Meyer Optik has announced the development of thenew Trioplan 35mm f/2.8 lens. You can preorder it now for $649 in MFT mount version on Kickstarter (Click here).

Ultimate Studio Background System

5 Top Lenses over $10k (Adorama Learning Center)
New Footage: Panasonic Varicam Pure — 4K RAW at 120fps (Cinema5D).
E-M1II test at DC.watch.
YI M1 camera review at Pantip.
Panasonic Lumix DC-FZ82 Review (Photographyblog).
Snap Inc. Challenges the Camera Industry with the Stylish Spectacles (Explora).

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

Mad Genius: “We shot on different setting eg: 180 frame-rates, 4k 60p, and the 24 10bit. Great powerful GH5 camera! https://www.facebook.com/madgeniusme/videos/1404091222956545/”

Christian: “Ein wenig Street Photography aus Wien. Alle mit mft aufgenommen. http://www.christianmari.at/street-photography-in-wien-jaennerfebruar2017“

Mr. Akira Watanabe, General Manager Global Marketing Dept.

Focus Numerique (google translation here) interviewed Mr. Akira Watanabe and Mr. Toshiyuki Terada from Olympus. Here are some key insights:

1. 8K video:
   “we can assure you that there is no problem in developing sensors at 33 million pixels for filming in 8K.We started the 4/3″ saga with a sensor at 5 Mpx In 2003. Now the same sensor is at 20 Mpx with a much higher image quality especially for the management of electronic noise.”
2. Nikon snapbridge clone:
   “The Nikon Bluetooth technology is actually very interesting…this is a direction we will study.”
3. Further image stabilization improvements:
   Olympus has the tech to increase the image stabilization performance on future cameras.Because they know how to distinguish earths rotation movement from the photographers movement :)
4. Handheld High Resolution mode:
   “I think this is a feature we can offer in the future”
5. About Metalens tech:
   “It is a technology that will not be used in the near future”

Today Panasonic released the new 100-400mm firmware update (download here).

100-400mm lens at [shopcountry 63144].

GH5 Sample Footage No. 1; Follow Focus in UHD 60p

Kipon Baveyes vs. Metabones Speed Booster: Kurztest an der Lumix GH5 (ValueTechTV)
Why the Camera Matters – but Not in the Way You’re Thinking (Intrepidexposures)
SD association doubles bus interface speeds with UHS-iii (MirrorlessRumors).
How To Use a Reflector (Adorama Learning Center)
How to Freeze Motion in Photography Using the Profoto D2 (Explora).

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

Farrukh: “We’re still amongst the few who photograph and film at London Fashion Week using Olympus MFT. Here’s our video of three days of shows, backstage and catwalk:
https://www.facebook.com/Implausibleblog/videos/1159566437482944/“

Adobe just released Camera Raw 9.9. it adds support for the following new cameras:

• Olympus E-M1 Mark II
• Panasonic DC-FZ80
• Panasonic DC-GF9
• Panasonic DC-GH5
• Panasonic DMC-TZ82

DNG Converter 9.9 download links:  Win | macOS

Panasonic Lumix LX10 Review. Shot In 4K

The Versatile Nifty-Fifty – Olympus 25mm f1.8 Lens Review (OlympusPassion).
Lino Manfrotto: A Legacy of Support to Photographers Around the Globe (Adorama Learning Center).
What You Need To Know About Thunderbolt™ 3 (Explora).
how to shoot your first star trails (Olympus Imagespace).
Raw or JPEG: when to use each file format (CameraJabber).

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

Alfred: “I’ve been following your site for months before buying the E-M1 Mark II with the 12-100 lens last week.
In case you are interested, here is a test of the 12-100 lens at different focal lenghts with hi res samples which I just uploaded:
http://myolympus.org/E-M1_II/12_100_lens/“