Hasselblad X1D price drops down to 4999 Euro. Is the X1D-100c coming soon?

In a very short time the price of the X1D-50c dropped from 8500 down to 4999 Euro (Kamera Express). The price drop is so big that I really think the X1D-100c announcement is coming very soon. The Hasselblad now costs 2000 Euro less than the Fuji too.

Keep in mind that the X1D was announced three months ahead of the Fuji GFX. So it might be that Hasselblad will announce the new X1D-100c at Photokina and Fuji will announce their GFX-100 in early 2019.

These should be the Hasselblad X1D-100c specs:

New 44x33mm 100MP Backilluminated Sony sensor
On sensor phase detection pixels for faster autofocus
ISO range 50-6400
Dynamic range 83dB
4K video at 30fps
The sensor can also record video at 8K at 18fps but I doubt Hasselblad will enable this
Price $899 or 8500 Euro.

The Fuji will have same or very similar specs but probably be a tiny bit cheaper.

New patent application shows a possible Canon FF mirrorless mount

Fig.1 is the figure which looked at the mount part of the camera of the first embodiment concerning the present invention from the lens side. As for camera body side mount and 1A, in the figure, 1 is [ a mount lock pin and 3A of the camera body side attachment surface, 1C1, 1C2, and 1C3 ] the camera body side electric connection terminals a camera-body-side-mount nail and 2, respectively. 

Thew new Japanese patent application number 2018-084713 describes what could be the new Canon Full Frame mirrorless mount. Sadly Canon did not share info about the exact mount size. All Canon writes is that it has a “high-speed electrical connection”.

 

via Hi Lows Note

Good and Bad news from the April CIPA report: System camera sales increasing and overall camera sales decreasing

CIPA released the April shipment reports. As expected the overall camera shipments numbers are down compared to last year. The good news is that the system camera shipment numbers where higher than in 2017 and 2016. And this is mainly due the increased sales of mirrorless system cameras: +24% in terms of numbers compared to the same month last year. +40% in terms of mirrorless camera value.

Finally a glimpse of hope?