Amazon US:
The Panasonic GF1 and the Olympus E-P2 are selling very well because of the latest price drops. The GH1 also made it back into the top-30…probably because of the latest hack improvement? Click on the camera names to see the product price and availability on amazon (and Click here to see the full amazon ranking)

Place 18: Panasonic GF1 + 20mm f/1.7 Lens
19: Panasonic GF1 + 14-45mm Lens
21: Olympus E-P2 + 14-42mm Lens and EVF
28: Panasonic GH1 +14-140mm Lens
30: Panasonic G2 + 14-42mm (Black)
45: Panasonic G2 + 14-42mm Lens (Blue)
46: Panasonic G1 + 14-45mm Lens
50: Olympus E520

Amazon Germany:
We have seen it many times before, FourThirds cameras are very popular in Germany. To see the amazon Germany rankings click here. Germans also do love double-kits!

Place 13: Olympus E-450 + 14-42mm + 40-150mm Objektive
23: Olympus E-620 + 14-42mm + 40-150mm Objektive
31: Panasonic GF1 + 14-45mm Objektiv mattschwarz
36: Olympus E-620 + 14-42mm + 40-150mm Objektive
46: Olympus E-PL1 Double Zoom Kit champagner
48: Olympus E-620 + 14-42mm
50: Olympus E-420 + 14-42mm + 40-150mm Objektive

Amazon UK:
Also in UK FourThirds cameras are still selling well (click here to see the full amazon ranking):

Place 17: Panasonic GF1 + 14-45mm Lens Kit – Black
21: Panasonic GF1 + 20mm Lens Kit – Black
28: Olympus E-520 + 14-42mm lens
34: Olympus E-450 + 14-42mm Lens
41: Olympus E-620 + 14-42mm Lens
44: Panasonic GF1 + 20mm Lens Kit – Silver
47: Olympus E-P1 + 14-42 mm Black Lens Kit – Silver

Amazon France:
No glory for Olympus and Panasonic cameras in france. Only three cameras made it into the top 50! Click here to see the full ranking

Place 19: Panasonic GH1 + 14-140mm Lens
36: Olympus – Kit appareil photo numérique Reflex E-3 – avec objectif EZ-1260 SWD + Poignée d’alim.
47: Olympus – E-520 – Kit appareil photo Reflex numérique + objectif – 10 Mpix

Panasonic GF1 ‘400 24’ settings – 720/30 100mbit 422 from huw jenkins on Vimeo.

Emmy Award winner Huw Jenkins just sent us the link to his video shoot with the patched Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1 with 100Mbit/s!

“Shot with my new ‘400 24’ settings.
these settings allow you to record clips of up to 2 minutes 27 seconds on the GF1 at 100mbits, 422 color space, 720/30fps
more stable than ‘410 24’, you can now delete from the class 10 SD card and re-record without needing to format (at a push, see below).

single error trip:
‘motion recording was cancelled due to the limitation of the writing speed of the card’
each time you turn on the camera, a single error trip will occur. as with all GF1 100mbit settings so far, the first high bitrate clip recorded will trip this error message, ignore it and continue shooting. the gf1 will record perfectly till you switch off the camera.

card formating:
use a freshly formated class 10 card. if the card already had data on it, files might be fragmented which is more than likely to cause multiple recording errors. this also occurs when deleting files and re-recording. Sometimes my sd (sandisk) can handle this, other times it fails.

when the card is full, the last 10-30 seconds on a 8gb SD fails to write.

file size / clip length:
the maximum size file i can record at any bitrate is 1.85gb. when using ‘400 24’, the bitrate is variable, depending on the complexity of the image being recorded. here is a clip length guide
4 minutes 42 seconds at 56.29 Mbits/second
2 minutes 27 seconds at 100.09 Mbits/second

the settings, for ptool 3.36 or higher:
change only the following
version change: 1 higher than your current version
all Q settings: set to 400
all T settings: set to 24
240->244: selected
leave everything else unselected”

One more video has been made by mike 979 http://vimeo.com/12854862

Get the hack here: http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=206788&page=225

Get the camera here: Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1

Reminder: Amazon US now offers the Panasonic GF1+14-45mm and FREE EVF!

