Mirrorlessrumors just leaked the first images and specs of the new Leica SL. It is the first Sony A7 competitor (mirrorless, autofocus and Full Frame). And the design somehow reminds me also of the …Sony A7 :)

The Leica SL has a 24MP sensor and costs $6900 Euro (twice the price of the A7rII and 4 times the price of the A7II). It’s certainly a niche product. But what could be a bit more interesting is that Panasonic is part of the project and delivers plenty of tech to Leica (4K video, processor, autofocus and so on). There might be a chance that sometimes in the not so distant future Panasonic will use the same mount to launch their first FF camera. And that would certainly be a worthy Sony competitor.

P.S.: Follow the Leica presentation live blogging on Mirrorlessrumors at 19:30 berlin time.

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Zyoptics (know also as Mitakon) officially announced the new crazy fast 135mm f/1.4 FE lens! This makes it the fastest Full Frame lens yet available after the [shoplink 41643 ebay]Zeiss 135mm f/1.8 A-mount lens[/shoplink].

You can preorder the lens now at zyoptics.net/product/pre-order-mitakon-speedmaster-135mm-f1-4/. The lens costs $2999 and will ship in early 2016. Only 100 pieces will be preoduced so if you want one get it now!

Source: Weibo (via Mirrorlessrumors and Xjrumo).

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Sony UK finally rectified their misleading A-mount tweet from last week. At last the new tweet and the soon new A-mount camera announcement will give us some peace…for some time.

At last I have some good rumor for the A-mount folks! According to two trusted(!) sources Sony will announce one new A-mount camera in early November! Stay tuned on SAR to get more info the coming days!

Reminder: The new FE lenses should be announced at PhotoPlus. The new A-mount camera will be announced after the PhotoPlus show.

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Today I reported how Sony will announce a new A-mount camera in early November. But that new camera will certainly not go on sale in Australia and New Zealand because Sony Oceania decided to not sell any A-mount camera and lenses anymore.

Sony’s strategy is to sell A-mount only in areas where it sells well and where mirrorless is having a hard time to eat the DSLR market share.

Here is the official news reported by SAR reader John on Twitter:

The Pentax FF DSLR camera details just got leaked. The camera will be released in Spring 2016 and all the specs shown on the image make me think that this is the A-mount FF camera I would like to get from Sony!

The Pentax FF has:
– Sony 36MP sensor
– 5 axis stabilization system (Sony tech?)
– Super resolution mode (Like the [shoplink 41530 ebay]E-M5II[/shoplink])

That would have been a terrific A-mount camera don’t you think?

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Image via Photorumors.