Rumors about the upcoming Canon Mirrorless system are increasing and now it’s NR saying that there will be “a kit zoom and an adapter for EF lenses such as the new pancake 40mm lens“. Our friend Frank at CanonWatch spotted a patent for an EF adapter by Canon (see pictureon top), filed last year (machine translated).

Overall I think that between now and Photokina we will have tons of new mirrorless related rumors and announcements. It will become a pretty exciting summer :)  As next we will see a new Panasonic G5 cameras and new 45-150mm zoom. Should arrive by end of this week!

Picture from CNET.

While mirrorless interchangeable system is our main thing it’s still interesting to see whats going on the the high end side of the compact cameras. They very often offer a real good image quality for a real pocketable size.

So it happens that David Pogue from the New York Times (Click here) writes about the new Sony RX100: “No photos this good have ever come from a camera this small.”. And latest rumor suggest that Panasonic will launch a similar camera (the LX7) next week! A bit less spectacular are the leaked specs of the EX2 with tiny 1/2,33 inch sensor (leak at Photorumors)

How big the interest in these cameras is…is also proved by the Overall camera ranking at Amazon (Click here to check it out). The ranking includes all cameras, compact, mirrorless and DSLR and the RX100 is on top!

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RX100 Preorders at Amazon US, Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon Germany, Amazon France and Jessops.

According to CSCmagazine and some other rumors I got from my sources Hasselblad will announce a Mirrorless camera featuring a sensor double the size of an FF sensor. It’s not an it’s something new. And unlike other Medium Format cameras that usually uses CCD sensors we have been told that this has a CMOS sensor. No info about the price but it will be expensive stuff for sure :)

On the rumor front we got some news about Panasonic and Sony. Let’s start from the soonest to come camera…the Panasonic G5. It’s very likely that this camera is going to be announced within the next 7-10 days. it will be a modest update of the current G3. No revolution, for a more “exciting” news you will have to wait until the GH3 announcement in September. Ops, almost forgot, there may be a new m43 lens too along the G5!

A rumor coming from unkwonw mysterious Sony sources said that a new NEX high end model may be announced or displayed (?) at Photokina in September. Wondering what Sony will do to convince us to spend more money than you already have to spend on the NEX-7…

As a reminder, Olympus PEN and Samsung NX cameras are also coming at Photokina while Canon may anticipate the announcement to late July.

That’s it for now. P.S.: Did you here something about Nikon?

Today Fuji will announce the new lens roadmap. And we got the specs :)

In 2012 we will have:
14mm f/2.8 an
18-55mm f/2-8-4.0

In 2013:
10-24mm f/4.0 OIS (optical stabilization)
23mm f/1.4
27mm f/2.8
56mm f/1.4
55-200mm f/3.5-4.8 OIS (optical stabilization)

Canonrumors reports that there will be a Canon announcement on July 24th. His “guess” is that the announcement has to do with new mirrorless cameras. If the rumor is correct it sounds a bit weird that Canon will announce such an important system while many of us will be on vacation :)

Just a reminder: A 100% real announcement will be made this Wednesday by Fuji! Stay tuned!

Photorumors found the proof of the NX-R existence. It also confirms that the camera will have built-in WiFi. And the ex Partner of Samsung…Pentax published another APS-C lens patent for a mirrorless camera. It’s a 16-55mm zoom lens (Source: Egami).

I really hope Samsung NX-R will be the one cam that helps the NX system to gain some momentum. More competition (and options) we have better it is for all of us :)