Rokinon announces the new 100mm f/2.8 macro MFT lens!

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Right on April 1 (what a day to announce a new product) Rokinon released a new 100mm f/2.8 macro Micro Four Thirds lens. You can already preorder it at BHphoto (Click here).

Here comes the full official presentation text:

Home in on close-up subjects with the Micro Four Thirds mount 100mm f/2.8 Macro Lens from Rokinon, which affords life-size 1:1 magnification along with a minimum focusing distance of 1′. This manual focus portrait-length lens also incorporates one high refractive index element and one extra-low dispersion element into its design to reduce chromatic aberrations and distortions throughout the focusing range. An Ultra Multi-Coating has also been applied to minimize flare and ghosting for increase contrast and color neutrality. A long focal length lens with close focusing abilities and a high magnification ratio, this macro lens is ideal for making close-up, detailed images of nearby subjects.

This 100mm f/2.8 lens features a Micro Four Thirds mount, and is compatible with Micro Four Thirds sensors where it will provide a 200mm equivalent focal length.
A bright f/2.8 maximum aperture is useful for working in a variety of lighting conditions and the minimum f/32 aperture helps to attain a long depth of field when working with close-up subjects.
One high refractive index element and one extra-low dispersion element help to control chromatic aberrations and minimize distortions throughout the focusing and aperture ranges.
An Ultra Multi-Coating has been applied to lens elements to reduce lens flare and ghosting for increased clarity, contrast, and color fidelity.
Featuring a macro design, this lens affords a 1:1 maximum magnification ratio along with a minimum focusing distance of 1′.
Benefitting working with especially close subjects, this manual focus lens features an internal focus design to maintain the overall lens length during use. Additionally, the front filter mount does not rotate when focusing to better enable the use of polarizers, graduated ND, and other filter types that require precise positioning.
A rounded nine-blade diaphragm contributes to a pleasing out-of-focus quality when using selective focus or shallow depth of field techniques.

More info and preorders at BHphoto (Click here).

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Sony sells half of their Olympus stakes. Now owns 5% only of the company.

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Reuters reports that Sony has sold 50% of their Olympus stakes. The company share Sony owns now dropped from 10% down to 5%. Sony said this will not affect the partnership with Olympus. But Sony needed the money to make new investments in their profitable sensor and Playstation business.

I don’t know what kind of effect this will have on the digital camera business of the two companies. So far we haven’t seen any major collaboration project so far. Even the A7II image stabilization system is completely different from the one used by the E-M5II…

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ePhotozine reviews the new 42.5mm f/1.7 ASPH lens and says it “gives outstanding sharpness”.

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ePhotozine reviewed the brand new and yet not shipping new Panasonic 42,5mm f/1.7 lens:

Currently, this lens is available for around £350. The closest equivalent available is the Olympus 45mm f/1.8 lens, which costs almost half as much at around £180. As this lens lacks optical stabilisation, it will be a harder deciding between the two lenses if you’ve a Panasonic, or other MFT camera that lacks in-body stabilisation.
As far as the performance of this lens is concerned, there is little to find fault with. Sharpness is outstanding from maximum aperture, falloff, distortion and fringing are all well controlled too.

Victor:I borrowed the new Panasonic 42.5 F1.7 lens on the panasonic boot on professional imaging in holland. And shot this quick review of it. It is the first review online of this lens! My YT channel is just hobby so it is quite nice to be the first one with test footage of this lens! http://youtu.be/vCTnrMNFtS8

New Panasonic lens preorders:
Panasonic 42.5mm f/1.7 POWER O.I.S. Lens at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.
Panasonic MACRO 30mm f/2.8 MEGA O.I.S. Lens at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.

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A bit of everything…

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Goodbye No More (4K Street Video) – GH4 and Atomos Shogun from Nick Driftwood on Vimeo.

Olympus OMD EM10 Short Review at Yannickkhong.com.
Stunning photos (with MFT cameras) of the American desert from an Instagram artist who just raised $13,000 (Businessinsider).
OLYMPUS OM-D E-M5 II And The M4/3 ‘Benefits’ (Soundimagesplus).
2.5K BMCC Gets Compressed RAW Recording – How Much Does it Save? (Cinema5d).
Smart cap for the LX100 (DC.watch).
E-M5II test at Polish Optyczne.

Dario Viola‎:Gh4, Voigtlander 25mm f0.95 , Panasonic 7-14mm f4, Carbon Fiber Jib. https://vimeo.com/123280243

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$100 off on the Rokinon 16mm MFT lens.

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For a limited time you get the 16mm Rokinon f/2.0 MFT lens with a $100 discount at [shoplink 52365 ebay]eBay US (Click here)[/shoplink].

Olympus lens savings:
$100 off on the 12mm f/2.0 lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
$100 off on the 75mm f/1.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
$50 off on the 45mm f/1.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
$80 off on the 40-150mm lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
$50 off on the 14-42mm lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
$50 off on the 75-300mm lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
$100 off on the 9-18mm f/4.0-5.6 lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
$100 off on the 12-40mm lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
$50 off on the 60mm lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.

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No GH5 or MFT 4K photocamera is coming at NAB.

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Time to kill all your dreams :=)
I am pretty certain there will be no GH5 or other 4K capable Micro Four Thirds photocamera is coming at NABshow in Las Vegas (start April 12). But we can hope to finally get the long time rumored Big GH4 firmware update.

And of course absolutely nothing is coming from Olympus!

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