Olympus OM10 (review + experience)

Panasonic Lumix GH5S sample gallery (Dpreview).
Sevenoak SK T1 Durable Mini Tripod Review (Personal View).
Things We Love: Really Right Stuff Base Plates and Brackets (Explora).
The new bokeh champs? Olympus cracks the code for beautiful bokeh with its F1.2 Pro prime lens series (Imaging Resource).
Les paramètres de la photo: du connu à l’inconnu (PhotoDanielM).

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

Ab: “I recently rented a 6D plus Zeiss primes to compare to the EM1.2 and VL primes. The results were unexpected with the VL primes really keeping neck and neck despite the talk of them being “unusable” wide open etc. Here is the link to the DPR forum thread; https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/60761165“

Click on image to enlarge. Image courtesy by Norifumi

At the Cp+ show Panasonic is displaying that history tree table. They are also giving away this box for free. Don’t know what it contains but I want one! :)

The big CP+ show started today. And here are images from the Olympus booth shared by Nandakaomo. Olympus is showing some heavily modified stuff :)

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More reports:
Panasonic booth images from DC.watch.
TX2 images from Gizmodo.
Red Iberit lenses by Dave_Tokumori.
Gh5s article at Gizmodo.

Micro Four Thirds anniversary badge image via Asobinin:

Venus Optics Laowa 7.5mm f/2 for M4/3 Review by Darren Miles

A rough mock-up and possible specs for a new DVX (www.dvxuser.com).
PowerVision PowerDolphin Water Drone (Personal View).
Announcing the G-Tech mobile USB 3.0 Hard Drive (Explora).
Winter Street Photography (GetOlympus).
Je suis en Pen (-F!): Impressions françaises sur l’Olympus PEN-F (PhotoDanielM).

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

Marc: “Here’s a new video from AYP with the legendary Joe McNally sharing his biggest tip to regard light as language, and his advice and inspiration for how to approach it and to learn to overcome any fear of its use.
It serves as a quick reminder that can be played anywere…your audeince should enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlKPlS_szU0”

These cameras and the 12-100mm and the 300mm lens got a new firmware update: cs.olympus-imaging.jp/en/support/imsg/digicamera/download/software/firm/e1/. Particularly the E-M1II improvements and features list is very long! Please share your test findings in our comment system!

E-M1II firmware features:

• New art filter [Bleach Bypass] has been added.
• Possible to use focus stacking photography with “M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12-100mm F4.0 IS PRO”.
• Small targets have been added to AF target mode.
• Possible to set a maximum of 35 pre-shutter frames for Pro Capture shooting.
• Display has been improved to show that Pro Capture shooting is recording.
• “Flicker Scan” has been added so it is possible to reduce flickering by fine adjustment of shutter speed while looking at the live view when using electronic shutter.
• Fisheye compensation photography has been added for use of M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 8mm F1.8 Fisheye PRO. You can view the effects in live view while shooting images.
• Possible to set zoom ratio during playback. Also, added pixel equivalence display to zoom ratio.
• Pro Capture shooting is available for additional lenses.
• Display of remaining battery power has been improved.
• Response when assigning AF to AEL/AFL button has been improved.
• Stability of camera operation when using OLYMPUS Capture has been improved.
• Stability of image stabilizer operation when shooting video has been improved.
• Performance of C-AF when shooting still images has been improved.
• Color reproduction of photographed images has been improved.
• Stability of operation when shooting still images has been improved.
• Corrected issue of autofocus (AF) function not operating correctly when using the “LEICA DG ELMARIT 200mm F2.8 / POWER O.I.S. (H-ES200)” interchangeable lens produced by Panasonic.

E-M1 firmware features:

• Corrected issue of autofocus (AF) function not operating correctly when using the “LEICA DG ELMARIT 200mm F2.8 / POWER O.I.S. (H-ES200)” interchangeable lens produced by Panasonic.

E-M5II firmware features:

• New art filter [Bleach Bypass] has been added.
• Focus Stacking has been added. (“M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12-100mm F4.0 IS PRO” is also compatible.)
• Corrected issue of autofocus (AF) function not operating correctly when using the “LEICA DG ELMARIT 200mm F2.8 / POWER O.I.S. (H-ES200)” interchangeable lens produced by Panasonic.

PEN-F firmware features:

• New art filter [Bleach Bypass] has been added.
• Possible to set shading effects for Color Creator and Color Profile Control.
• Possible to use OLYMPUS Digital Camera Updater to save monochrome profiles and color profiles of images you like to the camera’s monochrome profiles and color profiles.
• Corrected issue of autofocus (AF) function not operating correctly when using the “LEICA DG ELMARIT 200mm F2.8 / POWER O.I.S. (H-ES200)” interchangeable lens produced by Panasonic.

12-100mm firmware features:

• Stability of image stabilizer operation has been improved.

300mm firmware features:

• Stability of image stabilizer operation has been improved.

The new lens got officially announced!

Preorders:
Leica 50-200mm lens at BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon, Panasonic.

Press coverage:
Imaging Resource. Dpreview. ThePhoBlographer.

Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II – Custom Modes with Gavin Hoey

Panasonic Lumix GH5S sample gallery (Dpreview).
Sevenoak SK T1 Durable Mini Tripod Review (Personal View).
Things We Love: Peak Design Everyday Sling (Explora).
Leica 200mm test at DC.watch.
ISSCC 2018 Review – Sony, Panasonic, Samsung (Image Sensor World).
The new bokeh champs? Olympus cracks the code for beautiful bokeh with its F1.2 Pro prime lens series (Imaging Resource).

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