North America doesn’t like Mirrorless cameras, rest of the world…does like them!

CIPA data of cameras shipped by Japanese companies (October 2013)

It wasn’t really a secret but now you can see it on a nice graph (Thanks to Personal-View). As you see Asian countries are rapidly switching from DSLR to Mirrorless cameras. Europe’s mirrorless market is also slowly growing. But it’s in North America where Mirrorless cameras still cannot come closer to DSLR sales. Hard to say for me why it is so. Wrong marketing, different culture., or something else…you guess :)

Big Panasonic GM advertising strategy in Japan.

Unlike the GF series Panasonic is investing a lot of marketing money on the new GM1 “philosophy”. At least in Japan Panasonic invested a lot to change their image and with the Gm1 release they also launched a new website: http://lumixgm.tumblr.com. The famous Japanese actress Haruka Ayase is sponsoring the GM events (http://panasonic.jp/dc/gm1/event/). This is just to make you understand that like the GH series the GM could mark the beginning of a new much bigger vision on high quality “miniature” mirrorless cameras.

GM1 preorder list:
In US at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
In Europe at Amazon Germany, Wex Germany, Amazon UK, Fotohanskeuzekamp, Cyberphoto Sweden and Wex UK.

First Olympus FF dream render :)

The Sony-Olympus partnership makes it possible for Olympus to joint the FF world. While I don’t know if this will happen (and if it makes sense at all) the people on the web is already starting to dream their Olympus FF cameras. So here is the first Olympus E-7F designed by one of our 43rumors readers. Feel free to send me your Olympus FF designs if you want them to be posted here!

a little bit of everything…

Puget Sound Sunset – BMPCC RAW from Forrest Burger on Vimeo.

Panasonic GM1 image samples at Pixinfo.
Nachteule E-M1 (Pen And Tell).
Olympus Stylus 1 Review (Photographyblog).
Sony A7r, Fuji X-E2, Panasonic GH3 – DOF and Noise comparisons (Soundimagesplus).
Panasonic GX7 Notes: Big Noise about Noise (TheOnlinePhotographer).
Olympus Partners with Denis O’Regan (Photographyblog).
GX7 test by BMCR.
Insectography with the Olympus 60mm macro at Samudranil.
Best lenses for the Olympus OM-D EM-1 (DxOmark).

 

 

 

 

New Samyang 10mm f/2.8 MFT lens announced.

Samyang released a new lens designed for ASP-C system cameras and it will come with native MFT mount too. It’s the 10mm f/2.8 ED AS NCS CS lens and will ship from January. Full press release and image samples (on APS-C cameras) can be seen at Samyang-europe.com.

And this is the official video:

The camera crisis: Olympus E-M1 selling well. Debunking myths on camera sales (better than expected).

Image courtesy: Personal View.

Olympus CEO released an interview at Diamond (a Japanese Magazine). In short he says that Olympus didn’t expect the compact camera fixed lens market to drop that dramatically. But the good news for them is that the new Olympus E-m1 is selling very well and also their PEN camera sales are good. The most important thing Olympus built up a good reputation on the market.

Image courtesy: Personal View.

Cameras.Reviewed and Mainichi analyzed the latest CIP data and while it’s true that sales went down this year there is also some surprising positive aspects to report. Personal View analyzed the data and discovered that actually compact camera sales are now steady (no more dropping) while DSLR and Mirrorless system camera sales increased recently! The graph on very top shows you how DSLR and Mirrorless camera shipments increased (CIPA data from Japanese companies). And when you look at the second graph you wills ee that compact camera market is now steady.

In short: On year to year to basis it is true that this year was worse than 2012. But lately things have gone a bit better. So, are we sure that the dramatic reports and forecast are not…too exaggerated?