We got a couple of financial news a rumor and an interview to report:

Panasonic full year financial report: Net sales and operating profit increased (43rumors)
Olympus financial report discloses Olympus will keep focusing on high end mirrorless (43rumors).
Canon to reframe the business, scared by further smartphone disruption, report suggests (CanonWatch).
Fujifilm X-T2 Bug Fix Firmware Coming (Fujirumors).
Sony interview at IR: “The 400mm f/2.8 GM will be light and easy to handle” (Imaging Resource).

As a reminder: Next week Fuji will announce a new XT100 camera. Sony should announce a new RX camera in June. Still no news from other companies.

The only mirrorless cameras that really make a ton of money are those Instax from Fuji! Fuji cashes in more with them than with their X-line digital cameras. And today they announced the new Instax Square 6 which you can preorder at Amazon and BHphoto.

Press release at fujifilm

The image above shows the sketch as disclosed by JP 2018-72638 (P2018-72638A).

The Japanses blog hi-lows-note.blog.so-net.ne.jp spotted another patent for a Nikon curved sensor. It describes the design for a 20mm f/2.0 Full Frame lens. I doubt the future Nikon mirrorless sytem camera will have a curved sensor.

Nikon’s big step into the Full Frame mirrorless camera has still to happen and they better hurry. According to their latest financial report published today things don’t look that good. They missed their forecast for the imaging business due to missed sales volumes in the compact camera segment.

Revenue and profit is expected to keep going down in their 2019 forecast:

via Nikoneye