For those of you who might missed my first Noktor video

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Olympus E-PL1 review on quesabesde (google english translation)
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Some fake ads for Olympus (dpreview forum)
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Olympus Mju 9010 review (Letsgodigital)
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You need more Megapixels? DALSA Announces 140MP Custom Designed CCD (Image Sensor World)
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10 review (Letsgodigital)
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Panasonic GF1 + paris kynor 20mm f3.5 (blogs.yahoo)
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The newly announced Panasonic G2 has been reviewed on Imaging Resource.
And they compared the camera with the Panasonic G1, Olympus E-P1, Samsung NX10, Canon T1i, and Nikon D5000

Check out their review to read their conclusions: http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/DMCG2/DMCG2A.HTM

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And SLRgear tested the lens! The verdict: “For its size, the Olympus 9-18mm ƒ/4-5.6 provides impressive performance.”
The only flaws are Cromatic Aberration and Distortion. But both are easy to crrect in postprocessing.

The author used the 25mm, 50mm, and 85mm all t/1.8 Red primes. Mounted with the Hot Rod PL deluxe adapter kit.

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17-68 T2.2 Angénieux zoom from 1956 with a Panasonic G1 (Forum Olympus France)
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Mirrorless will be like Netbook (bythom)
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Panasonic GF-1 and Sigma 10-20 4/3s Review (Davidclapp.co.uk)
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This is my very first video taken with the Noktor 50mm lens. All images have been taken at f/0.95.
The images with the two women were taken inside a Pizzeria. My goal was to move from one person to another and see how well I can focus when recording with f/0.95 aperture. The focus ring from the Noktor is very smooth but you also have to rotate very long from 60cm (distance of the young lady) to 2-3m (distance from the “older” women). That was the main issue I had because I needed to rotate the focus ring two times (with a short stop in between). That’s why you see the delay when I try to focus from on person to the other. The good news is that images do look pretty decent. Focusing the eyes of the person is easy when you shoot indoors (on the Olympus E-P1 screen).
One thing I did not like was the position of the focus ring which is close to the mount. I would preferr to have the aperture ring close to the mount and than the focus ring and not viceversa.

My first impression is that the Noktor lens is far more usefull for video purposes than photography (at f/0.95). I will add more videos soon.

Let me know what you think and what you want me to test for you!