For European readers: Gold Box deal on the Panasonic 25mm f/1.7 MFT lens!
European readers can grab the Gold Box deal on the Panasonic 25mm lens at Amazon Germany (Click here).
European readers can grab the Gold Box deal on the Panasonic 25mm lens at Amazon Germany (Click here).

Marius: “Hi! This is not a rumor, but a nice solution some people might be glad for.
I was disappointed that the none of the olympus fisheye lenses could take filters, especially not the 8mm 1,8. So I thought of this way to modify the 9mm body-cap lens to accomodate filters.
See attached picture of the final solution.
The solution is quite simple and works wonders, no vignetting and easy to make.
You only need a 55-58mm step up ring, a clipper and some superglue.
Cut away most of the lever that opens and closes the lens, so that the 55mm ring can slide down around the front of the lens without being obstructed. The lever can be operated (though less easily, but that is not a problem for me as I thought the lever moved far to easily by accident anyway), it can’t ofcourse be operated when a filter is attached.
Anyway, when the lever is cut the step up ring can ble glued to the body, and when the glue sets it’s ready! Takes 58mm filters which is plentiful around.
Hope someone likes this”

Via Camslinger:
“The CAMSLINGER Streetomatic camera bag for Mirrorless Cameras by German COSYSPEED GmbH was launched successfuly on Indiegogo some months ago. The unique camera bag concept gets now two new models to complete the series.
The fastest camera bag of the world
The CAMSLINGER Streetomatic is worn around the hip and provides super quick and one-handed access to your camera. This concept is faster than any camera bag concept worldwide.
Please see a short video: https://youtu.be/CfzmakaXGzA
Limited Edition to supports Unaccompanied Minor Refugees
Besides the CAMSLINGER Streetomatic Black, COSYSPEED presents the also the CAMSLINGER Streetomatic Black Streethunters Edition. 10,- EUR of each Edition bag flows into a project of German Child Aid Organisation Terre des Hommes (www.tdh.de) to support unaccompanied refugee children from the war zones in Syria.”

Thomas G.
Yale Art Museum: 8mm 1.8 Fisheye
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A Look At The Meike 50mm f/2 and 35mm F/1.7 Lenses For Micro Four Thirds Cameras by David Thorpe!
All four new Meike MFT lenses are now listed and available for preorder at Amazon US (Click here to see the pricing of each lens).
5 Reasons to Buy a Panasonic CM1- The Best Camera Phone
Pana/Leica 100-400 Second Take (CyLeow).
A Photographer’s Guide to Modern Urbexing (BorrowingLenses)
Wrap it Before You Snap it: Waterproof Camera Gear (Explora).
Film photography makes a stunning comeback (EuropeanCeo)
The Basics of Color Correction (Adorama Learning Center)
Original-BLN-1. So muss das aussehen (Pen And Tell).
European Olympus ref. items list at [shoplink 22691 ebay]Olympusmarket[/shoplink].
You save $50 and get an additional 2% reward on the Rokinon 50mm f/1.2 MFT lens sold by BHphoto (Click here).
Reminder:
E-M10 kit priced at $399 is ruling the mirrorless camera ranking at Amazon US (Click here).
The new Panasonic Leica 12mm f/1.4 lens is in Stock at Amazon and BHphoto.
The GH4 is selling for $984 on eBay (Click here).
Leica 100-400mm sells for $1,599 again on on eBay (Click here).
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Image on top shows the [shoplink 56524 ebay]OM 50mm f/1.2 lens (here on eBay)[/shoplink]
A couple of months ago I reported that Olympus developed a new series of f/1.2 PRO Zuiko prime lenses. One of them would be the 25mm f/1.2. The launch of that lens got slightly delayed (from early summer to late summer before Photokina).
Now a source reports that Olympus will launch two of those f/1.2 fast primes within the second half of the year. I don’t know the exact specs yet but so far four more MFT lenses are expected to be announced this year:
12-100mm f/4.0 zoom
25mm f/1.2 PRO
30mm f/3.5 macro
another f/1.2 fast prime
Exciting!
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Bit of history: Olympus OM system had two f/1.2 lenses: The [shoplink 56524 ebay]50mm f/1.2 (here on eBay)[/shoplink] and the [shoplink 56525 ebay]55mm f/1.2 (here on eBay)[/shoplink].
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