New iPad App from Panasonic. Sigma for m43 in Stock.
Our reader YouDintYouDo noticed that yesterday Panasonic launched a new free iPad App (Click here to see the app). I haven’t an iPad so I cannot tell you if that is something useful and interesting or not. So may you download it to see what it looks like. The description says that this is what it contains:
• A matter of size – find out about the LUMIX G Camera System
• Learn all about the LUMIX G models GF3, G3, GH2 and GX1
• Discover the range of available lenses
• Find out all about the technologies behind
• Enjoy real stories with professional photographers using LUMIX G
Anyway, If you are a dynosaur like me and don’t have an iPad you may look at normal paper books for Panaosnic. Like the GH2 guide (Click here).. 
P.S.: Photoshop launched the new App for the iPad (Click here to see it on iTunes).
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The new Sigma 30mm f/2.8 lens is now in Stock at BHphoto (Click here). And for the third week now the E-Pl1 is the king of the mirrorless camera sales at Amazon (Click here to see full ranking).
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Comment from Vivek: What was the topic? Pana advertisement....- Comment from Vivek: Not the pop up (that also has a huge del...
nobody
3 months ago |Wasn’t his name YouDontYouDint? No, wait, DontYouDintYou, ah, what do I know
YouDidntDidYou
3 months ago |I get called all kinds of names
E-M5 music video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7ZnMSt7c_k for the doubters!!! (can be viewed in 1080p too)
Rob of OZ
3 months ago |Nice spot YDDU (I’m aussie we shorten). Nice video. More than enough to capture my son playing with his toys.
Rob of OZ
3 months ago |YDDU just had chance to watch the video in FULL (its working hours here in Aus). Was REALLY GOOD
. Made me wonder what lens they where using though. Wonder if they straped on the MMF – 3 and went all 4/3 lens on that video and nice BO-KEH round the windows and the dark scenes had good seperation from light to dark.
Anyways as i said more than enough for the casual/street/taking them self serious shooter and the video snap shooter.
Now I await the pricing for the Australian market and time to save the pennies. Or just get my family in UK to buy it for the grip lol
GreyOwl
3 months ago |admin, name should read: ‘youdidntdidyou’, not easy to type…..:-)
GreyOwl
3 months ago |Opps!! Should have edited…
spam
3 months ago |YouShouldntTypeOrEdit. ThePropblemIsThat YouCantCopyPasteTheNickNames.
WT21
3 months ago |YouWillStopWontYou?
LittleGreenDino
3 months ago |The iPad app can not be downloaded in U.S.
Jorge
3 months ago |Yes, but it says you can be redirected to the store in Latvia where it is available. You read it right, Latvia!!!
Jorge
3 months ago |Ooops! My mistake. It was just that the original link came from there, but I looked for it in my iTunes own store and found it
Now let’s see if it has something useful or only marketing.
Anonymous
3 months ago |Yeah, not working for me,either….
Stravinsky
3 months ago |I cant find it either…
achiinto4
3 months ago |I want one for Olympus camera. Would be fun.
Vivek
3 months ago |Why is this called an “App”? Isn’t it an “Adv”? Why would anyone want to download and install an advertisement in their iPad?!
Easier if the GH-3 had this built in.
Jolyon Smith
3 months ago |Normally this sort of content would simply be delivered over the web, using Flash, but iPads (or iPhones or iPods etc) don’t support Flash content. Until HTML5 catches up (and the developers have the skills) to match Flash capabilities in “pure” HTML5, “apps” are the easiest way to get such “interactive content” over the walls of the Apple Garden.
WT21
3 months ago |Bingo!
Lars Beduhn
3 months ago |Um… this ‘app’ is actually built in Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite using HTML5 extensions. It uses the exact same base as the Newsweek reader and some other apps. Which means HTML5 IS actually there.
The entire Lumix G App could actually be delivered in the browser… but with 30+MB and touch optimizations why not make it an app?
If it actually WERE Flash… it wouldn’t be useable on ANY tablet device. Flash performance is HORRIBLE and the pages are made for a moving mouse cursor that can hover over something without being pressed.
Your statement is… I am sorry to say this… absolutely uninformed!
Mr. Reeee
3 months ago |Who wants that vile resource hogging kludge, Flash?
It’s not available in the US App Store. When will it?
