Toyokeizai reports that Canon has not meet their own sales goal with the EOS-R mirrorless line. A Canon mangers said “”We have no choice but to change the management plan.”
The article doesn’t specify what those changes will be. I guess it simply means slow down the release cycle and cut costs….
DPreview interviewed some Canon managers and DP clearly stated:
“It looks like we’ll have to wait a little longer before we see an EOS R model aimed at sports and action shooters”
And a Canon manager explained why they didn’t make a mirrorless version of the 1DX:
Of course some professional photographers are asking for a mirrorless solution. But as of now, we also see a lot of demand from photographers asking for DSLRs, specifically [because of] the benefits of an OVF. So this time around we decided to go for a DSLR. Of course we understand that there are huge benefits to mirrorless, and we implemented, or combined as much of that [technology] as we could into the [EOS-1D X Mark III].
So it looks like the Sony A9II will not get a competitions from Canon in the near future…
Digitimes reports that
Samsung Electronics is reportedly set to implement a US$100 billion sensor development project seeking to tap the lucrative worldwide sensor market.
This lead some websites speculate we might see new Samsung sensors for mirrorless system cameras. But this is spure specualtion and actually not very rationale. Samsung aims at the growing smaller sensor business in the industrial, automotive and smartphone world. That’s where you can make the $$$.
You can buy Capture One PRO 12 today (Click here) and you will get the new Capture One PRO 20 software as a free update when it’s released!
This is what Phase One says about the new software:
Capture One 20 is more powerful than ever and will deliver the next generation of photo editing tools. So with a new decade taking off in 2020, we decided to mark a new era of photography and image processing with Capture One.
A couple of small rumors:
– The Olympus E-PL10 will be launched in Europe on November 20
– The Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 FE and L preorders will open in mid November and price is estimated to be around $1,300-$1,400
Matt Granger:
I sat down with Stefan Daniel (Head of Photo for Leica) to discuss the state of play for Leica in 2019. We discuss the upcoming S3, the new SL2, the M line up including future Monochroms, as well as their increasingly diverse product range.
Indeed it’s impressive to see how many different camera lineups Leica has. Wish some of the other bigger companies would have such fantasies too :)
Leica has officially announced the new SL2 and you can preorder it for $5,995 at BHphoto. It’s the first Leica FF camera with on sensor stabilization.
Press coverage:
Leica Makes Serious Improvements with SL2 Mirrorless Camera (Explora). Image samples on Dpreview. Hands-on on Dpreview.
Here is the first hands-on video by DPreviewTV:
