The German company meyer Gorlitz announced the launch of a third lens for 2017. The hint comes via their current Kickstarter campagn for the 50mm Trioplan lens:

Restoring the Trioplan lens line means that all good things come in threes. Our major 2017 lens announcement will be the third and final Trioplan in our line-up.

The lens will be available in different mounts including Sony E, MFT, Fuji X and Canon EOS-M.

Quick bad news: The Komamoto Sony sensor production facility got damaged during the earthquake. And this will definitely have a huge impact on camera shipments. This is the latest info I got:

1. Olympus will delay the new E-PL8 launch
2. Sony will delay the A5300 launch. Not sure Sony will announce anything at all this June.
3. The Fuji X-T2 will also ship later than expected

How long those camera shipments will be delayed has to be seen. The Sony sensor factory is planed to restart by end of May. Let’s hope there is no unexpected reason for an ulterior delay!

We got two mroe lens rumors today:

1. Digicameinfo reports that Leica will soon announce a new Summaron-M 28mm f/ 5.6 lens.
2. Egami spotted a new Konica 9-90mm f/2.8-5.6 lens patent. Usually Konica lens patents are used by third company patents like Panasonic and Olympus. This could be a lenses used on a future 1 inch sensor compact camera

There shall be light! That’s what God Canon created with the soon to be announced EF-M 28mm f/3.5 IS STM macro lens! The lens is the first Canon with built-in LED light! Check out those Digicameinfo leaked images:

Crazy right? But it looks cool :)

Here are the full lens specs:

• The world’s lightest macro lens
• Image stabilisation (IS)
• Hybrid IS
• Standard lens of conversion 45mm corresponding to the flexible for a variety of subject
• Built-in macro light. It can automatically illuminate when needed
• Maximum magnification is 1.2 times
• AF motor stepper motor
• One UD lens and two aspheric lenses

P.S.: The Yasuhara lens for E-mount does the exact the same thing as the new Canon…

via Canonwatch

We got two new lens rumors today:

CanonWatch reports:

Canon will announce a EF-M 35mm f/1.8 STM lens during Summer or late Summer 2016, in any case before Photokina 2016.

And Fujirumors reports that the 120mm XF is off the table in favour of another lens:

A trusted source just told me, that it will be an XF80mm macro lens, very likely F2.8.