Canon: It looks like soon we are going to see how small that mini Canon DSLR is. According to CR the announcement is scheduled for next week March 22.

Samsung: And also Samsung may will have an announcement soon. After the NX1100 there may be a new NX2000 too! An anonymous source even pointed me out to that link on Google Plus where image samples taken with the NX2000 are shown (is it real?).

Olympus and Panasonic are going to launch their new MFT cameras in April. I still have no news about Fuji and Ricoh-Pentax announcements…

One of the Mirrorless system cameras main advantage is the size reduction compared to DSLR cameras. And according to top sources at CanonWatch (Click here) Canon is about to change that by announcing the smallest DSLR camera ever made. And it almost sounds like that is the way Canon want to go to compete against the various MFT or NEX cameras. Their EOS-M camera was not able to gain any noticeable favour from the market.

We hope to see some pics of the camera soon. I am sure it will be smaller than a GH3 and maybe even smaller than an E-M5!

The huge and very fast Nikkor 32mm f/1.2 lens is likely going to be announced very soon. On the Nikon website you can already download the images of the lens. There is no info yet about the price and delivery date but I am sure this lens is going to be announced in April. Sony, Panasonic, Canon, Olympus all have product release announcementsin April :)

via Nikonrumors.

It hasn’t been announced yet but BHphoto is already accepting preorders on the new Samsung NX1100 camera:

Black NX1100 preorder (Click here) and White NX1100 preorder (Click here).

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Thanks Paul for finding this!

Olympus:
As we told you before it’s going to be very busy time in April. Also Olympus scheduled a new announcement date for end of April. There will be a new E-P5 and maybe their very first fast f/2.8 MFT zoom.

Sony:
More details are known about the new NEX-7n camera:
– New 24 Megapixel APS-C sensor with 1/2 stop improvement and increased dynamic range
– 3, 8 Million dot EVF
– touchscreen
– Hybrid Contrast and Phase Detection AF
– Tri Navi design reviewed
– Focus Peaking will be much improved with choice of colors
– Wifi, but no GPS on board.
– Same size and form factor of the current NEX-7 but with a minor redesign

Hasselblad:
Hasselblad will also launch their “Lunar” camera based on the same NEX-7 hardware. The Lunar will have a luxurious look and a luxurious price (over 5000 Euro!!!).

Samsung Germany published the full manual of the still not announced Samsung NX1100. The specs in short:

– 20,3 Megapixels
– ISO 100 up to 12,800
– up to 30fps (8 fps full size pictures and 30fps at 6 Megapixel)
– Video: H.264, Ton: AAC
– 3 inch LCD with 921,000 dots

The camera should be announced soon and there may be a more mysterious and high end NX-R camera too!

UPDATE: There is now an English manual here: http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/201303/20130306143127828/NX1100_English.pdf

Here are the full NX100 specs from the German manual (Click on the images to enlarge):

ePhotozine (Click here)  spotted the details of the new Fuji X lens roadmap at the Focus On Imaging show in Birmingham (UK). The first lens to be released is the new XF 55-200mm f/3.5-4.8R LM OIS lens. it will be released in may and full specs can be seen on the image below.

Four more lenses will come this year: The 23mm f/1.4R, the 56mm f/1.4R, the 27mm f/2.8, and the 10-24mm f/4R OIS lens.