The Nikon news roundup (financial results, DxOmark, V2 test and more)

It’s time to look a bit more into some new Nikon 1 related news!

Let’s start with a deal on refurbished J1 camera at Cameta (now $259 only). As you know it has been replaced by the J2 but the DxOmark sensor test demonstrates that there is no real image quality improvement on the newer model. And image samples of the new V2 model have been posted by the Russian Prophoto site. The surprise comes from the Nikon Q2 financial report that showed that the new DSLRs and Nikon 1 are selling well in face of the economic crisis (Engadget). I may underestimated Nikon’s capacity to sell the Nikon 1 mirrorless cameras :)

Mirrorless News Roundup.

Model Shoot at San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel with the Sony NEX-VG900 from HDVP Magazine on Vimeo.

Samsung NX1000 First Look Review (Digitalcamerareview).
Sigma P2 Merrill Field Report (Outbackphoto).
Samsung prices new NX-mount lenses (Imaging Resource).
Lomography X-Pro Sunset Strip 100 Film Au Naturel (ThePhoBlographer).
EOS-M test at Itmedia (translation here) and Mobile01 (translation here) and DC.watch (translation here).
EOS M + Color-Skopar X 50mm F2.8 at DC.watch (translation here).
Canon EOS-M review at DC.watch (translation here).

New Gariz case for the E-PM2 (CLick here), for the E-PL5 (Click here) and new full case for the X-E1 (Click here).

EOS-M shipping in US. RX100 is camera invention of the year (according to Time)

The EOS-M is back in Stock at Amazon US (via third party reseller). And this helped to push the EOS on the top position of the popularity ranking (CLick here). But guess who became the camera invention of the year according ot the Time magazine? It is the Sony RX100! Check out the full best 2012 invention list. You can find many sometimes very funny stuff!

P.S.: I got the news that the EOS-M Gariz case release has been delayed to early 2013! Reaosn si that Gariz wants to push the Fuji X-E1 case first. There is already a case for the RX100 (Click here).

Samsung is alive! NX300 spotted (an Android camera)

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As you may recall Samsung said that they will not announce any camera this year. But Photorumors spotted an image of what appears to be the future NX300 camera. I guess the camera will be announced in early January right before the CES show and be based on the Android OS. Will this new strategy finally help the Samsung NX system? I sure hope they will!

CR speculates about a possible EOS-M 55mm f/1.3 lens release in March

This news falls into the category “very unlikely rumors“. CanonRumors reports that Canon may announce a new 55mm f/1.3 lens in March which he speculates to be an EOS-M mount lens. The only thing I heard (and I reported it yesterday) is that new EOS-M mount lenses will be announced in Spring 2013. But i haven’t heard about a 55mm lens yet. Anyway, would be a welcome addition to the EOS-M range! Something similar is going to be announced by Panasonic, to be more precise it is the 42,5mm f/1.2 lens. This one is not a rumor. Panasonic said it will release it in 2013.