Panasonic 14mm f/2.5 lens at DCwatch
Panasonic 12.5mm f/12 3D lens at DC.watch
Panasonic 100-300mm F4-5.6 MEGA O.I.S lens at DC.watch

And on Panasonic Japan: 14mm, 100-300mm and the 3D lens.

Image courtesy: SystemKameraForum

UPDATE: Quesabesde (google english translation) had a small talk with Miguel Garcia (Marketing Managing Director Olympus Europe). He confirmed that “we are not developing more Four Thirds optics” He also said: “It is true that perhaps the E-5 lacks specifications to some expectations, but you just can not give everything“.

The german website Systemkameraforum followed the Olympus press conference at Photokina.

The most important news:
1) Miguel Garcia (Marketing Managing Director Olympus Europe) said the focus is on MicroFourThirds
2) the Olympus E-5 is NOT the last Olympus FourThirds camera
3) There will be a professional MicroFourThirds camera at 2011
4) The low-end MicroFOurThirds cameras will also be updated in 2011
5) Prime lenses will come in 2011 “We can assure that in 2011 we are going to launch very interesting Micro Four Thirds lenses. Spectaculars for all levels, not only for the consumer market.”
6) There will be new features like “Geotagging”

Image courtesy: Quesabesde

Olympus just announced the development of the new high-end compact camera (for enthusiasts) with fixed lens.

Quesabesde has been told that it will use a fast zoom lens. Quesabesde assumes the lens will start at least at 28 mm. It will not use a MicroFourThirds sensor! It has a fixed 3 inch screen, a button to record their own video and HDMI connections. SO it looks like we have to do with a camera that is aimed to compete against the Panasonic LX5 and Canon S90/95.

UPDATE: CNET Asia “spoke to Olympus Singapore, who told us that this camera is expected to have a zoom lens and a large sensor like the LX5. It also confirmed this shooter won’t employ a Four Thirds sensor.”

Let me say this: “Damn that is a cool camera!”. Fuji just announced the FinePix X100, a rangefinderstyled 12.3MP APS-C-based camera with Hybrid Viewfinder! The “Hybrid Viewfinder that enables users to toggle between optical and electronic viewfinders and display intricate shooting information right into the OVF” (Source: Engadget). That’s what I call “Innovation”! I hope Olympus and/or Panasonic will show us a similar concept soon (Hey Olympus, wouldn’t that be a perfect PEN? You did awesome rangfindercameras in the past like the [shoplink 16136]Olympus RC (Click here to see the camera design on eBay[/shoplink]!). The bad news is that it uses a fixed 23mm f/2.0 lens (The lens itself is gorgeous). There is no price indication yet but you can bet that that camera will be a lot cheaper than the direct competitor the Leica X1 ($1.995 at Amazon)!. The FinePix X100 will be in Stock by early 2011.

P.S: Again, can someone explain me why Fuji uses a fixed lens? Why not make it interchangeable???

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More news on:
Engadget
Dpreview
Fuji brochure pdf: http://www.fujifilm.com/photokina2010/list/index.html#h2-3

And here a video taken from Engadget:

Samyang just announced the new 35mm f/1.4 lens. It will be also available with FourThirds mount! Those lenses are manual focus only and very cheap. But the quality is surprisely good!

Read for example the Samyang 85mm f/1.4 Photozone review (Click here). That lens is available with FourThirds mount [shoplink 14887]on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]

More info here: http://www.samyang.pl/article,8,news?PHPSESSID=a80e9b76f05b4e80b46c870a74e10177

Very important reminder: The Hack will NOT work if you have a brand new [shoplink 14826]Panasonic GH1[/shoplink] with a build date of June 2010 or later. Vitaliy can’t tweek his firmware tool if he can’t access the 1.34 firmware from the Panasonic site. More about that at DVXuser. (Thanks Sady for your information)

UPDATE: It looks like the info from EosHD is not correct. Follow the DVXuser post here: http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=22290

P:S: Thanks for sharing news and links!

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PREORDERS:

Amazon (Click here)
You can now preorder the Olympus E-5 at BHphoto (Click here)

INTERESTING NOTES:

– 12Megapixels, new Truepic V+ engine, faster AF, price 1700 Euro, availability in October
– Same [shoplink 14830]PEN[/shoplink] sensor but lighter AA filter and a new, professionally-tuned TruPic V+ processor.
– By Olympus: “A new algorithm to give more detail and sharpness by exhaustively processing each pixel, meaning the real performance of ZUIKO DIGITAL SHG lenses can be seen.”
– Pocket Lint: “The output that you get from the pro-standard lens is the best sharpest of any 12-megapixel camera on the market” and “If you take the two biggest competitors in this segment and say they’re using APS sensors, then edge-to-edge, the sharpness is better.”
– Amateur Photographer: “We will continue to do these [Four Thirds cameras] until micro cameras can do what other products can,” said Olympus UK’s Consumer Products marketing manager Mark Thackara. “All cameras will be mirrorless in the future.”
– Olympus Europe spokeswoman Franziska Jorke cited the autofocus and burst rate of DSLRs as still being superior to Micro Four Thirds models, along with the optical viewfinders.

PREVIEW:

Olympus E-5, Toma de contacto (DSLRmagazine)
Japanese preview at DC.watch
Olympus E-5 Quick Hands-on Preview at DPreview
Olympus E-5: Flagship DSLR with HD video previewed at Imaging Resource
PHOTOS: Olympus E-5 hands on at Pocket Lint

YOUTUBE VIDEOS:
Via noisycamera: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRFNEHue4m4&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI3EjMQ7t4I&feature=player_embedded

IMAGE SAMPLES:

Olympus Japan: http://olympus-imaging.jp/product/dslr/e5/sample/index.html
DSLRmagazine (Click and scroll down)
Photoreview Australia (Click and scroll down)

PRESS RELEASE:

Olympus E-5, 12 Mpix, video 720p, viseur 100%, LCD sur rotule : 1700 € (Focus Numerique)
Olympus E-5 : si attendu…Forum Olympus France
Olympus E-5 at Photograpbhyblog
Olympus E-5 – Ny proffsmodell för fotografering i svåra förhållanden (MyNewsDesk)
Olympus Unveils E-5 DSLR at Photoreview Australia
Olympus E-5: Das E-Flaggschiff für professionelle Ansprüche (Fotointern.ch)
Olympus-Flaggschiff E-5 (Photoscala.de)
Olympus E-5 at Fotopolis.pl
Olympus Announces E-5 DSLR (Photoxels)
La Olympus E-5 da el relevo a la veterana E-3 con 12 megapíxeles y vídeo HD (Quesabesde)
Olympus Announces New Flagship E-5 DSLR (ThePhoBlographer)
Olympus E-5: The last Four Thirds DSLR camera? (Amateur Photographer)
Olympus gets a video dSLR at last: hello E-5 (CNET)
Olympus Spain: http://www.olympus.es/consumer/dslr_23432.htm
Olympus Japan: http://olympus-imaging.jp/product/dslr/e5/index.html
Olympus Global: http://www.olympus-global.com/en/news/2010b/nr100914e5e.html