a bit of everything…


Olympus Pen F Review – MirrorLessons

Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS100 Review (NeoCamera).
300mm PRO design patent.
Unveiled: Olympus Portrait and Travel Lens Kits for Micro Four Thirds Cameras (Explora).
ALC Exclusive: We Tested the New Olympus Action Cam Before Anyone Else

Odur: https://vimeo.com/161350590. I’d like to share this short reportage about religious celebrations and popular participation in Sicily during the Holy Week. We have tried to assemble a video starting from photography to create a different feeling. All the images have been shot with the Lumix GX8, the sounds have been recorded with an external microphone.

Panasonic confirms that there is a delay on digital camera production due the Kumamoto earthquake

Two days ago I reported that both Olympus and Panasonic are rumored to have postponed many camera releases. And it’s likely the new GH5 and E-M1II will ship 2-3 months later than expected.

Today Panasonic Japan confirmed that the Kumamoto earthquake damage will have a negative impact on their digital camera business. Panasonic didn’t disclose any details about the possible shipment delays and affect on the future roadmap.

a bit of everything…


Behind the Scenes at WSSF Olympus 72 Hour Filmmaker Showdown 2016

How to Shoot Through Glass Without Unwanted Reflections (PetaPixel).
Der Tracker in Zingst, Abschlussbericht (Pen And Tell).
Moon Smart Focus is a new and revolutionary autofocus for professional filmmakers (Nyteknik.se).

Chris:Here’s a video with a little twist shot in one long take with the GH4 while showcasing Rode products: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntm7sHrkXQk

C.Gavin:Short video I shot at the weekend at a local classic car show here in North London. You can see the video here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0QQ_jryT6k. I’ve written about it on my blog here… http://www.chrisgavin.com/2016/06/car-show-enfield-pageant-of-motoring.html. That blog article gives details of the gear used etc, but basically it’s all GH4 using a single prime lens… Canon 50mm f1.4, (using speedbooster XL and Tiffen VariND filter)

Olympus shows a new “hybrid” RGB-IR sensor!

Olympus developed a new kind of sensor cabaple of acquiring simultaneasuly (RGB) and near-infrared (NIR) images using only a single image sensor. Here is the press text:

Masatoshi Okutomi and researchers at Tokyo Tech and Olympus R&D have developed a new imaging system for simultaneous acquisition of color (RGB) and near-infrared (NIR) images using only a single image sensor.

Background

Commercially available compact and low-cost color digital cameras acquire single-sensor color images with a color filter array (CFA)— an array of R, G, and B filters and overlaid on the image sensor (Fig. 1). Therefore, the data acquired by CFA based image sensors are mosaic. A set of image processing algorithms such as an interpolation process of the mosaic data called demosaicking, and color correction is performed to acquire a full-color image. In this way, current color cameras realize low-cost and easy-to-use color image acquisition.

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Figure 1. Color image acquisition using a single image sensor with a CFA.

System developed in this research

In recent years, many applications using a pair of color (RGB) and near-infrared (NIR) images have been proposed by computer vision and image processing communities. With this background, the group of Masatoshi Okutomi at Tokyo Tech and researchers at Olympus R&D have developed a prototype of a new imaging system for the simultaneous acquisition of RGB and NIR images using a single image sensor. Figure 2 is an overview of a prototype of this system consisting of a novel CFA that contains both RGB and NIR filters. The arrangement of the new CFA is shown in the Fig. 2, where “N” represents the NIR filter. The researchers have also developed an image processing system that can execute sets of image processing algorithms, such as demosaicking and color correction, in real time. The new system can acquire and display high-quality RGB and NIR images simultaneously at 60 frames per second (fps). Since the new system can provide users with a practical solution for simultaneous acquiring both the RGB and the NIR images, it is expected to open up a new range of applications in many fields such as remote sensing, security, robotics, agriculture, and medical imaging, where the NIR information is useful.

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Figure 2. Overview of the developed prototype system.

found via Image Sensor World.