We’re getting rumors that we have low confidence presently about a new ASP-C body coming from Canon in 2025 with the following rumored specifications:
Strange decision for Cosina Voigtlander to release this lens for Nikon only but it may have to do with the unique Nikon mount with its large flange diameter. Although they do have a 28mm F1.5 lens for Leica M mount.
Cosina has posted sample photos from this lens on their website. They look good but it’s always hard to trust photos from the manufacturer. The bokeh does feel vintage which may be a plus or minus depending on your preference.
Key specifications includes:
Small wide-angle lenses used to be a very desirable thing. Back in the film days there were many esteemed photographers who loved the manual focus 20mm F4 lens. And F4 is a lot more versatile than F5.6, but for many landscape photographers they could probably get buy with this aperture. It might also be useful as a gimbal lens. The lens is basically a cheap, wide-angle pancake lens that weighs only 146grams. It’s available for the Nikon Z, Sony E, and L mount systems. Close focus is 0.3 meters / 0.98 feet.
The real question is how does it perform optically. Early reports indicate a sharp center, weaker edges, reasonable distortion, and significant vignetting. This is kind of what you would expect from a small wide-angle lens. The vignetting may or may not work for your use case.
Rokinon, aka Samyang, has released an interesting lens kit. There is a base module and then 3 different sets of optics you can swap out inside of it:
These lenses are tiny and full-frame. Check on the weight on the optical blocks:
The set is available for the Sony FE mount and comes at a price of $399 USD.
To make lenses this small there has to be sacrifices in the optical formula. Sometimes these sacrifices can create an interesting look, and at other times they add offensive elements. So how did Rokinon do? It looks like they came up short, unfortunately.
We’re hearing rumors about a FE 50-105mm F2.8 G lens. That’s barely over a 2X zoom. 50-135mm would be better. Although it does seem like it would be sibling to the 24-50mm F2.8 G that was announced last year. However, this rumor are not yet confirmed.
DJI Support has stated:
Hi there, thank you so much for your attention. Please stay tuned with us as our mysterious new product will be launched soon. For more details, you will find out on the launch date.
It’s funny to see a company refer to their own product as mysterious. We truly hope this a full-frame camera as DJI likely has the freedom to be a bit more disruptive and innovative in what they release. They’ve certainly made things interesting in regards to lower-end cine cameras.
The Fujifilm GFX100RF is reported to come with a 35mm F4 pancake lens and a 100 megapixel sensor. It will be interesting to see just how small they can get this camera. Multiplying 35mm by 0.79 gets us the full frame equivalent of 27.65 or, rounded up, 28mm. This is a popular focal length for single lens cameras as we see in the Ricoh GR series which offer 28mm and 40mm options.
This camera won’t be cheap but it may just be the ultimate medium format travel camera. If it has competent video features that would be quite interesting also but we’re not holding our breathe for that.
We’re very happy to see Fujifilm create a medium format cine camera. What we know so far is that it features the same sensor as their medium format GFX 100 Mark II camera.
We were a bit surprised that there wasn’t better dynamic range on the GXF 100 Mark II compared to its full-frame counterparts (although you of course still benefit from the field of view that the sensor provides). Also, the rolling shutter is not great on this camera. Hopefully both of these factors can be corrected in the Eterna.
We look forward to the first footage which we will post here. We have no further details at this time.
The CEO of OM Digital has stated:
We plan to add a new camera to our lineup and bright, compact single-focal-length lenses with splash & dust-proof performance. Additionally, we are continuing to work hard to bring to market the long-awaited mid-range telephoto zoom lens on our lens roadmap by the end of this year
OM Digital is the rebranding of Olympus Cameras that were bought up by another company. Olympus did innovate with some of their micro-four-thirds cameras so we hoped OM Digital would carry on the flame.
This new camera hopefully has a 1-inch sensor and some set of features to set itself apart from other 1-inch sensor cameras. Otherwise it won’t be exciting.
The mid-range telephoto sounds like a 50-200mm. Maybe a pro 50-200mm F4? 50-250mm?
It’s nice to see compact cameras being made again. Smart phones obliterated this market, but there’s still some things that smart phones cannot do as well as a dedicated camera. This market will never recover to its previous glory but hopefully a nice niche will develop here.
Here’s what we know about these cameras: