Nikon announced the fastest autofocus lens available for digital mirrorless systems. It’s the 32mm f/1,2 for the Nikon 1. A nice beast! You cna alreayd preorder it at Amazon in Black (Click here) and Silver (Click here).
Reminder: Also Panasonic plans to launch the 42,5mm lens by end 2013 and it will have the same fast f/1,2 aperture.
ThePhoBlographer and Dpreview.
Samsung could soon announce a new NX camera. And if the pictures are real this could be the NX-R with built-in WiFi. the camera name has been previously leaked via Samsungs support page
via Photorumors.
CanonWatch spotted that video showing a yet not announced Speed Booster adapter for the Canon EOS-M system! On Metabones website you can find NEX and X mount adapters only.
And by the way, Metabones isn’t the only manufacturer offering a “Speed Booster” solution. The Chinese company Mitakon now sold their first “Lens Turbo” adapters on .
The video on top shows you the official Zeiss Touit lens presentation. But marketing aside…how good are the lens in real testings made by “independent” reviewers? The Spanish website DSLRmagazine (google translation here) is the first website that had the pleasure to test the lenses. And the results are nothing less than stellar! They write that “The optical performance is the highest level we ever tested. You could say that at the moment are “state of the art” optics for CSC.“
Well done Zeiss…well done!
Zeiss preorder links:
12mm f/2.8 at BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and Uniquephoto (Click here). In Europe at FotoMundus.
32mm f/1.8 at BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and Uniquephoto (Click here). In Europe at FotoMundus.
Eagmi spotted a new Japanese Tamron patent describing a 35mm f/1.4 lens made for mirrorless systems. I really hope that lens will soon become a real product! It is yet unknown for which system they could release it. For now Tamron only made one lens, the 18-200mm for Sony NEX (here at Amazon).
Olympus officially announced the new E-P5 and for Japanese market only the E-PL6. Full roundup of links to tests and early hands-on can be read at 43rumors (Click here). There is not much to argue on the nice E-P5 improvements (like ISO 100 and 1/8000 shutter). But it’s a bit pity that the body only is priced at $1000 or 1000 Euro. And if you want a kit version you have to only get it with the (nice) new VF-4 viewfinder. Would have been kind from Olympus to allow us a bit more “freedom” when choosing our needed kit (for example camera+lens without viewfinder option).
A great news is that finally Olympus launched the 17, 45 and 75mm Black primes lenses. And unlike the previous 12mm Black Limited Edition the new Lenses costs the same as the Silver version. Well done!
Specs, Price and Preorders:
Full dedicated pages to the new Oly stuff at Adorama, Bhphoto.
E-P5 Black at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto.
E-P5 White at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto.
E-P5 Silver at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto.
E-P5 Black with 17mm f/1.8 lens and VF-4 at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto.
E-P5 Silver with 17mm f/1.8 lens and VF-4 at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto.
17mm f/1.8 Black at Adorama, Bhphoto.
45mm f/1.8 Black at Adorama, Bhphoto.
75mm f/1.8 Black at Adorama, Bhphoto.
VF-4 viewfinder at Adorama, Bhphoto.
The Sony RX100 showed us hot to make a “real compact” camera with larger sensor. And it sounds like Canon is going to make a competitor with the same size btu with even larger APS-C sensor! CanonWatch reports that “Canon may be working on a compact camera with a large sensor. Not a successor of the PowerShot G1 X (price & specs), but a camera like the PowerShot S110 (price & specs), just a bit a larger. The camera should have a fast lens and the new APS-C 18MP sensor featured on the Rebel Sl1/EOS 100D (price & specs), and the DIGIC 6 Image Processing Unit. No viewfinder. Pricing should be less than the PowerShot G1 X when it was released. We expect Canon to announce this camera at the end of Summer 2013.“
APS-C compact of the same size of the RX100? I have to see it to believe it!
Still no rumor from the Canon EOS-M mirrorless system. But Canon is lowering the price of the camera and you can now grab it with lens(!) for $399 only at .
