Fuji, Ricoh and Leica can’t keep up with the orders they received for the X100VI , GRIII and Q3 . Sony surely has already developed prototypes of their RX1rIII but they have to announced it soon to profit from the competition’s success!

Just a bit of details of what’s going on:

• Fuji will need months to fulfill the X100VI preorders they had the first day only!
• Ricoh announced it’s stopping to take reorders on the five year old Ricoh GRIII because  of the extremely high demand
• Leica says it’s selling a ton of Q3 camera and BHphoto reports it’s on “back order” .

So as you can see there is a big demand for high quality fixed lens cameras. The question now is…what’s Sony’s plan?

Sony RX1rII successor rumors:

All I got so far is rumors about a market research done by Sony over a year ago. They asked selected photographers questions about the future new RX FF fixed lens camera. I guess Sony already made working prototypes, but I have NO confirmation form trusted sources if Sony will launch a Sony RX1rIII this year. I do believe that if they don’t do it they will miss a huge opportunity to win over some of the potential X100VI , GRIII , Q3 buyers.

A new fixed lens Full Frame camera from Sony would basically have no competition: it would have better Image Quality than the APS-C competition and still be much less expensive than the only Full Frame fixed lens camera there is yet on the market.

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Let me know in the comment system what you think about a possible new RX model and what features it should have to appeal to you. In my dream world the camera should have the following specs:

Sony RX1rIII

• 61MP sensor (if sensor would be curved it would be amazing)
• 28mm f/1.7 lens
• Integrated EVF
• Manuals controls for ISO and SPEED
• vintage design inspired by the Minolta CLE