Dpreview interviewed Keiji Oishi from Nikon. And he made it clear a new Nikon Z flagship camera is coming this year

And here is DpreviewTV’s take on this news:

We got some announcement ahead:

Sony will announce the 50mm f/1.2 GM on March 16
OM Digital might announce the new 8-25mm f/4.0 lens on March 17

You can already preorder the new lens at BHphoto.

And here comes the next Japanese journal speculating about a possible Nikon exit from the camera business. They base their guess on this fact: Techno System Research analyzed the mirrorless market share and that’s the result:

Sony … 35%
Canon … 30%
FUJIFILM… 12%
Olympus… 8%
Nikon … 7.5%

At the end that’s all just wild rumors btu it’s interesting that it’s lasting for quite some time now in Japan…

via DClife

Image on top shows one of the Sony mics that will be announced on March 96h

SAR reports that Sony will have three announcement events in March:

• March 9 (microphones)
• March 16 (Sony 50mm f/1.2 GM)
• March 23 (more lenses)

Still no sign of the A7IV :(

Nikon published this CP+ talk video. DC.life wrote this short summary:

• We are still challengers at Mirrorless, so we would like to take on various challenges.
• Among them, the Z mount system is considered to be a system with great potential for new creation because it is a large diameter short flange back.
• Taking advantage of this mount system, we would like to evolve the body and lens and develop products that will impress our customers.
• We plan to release many new products this year as well.
• I want you to look forward to it
• I would like you to pick it up and experience it.
• Thank you for today

Camnostic spotted a new Olympus camera registration in Russia. It uses the code “IM024” and we don’t know yet what camera this might be…