A member of the BMCuser forum spoiled the mystery camera mount secret. The new Panasonic camcorder that will be unveiled in June has a Canon EF mount. As you can see on the picture it has a [shoplink 66176 ebay]Sigma 24-35mm Full Frame lens[/shoplink] attached. I wonder if it has a FF sensor too?

P.S.: And here it fades away our hope to get a new AF100 MFT mount successor :(

Thanks Danilo!

I just got this from a source (Thanks!):

Neewer will be releasing a version of their GN40 flash for micro 4/3 very soon. They stated that it should come out within a month. Very similar specs as the Nissin i40, but at sub-$100 price.

And another source told me this:

Olympus and Profoto are launching a global project to celebrate something “Cool”. The celebration project will be global and is comming VERY soon.

The Panasonic NAB press conference is over and as expected there was no new MFT related announcement. The only real “mystery” is that teaser of a new Compact Cinema Camera. It’s unclear from the pictures what mount it has. But it shouldn’t be MFT because there is a Sigma ART lens on it without an adapter. Is this the long-awaited AF100 successor but without MFT mount? :(

The only thing we know about it are these few lines:

We will know more about it on June 1 at the Cine Gear Expo.

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Images via Mitch Gross

Quick reminder:

1. Panasonic will have a press conference on Sunday at 2pm Las Vegas time. I haven’t heard of any new MFT mount camera to be announced on that event. But we can expect Panasonic to announce new camcorders
2. Blackmagic will announce new products on Monday. Still not sure if there will be a new BlackMagic MFT Pocket Cinema Camera.

Vensu Optics announced that the new Laowa 7,5mm f/2.0 MFT lens preorders will start on Monday

Thanks Guillaume M

UPDATE: I have been told filter thread is 46mm on the final production version lens!

Image of the new Leica 8-18mm lens by Digicameinfo

We have two upcoming Panasonic announcements: One in a few hours (at around 6am London time) and one on Sunday (at 2pm Las Vegas time).

P.S.: Nothing is coming from Olympus yet. But we will not have to wait much time for that to happen ;)

On top you can see the first image leak of the new final production version Leica 8-18mm MFT lens. Here are the lens specs:

Lens composition: 15 groups of 10 lenses (3 aspheric lenses, 1 aspheric ED lens, 2 ED lenses and 1 UHR lens)
Shortest shooting distance: 0.23 m
Maximum shooting magnification: 0.12 times (converted to 35 mm format 0.24 times)
Filter diameter: 67 mm
Maximum diameter × length: 73.4 mm × 88 mm
Weight: Approx 315 g
Nano surface coating
Dustproof / drip-proof specification, low temperature (-10 ° C) compatible
Metallic exterior
Expected release date: May 25, 2017
Suggested retail price: 158,000 yen + tax (around $1450)
Mass store sales price: around 136,500 yen (including tax)  which is around $1250

And here are the images of the new TZ90 compact camera:

Specs:

• Available in Black or Silver
• Newly developed 20.3 M high sensitivity MOS sensor
• 24mm Wide angle with Optical 30 times Leica DC zoom lens
• Touch panel type and 180 tilt-degree LCD screen
  
• Built-in viewfinder equivalent to about 117,000 dots
• “4K Photo” “4K Selphie” “Focus Select & Focus Composite”
• Expected release date: June 15, 2017

Both the lens and the TZ90 will be announced tomorrow (April 19) at around 6am London time!

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via Nokishita