(FT4) Sigma 14mm f/4.0 lens coming with MFT mount in late 2015.

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Sigma is currently offering three MFT lenses and a fourth one could be announced in late 2015. The 14mm f/4.0 lens used on the Sigma DP0 Quattro will get modified and offered as “independent” MFT lens.

The current three MFT lenses from Sigma:
The 19mm f/2.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
The 30mm f/2.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
The 60mm f/2.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.

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a bit of everything…

Seb Farges (video on top): “This is a very first quick test done with the upcoming “Rangefinder” from SLR Magic I’ve just received yesterday. The combo with my baby is quite strange but I like it. It’s not too heavy, but I have to use to with this solution. You can see it here : https://flic.kr/s/aHskgKQi64”

Three Reasons To Get Excited About The Future Of M4/3 – No. 1. The Olympus High-Res Mode (Soundimagesplus).
Lokee – Coolest Adaptable Grip Cage to Make Video Better (Kickstarter).
Best Smartphone for Photographers: Panasonic CM1 (Smartphones.Reviewed).
Kowa Prominar 12mm review at DC.watch.
Stockholm’s green….(Pen And Tell).
8mm Fisheye review at MyNavi.jp.

Jayme: “Sharing my site and my photos…2015 Travel: Istanbul, Amsterdam, Paris, London
https://oneworldtraveltour.smugmug.com/2015-Europe
https://oneworldtraveltour.smugmug.com/2015-Europe/2015-03-04-Istanbul/“

Adorama savings on the Panasonic 35-100mm X and 7-14mm lenses.

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Adorama is offering discounts on two Panasonic MFT lenses:
35-100mm f/2.8 (Click here)
7-14mm f/4.0 (Click here).

More deals:
Olympus is offering a free ECG-1 grip with the E-M10 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
The Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 40-150mm f/4.0-5.6 R Lens sells for $99 only at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here) and GetOlympus (Click here).
New Olympus AIR MFT camera is in Stock for the first time at Amazon US (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here) and on eBay in [shoplink 54844 ebay]White (Click here)[/shoplink] or [shoplink 54845 ebay]Black (Click here)[/shoplink].
The Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 40-150mm f/4.0-5.6 R Lens sells for $99 only at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here) and GetOlympus (Click here).

The digital camera market crisis could be finally over?

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Lats week Olympus issued a financial report and for the first time it was not losing money in their digital camera business! And it seems like this could be a “gobal” trend. For the first time in years the June 2015 camera unit sales were not much worse than the previous year (June 2014). We may have reached the bottom of the bottle where sales will no more drop compared to the previous year?

Detailed CIPA data graph can be seen at Personal View.

New list of refurbished OMD cameras for sale at Olympus Europe.

[shoplink 54984 ebay]Bildschirmfoto 2015-08-08 um 13.58.05[/shoplink] [shoplink 22691 ebay]Olympusmarket Europe[/shoplink] added plenty of refurbished OMD cameras on their [shoplink 22691 ebay]ebay page[/shoplink]:

[shoplink 54976 ebay]Silver E-M10 with kit lens for 549 Euro[/shoplink] [shoplink 54977 ebay]Black E-M10 with 14-150mm lens for 899 Euro[/shoplink] [shoplink 54978 ebay]Silver E-M1 body for 1169 Euro[/shoplink] [shoplink 54979 ebay]Silver E-M5 with kit lens for 899 Euro[/shoplink] [shoplink 54980 ebay]Silver E-M5 body for 719 Euro[/shoplink] [shoplink 54981 ebay]Black E-M10 with kit lens for 629 Euro[/shoplink] [shoplink 54982 ebay]Silver E-M10 with kit lens for 539 Euro[/shoplink] [shoplink 54984 ebay]Black E-M1 body for 1169 Euro[/shoplink] [shoplink 54985 ebay]Black E-M10 with kit lens for 629 Euro[/shoplink] [shoplink 54986 ebay]Silver E-M10 with kit lens for 629 Euro[/shoplink] [shoplink 54987 ebay]Black E-M5 body for 719 Euro[/shoplink] [shoplink 54988 ebay]Black E-M10 body for 449 Euro[/shoplink] [shoplink 54989 ebay]Black E-M1 with 12-40mm PRO lens for 1799 Euro[/shoplink] [shoplink 54990 ebay]Black E-M1 with 12-50mm PRO lens for 1349 Euro[/shoplink] [shoplink 54992 ebay]Silver E-M5 with 12-50mm PRO lens for 899 Euro[/shoplink] [shoplink 54993 ebay]Black E-M5 with 12-50mm PRO lens for 899 Euro[/shoplink]

Rokinon Xeen lenses announced and available for preorder at BHphoto!

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Samyang announced their new “XEEN” Cine lens line. And the first three Micro Four Thirds lenses can be preordered at BHphoto:
Rokinon Xeen 24mm T1.5 Lens (Click here).
Rokinon Xeen 50mm T1.5 Lens (Click here).
Rokinon Xeen 85mm T1.5 Lens (Click here).

UPDATE: Preorders are up at Adorama too (Click here).

A first hands-on review of the lenses can be read at Explora (Click here):

I found the Rokinon XEEN Cine Lenses to be well made, easy to work with, and overall I enjoyed the image quality. They rendered naturalistic images with good contrast and a pleasing, slightly warm feel. Intercutting between the lenses required no additional color correction beyond applying the same LUT to the footage. It is my preference to shoot more closed down than wide open, and I did feel the lenses performed best starting around T4, but I was still satisfied with footage shot at T1.5. Overall, I was pleased with the XEEN lenses and look forward to working with them again.

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