Speaking of GH2 stuff, there’s a new GH2 book available for Kindle: The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH2: The Unofficial Quintessential Guide [Kindle Edition] by Brian D (Author), Carol Roullard.
It doesn’t seem to be iPad compatible for some Amazonian Evil reason. At least I got it for my Mac! Will report…
http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-Lumix-DMC-GH2-Quintessential-ebook/dp/B0078X1SQM/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2
Mr. Reeee
3 months ago |I take that back.
I just downloaded it with my iPad Kindle App.
Lars Beduhn
3 months ago |Haha… I knew you were a fellow Mac-user…
Well… let me say this:
Louis… errrmmm I meant Mr. Reeee, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
AndersN
3 months ago |Had it been just a web page they wouldn’t have gotten any attention. Since the launch of the Iphone, everything that happens which remotely concerns the Iphone is automatically considered important by the public and the media.
That’s why we see company after company re-packaging simple web page content in dedicated apps. Because it’s a cheap way of advertising!
Jekins
3 months ago |When special system Android in cameras?
with prhoto apps, filters…. third party…..
BornBad
3 months ago |and glue-on lenses.
edit: now i see. yes, that would be cool. but i dont think anybody will do this. way to much effort to let others earn money with your products.
johnbs
3 months ago |Amazing. Reminds me of marketing via cd-rom. What a regression.
Jason
3 months ago |Would rather have 24p
Believer
3 months ago |Nice Marketing, but what´s the benefit for a shooter?
kesztió
3 months ago |“I haven’t an iPad so I cannot tell you if that is something useful and interesting or not.”
I can tell you that iPad definitely isn’t something useful and interesting. It’s rather an incredible expensive fashion gadget and nothing more.
Lars Beduhn
3 months ago |Well… actually I believe you cannot tell. Had you used one for prolonged times you would most likely not say this.
But this is the way it always is with NEW technologies. While tablets are not common-place right now… in 5-10 years they WILL be.
It’s pretty much the same as with cell phones. Had I asked you whether you had a cell phone 20 years ago, you simply would have laughed at me and asked if I was stupid asking such a question. Because cell phones were sooooo expensive and only for REALLY (pseudo) important business people.
43shot
3 months ago |Sorry, I have have been a Mac user for 25 years plus and I had an iPad and got rid of it. I actually found an HP touchpad more functional when I tried one for a while but a macbook air and a phone take care of most my needs. Holdling and typing on a heavy iPad is a pain and the os is not exactly great. I do AV work and integrate with touch screens every day and I would not but an iPad again.
Mr. Reeee
3 months ago |Heavy iPad? LOL!
I LOVE my iPad. Pre-ordered and got one on the first day.
I’m ready for iPad 3, baby!
kesztió
3 months ago |You can buy a high grade 17″ notebook PC, suitable for both multimedia, gaming and serious work (DTP, CAD) with the money spent on an iPad.
Lars Beduhn
3 months ago |No you cannnot!
A 17″ notebook for 500-800€ is basically one thing… crap! And the display is absolutely unsuitable to ANY color-critical work.
I am not saying or suggesting that you HAVE to get a MacBook Pro for such things. If you really don’t like Mac OS X or Apple for whatever reason… I don’t care. Each to his own.
Buy an HP, Dell, Sony… whatever… but if you want a high quality machine you got to pay for it regardless of brand…
kesztió
3 months ago |“A 17″ notebook for 500-800€ is basically one thing… crap!”
No more questions.
rrr_hhh
3 months ago |Since I got my iPad, my laptop is taking dust in a cupboard. The iPad can do everything : surfing, emailing, reading books, showing your photos to friends and family is much more convial. Even my 90 years old mother is happy to look at it, while she won’t bother looking on my computer. Plus with a laptop you have to be sitting at your desk. With the iPad I can lie in the drawing chair, or take it more easily on a train while commuting.
Nowadays I’m only using my desktop for serious things like paying the bills, or postprocessing my pictures.
I love it. The only problem is that the display is more shiny than a kindle and it is more difficult to take it out on the terrace to read the newspapers.
