LIist of new Fuji cameras. X100s and X20 coming.

Olympus, Panasonic and Sony will avoid to make any major mirrorless announcement at the CES show. They will wait til late January instead (CP+ show in Yokohama). At least Fuji will make a more “important” announcement. According to Digicaminfo these are the camera they will announced soon:

  • FUJIFILM X100S

  • FUJIFILM X20

  • FinePix S8200

  • FinePix XP60

  • FinePix T500

  • FinePix JZ700

As previously written on Fujirumors the X100s has the same 16 Megapixel X Trans sensor of the X-E1/X-PRO1.

Japanese Impress Magazine Predicts New Canon And Nikon Mirrorless Cameras For 2013

The usually very accurate Japanese Impress magazine published Canon and Nikon camera predictions. Above the scanned page for the Canon gear, below the page for the Nikon gear. The pages showed up on the Chinese Xitek forum. The figures near the images are the probability percentage chance estimates.

Canon: a new mirrorless camera named EOS M2 will be released in 2013, 80% probability to be a real prediction

Nikon: The V3 will be released during 2013, 75% probability

The rest, not mirrorless related, for those who are interested:

  • Canon
    • EOS 7D Mark II will have a newly developed sensor, 10fps burst rate, and ISO up to 25600
    • EOS 70D will have same sensor as 7D Mark II, burst rate limited to 3fps, ISO 25600
    • EOS 1DSx, that’s the name of Canon’s high megapixel DSLR.
  • Nikon
    • D7200 with 39 points AF, ISO up to 25600
    • D9000 with newly developed sensor, 10fps bust rate, 51 points AF
    • D4x set to be released in 2013

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Guess what is the most sold mirrorless camera of the year in Japan: The Nikon J1!


Image source: BCNranking.

BCNranking published the full mirrorless camera sales data from January 1st til December 24th. And at least for me it’s a real surprise to see that the Nikon J1 was actually the most sold mirrorless camera in Japan!
When you think that on Internet most of the talk is about the Micro Four Thirds or NEX system than this is an unexpected success for Nikon.

Another surprise is to see the OMD and NEX-7 on position 11 and 12 only. The cheaper entry level models are on top of the ranking. Not the more expensive cameras.

There is no such detailed rankings in other countries. You can if you want check the Amazon rankings. But these are not real indications of a long term camera popularity as they change a lot depending on the running deals: – Mirrorless camera ranking at Amazon US (Click here)
– Mirrorless camera ranking at Amazon Deutschland (Click here)
– Mirrorless camera ranking at Amazon UK (Click here)
– Mirrorless camera ranking at Amazon France (Click here)