These were the last three compact cameras announced by Panasonic:
Panasonic Lumix DC-ZS80 (Lumix DC-TZ95) on February 18, 2019
Panasonic Lumix DC-LX100 II on August 22, 2018
Panasonic Lumix DC-TS7 (Lumix DC-FT7) on May 11, 2018
Ant it is now official that all the three compact camera lines are discontinued. Here is the question for you folks:
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Olympus MC-14 and MC-20 – [Image Quality?]
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Gh6 Open gate mode (PhotoJoseph).
Print from Your Smartphone with the FUJIFILM INSTAX MINI LINK 2 (Explora).
How to Remove the Reflection in Glasses (42West).
Japanese TTArtisan 50mm F/2 review by Wataka.
Plenty of news on the facebook OMD group, Panasonic FF and the GH5 group.
OM Digital announced the following event for August 19:
Join us for World Photography Day as we celebrate with our global team. We’re running a whole day of live streamed sessions, interviews with photographers and online workshops in five languages.
Be a part of our celebration. Tune into our YouTube live streams starting at 6 AM ET on Friday, August 19.
You can view the schedule here: events.eao.omsystem.com/world-photography-day-2022
You can read it here: olympuspassion.com/2022/08/10/olympus-passion-photography-magazine-august-2022. Sadly it is no more for free as it used to be :(
LUMIX Academy | GH6 Documentary Filming
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How To Get The Vintage Film Look On Lumix GH5 & GH6 Cameras | Premier Pro Tutorial (JustAlex).
What is Your Favorite Portrait Lens? (Explora).
SmallRig CH10 Compact Fluid Head Review (Personal View).
What is a Vignette? (42West).
Plenty of news on the facebook OMD group, Panasonic FF and the GH5 group.
Lumix GH5 / GH6 – Vintage Color Grade Tutorial
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Popular Lowepro ProTactic Bags Get a Sustainability Update (Explora).
Perspective in Photography: 6 Ways to Create Powerful Perspective in Photos (42West).
The LUMIX G85: Is It Right For You? (Selishots).
FASHION Photography with the Panasonic Lumix G X Vario 35-100mm f/2.8 lens in 2022 (Albert Art).
Plenty of news on the facebook OMD group, Panasonic FF and the GH5 group.
Japanese camera manufacturers are bidding farewell to a once-major component of their operations, with Panasonic Holdings and Nikon suspending development of entry-level point-and-shoot cameras under their flagship brands.
The companies will instead focus resources on pricier mirrorless models going forward, aiming to navigate a market upended by smartphones.
Nikkei analyzed why this is happening:
Camera makers had long competed with one another by increasing the number of pixels and by shrinking the size of their devices. But then smartphones came along, offering apps for editing pictures and allowing photos to be easily shared with family and friends. This changed the way people took photos.
Smartphone makers are racing to offer advanced photography features in their devices. “It’d be a challenge for camera makers to be successful with keeping their compact digital camera businesses,” said analyst Ichiro Michikoshi of research firm BCN.
Compact digital models accounted for 36% of global digital camera shipments in 2021, according to CIPA. The broader camera market will likely shrink even faster with Japanese companies, many of them big players, scaling back operations in compact digital models.
The bright spot is the mirrorless segment, with global shipments jumping 31% on the year to 324.5 billion yen in 2021. Mirrorless single-lens models offer fat margins, and users replacing lenses and other parts will keep contributing to the manufacturers’ bottom lines.
Retailers are focusing on this segment as well. “These days we recommend mirrorless cameras even to novice photographers,” said a salesperson at electronics and appliance retailer Joshin Denki.
