Camera market forecast for 2014: Growth for Mirrorless and Premium Compacts expected!

The members of the Photokina company presented these forecast slides at an event in Tokyo (Source: DC.watch). As you can see the overall camera market is shrinking. The good news is that mirrorless is expected to have a small growth while DSLR sales will remain stable. The compact camera market will keep shrinking while the major surprise is the big increase of the premium compact camera market!

Also interesting is the expected growth of non pure camera devices:

The camera world is deeply changing. I am wondering how the photography market will be in 5 years from now!

 

 

Fuji X-T1 tested by Dpreview.

Dpreview (Click here) posted the full Fuji X-T1 review. The camera earns the Gold Award with a very high score of 84%:

Overall, then, the X-T1 combines a hugely engaging control setup with a superb viewfinder, excellent image quality, one of the best AF systems in a mirrorless camera, and a pretty compelling selection of lenses to choose from.

Store links:

Fuji X-Ti body at Amazon (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here), Wex UK (Click here), CameraWorld UK (Click here), Wex Germany (Click here).

Fuji X-T1 with 18-55mm lens at Amazon (Click here), BHphoto (Click here)Adorama (Click here)Wex UK (Click here), CameraWorld UK (Click here), Wex Germany (Click here).

Video sample of the A7s at crazy 409,600 ISO!

Den Lenni from Fstopacademy posted the very frist A7s low light video test (scroll at the bottom of his site to find the video).

The image on very top shows you the quality at ISO 409,600. But before to cry about the grain and nosie you see you have to check the same scene at ISO 6,400:

As you see there is no light at all in the room! So it’s quite a miracle that you actually CAN SEE something at ISO 409,600!

And up to ISO 102,400 the noise isn’t really bad at all:

Learn mroe about the new A7s at Sony US, DE, UK, ES, FR, IT, NL, SE, FI, PL.

Nikon 1 J4 officially announced!

This is no joke: Today Nikon announced the J4 camera and you know what? They decided to not release the camera in USA! So it will be available in Europe and Asia only. Probably the reason behind that is that the US market is still “not mirrorless friendly”. Canon took a similar decision with their newest mirrorless camera.

Anyway, the new J4 has the same V3 18 MP sensor and an amazing Af system with 171 contrast and 105 pahse detect points.

More info at: Nikon, Dpreview, Image samples, Lemoundedelaphoto (French), Quesabesde (Spanish).