Season 3, Episode 3: Shooting a Family Vacation: Portrait Photography

Panasonic Lumix GF7 review at Digitalversus.
Olympus M.ZUIKO Digital 40-150mm f/2.8 Pro Review (Photographyblog).
Five Super Sharp Portrait Lenses for Your Mirrorless Camera (ThePhoBlographer).
Seocnd part of the LX100 review at Mirrorlessons.
New German Micro Four Thirds Lens Database at m43-objektive.de.

Nelson: “Moon rise video I done few days ago, with GH4 + Tokina 80-200mm F2.8 https://vimeo.com/116236116”

Christer Wikström‎: “Pictures I take on a weekend trip with an Olympus Pen E-P5 and 45mm lens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REN6ufyeQNE”

Ludwig “Location: Zurich, Switzerland. Camera: AG-AF100. Lenses: Lumix 35-100 mm and Lumix 7-14 mm. Recorder: BlackmagicDesign UltraStudio 3D over HD-SDI. Recording-format: DPX. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSqxRZLXFVw”

Kyle: “I wanted to share with you this video I did for transworld skateboarding. I made a boxed array of 6 GH4s. I hope you enjoy it and possibly share it! http://skateboarding.transworld.net/lrg-skate-create-2015/#.VMJ5B6YriQl”

Capion Studio: “https://vimeo.com/117715659 s800 Evo Test Flight with the Zenmuse + Panasonic GH4. This slightly aging Hexacopter is still a real contender in the field of aerial platforms. The s800 Evo paired with the GH4 Zenmuse results in a rock solid unit that is just about up for any task. We took it around our neighborhood and here is the results. No warp stabilization has been applied.”

Michael: “I have done a spot of thinking and experimenting. Which has led to the death of the “flat” profile misconception. And the regaining of all the time wasted on fiddling with, and rendering of, technically inferior footage.
The technical explanation is here: http://www.supertone.dk/#!GH4-Optimal-Film-Setting-works-in-stills-too/c24o4/8E18836A-F271-4A14-AF0D-C575B9D5F4B6
Here is a full ASA range test – from 200 to 6400 ASA www.vimeo.com/112699788“

New Mexico Road Trip 2014 from Lawrence Ripsher. Everything filmed with a Panasonic LX100 in 4K and downsampled to 1080p.

Panasonic LUMIX LX100 Named as 2015 CES Innovation Awards Honoree (Prnewswire).
Review Panasonic 45mm f/2.8 Leica DG MACRO-ELMARIT (CameraStuffReview).
Olympus M.ZD 12-40mm at DC.Fever.
ED 40-150mm review at Pixinfo.
E-PL7 test at Itmedia.
My Panasonic LX100 Thoughts… (Steve Huff).

Mirrorlessons: “We recently wrote a piece entitled “A Mirrorless Wedding – Four cameras, three systems, two photographers and one happy couple.” In the article, we discuss using Olympus, Fujifilm and Sony cameras together at a single event, the process of unifying the overall look of these Raw files in post production, and some tips for successfully documenting a wedding with mirrorless systems. http://www.mirrorlessons.com/2015/01/23/a-mirrorless-wedding-four-cameras-three-systems-two-photographers-and-one-happy-couple/“

Kyle: “I wanted to share with you this video I did for transworld skateboarding. I made a boxed array of 6 GH4s. I hope you enjoy it and possibly share it! http://skateboarding.transworld.net/lrg-skate-create-2015/#.VMJ5B6YriQl“

To get official updates on the new E-M5II launch you can sign up on that GetOlympus page (Click here). The camera will be announced next week.

P.S.: Sources are welcome to send me the exact announcement date and hour :)

Hannes from Dealsrunner (Thanks!) spotted the price for the new Voigtlander Nokton 10,5mm f/0.95 Micro Four Thirds lens. It costs 1199 Euro in Germany! And two weeks ago on Facebook Voigtlander confirmed the new will ship in Q1/Q2.

P.S.: In US the lens is listed at BHphoto (Click here).

Image courtesy: Personal View.

The current digital system camera market keeps remaining pretty lame this year. Sales are way below the previous year. The last CIPA shipment data for October and November confirms the tendency. DSLR sales are lower than 12 months ago while mirrorless sales remain constant. You can see the full graph analysys at Personal-view.

I am now wondering if sales will keep falling don in 2015 or if we finally will manage to stop the negative trend…

Panasonic finally released the new 2.1 firmware update for the GH4 and the new 1.1 firmware update for the YAGH interface unit. You can download it here: http://av.jpn.support.panasonic.com/support/global/cs/dsc/download/fts/index.html

YAGH interface: