I have been told that at the CP+ show Tokina should disclose the final specs and pricing of the new 100mm f/2.8 FE AF lens. I don’t know yet if they will also give us a glimpse on other future FE lenses.

This 100mm lens would be Tokinas second autofocus FE lens after the well known FiRIN 20mm f/2 FE AF Lens (here at BHphoto and Adorama)

The dutch tech site Tweakers now lists the Sony A7000 in their database. I think this is very likely to be a placeholder only. UPDATE: Yes it’s just a place holder. The shared specs are just a guess

Sensor: 24MP
Longest shutter speed: 20s
Video resolution: 3840×2160 (4K)
Video frame rate: 60fps
Cards: 2x slot for SD, SDHC, SDXC
Body: Built-in viewfinder, Tiltable screen, Live view
Body color: Black

At last! Nokishita confirmed the rumor we posted for many months now: Sony will indeed soon announce the new 135mm f/1.8 GM lens! This lens will be announced veeery soon! Stay tuned on SAR :)

The optical design should be the one we leaked some weeks ago:

The rumor I posted last week turned out to be true: Canon is going to launch a new $1599 Canon EOS-RP Full Frame mirrorless camera. This begs the question if Sony will answer with a new lower end model FF camera launch. Or maybe they will just cut the A7III price.

Here are the full Canon EOS-RP leaked images and specs via Nokishita:

26.2 Million Pixels Full Size Sensor
Dual pixel CMOS AF
DIGIC 8
Continuous shooting performance: 5 frames / sec
ISO sensitivity: 100 to 40000 (equivalent to extended ISO: 50, 51200, 102400)
Organic EL EVF
3.0 type touch panel variable angle liquid crystal
Dual Sensing IS
DLO in camera, RAW development in camera, C-RAW compatible
Size: 132.5 x 85.0 x 70.0 mm
Weight: Approximately 440 g (body only), about 485 g (including batteries?)
Kit lens: RF 24 – 105 mm F 4 L IS USM

Unreported by Nokishita is the announcement date which will be around February 14 (Source CanonWatch).

I think it’s great both Canon and Nikon will announce new gear this month. Sony will have to answer swiftly with new lens and camera releases if they want to steal some headlines from the competition!

Our sources just told us Samyang will soon launch a new 85mm f/1.4 FE autofocus lens. This lens will be very similar to the Canon EF version already on sale today. The one big news is that the new 85mm f/1.4 FE lens should have faster autofocus performance than all current Samyang FE lenses.

We have no exact launch date yet but it’s set to be announced within end of March.

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Links to all current Samyang/Rokinon FF E-mount AF lenses:
14mm f/2.8 at BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
24mm f/2.8 at BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
35mm f/2.8 at BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
35mm f/1.4 at BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
50mm f/1.4 at BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.

The upcoming weeks we expect multiple E-mount related announcements from both Sony and third party manufacturers. I made a list of Facts, Patents and Rumors about the future Sony and other third party gear:

Sony Cameras:
FACT: Sony registered a new RX0 camera model which should be announced within the next few months (article here)
FACT: Sony confirms professional APS-C cameras are on their roadmap (article here).
RUMOR: One more E-mount camera will be announced in Q1-Q2 (90% reliable – article here)
RUMOR: Sony A7sIII not going to hit the market in first half 2019 (70% reliable)
RUMOR: Sony 8k sensors and new codes specification (90% reliable – article here).

Sony Lenses:
PATENT: Sony patented new 100mm f/1.4, 135mm f/1.8, 500mm f/4.0 and 600mm f/4.0 FE lenses (article here and article here).
RUMOR: Next Sony E-mount lens announcement before the WPPI show in February (80% reliable – article here).
RUMOR: 135mm f/1.8 to be announced within Q1-Q2 (70% reliable)
RUMOR: New APS-C lens to be announced within Q1-Q2 (70% reliable)
RUMOR: New 35mm f/1.8 FE lens is on the roadmap (70% reliable – article here)
RUMOR: New 200-600mm FE lens is on the roadmap (50% reliable)

Third party lenses:
RUMOR: Tamron might announce a new 70-200mm f/2.8 FE lens within Q1-Q2 (50% reliable – article here)
RUMOR: Samyang FE autofocus lens announcement within the next weeks (90% reliable)
RUMOR: Sigma will soon be ready to launch their first FE zoom lenses (70% reliable)
RUMOR: Sigma will launch the first proper mirrorless designed FE lenses in 2019 (70% reliable)
RUMOR: Yongnou is working on the first FE autofocus lenses and some info might be spilled out in March (90% reliable – article here)
RUMOR: New 50mm f/1.0 FE lens being developed by a chinese manufacturer (90% reliable – article here)

One more thing:
PATENT: Sony patented a new drone camera (article here).

On February 14 Canon will launch five new RF lenses:

RF15-35mm F2.8L IS USM
RF24-70mm F2.8L IS USM
RF70-200mm F2.8L IS USM
RF24-240mm F4-6.3 IS USM
RF85mm F1.2L USM

Canon is rapidly trying to catch up with the Sony FE lens lineup. All five lenses are spot on and highly desirable. And I do think Sony has to launch a f/1.2 autofocus lens lineup too. Just recently Sony stated that while f/1.0 or faster lenses would not make sense they are considering making f/1.2 af lenses.

Sony is rumored ot have an E-mount lens announcement before the start of the WPPI and CP+ shows in late February!

Here are the images of the other four lenses:

via MirrorlessRumors via Nokishita