UPDATED -> MicroFourThirds competition rumors summary!
I didn’t expect such interesting times! There is no day that I do not receive any rumor about Ricoh-Sony-Samsung. They all talk about mirrorless camera coming in the next days and weeks! I am going to make you a summary:
RICOH
Ricoh should announce the new compact interchangeable camera system tomorrow. The camera will be very similar to the actual GX200. It uses a “slide-in” mechanism to attach lenses. Our source told us that “it will not have a proprietary bayonet mount, and to say that it will have an APS-C sensor is, well, not the whole truth…Ricohs camera system will start with two “lenses”, one prime, one zoom. The prime has 33mm real focal length, the zoom 5,1-15,3mm.“. It will have an electronic viewfinder accessory shoe for optional. It will not use the Epson EVF! One more source told us we should not expect a real MicroFourThirds competitor (don’t expect to have the image quality and flexibility of the MicroFourThirds System).
SONY
That rumor came like a bomb for all of us! SonyAlphaRumors says that Sony wants to launch a Panasonic GH1 competitor on November 18! It will record FullHD! Two of our sources heard about that camera but can’t tell us more about the specs 
SAMSUNG
Samsung maybe will drop the ultimate bomb! K-rumors just published the last-minute rumors that Samsung will not only announce the NX System (mirrorless camera with APS-C sensor) but also the new GX fullframe mirrorless System. The new NX camera should be announced on December 10. All the specs about NX and GX System can be found here:
- NX specs
- GX specs
Let’s see what happens tomorrow with Ricoh!
UPDATE: Photorumors says that also Canon is planning a MicroFourThirds competitor in form of a fixed lens camera
Specs
Fixed-lens
2.5x crop factor sensor (~13.8×10.4mm).
5x zoom (26-130mm)
f2.8-4 IS L lens
The form factor is similar to the Pro1
Articulated Screen
800×600 EVF.
CMOS made by Canon
High FPS
1080p video like that of the SX1-IS.
It should look like the Canon PowerShot Pro 1
thomas
4 years ago |the spec for the Samsunug NX sounds truly amazing, and it’ll be not only be a competitor, but a higher class EVIL system than today’s mFT bodies, so it should be also more expensive and targeting the semipro-DSLR fotographer, who’s looking for a more compact and versatile solution.
Mel
4 years ago |Unfortunately, specs alone won’t tell you how good the sensor is, how fast the AF is, how well built the camera is, etc. We’ve seen nicely-specced cameras from Pentax and Sigma emerge as slow, noisy cameras, and Samsung doesn’t have much experience with interchangeable lens cameras (aside from its Pentax clones) so I think we need to wait and see.
Carlos
4 years ago |This email regarding Ricoh is strange at least.Either you have or you don’t an APS-c sensor in camera. And even more strange is to Ricoh to release an smaller sensor and the same zoom as the GX200.Why?…and how the guy can tell the camera won’t have the IQ to compete with m4/3? did he see any samples at all?
Thomas
4 years ago |regarding the new Ricoh there’s speculation in german camera forums, about an APS-C sensor, perhaps in the bottom of the camera, with different optics that use specific parts of with, making up a camera that can have little zoom lenses attached, as well as big prime lenses. So the different focal length optics are calculated in context to different sensor sizes used. But nothings clear at the moment, the ones who know it better, keep the secret.