This one will last for a short time only: The Panasonic GX8 sells for $890 only at Amazon US (Click here). This is $100 lower than the best price in other stores.
New Olympus deals and in Stock status updates: Full special deal pages at BHphoto and GetOlympus. A few special mentions:
$400 off and free 12-50mm EZ lens with the E-M5II at BHphoto.
$150 off on the 40-150mm f/2.8 at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama and GetOlympus.
The new Panasonic GX850 is in Stock for the very first time in USA at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama and Panasonic store.
The E-M1II is finally in Stock in larger quantity at Amazon US (Click here).
Panasonic Japan issued a note about the GH5 availability. Because of higher than expected preorders they expect a delay in the GH5 delivery. There is no detailed info about when we can expect to get our hands on the GH5.
As reported yesterday BHphoto expects to start shipping out the camera on March 28. But it’s likely that not all those of you who preordered the camera will get it on that day.
Lior (video on top): “A lot of people are missing one of the strongest points in the E M1 II: Video quality.
It is really a huge leap compared to previous models. Here you can watch short video I shot while touring the green view of winter here. All was shot hand held only, in Cinema 4K quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svGjluIfzoo”
BHphoto (Click here) gave us the exact shipping start date for the new GH5. It’s March 28! And Amazon will start shipping out two days later.
New Olympus deals and in Stock status updates: Full special deal pages at BHphoto and GetOlympus. A few special mentions:
$400 off and free 12-50mm EZ lens with the E-M5II at BHphoto.
$150 off on the 40-150mm f/2.8 at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama and GetOlympus.
The new Panasonic GX850 is in Stock for the very first time in USA at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama and Panasonic store.
The E-M1II is finally in Stock in larger quantity at Amazon US (Click here).
This is a Panasonic GH5 autofocus and Dual IS testing with Kaiman Wong and Dan Chung:
“We got hold of a Panasonic GH5 pre-production sample from CVP this week. To test it out the autofocus and image stabilisation we sent Dan Chung to follow Kaiman Wong around while he films the latest review for his own channel. Please remember this is a pre-production camera and the autofocus, IS and image quality may all change by the time the camera comes out. This video is just to give you an idea of what the camera is currently capable of. The lens was the Leica DG 12-60mm f2.8 kit lens that is Dual-IS compatible.
The technical stuff: Camera was set in Cinelike V gamma (the test camera did not have V-Log enabled sadly) Autofocus was set to touch with a medium sized focus area most of the time. We tried to keep the AF area over the subject as much as possible. ISO was set at 200 most of the time apart from the indoor shots which were 1600 (and lit by red lanterns so the colours were off) All the images are roughly graded using Filmconvert’s GH4 Cinelike V profile with FJ8533 ET film emulation. Both in-body and lens Image stabilisation was turned on. No rig was used and the camera is completely handheld at all times.”
