We have a new bunch of rumors about Sony and Olympus!
Sony first: There will be two new NEX cameras in September, a new NEX-5F and another completely new NEX camera that will be the first of it’s series. Sadly we are not talking about a Full Frame NEX. I write sadly because this is what I am looking for 🙂 Anyway, there will be also three new NEX lenses, two pancake zooms, the 16-50 and 11-18mm lenses and a new fast prime.
And now Olympus: We already know two new PEN cameras are coming soon (E-PM2 and E-PL5). But there will be a new OMD and another mysterious m43 camera coming in winter-spring 2012-2013. No news yet about the possible new Oly lenses…
You like that coming stuff?
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Sounds great, I wonder about the release dates for the PEN’s? Also…really interested in Oly’s response to the 12-35mm & 35-100mm…
NEX isnt compatible with full frame. People should not be misinformed. IF a full frame mirrorless came to be, it would be a new mount NEX-like, but not NEX.
Sony E mount is not compatible with full frame, which is the mount NEX uses. You could still have a NEX camera with a non E mount.
However, I think a full frame NEX unlikely just because of issues with full frame sensors at short flange distances.
How could there be a “full frame” (I assume Admin means the 36x24mm “nostalgia format”) NEX? Would it include secret light-bending technology to make NEX lenses cover a larger sensor? I suspect Admin will be waiting a long time…
I hope this new series has in-body image stabilization!
> two pancake zooms, […] and a new fast prime.
Wow. Never underestimate Sony while they are on the roll. Hope the lenses would good.
Still do not like the NEX overall, but who knows, what if Sony in future would produce an interesting camera?
> But there will be a new OMD and another mysterious m43 camera […]
It looks like an all-out attack on the market. It looks like a huge bet.
Oly using Sony sensor is a serious setback for the Panny. I wonder what would happen with the Panny’s sensor manufacturing in future. I think they should have shared their top of the line sensors (GH1,GH2,G3/GX1) with the Oly. Now, after (partial) loss of a customer with lower production volumes, it would become even harder for them to catch-up.
Sounds great. I’ve been waiting for a wide zoom, and fingers are crossed that the prime is a 33mm or 35mm f/1.4 with OSS! Priced like the 50/1.8, please 🙂 Would be amazing to have something to compete with a 50mm Summicron on a full-frame Leica. The standard zoom sounds potentially good as well, especially since it goes to 24mm-equivalent on the wide side. Hopefully the optics are better than the kit zoom. And please, pretty please, Sony… NO POWER ZOOM on these lenses!!! I hate power zoom.
As for the new series of camera, I couldn’t possibly guess what it could be, other than maybe a new video camera of some kind? The NEX-3, 5 and 7 make a pretty complete lineup of CSCs.
“NO POWER ZOOM on these lenses!”
I’m afraid they’ll have to use some kind of fly by wire technology for zooming. Gears use too much space and there is no space in pancake lenses. Whether zooming is done by a rocker or a ring is another matter.
BTW, I doubt these two lenses will be real pancakes, especially the 16-50 mm. I think their length will be equal to the diameter, which is a feat in itself for a NEX lens.
I hope one Olympus has the innards of the OMD and the outards of a rangefinder-style. And a fast 35mm and 60mm lens to match the 12/45/75 troika. But, of course, in black.
Then I’ll both go to bed and wake up smiling.
I am waiting for:
16-50 nex zoom, but only if it sharper than kit.
Normal prime nex, but only if it is as sharp as 30/2.8 from sigma
EPL3 but only if it is EM5 sensor and has 2 control dials like EP3 (ie a em5 without viewfinder)
An Oly 17/2 as good as the 12/2 or 45/1.8
I suppose a compact-ish 30 or 35mm f1.4 would be far too obvious and sensible a lens to introduce? Sony would surely never be so crass as to bring out a lens that many have been hoping and waiting for for so long?
Agreed!
What is the hang-up or hold-up delaying a high MP, full frame, autofocus mirrorless ?
I am obviously not counting the Leica M9 since it’s just a modest MP rangefinder.
Is it the fact that both Canon and Nikon know that they would no longer be able to sell any of their NON-HMP,FF,AF,ML cameras, and that they wouldn’t be able to supply the demand for the new HMP,FF,AF,ML.
Maybe it takes somebody new, with less investment in the old, to make this happen.
What do we have to do to get this obvious next thing ? The HMP,FF,AF,ML.
nex-6????