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Color, Contrast, Cleanup: Photo editing strategy

Hasselblad announces the new H6D-400c which captures 400MP images in multi-shot mode(Mirrorlessrumors).
Some Gadgets We Might Actually Buy From CES 2018 (Wirecutter).
The Rambling Review Of The Panasonic EVA1 (Philip Bloom).
Kodak PIXPR0 Orbit360 4K VR Camera (Personal View).
20 Last-Minute Stocking Stuffers for Photographers (Explora).

Plenty of news on the facebook E-M1II group and the GH5 group.

 

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Sigma 16mm f/1.4 DC DN for Micro Four Thirds impressions by Dpreview

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The new 16mm Sigma lens is now shipping in EU and USA at Wex UK, Amazon Germany, BHphoto, Amazon and Adorama.

DPreview is testing the new Sigma 16mm f/1.4 MFT lens and writes:

My impression is that the Sigma is sharper, two thirds of a stop faster and comparably priced to the Olympus 17mm F1.8. However, I don’t think it’s quite as easy a win as that makes it sound. The Olympus is significantly smaller and features the lovely snap-back manual focus clutch and linear manual focus system (faux-cus by wire, perhaps?), both of which are definite bonuses. So, while I’d find it hard to choose between the two, I probably wouldn’t rush out to replace a 17mm if I had one, not least because I personally prefer the narrower angle-of-view that the extra 1mm brings.

1mm in the opposite direction is the Panasonic 15mm F1.7. It usually retails for around $100 more than the Sigma, despite being rated as half a stop slower. Again it’s smaller than the Sigma, meaning it handles better on a smaller camera body. Similarly, the 15mm offers a neat operational advantage over the DN, at least for Panasonic shooters: the lovely Leica M lens style front aperture ring (worth the extra $100 on its own, in my opinion and well worth lobbying Olympus for firmware support for, if you’re on that side of the system). Optical performance is perhaps a step up from the Sigma, leaving the 16mm F1.4 DN DC as an attractive extra option for Micro Four Thirds but not an absolute must-have, from my perspective.

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Weekly 43rumors readers pictures roundup…

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Martin Gallego
Sanguina en azules.
Ver en grande, por favor.
Olympus EM1 MKII + MZuiko 60 macro
http://martingallego.blogspot.com/

1) You can share your pics by using posting on our 43rumors Facebook page (Click here).
2) All 43rumors readers pictures can be seen here: https://www.facebook.com/43rumors/posts_to_page/. Like the pictures you like and chat with the authors if you want to know how they took the shot!
3) The most liked pictures and some pics selected by myself will be posted weekly on 43rumors

This is the weekly selection:

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