Mirrorless system camera sales finally booming? +90% in sales compared to April 2016!

CIPA released the shipment data for April 2017. And we have two good news:

  1. The camera market is doing better than in 2016
  2. In April 2017 mirrorless camera shipments were up +90% compared to April 2016. At the same time DSLR shipments went down by 11%

One reason could be also the good sales of the Panasonic Gh5. Panasonic stated multiple times the Gh5 sales were much higher than expected.

Panasonic announced a new High Dynamic Range Organic sensor

Image Sensor World reports:

Panasonic publishes a paper in Japanese “Development of Simultaneous Capture Wide Dynamic Range Technology and Global Shutter Technology for Organic Photoconductive Film Image Sensor” describing, essentially, a way to control sensitivity on per pixel basis. It’s quite similar to the sensor presented at ISSCC 2017, but without the IR sensitivity.

It’s years now that Panasonic is developing the organic sensor technology with Fuji. I don’t think we will see this tech on MFT camera any time soon…

a bit of everything…


Panasonic GH5 Battery Test. Old vs New batteries recording time

Switching from Full-Frame to Micro Four-Thirds (Photofocus).
Karl’s bevorzugte OM-D/PEN-F Einstellungen zum downloaden
Leica 12-60mm review at Photographyblog.
Go “normal” with your Life with the Olympus M. Zuiko 25mm F1.8 (Photo Daniel M).
Color matching the GH5 and Canon C300 MKI: can it be done? (Newsshooter).
Atomos Ninja Inferno Pro Video Monitor Captures 10-Bit HDR (ALC).
E-M10 Mark II – Huge Lens Variety (Olympus UK).

Plenty of news on the facebook E-M1II group and the GH5 group.

a bit of everything…


Olympus 25mm F/1.2 Pro review

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX10 sensor review (DxOmark).
TowerJazz Reports CIS Business Growth (Image Sensor World).
Panasonic Lumix DC-TZ90 Sample Images (Photographyblog).
Olympus stumbles on road to financial redemption (Nikkei).
Practical Tools for the Portrait Photographer On The Go (ALC).
TG-Tracker – Pro Surfer Lucy Campbell Tests The Ultimate Action Hero (Olympus UK).

Plenty of news on the facebook E-M1II group and the GH5 group.

Dreamjiuce:I put the GH5 through its courses this weekend at a wedding gig. I didn’t once reach for my gimbal surprisingly. Even during the vows where I was about 50ft back using the 35-100 2.8 panny found passed on a tripod. I’m very impressed so far. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erIw0JuIokc

a bit of everything…


GH5 vs Micro Cinema Camera

The Best Mirrorless Cameras for Wildlife and Bird Photography – 2017 Round-up (Mirrorlesscomparison).
Speedmaster 25mm f/0.95 MFT lens test at Mapcamera.
Capturing stunning flowers & summer plants (Olympus Imagespace).
Trading in my SLR for a Olympus Pen E-PL8 at Bunnipunch.
Yeah Field Trip: The Best Photo Convention You’ve Never Heard Of (ALC).
New TH-X H flat base/65mm video head by Libec.
TG-Tracker – Pro Snowboarder Olya Smeshlivaya Tests The Ultimate Action Hero (Olympus UK).

Plenty of news on the facebook E-M1II group and the GH5 group.

Vincent:Hello,I made a video of the Carnival of Venise 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmVjGAN_Jxk It’s a video made with the new olympus EM1.2 and I think it could be great to share with the community.