Starred
3 months ago |Nonsense
caver3d
3 months ago |What an absolutely stupid comment. This is always said by someone who does not have one. I have an iPad and use it for many things, including my business! And for many of my photos!
kesztió
3 months ago |Won’t be a really good laptop or even netbook much more suitable for your business? Even typing a business letter or building an Excel table is faster and easier from keyboard, not speaking about software development, CAD, image processing and so on. And the portability is almost the same.
Lars Beduhn
3 months ago |You can’t do these things well on a netbook. CAD? lol.
But anyhow… advantage of the iPad for portability, all day 11-12hours battery, always on, always connected.
The keyboard is actually LARGER than on the average netbook. Personally I type with 8 fingers on a regular keyboard… on the iPad I have to use a slightly different technique… but I type fullspeed regardless.
For building Excel-tables etc the iPad is awesome. The keyboard just changes according to the required data fields. You have to input text into a cell… you got a regular keyboard with letters. You have to input numbers and other numerical variables… boom… you got a numkeypad with all sorts of mathematical symbols etc.
Is the iPad the best thing for everything ?… Hell NO ! But it is a fine piece of equipment regardless!
Chris K
3 months ago |And what do you use your camera for, kesztio? Fighting fires? Saving lives?
kesztió
3 months ago |Maybe not, but also definitely not for social networking.
Lars Beduhn
3 months ago |btw… the App is pretty good actually.
For people like us here it does not really contain anything really NEW. But it does give a nice overview over the system. How mirrorless works. What advantages it has. It also includes a couple of videos demonstrating various technologies and their advantages, i.e. fast AF, C-AF with tracking. There is a page that mimicks and demonstrates how to focus by touch. Etc. etc.
There really is quite a lot of content. Interesting especially for people who are either new to DSLRs/Mirrorless cameras upgrading from Point&Shoots. It also gives better information and has a better presentation than Panasonic’s own websites. So if you got an iPad I really recommend you go and download this free App. It’s worth a look!
John Krumm
3 months ago |It would be cool if it were an advanced user guide for my GH2. The missing manual, with video demonstrations.
Vivek
3 months ago |I agree.
It would be even cooler if that “app” did something to reduce the delay between the pre flash and the actual flash. The flash being photography related.
Mr. Reeee
3 months ago |Flash? You mean that thing on top of the EVF? I think used it once or twice…
Think Voigtländer Nokton 25mm!
Vivek
3 months ago |Not the pop up (that also has a huge delay) but a real one.
I have, not one but five (5) 25/0.95, one 50/0.95, one 36/1.1, one 42/1.2 and two 50/1.2 lenses.
Gareth Lovering
3 months ago |Downloaded it.
Read it.
Deleted it.
Nothing else to say.
caver3d
3 months ago |The new Photoshop app for the iPad is actually only for the iPad 2, not the iPad 1 (and I assume it works with the iPad 3 when it launches next month).
Beautemps
3 months ago |A good M43 app needs a beautifull retro cover:
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http://www.swiss-miss.com/2012/02/the-iphone-rangefinder.html
Doug
3 months ago |“The item you’ve requested is not currently available in the U.S. Store, but it is available in the Latvian Store”. Bogus…
Leu
3 months ago |Thanks for fucking selling out panasonic, thanks for that now go fuck yourself. I will still buy a GH3 though.
Brod1er
3 months ago |Deep breath……….and down. Now relax. What was all that about?
Kman
3 months ago |I don’t consider this a real app, just an advertisement. Energy should be spent developing apps that allow tethered control and viewing of all parameters and images stored within a camera. There are apps like this for Canon and Nikon, and Olympus used to have a windows based program that allowed this (Olympus studio, I think). I used to use it on some still life studio shoots. It was useful in certain circumstances.
Agrivar
3 months ago |Something Off topic.. Admin, i see you have a new link on top to canonwatch… is that site also run by you or Andrea?
Ranger 9
3 months ago |Pfff, this whole thread has become off-topic!
Vivek
3 months ago |What was the topic? Pana advertisement. I hope it is at least as entertaining as the blend tech stuff.
admin
3 months ago |It’s run by my friend Frank. I will epxlain the new partnership on 43rumors soon!
Jay
3 months ago |Can someone post a US link to this app? My search for Panasonic or Lumix isn’t showing this app.
pelex
3 months ago |It would be funny if the app contained carefully hidden partial pictures of the upcoming GH3 … Yet another way to tease us like Olympus!
Charlie
3 months ago |Spam.