IRIX teases a Cinema lens launch for January 12th, 2022
A new T/1.5 Cine lens is coming…
Panasonic kind of confirms the GH6 specs will be fully unveiled at the CP+ show in February
At the end of the CES presentation Panasonic said that the specs of the camera that shall not be named (aka GH6) will be released “before Spring arrives”. I am sure this means the GH6 will be displayed the last week of February at the CP+ show. Still, when this camera will ship is another matter…
Some more doomsday predictions for 2022…
The Japanese magazine “Weekly Toyo Keizai” released the New Year Merger Special Issue where they forecasted the camera industry performance for 2022:
“the market is shrinking significantly or is in a structural recession. Many companies are in the red or have a significant decline in profits.”
If you combine this with the increase of the sensor price due to the chip shortage…well things are expected to run very bad for 2022.
Moreover the latest CIPA data shows that in late 2021 sales were lower than in 2020:
Crazy: Japanese store Yodobashi says it will start shipping out the Nikon Z9 in October 2022 only!
The worldwide chip shortage and the camera high demand is pushing the next stock shipment to October 2022! And this is bad news for all camera manufacturers. If Nikon can’t ship their flagship I doubt other manufacturers will do any better in 2022 :(