It looks like Nikon is working on the launch of a new APS-C mirrorless system! Egami just spotted a new patent describing a new 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 zoom lens made for a yet non existent APS-C mirrorless camera.
SOunds like Nikon will now step up from the 1 system and challenge the Sony NEX and Canon EOS system!
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If true, i welcome it! 🙂
I would like to see it with the standard (nikon) hotshoe, a decent EVF and a swivel LCD.
how about nikon 1 users ?
Nikon have a plant in China which is dedicated to making the Nikon 1. I don’t think that Nikon 1 production affects any other camera, or that the production of other cameras affects the Nikon 1 series – unless they decide to use the same plant.
I’ll drink to that. The latest V2 is an embarrassment to Nikon. Lower DXO specs, no flash comparability, a lousy battery which which can’t tell you the % remaining or the battery condition. The list goes one. Shame on you Nikon. The V2 will discount even faster than the V1.
Even stranger is that we have a J3 three months after we have a J2.
if the AF tracking ability remain same as the 1 series, i will buy it for sure!
Let’s pray this camera is not as effing UGLY as the v2. No apsc sensor deserves the V@’s uglya ass looks.
… a little bit late to the game :
Good new for m43. They will always have a lens size advantage against APS-C while dropping very little in IQ. The 1″ sensor in the Nikon 1 has a much larger drop in IQ while the lens size advantage over m43 has failed to materialize.
Yeah Nikon needs another failed mount woo
Curious to see which lens mounts will get the lens support. They cannot support all 4 at a high level.
Tehyve only ever had the f mount and before that the s rangefinder mount. And of course the aps cameras. But their f mount iss till going strong, unlike olympus, who seems to abandon systems at will. what happened to penf, om, 43? dumped like a sack of garbage.
Would be a sensible move. While the Nikon 1 system may still continue to fill a niche, it leaves too much to be desired compared to the existing MFT and APS-C systems. If they want to compete there, they’ll need a larger sensor. Of course, it would have been nice to see them join, say, MFT. Or even Fuji. Instead of creating still another mount, which will probably be what they’ll do.
And, well, the bazillionth 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 zoom lens isn’t really what would make me say wow, that’s the mirrorless system I’m gonna jump to right now…
Indeed, couldn’t imagine a more boring lens, but at least something seems to be happening.
“It looks like Nikon is working on the launch of a new APS-C mirrorless system!”
Wow! If they make the F mount lenses compatible in the same way as they did in the 1, they’ll have a winner.
I wouldn’t bet it’s mirrorless. Might be zoom large-sensor compact (RX10 competitor with zoom lens).