The new Panasonic Leica 12mm f/1.4 lens is in Stock at Amazon and BHphoto.
A newly published Sigma patent describes a 12mm f/1.4 MFT lens. And the lens construcion is the same of the current Leica 12mm f/1.4 lens. There is now little doubt this lens has been designed by Sigma and not by Panasonic.
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Landscape Photography | Switzerland with Ben Grunow in 4K | LUMIX G Stories
Diffraction on Micro Four Thirds cameras (xtj7.de).
Stavanger – PEN-F (Pen And Tell).
The Need For Speed and Space: What Do You Need To Store Video? (Explora).
Plenty of news on the facebook E-M1II group and the GH5 group.
Francesco: “I realized this video about ancient Via Appia in Rome with Lumix G6 & G80 with lenses 12-60mm and 35-100. Hope you can like and share on 43rumors! https://vimeo.com/234074403“
Our reader Donald spotted a new MFT lens. It’s the iZugar 220 degree Fisheye lens made for VR and 3D stuff:
Technical details available on this spec sheet.
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Thanks Donald!
Daniel:
“Panasonic Lumix engineers visiting my studio in Montana. I hired a young cinematographer to document the visit and he recently put together a short video. Thought you might like to see this and share if you feel it has interest. I’ve posted the video on Facebook which is at this address: https://www.facebook.com/naturalexposures/videos/1755238501171611/“
GH5 Speeding Pooch Test with Panasonic Engineers
Laowa 7.5mm f/2 MFT Review (Photographyblog).
World Exclusive – GH5 FW 2.0 HLG vs LOG – what is HLG with davinci tutorial (CRFTSHO).
Sports you never thought you’d photograph (Olympus Imagespace)
3 Photographers Test-Drive the Lensbaby Velvet 85mm f/1.8 (Explora).
Plenty of news on the facebook E-M1II group and the GH5 group.
In the photography software world Adobe has a near monopoly. And they just reported they record quarterly revenue of $1.84 billion in its third quarter of fiscal year 2017. This is 26 percent year-over-year revenue growth (Full report here).
One of the smaller players trying somehow to compete with Adobe is Macphun. They just released the new Aurora HDR (preorder here) which comes for both Mac and Windows. You might give it a chance if you want to be “Adobe free”. Here are a few reviews of the new software:
There is a new Lensbaby in the house: Today they launched the Sweet 80 Optic. It’s priced at $379 at Bhphoto (Click here). Image samples can be found at Explora.
