5 Important Questions Photographers Must Ask Themselves

Wildlife Photography – My Olympus Camera Settings (Andre Boss).
This is NOT the new $2000 Sony A7C, this is a $700 5 YEARS OLD CAMERA ! Panasonic Lumix GX8 (Gary W).
Best Accessories for Cold-Weather Photography (Explora).
Olympus STF 8 flash review (Paul Amyes).

Plenty of news on the facebook OMD group, Panasonic FF and the GH5 group.

Motion Blur, Shutter Speed, & 180° Shutter Angle // TESTING the RULES!

MEIKE 16mm T2.2 | The BEST BUDGET Micro Four Thirds CINE LENS (Stephen and Janaka).
Chic and Sleek! Olympus E-PL8 and Three Micro Four Thirds Lenses – Reviewed! (Zenography).
Gifts for Bird Photographers (Explora).
Native Lenses vs. Adapted Lenses (Focal Reducer / Speedbooster) – Comparison on Micro Four Thirds (Valentin Kossenko).

Plenty of news on the facebook OMD group, Panasonic FF and the GH5 group.

Preorders for the new Voigtlander 29mm f/0.8 lens are now open at BHphoto.

And the Japanese blog Fujiya-camera.co.jp posted some new image samples. Check out their website!

Olympus published the latest financial report: There are two news:

• In the Imaging Business Olympus lost $500 million more than previously forecast
• The Imaging Business is now marked as “discontinued operation”

Our reader Mistral made a more deep analysis for us:

All these pieces of information point at a severe downsize before the divestment.

•  Headcount went down 30% in 6 months between 31 March 2020 (4,270 employees) and 30 September 2020 (3,031 employees). In Japan, less than 400 employees remain in the Imaging business.
• Between the first half of FY2020 and the first half of FY2021, capital expenditures (= investments) fell by half and R&D expenditures by 30%.

• Revenue: ¥6.3bn, down more than 50% in comparison to the same quarter last year after -43% in Q1 and -26% in Q2 and in spite of the global economy recovering from Covid-19, in particular in Asia.
• Operating loss: ¥4.5bn = 72% of revenue, even though all one-off costs should have been recorded in the Q2 accounts.

7Artisans 35mm F1.4 APSC M4/3 Lens

Order 66 (Star Wars inspired short shot on GH5s)
Sirui Anamorphic Timelapse test – GH5S (Glenn Aitken).
The two Johnnys: a piece of music history by Jill Furmanovsky (Olympus Imagespace).
The Best Tough Cameras (Explora).

Plenty of news on the facebook OMD group, Panasonic FF and the GH5 group.

Today DxO announced the new Nikon Collection 3 anniversary edition! It includes 25 new presets you can check and test virtually here.

Press text:

We are celebrating Nik’s 25 years this month, 18-25 November. Nik is becoming 25 years old since the day it was conceived in an office in Hamburg by Nils Kokemohr in 1995. It was back then that we saw the first digital camera going to market, the Casio QV10.

Since then many great things happened in the photo industry, establishing Nik Collection by DxO as an all-time classic for photographers, and making it more relevant than ever. This is why we are releasing an update for Nik (version 3.3) with 25 new fascinating filters. The 25 new filters in the Nik Collection 3 by DxO are split into five series, each containing five filters:

· Three for Color Efex Pro:
o Classic Portrait
o Light & Bright
o Wildlife

· Two for Silver Efex Pro:
o Classic Portrait
o Street

One more news: Last 24hours of the PhotoLab 4 deal (Click here to read all info and get the 30% discount). You can also download the free trial (Click here) if you want to test it before to buy it.

Preorders: Olympus 150-400mm lens at BHphoto, GetOlympus, Adorama.

Here is their chat: