(SR4) Tokina Super Wide and fast wide FE lenses will ship in early 2018

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We have been told by a source that Tokina’s next FE lenses (a Super Wide and a fast wide FE autofocus lens) will ship in very early 2018 only even if the announcement will be made in late 2017. Tokina firsts wants to have the time to evaluate the sales of the new 20mm f/2.0 FE lens (here at BHphoto).

Reminder: Tokina will also launch a Zoom FE autofocus lens in 2018.

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(SR1) The Impossible rumors…

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This is a roundup of rumors I got from anonymous sources and with no single hint of reliability. Unlike FAKE rumors we are here not 100% certain ALL this info is wrong. A FAKE rumor is when we 100% know the source and we know that this source keeps posting false info or fantasies like the A5 teaser source.

So have fun with this 95% unlikely to be true SR1 ranked rumors. And if one of these wil prove to be correct I will of course post their future rumors with a higher ranking.

Source 1:

Zeiss 24-105 F4  will come end of this year

Source 2:

Summer usually is the time for announcements for Sony
This year
no new RX100 will be announced
No new APS-C Camera will be announced
a new consumer compact / travel zoom is down the pipeline and one new A7 series
also there will be a new action cam sporting ultra slowmo

Source 3:

sony will launch in this year
400/2.8
200-600
24-105

(Note: that source also said A7III launch would be delayed til early 2018. The 400mm FE lens is actually a rumor which is going to happen because it got confirmed by trusted sources. But I have not heard ever from them that there is a 24-105mm FE and 200-600mm coming this year)

Source 4:

a7r111 48 mp

 

Notes on those kind of (im-)possible rumors:

  • Fake rumors sent by so claimed sources that are known to create fake rumors are NOT included. What you see here are messages I got from unknown sources where I have no track of any “rumor history”
  • It’s by readers request that I create this sum up of low ranked rumors. But please remind all that these are not rumors from trusted sources and don’t count me accountable on those kind of very low ranked rumors :)
  • The last year a couple of those rumors were right (RX1rII and A6300 specs). So miracles sometimes can happen :)

CEA-LETI Presents Full Frame Curved Sensor Prototype

Image Sensor World spotted this new 20.4MP curved sensor from CEA-LETI. It’s a prototype for astronomical applications:

“By directly correcting the field curvature in the focal plane, curved detectors help saving about one third of the optics, usually used as field flatteners, and then avoids undesirable distortion effect either in the image and also on the optical properties across the field of view.

Why does this news matter? Because back in 2015 Sony did present a similar sensor. This is the first picture of  Sony’s curved sensor via Spectrum:

And in 2015 we also spotted a patent of a Full Frame Sony curved sensor with 35mm f/1.8 lens. So this might be really the future of the camera RX series. I don’t think Sony will use such a sensor on an E-mount camera because none of the current E-mount lenses would work with it. It would make much more sense to use these sensor on a brand new system camera like a medium format Sony :)

 

What should Sony do “to beat” the next Nikon FF mirrorless?


This is just a rendering. More images via Mirrorlessrumors

On the web I found many comments and suggestions on how Sony should improve their E-mount strategy to not give up market shares to the soon to be launched new Nikon FF mirrorless system camera. I did create a POLL with the suggestion I read on the web. Of course some of these ideas are non-realistic or nonsense but this is what I found:

Choose the steps Sony has to take to beat the future Nikon FF mirrorless system (chosoe up to three options)

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Note: We don’t know yet how the Nikon FF will be but Nikon CEO said it will be better than the competition (SAR article here).

Sigma CEO confirms they will keep developing APS-C E-mount and make new FF E-mount lenses

Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki confirmed the dual E-mount strategy (minute 9.26):

  1. They will keep developing APS-C E-mount lenses
  2. They are working on new Full Frame E-mount lenses

Reminder What we know so far from Sigma’s FE plan:

  • Sigma is preparing the launch of two new lenses
  • The first lens is rumored to be a 35mm f/1.4 (or f/1.2) FE autofocus lens. The size will be somewhere in between the current Zeiss 35mm f/1.4 and the Zeiss 35mm f/2.8
  • The second Sigma FE lens could be a zoom lens
  • Rumored release period for the first lens is Q4 2017


Zeiss 35mm f/1.4 and the Zeiss 35mm f/2.8 via Camerasize

Sony has registered two new cameras to be announced soon

Sony has registered two new cameras:

  1. One camera has the code “WW620081”. That camera got already registered two months ago. The “WW6” code is usually used for RX cameras
  2. The second code is “WW173777”. That kind of code is used for compact fixed lens cameras (non-RX)

Usually it takes 2-3 months after registration to see the cameras officially announced. None of the two codes above should be for a new E-mount camera. The next E-mount camera is likely to be introduces much later (late 2017 or early 2018) and it should be the new A7III (24MP, 4K).

via Nokishita