Is the Canon R1 going to be announced today?
Ordinary filmmaker believes Canon will announce the R1 today! This will be more like a pre-announcement with no reorder option yet.
Ordinary filmmaker believes Canon will announce the R1 today! This will be more like a pre-announcement with no reorder option yet.
On May 22 at 3pm London time Panasonic will announce the S9 and the new 18-40mm compact zoom lens! Here are the info I know so far about the camera:
Panasonic Lumix S9 specs:
Pansonic Lumix 18-40mm L-mount lens:
You can now preorder the new lens for all mounts and in Silver or Black at BHphoto (Click here).
Lumix USA officially published a teaser for a May 22 product announcement event. According to L-rumors.com we are getting this:
Panasonic Lumix S9:
New L-mount lens:
The camera is aimed at “content creators” and people who want ot have a very compact camera.
The three cool aspects of the camera are:
1) Compact Size:
The Lumix S9 is just a tiny bit smaller than the X100VI (also because it gets rid of the EV). Yes, you still need to buy an extra lens for it but we have some nice option with the Sigma DG DN contemporary lineup (Click here). Overall this will make it barely bigger than the Fuji.
2) LUT style:
The camera LUT’s capability should also attract those Fujifilm customers that love to use their own film recipes.
3) Price:
Now compact camera lovers can buy the Lumix S9 instead of a Ricoh GR or FujiFilm X100VI. it will have about the same size, about the same price but you get the benefit of higher Image Quality thanks to the use of the excellent 25Mp Full Frame sensor.
My take:
I am not a real “content creator”. I can’t really say if this camera will be a hit or miss. As a photographer I miss the integrated EVF. Still, if this is a camera that you can truly carry always in your pocket…this might be something cool for us photographers too don’t you think?
Coming this week is the Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 II. And another Sigma lens will be announced soon after ;)
The new Full Frame L-mount compact camera will be announced on May 23. Here are some of the rumored specs:
Fujifilm can’t keep up with the production of the X100VI but they don’t care and are going to double down! According to Patrick from Fujirumors we will get a sort of blown up medium format version of the X100VI in 2025. The very first ever made digital fixed lens medium format camera.
No specs have been rumored yet but I am sure Fujirumors will share some more rumors soon! Stay tuned!