If you own one of the new cameras like the NX1, E-PL7, LX100, Leicas and so on than you should download the latest Adobe update which adds full RAW support to all those cameras:
Download Lightroom 5.7 for Windows (Click here) and Mac (Click here).
Download DNG converter 8.7 for Windows (Click here) and Mac (Click here).
For the first time these two new “Photokina” high end products are shipping in USA:
Graphite Fuji X-T1 at BHphoto (Click here).
Zeiss 16-35mm FE at BHphoto (Click here).
And today’s Gold Box deal of the day is the up to %50 off on PNY SD cards at Amazon US (Click here).
As far as I know there will be certainly new product announcements from those companies right before the CP+ show start in Mid February:
Sony: New PRO E-mount FF (100% sure it’s coming), maybe a new APS-C E.mount (50%). And certainly the lenses that have been already presented at Photokina.
Olympus: New E-M6 (100%). Maybe also the 7-14mm PRO lens.
Panasonic: No news on cameras but the 30mm f/2.8 macro is coming.
Samsung: NX400 with NX1 sensor (100%)
Fuji: Not sure yet what’s coming but we have been told “something” is coming for sure.
I have no news about mirrorless stuff from Nikon Canon Sigma and Ricoh-Pentax.
SamsungCameraRumors (Click here) got their hands on some interesting NX1 sales details:
– Worldwide Sales (or preorders) of the NX1 are lower than expected
– Sales are high in some countries like Korea and Germany
More important there will be a price drop on the NX1 in January.
Some more NX1 info:
Full Lab test at Cameras.Reviewed.
Readers test at Dpreview forum.
NX1 autofocus imrpession at SCR.
Image samples by ePhotozine.
As we all know the new E-M6 will be announced in February. It will be the first Olympus camera recording 4K and it replace the E-M5 which has now been discontinued. And today Olympus US dropped the price of the E-M5 down to $559 only (here at Amazon and here at GetOlympus).
This is the detailed description of the new Sony APCS (Active Pixel Color Sampling) sensor. The first of these new generation sensor will be launched in early 2015 on compact smartphones. Larger sensors for Alpha cameras (and Olympus MFT cameras?) are supposed to be launched after.
The new sensor has an electrified color filter that moves horizontally. It takes three exposure pictures (Red-Green-Blue) and merges them into one. The advantages are:
– One single pixel has 100% full color info (Bayer sensors need more pixels)
– Pixels can be larger compared to current Bayer sensors. This means less noise (or more resolution) possible
– Sensor has also Global shutter with very fast frame rates (16,000 at 2K) and no jello effect
– Very high native sensitivity of around 5,000 ISO!
On paper the only drawback is the triple exposure needed to get the full color information. We don’t know how this will effect long exposure shots or shots on moving subjects!
