High End Sony E-mount APS-C to be announced very soon!

Sony is not making any break after the big A7-A7r announcement. According to multiple trusted sources a High End APS-C E-mount camera is definitely coming DAMN soon. Right after New Year!

Sources didn’t unveil specs but we can be pretty sure this is the long awaited NEX-7 successor. I got no news about possible new APS-C E-mount lenses but I heard that after the NEX-7 successor announcement more E-mount stuff will be announced in Spring already!

 

Is this again a year of crazy innovative Sony products? Looks like so!

Olympus E-M5 successor to be announced within the next 4-6 weeks!

Image on top shows the current E-M5 (not much will change with the new OMD)

We are going to have a great start in 2014! Fuji and Olympus will be the first companies announcing some great new mirrorless camera. Today we can share that 99% save rumor about the next Olympus camera:

It’s going to be a new entry level OMD camera which will replace the glorious E-M5. The E-M5 will still remain for sale for quite a long time and with some heavy discounts. The new OMD (name E-M10?) will feature the same E-m5 sensor which means it will NOT support PDAF. But it will feature the same new E-M1 imaging processor. What is not known yet is if the new OMD will get rid of the AA filter just like the E-M1 did.

The camera will be announced in January already!

Stay tuned on MR to not miss any rumor about the soon to be announced Olympus, Fuji, Sony and Samsung cameras ;)

Comparing the Fuji X-E2 and the Canon 5D Mark III

Why not make a comparison between the Fuji X-E2 and the Canon 5D Mark III?. This might seem like a crazy comparison to make but with the wish that many photographers have to lighten their load, this seemed like a logical idea to investigate. I am a professional photographer living in Ottawa, Canada and have shot with 5Ds since they first came out. It’s hard to believe that these tiny cameras can do what they do… 

Have a look at my thoughts and conclusions here:

http://andrewvanbeek.com/comparing-fuji-x-e2-canon-5d-mark-iii/

Sony promises to launch “surprising” new products in 2014.

Sony manager MR. Kimio is creating a lot of expectations! In an interview with the Japanese site Dc.watch (google translation here) he promised many “surprises” for the year to come. He could not say what exactly will surprises us but he stressed to say that it’s Sony goal to make thing really new. They will also focus on the High End of the Photographic Market and the A7-A7r are just the start of that.

 

All I can add as a “rumor guy” is that there will be plenty of new Sony E-mount cameras. And some of them are Full Frame and quite different from the current A7-A7r. Zeiss will support this system with the launch of five manual focusing and fully Zeiss branded and designed lenses. And it is also expected to see some nice Olympus tech coming in these cameras too.

But what could be possibly a surprise for you? Foveon sensor? A Full Frame camera for $1,000? What else?