In June there will be a triple announcement from Sony, Panasonic and Olympus. And all three companies are going to compete for the smalles mirrorless cameras race. So fix those dates in your calendar:
On June 3 Sony will announce the Sony NEX-C3. Smaller than the actual Micro Four Thirds cameras. It will have a new 16 Megapixel sensor but with HD recording only. But the biggest issue with Sony is that they don’t have an ultrasmall pancake like the Panasonci 14mm f/2.5 lens. So camera and lens combo will still be bigger than the Olympus and Panasonic smallest cameras.
One mid June Panasonic will announce the GF3. 15% smaller than the current GF2 and with the same G3 16 Megapixel sensor. Very touchscreen oriented, almsot no buttons.
On late June Olympus will announce the PEN light (name still not leaked). I don’t know yet if it will have in body image stabilization or not. If yes the than the camera will be probably thicker than the Sony and Panasonic cameras. And it sounds liek it will use an “upgraded” 12 Megapixel sensor.
That’s going to be abig battle! Who will be the winner? Hmmm, let’s not forget there is still a Samsung NX200 to come in July!
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Any rumors about the size of Samsung NX200?
lol…G3 is touchscreen, GF3 will be touchscreen also… I won’t buy any of those cameras. It seems Panasonic is aiming Point and Shoot users without any knowledge for photography…
When you see what Sony is doing…I feel like the only option we will have is to go for a Samsung body with DSLR like controls… But the NX200 is also rumored to have touchscreen…so….f#$%!!!!
I agree with Weird, I’m kind of going to be disappointed with the GF3 if the above proves to be true. I was hoping that it’ll be a sort of GF2.5 or something: like GF2 with GF1-like manual controls. Shooting manual via touchscreen will not be as intuitive as having dedicated scroll wheels for the shutter and aperture at the least. Good luck trying to shoot fast with touchscreen controls.
Touchscreens are great but Sony already won the war. Sales results prove it. Since the e-mount is an open standard, samsung, Olympus and panasonic should switch to is and together all four can destroy nikon and canon.
They won’t of course which means Sony will win and Olympus will probably go under and samsung will exit the camera business while panasonic will be mortally wounded.
Sales prove that m4/3 wins in Europe, Asia (with Japan) and America. The Sony NEX is 1 big disappointment and will be gone in a few years, Sony will move on with the SLT (A33-A55) models. Only 3 lenses for NEX with no quality and the zoom lens is giganormus for a compact system. It’s a joke.
Olympus have to diversify sensor supply otherwise Panasonic will always keep stepping on them. Too bad that 16Mp ain’t going to the Oly as well as they know how to get improved output better than Panny.
Sign me up for the 5C Nex, that 16Mp is a winner and (fingers crossed) with 1080p 24fps, the next NEX 5C will be mine. Any word on the specs for the Nex 5 and 7?
Cheers all,