Good news for those of you waiting for the new Olympus 14-150mm lens. The lens is in Stock at BHphoto (click here!)

P.S: As usual japanese have been the first to have the Olympus 14-150mm lens in Stock (via Amazon). And Amazon Deutschland has the Olympus E-PL1 + 14-150mm/4,0-5,6 schwarz/schwarz in Stock!

Finally we received a small but very good info from trusted sources about the next Panasonic sensor. The new sensor will have gapless Micro-lenses.
Canon has been the first to deliver such a sensor with the Canon 50DCanon 50DCanon 50DCanon 50DCanon 50DCanon 50DCanon 50DCanon 50DCanon 50DCanon 50DCanon 50DCanon 50D (and lately with the Canon 7D and EOS-1D Mark IV). Chuck Westfall, Technical Advisor at Canon USA said that “noise levels are expected to be 1 to 1.5 stops better in the high ISO range” (Source: Rob Galbraith).

The Panasonic sensor is ready for mass-production so it is very likely that we will see that sensor inside the new GH2 (launch to be expected late September at Photokina). We didn’t get any further details yet but the info we post here today came from our very best sources!

Good news!

EOSHD Shootout Part 1 – 5D versus GH1 in Low Light from Andrew Reid on Vimeo.

A mix of High bit rate indoor 1080p and 720p videos from a Hacked GF1. Lens used were the Sigma 30mm F1.4, Canon 55mm F1.2, and the 20mm F1.7 Pancake.

With Ptool 3.37d I have now settled on the following settings.
MJPEG 1080p(1920×1080) no 4:2:2
E1Q E2Q E3Q E4Q E1T E2T E3T E4T
240 200 180 160 133 146 150 155
AVC-HD 720p settings
Bit Rate FHD-SHD Overall Limiting Height Length
50 60 80 50 50

Hacked Panasonic GF1 1080p Video of the Moon from mpgxsvcd on Vimeo.

With the firmware hack and a $30 400mm lens I was able to shoot the moon. The video isn’t as sharp as the stills but I think they both look pretty good.

In violet the ammount of mirrorless cameras sold and in blue the market share (May 31- June 6). Source: BCNranking (google english translation)

Sony NEX camera are now in Stock almost everywhere (like Amazon, BHphoto, Ritz) and they are pushing the mirrorless segment up to 29.9% (of the japanese market share)! The Sony NEX cameras do profit from the momentum (3 camera made it into the top-10 of the most sold DSLR cameras in japan) but also the Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1Panasonic GF1 and the Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1 are selling very well!

That’s why Nikon just said “Micro Four Thirds: You are going to make us run!” (Source: Valentin Sama)

Expect some revolutions at Photokina! I will be there…and you?

J.D. just created a new awesome APP for your iPhone:

“Hello,
Thanks for such an awesome site. I’m a longtime 43rumors.com fan and have been an Olympus fan for what seems forever… I started w/E-1 and never looked back, now the E-P1 always has a place in my backpack :-).

Yesterday my iPhone app called “CameraKompare” was approved by Apple:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/camera-kompare/id377666756?mt=8

The purpose of the app is to have complete specs for almost every digital camera (1400+), and to let you compare any two cameras that you want to. It can also automatically find similar cameras (based on format, size, zoom, etc.) The app has free lifetime updates and I’ll be keeping it fresh as new cameras are release. Currently it has an introductory price of $0.99 USD

And since I am a big EVIL fan, I made sure that the app has every EVIL camera that I know of:
http://www.komparison.com/cameras/evil.html

Panasonic Lumix DMC-G10
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1
Sony Alpha NEX-5
Sony Alpha NEX-3
Samsung NX10
Olympus PEN E-PL1
Olympus PEN E-P2
Olympus PEN E-P1
Ricoh GXR S10 24-72mm F2.5-4.4 VC
Ricoh GXR A12 50mm F2.5 Macro

If you think your other readers would find the app useful, I would really appreciate it if you posted about it sometime.

Please keep up the great work and thanks so much for everything!“

Reminder: Also the getolympus APP is available on iTunes!