Along Nikon (with the J3 and S1) and Samsung (with the NX300) also Fuji will announce some major new camera (but with fixed lens). The image you see on top shows the new Fuji X100s with 16 Megapixel X Trans sensor. And here on bottom you can see the new X20.
No new camera or lens from the mirrorless and intrechangeable lens X system will be announced for the CES show.
via Digicaminfo.
Olympus, Panasonic and Sony will avoid to make any major mirrorless announcement at the CES show. They will wait til late January instead (CP+ show in Yokohama). At least Fuji will make a more “important” announcement. According to Digicaminfo these are the camera they will announced soon:
As previously written on Fujirumors the X100s has the same 16 Megapixel X Trans sensor of the X-E1/X-PRO1.
The usually very accurate Japanese Impress magazine published Canon and Nikon camera predictions. Above the scanned page for the Canon gear, below the page for the Nikon gear. The pages showed up on the Chinese Xitek forum. The figures near the images are the probability percentage chance estimates.
Canon: a new mirrorless camera named EOS M2 will be released in 2013, 80% probability to be a real prediction
Nikon: The V3 will be released during 2013, 75% probability
The rest, not mirrorless related, for those who are interested:
It looks like Nikon is working on the launch of a new APS-C mirrorless system! Egami just spotted a new patent describing a new 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 zoom lens made for a yet non existent APS-C mirrorless camera.
SOunds like Nikon will now step up from the 1 system and challenge the Sony NEX and Canon EOS system!
Image courtesy: Nikonrumors.
Those of you waiting to get some Nikon 1 system camera and lens news should wait til the January 8th. On that day Nikon will announce the new Nikon J3 and S1 mirrorless cameras. And there will be some new lenses too, the Nikkor 10-100mm f/4-5.6 and 1 Nikkor 6.7-13mm f/3.5-5.6.
Source: Nikonrumors.
Egami (translation here) spotted a new lens patent that describes that could be possibly fit on the next G1X successor. The 18-70mm f/2.8-6.0. But while we can never trust patents to show us the real final specs of a product the rumors about the new Fuji X20 seems to be much more solid. According to Fujirumors the X20 specs are the following:
– New EXR CMOS 2/3 14MP
– Fujinon 24-120mm F1.8-2.8
– continuous shooting up to 10 frames per second
– Full HD videos 1080*1920
– maximum ISO 12.800
– 460.000 pixel screen and optical viewfinder
– expected launch: January
And as you know there is also a new X100 successor on the horizon…
Egami (translation here) spotted a new Tamron patent describing a 300mm f/2.8 lens for a Full Frame mirrorless camera system. As you know Sony Corporation maintains an 11% share hold in Tamron (Source: Wikipedia). So this lens may be designed for FF NEX cameras…
P.S.: Tokina just admitted that The Kenko 400mm f/8.0 lens for Sony E-mount has a defect on the shutter. You should contact Tokina to exchange the lens (Source: DC.watch).
