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Panasonic Lumix G3 sample video 3: Indoors, dim light, handheld pan with G VARIO 14-42mm

Panasonic Lumix DMC-G3 review – in progress (CameraLabs). Panasonic G3 preorder at [shopcountry 22077].

The E-P1.net 2nd year anniversary CONTEST! (E-P1.net).

The Olympus XZ-1 Digital Camera Quick Review (SteveHuff).

Olympus XZ-1 self made macro flash (DC.Watch.impress).

Olympus Pen Premium Case review (ThePhoBlographer).

New Panasonic GF grip (Ne.jp).

KAZA Unveils Leather Cases for Olympus E-PL1 & E-PL2 (Photographyblog).

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Rumors form others: Pentax Q, Sony NEX-C3 and Mirrorless rumor roadmap!

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There have been some new rumors about the competition during the last 24 hours. Before that I can tell you that other soruces confirmed the Panasonic and Olympus announcement dates. June 13 for Pana and June 30 for Oly. So be prepared to follow the announcement live on 43rumors on those days!

1) Pentax will launch a 12 Megapixel APS-C mirrorless camera in August (MirrorlessRumors.com via Photorumors)
2) Sony NEX-C3 will be announced on Wednesday June 8 (SonyAlphaRumors.com)

The real suprise is that Canon seems to have no plan to make a mirrorless system at all! Anyway, I hope Olympus and Panasonic do recognize that they are not alone anymore. It’s time for them to bring some real r-evolution!

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Message to readers: A bit about about me and 43rumors future :)

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Unlike other (bigger websites) 43rumors is not sponsored by big companies, and no company advertises here to finance the website. Everything here is based on the time I do spend after works (or in coffee breaks). And it is thanks to your help that I can keep the website up to date with all news and rumors (you rule!!!). But with the numbers of visitors that is increasing also the amount of work increased. What you also don’t know is that usually I do travel a LOT. I shot documentaries or do have photo-projects mostly in South America and lately in Africa too. The last 15 months I didn’t travel much because I had to plan and develop some new projects (one of them you will see soon). But now time has come for me to travel again (and I am happy to disconnect myself from Internet!).But the question for me was, how can I keep or even better increase the quality of 43rumors while I am travelling around the world?

There is a good news! I found two people that will help me to keep 43rumors and MirrolessRumors up to date so that you will notice me being away from time to time (or better, you will notice it because their English is much better than mine). One person is a very smart (and nice) Lady. She will help me for free and in exchange I will sponsor her Canon website. I think that is a good deal! The second person will help me a lot on MirrorlessRumors. I want MirrorlessRumors to become the main website for all Mirorrless camera news and rumors. 43rumors should remain as filter website that displays Panasonic-Olympus content only to make it easy for you to follow the Micro Four Thirds system news. If all works fine you will be able to post on MirrorlessRumors and 43rumors by using the same account.

I also found two people that will help me to make the 43rumors/Mirrorlessrumors website make work better. I want to push the social aspect of the website and I will pay two developers to dramatically improve the user experience.

And there is also the new server coming soon. It should speed up the website loading time by a 3x-4x. P.S.: You can give a “Server contribution” via paypal:


Thanks!

Long term plan ideas are:
– To create a community that can actively create content on all websites. You should become the king on 43rumors/Mirrorlessrumors!
– To add a creative element on all websites. We also want to speak about REAL photography :) I would love to talk more about quality work made by artists and photographers.

There are also some basic rules for both 43rumors and Mirrolessrumors you should know:
– This website will always be user oriented and not company oriented. No company will ever be able to influence the content of the website. This means we don’t accept direct company advertising, we don’t accept paid reviews or news. You and I should be always free to express your REAL and HONEST opinion. I have the feeling other (bigger) websites are going in the exact opposite direction…but that’s just a “feeling” I do have that could be wrong…or not?
– When argumenting or writing comments be respectful, and be rational. Don’t shout like animals because otherwise I will have to start to unapprove comments. And it’s not something that I want to do.

Thanks for your understanding. Now let’s enjoy that month full of rumors and new products!

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Zone-10: Two PEN prototypes in the field. Will Olympus fail or win?

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Zone-10 (Click here) wrote down his mix of speculations/predictions about the upcoming Olympus cameras:
No less than two distinctly different prototypes have been seen in the wild. One has a built-in EVF, the other not. M43 line-up will be expanded to three cameras with presence in the low, mid and high price ranges
But Olympus future success doesn’t only depend from the quality of their products:
In fact, as Olympus market share and overall sales has continued to drop, even a successful product launch will most certainly still end up a failure because Olympus Sales and Marketing–especially Olympus America, is unable to get product out to where the buyers are.
And to scare our Four Thirds readers the article ends with that sentence:
It is very obvious that Four-Thirds is dead, dead, dead.

Now let’s hope Olympus will not disappoint us on June 30. That would be a good start to get back some of the share they have lost during the last years!

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(UPDATED with fixed links) Plenty of refurbished Olympus cameras on auction at Olympusmarket!

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Americans might have the best deals but at least we europeans got a nice Olympus refurbished market. And in these days the market is selling plenty of new stuff!I am sure that time I will not cause a huge raise of the auction bets. There are simply to many refurbished cameras for sale! And here is the list of the auction ending in the next two days:

Olympus E-P2 with 14-42mm lens ([shoplink 22585 ebay]Click here to see the auction number one[/shoplink], [shoplink 22597 ebay]two[/shoplink], [shoplink 22605 ebay]three[/shoplink], [shoplink 22607 ebay]four[/shoplink], [shoplink 22615 ebay]five[/shoplink], [shoplink 22624 ebay]six[/shoplink], [shoplink 22627 ebay]seven[/shoplink], [shoplink 22635 ebay]eight[/shoplink]).

