The rambling video autofocus mega-test – Part 1

A Photographer’s Guide to Packing for Holiday Travel (Explora).
Transforming Light Into Art (ALC).
The Olympus 40-150mm PRO lens patent at Freepatentsonline.
Olympus needs an OM-D E-M3 (Dpreview forum)
Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, tutti i segreti per ottenere il meglio (PMstudionews).

Tom: “We have a Christmas fundraising appeal which includes a special PhotoVoice camera package from Olympus, which offers the E-M1 MkII and the 45mm 1.8 lens, along with a 1:1 training session from Olympus, all for £1849.
All profit goes to support our charitable work, and there are plenty of other interesting rewards available. I’d love it if you could let your readers know about this.
You can find out more at www.crowdfunder.com/PhotoVoice.”

In case you missed this: The latest version of the Olympus Digial Camera updater let’s you also store your E-M1II camera settings. This allows you for example to transfer your settings on another Olympus camera (Example from one E-M1II to another E-M1II). Also when there are new major firmware updates the camera settings will be retained.

UPDATE: This feature only works for the new E-M1II. I have no info whether this will be implemented on other Olympus cameras via future updates.

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found via Karl Grabherr.

Reference View is a new view mode available in the Develop Module that allows you to compare 2 different images in order to make them visually consistent

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Today Lightroom CC(2015.8) / 6.8, Adobe Camera Raw 9.8 and updates to Lightroom for mobile are now available.  Please click here to read the Camera Raw release notes and click here to read all the Lightroom for mobile news.

The update adds RAW support for the following cameras:

Olympus E-M1 Mark II (*)
Olympus PEN E-PL8
Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ2500 (DMC-FZ2000 and DMC-FZH1)

Well, the new E-M1II shipment start is tomorrow already! Two readers sent me this:

Reader 1: “Launched of em1 mk2 in Singapore is confirmed to be 9 Dec. customers here could pick it up from store. Attach is Oly online flyer.”

Reader 2: “My local dealer here in Germany just told me that Olympus will be sending out the first shipment of E-M1 mark II to all the pro-dealers tomorrow from Hamburg. Cameras are expected to be available in the shops from Friday maybe Saturday on.“

Olympus E-M1II preorders:
In USA at BHphoto, Amazon, GetOlympus and Adorama.
In Europe at ParkCameras. WexUK. Digitech.ch.

Olympus OMD E-M1 II controls and handling for video first look

Olympus E-M1 II Image Stabilization Test (Dpreview).
YI M1 4k video sample (Dpreview).
How to grab a still picture from a video with Adobe Lightroom (Adrian Rohnfelder)
Watch this – Feliz Navidad by Miki Santamaria (Olympus Europe).
Lens mechanism patent by Panasonic (pdf file).
Panasonic Unveiles Prototype 360 Camera Rig – Quad Camera 4K Live Streaming VR (Cinema5D)

Olympus disabled the 4.2 firmware update on the E-M1. This is their official press text:

$447 vs $3500 – 5D Mark IV vs G7- 4K video compared!

Can you make money selling your photos (Mike Moats).
Panasonic Lumix FZ2000 / FZ2500 review (CameraLabs).
Anteprima Mark2 + video intervista polyphoto italia (Promirrorless).

Nigel Paterson‎: “I’ve been video blogging for my Motorcycle Magazine using an Olympus OM-D E-M5II. The whole video was handheld, primarily with the 12-40mm f/2.8, but I also used the 7-14mm f/2.8 and 75mm f/1.8. Audi was handled in camera with a Rode Stereo MicX.
Edited on a 13-inch MBP, partly on the flight home.
Given the stabilisation, image quality and compact size of this gear, about the only thing I think which would have been better suited to the job is the E-M1markII, but I don’t have one of those yet… https://youtu.be/16Zj_Gqu82w”

Amj Elg‎: “https://vimeo.com/191436651 This is a short film I made using the bmpcc (blackmagic pocket cinema camera) using the panasonic lumix 25mm 1.4 and Olympus pro 12 40lenses.”