Sphereoptics launched a new Sphere lens which can be used on any MFT camera with the proper F to MFT mount adapter.

The lens captures a full spherical 360° omnidirectional  field of view in a single image — the  first of its kind. This allows the creation of spherical video content with no stitching using a conventional camera, vastly streamlining the content creation process and enabling shots that were previously impossible.

• Captures a complete 360° sphere without gaps in a single shot
• Eliminates stitching process
• Shoots extremely close (1mm) without stitching artifacts or parallax errors
• Uses your existing professional camera and workflow

The CEO from Sphereoptics talked to Newsshooter about their new product and said:

“Originally we designed the system specifically for the Sony A7s2 because of its low light capability and ability to shoot 4K. The fact the GH4 allows 4:3 (or 1:1) enabled us to squeeze a touch more resolution out, but unfortunately it does some minor cropping.”

Introducing the Long-Awaited Panasonic LUMIX GH5 at CES 2017

10 Tips and Tricks for Photographing Holiday Lights and Candles (Explora).
The Image stabilization Olympus patent.
German Olympus Zuiko Digital 50-200mm review at ThePhotoNerd.
Olympus 30mm f/3.5 Macro Lens Review (Imaging Resource).
The most sold camera during USA Christmas time wasn’t digital…(Mirrorlessrumors)

Jim: “I noticed you ran a Peter Gregg video about the Metabones EF-m43 Speed Booster adaptors.  My blog has a much more scientific discussion on how the different generation Speed Booster actually improve IQ. https://jimchungblog.wordpress.com/2016/12/29/first-blog-post/“

Thanks Espen!

Olympus has lost 8% sales share on the Japanese market during 2016. I don’t think the numbers do include the E-M1II which barely started to ship out in December. 2016 was a strange year anyway with the Kumamoto disaster messing around with the companies shipment capability and product roadmap. That’s why I am not sure how “serious” those charts are yet.

Source BCNranking via MirrorlessRumors

Panasonic GH5, 45min Interview with Panasonic Marketing Specialist Sean Robinson

November 2016 system cameras sales were as good as last year (Mirrorlessrumors)
how to sync video and audio in final cut, premiere cc and imovie (Youtube).
Panasonic DMC FZ-2500 Review test shots 4K (Cars and Cameras)
Panasonic GH5 vs Olympus E-M1 Mark II (Diglloyd).
Kodak Brings Back Ektachrome Color Reversal Film (Explora).
A lawyer rewrote Instagram’s privacy policy so kids and parents can have a meaningful talk about privacy (Quartz).
Orange GF9-GF8-GF7 size comaprison at Photosku.

Damn those focus points really move around fast! :)

Jokes aside this is a more serious vidoe posted by Newsshooter:

Found on GH5 facebook group.

Preorders (use these links to support my work thanks!):
GH5 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama and Panasonic US. In EU at Cyberport.de and ParkCamera.
GF9 (Black) at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.
GF9 (Silver) at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.
Battery Grip for DC-GH5 at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.
Leica 12-60mm at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.
12-35mm F/2.8 II Asph at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.
35-100mm f/2.8 II ASPH at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.
45-200mm f/4-5.6 II POWER OIS at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.
100-300mm f/4.0-5.6 II POWER OIS at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.
Panasonic DMW-XLR1 XLR Microphone Adapter at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.
DMW-DCC15A DC Coupler at BHphoto and Adorama.
FZ80 camera at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.

‎Ilya Varivchenko‎
Dasha, PEN-F, Panasonic 42.5/1.7

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