Leicarumors posted the first real world Leica T picture! And those should be the camera specs:
– APS-C sensor (likely 16 MP)
– Without rangefinder and without built-in EVF (uses optional EVF)
– interchangeable mount for T lenses.
– touchsreen, Wifi
– $3000 for camera + kit lens
Sounds expensive!
Huge surprise on the Sony front. They will announce a new A7s Full Frame E-mount camera that can record 4K video to compete against the Panasonic GH4.
The announcement will take place in Las Vegas at 7pm on Sunday. Other specs are yet not known!
One more thing: it’s a safe bet to say they will unveil new FE lenses too!
We got words from trusted sources that Sony has some kind of unique surprise for all of us. It should be announced within the next couple of weeks. It is something that no camera manufacturer has done before…
What it is we don’t know. But that Sony does that kind of things is not impossible. They did the RX series, the A7 series and I can certainly expect something like a medium format camera from them too :)
Fujirumors reports that Fuji is working on a Full Frame X-PRO 2 which will be released in 2015. Unfortunately no current X-mount lens will work on the new mount. There will be a minimum of three lenses at launch.
This would be the first competition for the newly launched Sony A7 system. A great news!
If you look at the stats posted by Cipa you will see that compared to February 2013 this year Japanese companies shipped 33,7% more mirrorless cameras and 12,3% less DSLR cameras! After many months of negative trend the mirrorless shares are increasing again.
The data include DSLR and mirrorless camera shipped by Japanese companies. So these do not include Leica and Samsung for example. Doesn’t make a lot of difference as the big producers are all Japanese anyway.
Personal View analyzed the data in detail and you see how mirrorless sales are incredibly problematic on US market. Americans still love DSLR many times more than Mirrorless cameras :(
Imagine a sensor that has no light loss on corners, no aberrations. A sensor designed to allow faster apertures without to sacrifice image quality. Such a sensor would have to be curved to allow all this. Well, this is no more science fiction. Sony officially unveiled their curved sensor tech! And suddenly the hopes are high Sony uses this kind of tech on future RX or Full Frame E-mount cameras. This is the Sony presentation published right before the start of the Technology Symposium (pdf file here):
We realized an ultimately advanced imaging system that comprises a curved, back-illuminated CMOS image sensor (BIS) and integrated lens which doubles the sensitivity at the edge of the image circle and increases the sensitivity at the center of the image circle by a factor of 1.4 with one-fifth lower dark current than that of a planar BIS. Because the lens field curvature aberration was overcome in principle by the curved sensor itself, the curved BIS enables higher system sensitivity through design of a brighter lens with a smaller F number than is possible with a planar BIS. At the same time, we controlled the tensile stress of the BIS chip to produce a curved shape that widens the energy band-gap to obtain a lower dark current. The curved CIS can be applied to an ultimately advanced imaging system that is validated by the evolution of the animal eye in Nature.
If Sony is going to put this into a mass production camera…it will really put under pressure Canon and Nikon ;)
Well, there are plenty of amazing (and fake) news today! So here is a roundup of some April Fool’s day articles:
1) The video on top shows you how to make a pancake lens for MFT (Source: mirrorlessphototips)
2) Facebook just bought Leica (LesNumeriques).
3) Panasonic goes Full Frame (43rumors)
4) First Foveon Sony A9 camera (SAR).
5) Ricoh buys Nikon (Lepidi).
Let me know if you find some more! :)
