform their A-mount cameras in pure mirrorless by getting rid of both the classic mirror and their unique semitransparent (or translucent) mirror tech. Some of you may wonder why at that point Sony is not going the E-mount route only. Apparently the A-mount mirrorless will keep the DSLR form size while E-mount cameras will focus on compact size. Plus, A-mount camera have on sensor stabilization while the E-mount has not.
The first A-mount mirrorless cameras will come in early 2014. Now let’s see how long it takes until Canon and Nikon will get “serious” with mirrorless too!
