First short film made with the Panasonic Lumix GH2 on youtube

Finally Amazon sent the expected delivery date to all customers that preordered the new Panasonic GH2. Shipment starts on November 22. This is much further than the expected delivery date from Adorama. Also in Europe Amazon is epxected to start shipment on November 22. Check AmazonUK and AmazonFrance.
I still have no news about the Body Only GH2 availability. I guess this is the kit many current GH1 owners are looking for. Amazon has the Black Body Only GH2 and the Silver Body Only GH2 in their product database but you can’t preorder it. I hope we have not to wait until next year to get it!

Some Olympus E-5 news:
ThePhoBlographer posted a E-5 hands-on.
Download the manual: http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/support/imsg/digicamera/download/manual/esystem/man_e5_e.pdf
Download the system chart: http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/support/imsg/digicamera/download/manual/esystem/e5_systemchart_e.pdf

P.S.: One more news for french readers: Olympus offers a refund on the Paris picture show! Read more about it at ForumOlympusFrance!

Dominic Papenheim and Claudia Baehr from Olympus talking to Megapixel.co.il in Photokina.co.il.

1) Starting from 00:41 they talk about the [shoplink 17163]Olympus E-5[/shoplink].

2) At 04:00 the Interviewer ask if the E-5 can compete with Full Frame camera. The answer is that Full Frame and E-5 are on the same level.

3) At 05:00 the Interviewer ask about the auto-focus speed which is slow on the [shoplink 14832]Olympus E-PL1 + 14-42mm[/shoplink] kit compared to the [shoplink 14828]Panasonic GF1[/shoplink]. Olympus answer was that new lenses like the 9-18mm do have faster auto-focus than the kit-lens.

4) At 07:00 the Interviewer ask how the compact (not mirrorless) market will change in the next year. Olympus will introduce many new technologies (3D, WiFi, GPs and more).

5) At 09:35 Olympus says that especially female do like mirrorless cameras because they don’t want big cameras.

6) At 12:05 they talk about the lens road-map. Olympus doesn’t give any answer about possible future 3D lenses.

7) At 12:40 In Japan the mirrorless market share is 40%, in Europe 9% and in US 7-8%.

One more news: Olympus just updated the Olympus Viewer 2 to version 1.1 (Source: Olympus Japan)

Les Machineurs just uploaded a new GH2 video. He used the [shoplink 17123]50mm f/1.4 Pentax Asahi SMC[/shoplink] and [shoplink 14796]17mm f/1.7 Panasonic[/shoplink] lens. ISO 1600 except the last shot at 3200. 1080p24 AVCHD 24mb/s. Edited with Final Cut Pro and QuickTime ProRes HQ codec.

Adobe annouced the Camera Raw 6.3 Release Candidate which supports the Panasonic GH2 (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/cameraraw6-3/)

P.S: Hybridcams.fr posted one single GH2 image sample and some other smaples by Katten on Flickr . At Dpreview you can find one full size 100-30mm image sample.

Panasonic GH2 preorders (Click on store name to visit the product page):
Amazon US, Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon UK, Amazon France, Amazon Japan

Olympus [ib] version 1.3 has been released today (Download at Olympus Japan). Following features have been added:

– Added the function to upload images to Flickr.
– Added the function to upload movies to YouTube.
– Added the function to upload images to “Private Space” on [ib on the net].
– Added the function to upload images to “Share Space” on [ib on the net].
– Added the function to back up images to “Photo Bank” on [ib on the net].
– Added the function to order online-prints (Photo Print, Photo Book) on [ib on the net].

Meanwhile DC.watch posted a new Olympus 40-150mm lens review. Reminder: The new Olympus Lens is in Stock at Amazon (Black lens) and Adorama (Black and White lens).