(FT5) Confirmed: Panasonic GF8 coming at CP+!

• January 4, 2016
• Rumors
• 27 Comments

The Chinese public agency Srrc.org.cn registered the new Panasonic GF8. I reported about that camera months ago saying it would ship early Spring and basically be a sort of 4K GF7 camera. So to sum up those are the next MFT cameras and lenses to be announced:

January 5 (5-6am London time): Panasonic 100-400mm lens
January 6 (6am London time): Olympus 300mm f/.40
End of January: PEN-F with 20MP sensor
End of February: GF8 4K camera
End of February: new Olympus f/1.2 primes

SRRC link via Digicameinfo

a bit of everything…

• January 4, 2016
• news
• 3 Comments

Olympus E-M1 Frozen

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Best MFT bargains: 40-150mm for $99. E-PL6 two lens kit for $399.

• January 3, 2016
• deals
• 2 Comments

This is the current best bang for the buck you can get:
$99 for the Olympus 40-150mm lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
Olympus E-P5 for $349 at Adorama.
E-PL6 with kit lens for $299 at Amazon.
E-PL6 with double zoom lens kit and Flahs Air card for $399 at Amazon.

(FT5) Full Panasonic compact camera specs (TZ101 and TZ81)

• January 3, 2016
• Rumors
• 37 Comments

Those are the full specs of the two new Panasonic compact cameras. The TX81 will ship in February and the TZ101 will ship in March. Price is still not known.

Weekly 43rumors readers pictures roundup.

• January 3, 2016
• news
• 4 Comments

Norman Doggett
Conspiracy of ravens high in a cottonwood tree in La Puebla, New Mexico. Olympus OM-D E-M1, M.Zuiko 40-150 PRO at 150mm, 1/500s, f/4, ISO 200.

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$200 off on the Olympus 75mm f/1.8 lens!

• January 2, 2016
• deals
• 49 Comments

There is a big $200 discount on the great Olympus 75mm f/1.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.

A full list of Olympus deals can be found on that GetOlympus page.

(FT5) More details about the upcoming Panasonic 100-400mm Leica MFT lens.

• January 2, 2016
• Rumors
• 53 Comments

UPDATE: You can now preorder the lens at Amazon US.

The same German magazine that revealed the full Olympus 300mm PRO lens specs (article here) also released some Pansonic 100-400mm MFT lens info:

• Leica DG Vario-Elmar 100-400mm f/4.0-6,3 Power OIS
• weather sealed
• 20 lenses in 13 groups
• 72mm filter size
• 83x172mm (size) and 985g (weight)
• Price and shipment start to be determined

The magazine hands-on report also says the lens is “silent” and focuses very fast.