Good morning!

It’s Sunday and there are not many news today. If you have some time feel free to rate the Micro Four Thirds product we listed inide our product database. You can write a whole review and rate the camera/lenses. Also a rating alone (without review) would be fine :)

That will help new or future Micro Four Thirds camera owners to get and idea about the quality of those products. Remember, you have to be a registered 43rumros member. We have a very strong spam filter. If you don’t receive the confirmation mail contact me at 43rumors@gmail.com and I will complete the regisrtation for you.

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And here soemthinge else:

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For 3 months I used a new stat software which is awesome….it’s called getclicky. You might want to know who is visiting 43rumors? On top you see the most spoken languages of our readers. Below we have the list of the most present cities:
that’s it :)

[shoplink 18844]Olympus PEN E-PL2[/shoplink] Hands-on Review by Digitalrev.

Short Olympus E-5 review at Pdnonline and Computerworld.

Sony NEX5 vs. Panasonic GF1, the showdown (Tyson Robichaud).

Panasonic 0.75x Wide-Angle Lens for Lumix DMC-LX5 (Black) for $149.95 at BHphoto.

DxOmark released a new update which brings support for the new Panasonic GH2.

Is GH2 ISO 3200 really this close to ISO 100 on GF1 with the 14mm F2.5? (Dpreview forum).

Sony NEX-5 vs Olympus E-PL1 head to head at Tech.sina

Olympus EPL2 USB Drive at Fotoactualidad.

Olympus E-PL2 sample shots with Voigtländer Nokton 25mm f/0.95 at digitaljournalofphotography.

Amazon Germany started to ship the Olympus XZ-1!

Reminder: There are a few Voigtländer Nokton auctions at [shoplink 15659]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

Olympus Global just confirmed that the new Olympus E-PL2 camera will start to be delivered from January 28th. A wonder how it is possible that a few cameras are already for sale on eBay. For example the well known [shoplink 19172 ebay]Digitalrev store has three fo them in Stock (Click here)[/shoplink]!

One more news: You didn’t forget that Olympus announced the all-black E-PL2 kit at Photokina? It comes with the a “new” black 17mm lens (You can get that kit right now on Amazon). Now Olympus Global announced that the black lens will be sold separately starting from January 28th. This is an interesting enws for those of you that want to buy the black E-PL2.

Pre order the Olympus E-PL2 at Amazon, Adorama, Amazon DE, Amazon FR,

Olympus XZ-1 preview by Lory Grunin (CNET)

LOREO “3D Lens in a Cap” compared to Lumix H-FT012 and Fujifilm Real 3D W3 (3d-kraft.com).

Panasonic Four Thirds GF2 Exploded (Flickr).

Olzmpus XZ-1 image samples (Olympus Imaging).

Olympus E-5 DSLR Pros and Cons (TheDigitalStory).

Olympus E-PL2 hands-on video at Quesabesde (spanish only).

Olympus XZ-1 preorders at Amazon, Adorama, Amazon DE, Amazon FR and Amazon UK.

ATIBA & EVANS [shoplink 16254]Panasonic GH2[/shoplink] Skate

Panasonic marketing man: “GH2 is a niche” (EosHD)

Living in the 3rd Dimension (3Dkraft)

Panasonic 12.5mm 3D lens test at Fotopolis.

Imaging Resource posted a double interview with Olympus and Panasonic!

First they had a small talk with Peter Ewen, Katie Roseman, and Sally Smith-Clemens from Olympus USA. Olympus underlined their commitment to the 12 Megapixel “Philosophy”. And honestly I do agre with what they say :) . They also talk about the [shoplink 17163]E-5[/shoplink] (huge success!) their Four Thirds plans and the movie and 3D trend. There are plenty of interesting info but no details about future products.

The second interview has been made with Darin Pepple from Panasonic USA. He said “We’re finding that the compact system camera is not really stealing business (in USA) or cannibalizing in any way the SLR business right now. What’s really happening is we’ve identified about 23 million users that would love to be in an SLR“. And that is what he says about the APS-C sensor mirrorless competition: “With the Micro Four Thirds system, we are a little bit smaller than an APS-C sized sensor that you’d find in any one of our competitors, for example. But at the same time, they’ve corrupted the lens quality to try and get it down so small, that the edge detail — they’ve sort of blurred out the image. Especially in the zooms, not so much in the fixed focal-lengths, but the zoom lenses.”

Take time to read both (very long) articles and let us know what you think about them!

Olympus Pen EPL2

GF1 vs GF2 High ISO comparison (Dpreview forum).

Olympus E-5 review (Photoradar).

OLYMPUS Viewer 2 Update for Windows (Olympus.co.jp).

Olympus XZ-1 – sample photos and videos (Lenstip).

How engineering can triumph over marketing, a solution (EosHD).