Nikon Confirms Mirrorless Camera

Nikon has officially confirmed it is working on a mirrorless camera, something that we've all known for months and months. It has an announcement date of Aug 23rd. Outside of this confirmation, Nikon has also said it will continue to develop both the DSLR lines and its new mirror-less line.

Nikon Mirrorless Camera Teaser Video

Nikon recently released a teaser video about the new upcoming mirrorless camera Here. it doesn't really show much, but at the end, you do get to see that the Camera mount is big(meaning its going to use an adapter for current F-mount lenses), the ergonomics look good with a substantial grip and the LCD and EVF are big. All good things, but we cannot be that sure because it doesn't show us much else. What can you gleam from the video?

Sony unveils new 48Mp smartphone Camera sensor

Sony has announced that they are making a 48mp smartphone camera. This makes each pixel about half the length and height of a regular 12MP smartphone Camera, indicating that it is not very good in low light. However, Sony is building this Camera is the Quad Bayer design so each group of four pixels is stacked together which Sony Claims will give low light performance that is comparable to top of the line 12MP cameras. I'm not sure if it will work that well but if it does, this technology could be a breakthrough and spill over into the professional camera market.

Fuji Unveils 18-16mm f/2.8 and 200mm f/2 lens

Fuji was unveiled two new lenses, the F/2.8 8-16mm, which is great for landscape and astrophotography and the F/2 200mm(305 full frame equivalent), great for wildlife and sports. The 8-16mm sells for $2000 while the 200mm comes with a 1.4x teleconverter(making it a 427mm f/2.8 equivalent) at $6000. Exciting times for Fuji photographers!

Fuji Unveils XF-10 APS-C point and shoot

Fuji has just announced its XF-10 point and shoot camera with an APS-C sensor with these specs.

24 MP APS-C sensor
28mm f/2.8 lens
3.0in LCD Touchscreen
Tilting Screen
ISO 200-12800
Square mode 1:1 format
4k@15fps
High speed movie at 1280x720 -- 4x
280g/9.8oz weight
$500
What do you think?

Nikon discontinues two product lines

Nikon has killed two of their product lines in the Nikon 1 Series mirrorless cameras and the Nikon Keymission cameras, which were basically a crappy go-pro wannabe. Neither of these Lines were selling well so I doubt anyone will notice. However, I hope they put these resources to develop their new mirrorless Camera.

Leica Noctilux-M 75mm F1.25 ASPH, thoughts?

The Leica Noctilux-M 75mm F1.25 ASPH is the latest ultra-expensive prime lens coming from Leica that natively goes on their M Mount. However, this lens does clock in at nearly $13,000 and due to its shallow depth of field at 1.25 is pretty hard to use with the optical viewfinder. Would you rent or buy such a lens if you had a M10?

Will Trump's Trade War Make out Cameras more expensive

Since the USA is in a trade war with China and most of our allies as well, there are tariffs going up everywhere. How will this effect us that are buying Camera Equipment, will out stuff now be more expensive?

Samsung Galaxy S10+ will have 5 lenses

The Samsung Galaxy S10+ camera will have a new Camera system with 5 lenses. Two front-facing lenses and three back facing lenses. For the back facing lenses, the wide angle one will be 12mp, the telephoto lens will also be 12mp, but the ultra wide angle lens will be 16mp. I am really interested in the quality of the lenses since the sensor will be about the same size as point and shoot Cameras like the upcoming p1000.

Moment releases Pro Camera Controls for Cellphone Cameras

Moment has released professional controls for cellphone cameras. This app requires the Google API and also Android OS 7 or iOS 10 but lets you have full control over shutter speed, F-stop value, and ISO and also white balance, making for interesting compositions never before possible on a phone Camera.