Reminder: Panasonic announcement on Wednesday July 18th. Follow us live!

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For those of you coming back from a weekend of vacation I re-post the leaked image of the Panasonic Lumix G Vario 45-150mm f/4-5.6 HD OIS (leaked via Photoprice). I have no info about the price yet but it will be a very cheap lens. For us 43rumor readers this may not be an interesting lens but I have been told the lens is made for the consumer market and average consumers do love zoom lenses. This is a lens that will be bundled with the new G5 coming out this week.

The G5, the new zoom lens, the LX7 and some more compact cameras are going to be announced on Wednesday (July 18th) at around 6-8 am London time. As usual I will follow the announcement live and give you an easy updated list of all reviews and image samples. The G5 will be a reshaped G3 with same sensor and some new (minor) functionality. My highest attention goes to a non m43 products, the LX7 which is rumored to feature a larger sensor, maybe a 1inch sensor like the super good seller Sony RX100. It may be great alternative of mirrorless system cameras because of the compact size and compact zoom lens. Let’s see.

Oh almost forgot, nope there will be no dead time after that announcement. On July 23th Canon could announce their APS-C mirrorless system, Samsung will announce more stuff and you can follow these rumors and news on MirrorlessRumors.com. And than in exactly one month and one week from now Panasonic and Olympus will announce the new super intriguing and “heavy” m43 stuff. GH3, Pen cameras, prime lenses and more…Stay tuned! And follow us on facebook (Click here).

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Double GX1 and E-M5 underwater test.

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Olympus OM-D Underwater Video Tests – by Jim-Decker from Digital Shootout on Vimeo.

It’s summer time and I guess some 43rumors readers are divers. So you may look at the new double underwater test at Thedigitalshootout. They reviewed both the GX1 (here is the review) and the E-M5 (here is the review).

I live in the middle of the mountains so I am the wrong person when it comes to talk about what’s good or not about the underwater performance. Anyway, I trust the reviewer when he writes that the “E-M5 in the Nauticam housing is hands down the most sophisticated and highest performing mirrorless camera you can take underwater today.” and the “GX1 in the NA-GX1 is so brilliant… shooting performance is great, and the image quality rivals SLRs at 3 times its price.“.

For US readers: The Silver E-M5 kit is finally in Stock at Amazon (Click here).

GX1 shop search links: [shopcountry 26836].
E-M5 shop search links: [shopcountry 29074].

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Cheap 75mm lens hood alternatives…

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[shoplink 32156 ebay][/shoplink]

Many of you will probably soon receive the new [shoplink 31284]Olympus 75mm f/1.8[/shoplink] lens. As you know you have to pay about $80 at Adorama or 80 Euro at Amazon Germany extra to get the hood. 43rumors reader “Mister Roboto” pointed out an interesting alternative:

On eBay (via Hong Kong) you can buy a [shoplink 32155 ebay]standard hood for $15 (Click here)[/shoplink] and a [shoplink 32156 ebay]tele hood for $16 (Click here)[/shoplink].

Mr.Roboto writes: “It’s screw in though- but should match nicely. Eventually I know there’s going to be a knock off one like the one olympus offers (though I’d prefer a screw in).”

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Olympus 75mm preorder and price check at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon Germany and Amazon UK.

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(FT5) UPDATED: Full leak of the new Panasonic 45-150mm lens!

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An anonymous source (Thank You!) sent me the link to a canadian website named Photoprice (Click here). It shows the Panasonic Lumix G Vario 45-150mm f/4-5.6 HD OIS.

This is the fourth “normal” zoom lens after the 45-200mm ($240 here at Amazon) the [shoplink 25103]45-175mm ($290)[/shoplink] and the Olympus 40-150mm ($280) lens. And I honestly don’t see the reason for that new release. I was hoping for a sort of very compact zoom lens but as we see this is not going to happen. And it’s not even a fast lens. So either this lens is incredibly cheap, either it is expensive but with a superb quality or either Panasonic simply did something wrong :)   Let’s see what happens on next Wednesday (July 18th) when Panasonic is officially going to announce it along the G5 and LX7!

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Rumors classification explained (FT= FourThirds):
FT1=1-20% chance the rumor is correct
FT2=21-40% chance the rumor is correct
FT3=41-60% chance the rumor is correct
FT4=61-80% chance the rumor is correct
FT5=81-99% chance the rumor is correct

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Three links to friends and Olympus market roundup…

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Moment of Truth – Teaser Trailer from No More Talk Productions on Vimeo.

It is a nice Saturday morning here and I want to post three links to work from friends:

1) Perry sent us the video I posted here on top: “Been laying low for a while in the world of GH2 hacking, because I have been working hard on our feature film. I am the DP on this film and it is being shot all on hacked GH2’s everything from 244mbit(oldschool) to new Mysteron hack(finishing the film on this). We are using everything from Oct-18 Lomos, Nokkors, and M43 glass. here is the first teaser for the film, we are on a 2000$ budget, and it will feature actors who are donating there time to us in between shoots for burn notice and other network tv series https://vimeo.com/groups/gh2/videos/45362977”

2) 43rumor reader Uwe wrote a book about Lightroom 4 Artistry. You can read the presentation at Outbackphoto (Click here).

3) Elena from grekkdiaries.com (Click here) received my [shoplink 32132 ebay]Olympus E-PL1[/shoplink] I gave her to tell her greek crisis stories. First pictures have been posted but she still needs to show more. Let’s see what’s coming next.

If our European readers want to get soem cheap camera or lens a place to look is [shoplink 22691 ebay]Olympusmarket (Click here)[/shoplink]. They just posted a fulls et of new stuff including a [shoplink 32124 ebay]Penpal module[/shoplink], [shoplink 32125 ebay]XZ-1[/shoplink], [shoplink 32126 ebay]E-PL2 cameras[/shoplink], [shoplink 32127 ebay]VF-3 viewfinder[/shoplink], [shoplink 32128 ebay]VF-3 viewfinder[/shoplink], [shoplink 32131 ebay]E-P1[/shoplink], [shoplink 32130 ebay]E-PL3[/shoplink], [shoplink 32132 ebay]E-PL1[/shoplink] and the [shoplink 32125 ebay]14-42mm kit lens[/shoplink]. Good Luck with the auctions!

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Silver E-M5 kit finally in Stock. GX1 is the most sold digital camera at Amazon.

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GX1 rules for a day:
The super GX1 deal is now over but at midnight (Berlin time) I toke this screenshot from the Amazon overall digital camera rankings (Click here to see the current rank). I don’t recall ever seeing a Micro Four Thirds camera on top of this ranking. Panasonic and Olympus should take notice of it. Those deals really help to extend the m43 user basis. We need more of those actions!

E-M5 in Stock:
Another good news is that the SIlver E-M5 kit will be on Stock this Sunday at Amazon US (Click here to read the note and preorder).

And here is the new US deal roundup:
Olympus 75mm lens will ship on July 20th according to BHphoto (Click here). The SIlver 45-175mm lens sells for $289 at BHphoto (Click here). And you save $200 when you buy the GX1 with two lenses at BHphoto (Click here). A deal you may didn’t notice due the GX1 buzz is the 14-42mm X pancake which is now available for $295 at Amazon (Click here). And for photographers in need of a high resolution screen on a laptop the Retina is in Stock at BHphoto too (Click here).

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