First Panasonic GH5 cage from 8Sinn
Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ2500 Review (Steve Digicams).
Throwback Thursday: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ1, travel zoom pioneer (Dpreview).
New ELB 1200 Elinchrom Ultimate Outdoor Unit announced.
LX100 Review at Photographiccentral.
The 5 Best Cameras Of 2016 (Adorama Learning Center)
Quick Look: Teradek Sphere (Explora).
Plenty of news on the facebook E-M1II group and the GH5 group.
This runs til March 31 only: MacPHun bundled Aurora HDR 2017 and Trey’s newest HDR tutorial. Get them for a 55% discount (Click here).
Panasonic-Olympus deals:
You get a $150 gift card for free with the Panasonic G7 sold by Adorama.
BHphoto is now selling a special GH5 superkit (Click here).
Full special deal pages at BHphoto and GetOlympus.
Full special Panasonic deals page at BHphoto.
Panasonic LX10 is now $50 off at Amazon, Bhphoto and Adorama.
On March 29 at 1pm EDT (New York time) you can follow the livestream event at BHphoto (Click here). Submit a question on Twitter for a chance to win a GH5 camera!
Olympus E-M1 Mark II and Nauticam NA-EM1 II
by Phil Rudin
The Olympus E-M1 Mark II has been selected as camera of the year for 2016 by a number well respected reviewing sites and magazines who put far more time into pixel peeping than I do. So up front I would just like to begin by saying that I think the E-M1 Mark II is the best Micro43 camera available and that anyone interested in underwater photography should take a close look at this camera and the excellent Nauticam NA-EM1II housing system.
The E-M1 Mark II completes the hugely successful Olympus OMD series and is a brilliant successor to the E-M1 platform released in 2013. The E-M1 Mark II is the “Pro” end of the OMD lineup and the new Olympus agship camera. It directly targets Pros and high end enthusiasts who don’t mind shelling out $1999.00 USD (now $1799.99 at Amazon USA and others) for a highly capable and very compact camera body.
The Mark II is a compelling choice for DSLR users considering a move to a mirrorless camera system and for Olympus users wishing to move up from the Olympus E-M5 and E-M10 series cameras.
Andreas-Joachim Lins
Olympus PEN-F // M.Zuiko 12-40mm @20mm // F9.0 // 1/200s // ISO 80
www.andreas-joachim-lins.de
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Today only you save 50% on Olympus Four Thirds lenses if you use the coupon code “ZUIKO50” at checkout on GetOlympus store (Click here).
Panasonic-Olympus deals:
You get a $150 gift card for free with the Panasonic G7 sold by Adorama.
BHphoto is now selling a special GH5 superkit (Click here).
Full special deal pages at BHphoto and GetOlympus.
Full special Panasonic deals page at BHphoto.
Panasonic LX10 is now $50 off at Amazon, Bhphoto and Adorama.
Nikkei reports that Panasonic will dismantle six of their divisions. The camera division will be put under the umbrella of other business division to streamline the costs:
The proposal drawn up by Panasonic’s business planning department, based on President Kazuhiro Tsuga’s ideas, calls for reforms to six money-losing businesses.
digital cameras, private branch exchange telephone systems and optical disk drives — will be dismantled. Each will be scaled back and placed under the umbrella of other operations, with headcount to be reduced.
This is an effort to reduce personal and costs. What’s also interesting is that they plan to quite from the semiconductor business. But as reported by Nikkei:
Restructuring is not enough; company needs new growth drivers
And the current Panasonic plan seems to not focus on finding new growth drivers :(
