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It’s official: Schneider changes his mind and will not make any MFT lenses!

July 6, 2015
news
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schneider

It’s official! Photoscala reports that Schneider withdraw the plan they had to release the three MFT lenses in 2015. So we will NEVER get those lenses! Actually the decision has not to do with a change regarding their specific Micro Four Thirds strategy. The company completely changed their focus. They will now move away from the classic Photo Lens market! They will stay in the market for Large Format lenses for Linhof, Alpa and Cambo and develop lenses for the Industrial and Cine market.

That’s bad news althaugh….Schneiders proposed MFT focal length lenses are already available within the Panasonic/Olympus lens repertoire.

a bit of everything…

July 6, 2015
news
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Panasonic HX-A1 – Day and Night at Mogo Zoo

Panasonic LUMIX G 42.5mm f/1.7 Review at Photobyrichard.
Reach Without the Weight – Olympus 40-150mm PRO (TheDigitalStory).
Panasonic G/ review at DC.watch.
No more photos of public buildings in Europe? (TheNakedCamera).
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II with 12-40mm f/2.8 PRO Lens–Crazy Sharp with Vibrant Colors (Ronmartblog).

Blkphoto: “I bought a Rode NTG 4+ the other day and wanted to test it out and see how it performs so I put it on a boom and hooked it up to my Tascam DR-70D and filmed with my Panasonic GH4. I recorded the audio separately and also sent the audio straight to the camera. I switch back and forth between the different audio sources and labeled them so you know what you are listening to. I leveled everything out to about -12db and peaking at about -6db. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDPDyJf32Jk

$100 off on the E-Pl7. Now sells for $499 with kit lens!

July 5, 2015
deals
12 Comments

Today Olympus US dropped the price of the E-Pl7. It now sells for a new record low price of $399/$499 only:
$399 for the Silver E-PL7 body at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, GetOlympus.
$399 for the Black E-PL7 body at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, GetOlympus.
$499 for the Silver E-PL7 with lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, GetOlympus.
$499 for the Black E-PL7 with lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, GetOlympus.

Amazon is making a unique offer selling the Olympus prime lenses for $299 only: 25mm f/1.8 (Click here) and 45mm f/1.8 (Click here).

Reminder:
Olympus mailed me that full list of MFT lens rebates running at GetOlympus US (Click here).
E-M1 now sells for under $1,000 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
E-M5II sells for $899 only at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
SanDisk Specials at Adorama (Click here).
Lexar Specials at Adorama (Click here).
New [shoplink 53923 ebay]CM1 case from Cotta for sale on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

Fake: GX100 specs (new sensor and new 5 axis stabilization).

July 5, 2015
Rumors
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The discontinued GX7 at BHphoto (Click here).

I saw those specs on “a site” and I only wanted to make you clear it’s 100% fake! So don’t trust them. They say the GX7 successor name is GX100 and has those specs:

Few details other than it will be the LX100 of Interchangable lenses, have built in 5 axis stabilization, and from what I understand a brand new sensor.

Please not that Panasonic already officially registered the GX8 name. It’s not going to be called GX100 :)

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Weekly 43rumors readers pictures roundup.

July 5, 2015
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Póllai Attila‎
Olympus E-M10
OLYMPUS M.9-18mm F4.0-5.6
https://www.flickr.com/photos/apollai

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July 4, 2015
deals
14 Comments

Amazon is making a unique offer selling the Olympus prime lenses for $299 only: 25mm f/1.8 (Click here) and 45mm f/1.8 (Click here). The previous lowest price on both were $399. So that’s really a big deal!

Thanks Rob for spotting and sharing this!

New Nokton 10,5mm MFT double test.

July 4, 2015
reviews
27 Comments

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Mirrorlessons posted a Voigtlander Nokton 10.5mm f/0.95 Gallery:

The fact that there were many straight lines in my photographs also brought out the slight barrel and perspective distortion produced by this lens, which is nothing out of the ordinary but worth keeping in mind when you are compositing your shot.

Focus Numerique (gogole translated text) writes:

The optical quality of this 10.5 mm disappointed us. In short, it is sharp in the center but only at the center. As soon as one moves away, the details become blurred.Finally, the focus ring is much too long. It’s almost unusable, even with the best digital assistants Manual Focus (peaking and magnification).

New image samples can be seen at Dylan Cuthbert Flickr page.

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