Olympus E-P1 with 14-42mm lens ([shoplink 22592 ebay]Click here to see the auction[/shoplink]).
Olympus E-P1 with 17mm lens ([shoplink 22593 ebay]Click here to see the auction[/shoplink]).

Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens ([shoplink 22586 ebay]Click here to see the auction number one[/shoplink], [shoplink 22596 ebay]two[/shoplink], [shoplink 22600 ebay]three[/shoplink], [shoplink 22601 ebay]four[/shoplink], [shoplink 22604 ebay]five[/shoplink], [shoplink 22608 ebay]six[/shoplink], [shoplink 22611 ebay]seven[/shoplink], [shoplink 22618 ebay]eight[/shoplink], [shoplink 22619 ebay]nine[/shoplink], [shoplink 22621 ebay]ten[/shoplink], [shoplink 22626 ebay]eleven[/shoplink], [shoplink 22628 ebay]twelve[/shoplink], [shoplink 22631 ebay]thirteen[/shoplink], [shoplink 22590 ebay]fourteen[/shoplink]).

Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm and Four Thirds 40-150mm lens ([shoplink 22599 ebay]Click here to see the auction number one[/shoplink], [shoplink 22602 ebay]two[/shoplink], [shoplink 22617 ebay]three[/shoplink], [shoplink 22617 ebay]four[/shoplink], [shoplink 22619 ebay]five[/shoplink]).

Olympus E450 with 14-42mm lens ([shoplink 22587 ebay]Click here to see the auction number one[/shoplink], [shoplink 22598 ebay]two[/shoplink], [shoplink 22606 ebay]three[/shoplink], [shoplink 22609 ebay]four[/shoplink], [shoplink 22616 ebay]five[/shoplink], [shoplink 22623 ebay]six[/shoplink], [shoplink 22629 ebay]seven[/shoplink], [shoplink 22634 ebay]eight[/shoplink]).

Olympus E450 with 14-42mm and 40-150mm lens ([shoplink 22612 ebay]Click here to see the auction number one[/shoplink], [shoplink 22622 ebay]two[/shoplink], [shoplink 22632 ebay]three[/shoplink]).

Olympus 9-18mm lens ([shoplink 22588 ebay]Click here to see the auction number one[/shoplink], [shoplink 22603 ebay]two[/shoplink], [shoplink 22610 ebay]three[/shoplink], [shoplink 22625 ebay]four[/shoplink], [shoplink 22630 ebay]five[/shoplink]).

Over 10 Olympus FL-14 flash for $99 ([shoplink 22589 ebay]Click here to see the acution[/shoplink]).
Over 10 Olympus 14-150mm lenses for $399 ([shoplink 22591 ebay]Click here to see the acution[/shoplink]).

Olympus 35mm macro lens ([shoplink 22613 ebay]Click here to see the auction number one[/shoplink], [shoplink 22594 ebay]two[/shoplink], [shoplink 22633 ebay]three[/shoplink]).

Olympus 40-150mm lens ([shoplink 22595 ebay]Click here to see the auction number one[/shoplink], [shoplink 22614 ebay]two[/shoplink]).

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Fuji X100 is the editor’s choice 2011. And in Stock at BHphoto!

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Right now you can find the X100 in Stock at BHphoto (Click here) UPDATE: Sold out now!

After winning the TIPA Award the X100 now received Editors Choice Award 2011: “Fujifilm’s FinePix X100 is a compact digital camera featuring a new hybrid viewfinder, which combines a projected bright-frame optical viewfinder and an electronic viewfinder system with approx. 100% field of view and a 1,400,000 dot LCD panel. A magnesium alloy body with manually operated control dials, an APS-C CMOS sensor and new EXR processor deliver the highest image quality in the history of FinePix cameras, the quality of which is so high that is almost beyond the performance of DSLRs.

Let’s hope Olympus and Panasonic can learn from the success of the Fuji X100. They should not copy the idea but make it better!

P.S.: Links to the FUji X100 product search page at [shopcountry 19929] (Difficult to find in Stock now).

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(FT5) New Panasonic GF3 and Leica 25mm lens to be announced on June 13!

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So here we are, tomorrow (June 8) Sony will announce the new ultra compact NEX-C3 (you can follow the announcement on MirrorlessRumors.com). And five days later (June 13) Panasonic will launch the counterattack and announce the new ultra-compact GF3. A fully touchscreen oriented device which is around 15% smaller than the current GF2. It should have almost exactly the same [shoplink 22077]Panasonic G3[/shoplink] specs. We also heard that the price will be very similar to the original GF2 price ($699 with kit lens). The GF3 is that tiny that the mount is higher than the camera itself. Sources that have seen the camera said that it is an ugly looking camera :)

Panasonic will also launch the Panasonic-Leica 25mm f/1.4 Micro Four Thirds lens. Hope to get some info about the price soon. But it should be definitely cost less than the discontinued Four Thirds Leica 25mm which costs around $1000 dollar/euro on [shoplink 16340 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. Don’t know if many of you will buy the lens when you can get a much cheaper and unlike the Leica lens much more compact [shoplink 14796]20mm f/1.7 lens[/shoplink]. It will be interesting to see if that lens will become are hotseller or not!

 

Reminder -> 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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