Fuji’s beautiful new mirrorless camera, the X-Pro1, suffers from a lack of available lenses. But come June, you’ll be able to easily mount a host of equally desired Leica M-Mount lenses to it for your photo-snapping pleasure.
I’ve always been fascinated by pancake lenses; it just amazes me that something that small can actually function. As I mentioned in an earlier post, we’ve been taking things apart to determine where and how (and sometimes if) the lenses can be adjusted optically.
The Olympus OM-D E-M5 is crammed full of impressive features: the fastest autofocus among interchangeable lens cameras (or so says Olympus). The E-M5 pushes a ridiculous 9 frames per second of 16-megapixel RAW photos. It’s the first mirrorless camera with a magnesium alloy body — weatherproof and dustproof, yo! — and packs the world’s first 5-axis image stabilisation. That’s up from 2-axis in the PEN E-P3 and the E5 DSLR. But what does any of that mean to a regular person?
I say “won’t cost that much” because the Japanese price of the AG-AF100 converted to just under $US10,000, which is a heck of a lot more than what it’ll really cost when it goes on sale in the US on December 27: $US4995.
From glossy render to real product: Panasonic’s micro four thirds camcorder has been formally announced in Japan and will cost just under $US10,000. That’s the price you’ve gotta pay for the world’s first mirrorless camcorder with interchangeable lenses.
After being leaked in an appealing white colourway, Samsung’s NX100 has shown up twice more this week ahead of its slated launch at Photokina later this month. Not much spec can be garnered, except a 2.5x zoom and hotshoe flash.
In response to the growing popularity of smaller, ‘mirrorless’ cameras such as the Sony NEX series and micro four-thirds cameras like the Olympus PEN, Canon has confirmed that it’s going to build its own version of the small high-quality camera. Will it be a micro four thirds? Judging by what Masaya Maeda, head of the Image Communication Products division at Canon says, it could still be a DSLR, just a lot smaller:
Nikon’s “mirrorless” camera…8GB iPhone 3GS appears in Canada?…43nm Solid State Drives…The “world’s largest organ” made from stalactites…
