Samsung announced their much anticipated NX200. This follow-up to their small mirrorless camera now has a 20mp sensor (APS sized) and 1080P/30 video, 7 fps frame rate, and 3" OLED LCD all wrapped in a metal body. Compared to the earlier NX100, the new model is a little thinner and not quite as tall. It's expected to ship in late September for US$899 with the kit lens and included shoe mount flash. As a reminder, sometime later this year we should see the 16mm f/2.8 pancake, 60mm f/2.8 macro, 85mm f/1.4 portrait, and 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 superzoom for the NX system to go with the lenses already released (see my Mirrorless Lenses page).
Meanwhile, Fujifilm engineers have continued their assault on the 1960's with their announcement of the X10. This 12mp compact camera has a lot of X100 design flavor to it. Yep, there's an optical zoom viewfinder (not a hybrid like the X100), a metal body, and semi-retro controls outfitting this new camera. A 28-112mm equivalent f/2-2.8 lens sits out front, while behind it you'll find a large (for compact cameras) 2/3" 12mp EXR sensor (which can create raw files). This appears to be a resurrection of the sensor technology that was in some of Fujifilm's earlier bridge cameras, which bodes well, as until Fujifilm got on a megapixel count craze, most of those EXRs were very competitive. No price or official date yet, though November is the expected drop date.
Those of you who picked up an Olympus XZ-1 after my review should note that Olympus has produced a lens converter for it: the TCON-17X is a 1.7x converter that gets you to 190mm equivalent, while still at f/2.5. As with the old Coolpix converters, you need an adapter ring (CLA-12) to mount the adapter on the camera. The ring also provides a 55mm filter capability for the XZ-1, which is useful.