Fujifilm expands mirrorless camera line with X-M1 ILC

There's now more retro ILC (Interchangeable Lens Camera) goodness coming from Fujifilm Canada. the company today announced the all new, premium Fujifilm X-M1 compact system camera (CSC), the third interchangeable lens system camera introduced within the award-winning Fujifilm X Series. The X-M1 is a lightweight camera that includes the same 16.3 Megapixel APS-C X-Trans CMOS sensor used in the critically acclaimed Fujifilm X-Pro1 and X-E1. The X-M1 comes in July for $700 in black or silver body and $800 with a  f/3.5-5.6 16-50mm (24-76mm equivalent) lens. Pricing and performance may make the X-M1 a game changer, attracting more users to look into Fujifilm's ever growing system.

Canon launches EOS-M line of compact mirrorless cameras for $800

Canon has jumped into the crowded compact mirrorless camera or ILC (Interchangeable Lens Camera) segment currently being occupied by the likes of of Panasonic, Olympus, Sony, Samasung and Pentax. The EOS-M  small and simple 18 megapixel compact mirroless camera will use an APS-C sized sensor, same as what is on the popular EOS Rebel Line but will have more simplistic and user-firendly controls geared towards consumers rather than prosumers or professionals looking at a smaller system.

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Review: Sony NEX-7 Digital Camera

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Sony's NEX 7 ($ 1200) is easily the epitome of how far mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras have gone. This is a prosumer-oriented compact APS-C sensor camera that has a 24 megapixel sensor and 2.4M dot OLED electronic viewfinder into its magnesium alloy body and yet still finds room for a pop-up flash and Alpha hot shoe. We spent some time with a pre-production model (the NEX-7 is slated for an early 2012 release, pending production ramp up in flood-stricken Thailand). Here are our impressions of what Popular Photography magazine has chosen as Camera of the Year.

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