Egami (Translation here) spotted a new Tamron patent describing three new lens designs: 40mm, 35mm and 30mm all with f/2.0 aperture. The interesting thing is that they designed this lenses for a sensor as large as 1 inch which is exactly the one used by the Nikon 1 system.
One more news. According to Nikonrumors the new V2 will be unveiled on October 24th.
Nikonrumors reports that the new V2 mirrorless camera willa rrive before the end of this year. Meantime the Nikon 1 V1 with the 10-30 mm lens down to insane $399 (click here). And the Nikon 1 price drops are now pushing the camera on the top 10 of the most sold mirrorless cameras at Amazon (see here).
And once again Samsung leaked the names of future NX models on their support page. We have the NX300 and the NX-R. the NX-R should be that “retro” model which image has been shown by Samsung almost a year ago.
Spanish DSLR Magazine (machine translated) published a long interview with Richard Shepherd, Senior Product Specialist for the EOS system, Canon Europe. And once again it becomes clear that unlike Fuji and Sony Canon has no plan yet to go into the PRO market with their mirrorless M system. I guess that they will wait until Fuji and Sony will release their FF mirrorless cameras in 2013 to see the market response.
Canon EOS-M Preorders and specs:
Full presentation page on Amazon (Click here).
EOS-M Black at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M White at BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M 22mm pancake at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M 15-55mm kit lens at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M adapter at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
EOS-M Flash at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Click on the image to see the full size version.
This is the updated Pentax Q lens roadmap found via ePhotozine. The only news is the tele prime lens that now became “macro”.
Amateur Photographer reports that “Canon has no plan to incorporate an electronic viewfinder (EVF) in any future EOS M compact system cameras (CSCs) and will not be publishing a ‘roadmap’ of upcoming lenses.“
I don’t know if Canon is just trying to fool us. becuase cameras liek the NEX-6 and Fuji X-E1 are actually real hotsellers (at least according to those Amazon rankings). My guess, Canon is talking “xxxx-shit” :)
I guess you have noticed that Samsung played quite a small role at photokina. They didn’t bring any new camera or other bigger news. Form what we heard they are changing their product strategy and working on a completely new front. Photorumors now reports that the next NX series upgrade will be between January and April 2013 and at least two new NX models will use the Android OS:
It’s about time for Samsung to talk less and do more on the camera front. Otherwise they will never become leader of the mirrorless market as announced many times during the past three years. I hope for them and for us that they can play a major role in the future. More choices we have better it is!
