Robin Wong: Olympus PEN Mini – Easily Beats Any Smartphone Camera Today
Never saw it from this angle…that a cheap Olympus camera still offers much better quality than $1000+ smartphones!
Amazon Europe Black Friday deals are now live
You can now get early Black Friday deals on those pages at Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES, Amazon NL.
Germany deals:
Elektronik von Amazon-Marken at Amazon DE.
Video, Fotografie und Zubehör at Amazon DE.
Rabatt auf Instant-Print-Kameras und -Drucker at Amazon DE.
Cashbacks at Foto Erhardt. Calumet DE.
UK deals:
Save big on Sandisk SD cards and storage at Amazon UK.
Deals at WexUK and Park UK.
Italy deals:
Sconti in Fotocamere: Nikon, Panasonic e altro at Amazon IT.
Last chance to save 10% on Capture One using this code
This will end in 24h: you save 10% on the Capture One 21 software (full info here) when using our checkout code “43RUM“.
Olympus 8-25mm f/4 PRO tested by Lenstip: “a really impressive achievement. Hats off!”
Olympus 8-25mm PRO at BHphoto, Adorama, Fotokoch DE, Calumet DE, Park UK, Wex UK.
Lenstip reviewed the 8-25mm PRO lens and concluded:
The Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 8-25 mm f/4 PRO didn’t have any slip-ups and is an instrument which I can personally recommend without any objections. Its price, reaching $1100, is perhaps not that low but lenses with interesting, unique parameters never come cheap. If I, by force, wanted to find any flaw of this one I would mention the fact that I would be happier if the performance of the 8-25 mm model was on par with the performance of its 12-45 mm brother. Of course my expectations are one thing; I am aware that designing and producing an 8-25 mm model is more difficult than the production of the M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-45 mm f/4.0 PRO. Still in the case of the tested lens you get not only a very good sharpness in the frame centre but also practically no slip-ups on edges. At every focal length, up from the maximum relative aperture, you can enjoy good quality images across the frame, a really impressive achievement. Hats off!
a bit of everything…
Panasonic GH6 & S1 Roadmap & S 35mm f/1.8 Lens Announcement
The Super-wide 200 degree fisheye lens HAL 200
Short Trek to Great Falls National Park with Olympus E-M1 Mark III & TTArtisan 7.5mm f/2 Lens ep.336 (Rob Trek).
How to Create an Effective Photoshop Workflow (42West).
Introducing the Zhiyun-Tech Crane-M3 Gimbal (Explora).
Plenty of news on the facebook OMD group, Panasonic FF and the GH5 group.
New Luminar NEO Black Friday deal
Skylum launched a new Black Friday deal on the current Luminar and future NEO software (Click here)
Luminar Neo
– 1 Seat Luminar NEO = 59 €/$ from 79 €/$
– 2 Seats Luminar NEO : 69 €/$ from 99 €/$
Luminar Neo + Luminar AI
– 1 Seat Luminar NEO + AI = 88 €/$ from 158 €/$
– 2 Seats Luminar NEO + AI = 108 €/$ from 198 €/$
You can see and test all new features them using these sliders on their special website.
Q&A with OM Digital CEO Shigemi Sugimoto
OM Digital CEO Shigemi Sugimoto shared this info during the Q&A with Dc.watch:
- Not only cameras, but all products announced in the future, including IC recorders and binoculars, will bear the name of OM SYSTEM.
- “We are determined to continue to provide a unique customer experience.”
- We will “continue to bring out epoch-making products to the world” while balancing the development of hardware and algorithms. It was also announced that the development of new camera products is in the final stages.
- Key focus will be on: Dust-proof and drip-proof mechanism, dust reduction system, small size and light weight, image stabilization.
- For new products to be released in the future, lens caps and straps will also be engraved with OM SYSTEM.