Soon Fuji will announce the first sub $10,000 camera featuring a 100 Megapixel sensor. Well, it seems like smartphones will be capable to shoot such resolutions from 2020:

Credit Suisse made this prediction for the smartphone market:

• The CIS technology roadmap calls for further evolution towards higher megapixels, with development expected to bring 64MP in 2H 2019 and 100MP in 2020. The trend will increase the number of lenses required (though weight is an issue), demanding higher levels of cooperation between lens, module and AP manufacturers to achieve incremental improvements in image resolution.

Of course there is a huge difference between the quality of a large 100 Megapixel medium format sensor and computationally created image using a number of very tiny sensors. Still, it’s impressive to see the fast innovation within the smartphone industry.

via Image Sensor World

Courtesy of Lensvid.

Tamron is one of the very few manufacturers reporting an increase in sales within the digital camera market.

1. Tamron claims that their own branded lenses sold particularly well in the USA.
2. While Tamron expects the market to decrease further they also expect their lens sales profit to go up.

Below you can see more graphs. What I learned from this is that if you launch interesting products (like they did with the excellent 28-75mm FE) you actually will sell them and make money. May be a lesson for some other companies out there :)

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Sigma CEO Yamaki released an interview with Lensvid. A couple of takeways:

1) Sigma might use non Foveon sensors in future L-mount cameras.
2) Sigma might even use an APS-C sensor again.
3) Sigma’s first lens designed for Full Frame mirrorless is coming this year. For sure it will be available for Sony E-mount but it’s easy to guess this lens will be available as native L-mount versison too
4) Moving forward we will release more lenses designed for mirrorless cameras.