a little bit of everything…

Honoring My Father – Keith Kadoyama – Lantern Floating 2014 from Orlando Benedicto on Vimeo.

Orlando sent me the video above and writes: “This is a mini documentary I made about my good friend Keith Kadoyama and why he attends the Lantern Floating Ceremony every year. Shot with the new Panasonic GH4 + Lumix 12-35mm X Lens + SLR Magic Anamorphot.

New GM1 & Panasonic Leica 15mm Photo Set on Flickr.
Is the Panasonic GM1 a ‘better’ camera than the Sony A7r?? (Soundimagesplus).
Olympus SH-50 Review at Photographyblog.
Sony Misses Targets as Panasonic Beats: Chart of the Day (Bloomberg).
Panasonic Lumix GM1 4K ~ Red Rock on Youtube.
Review: Panasonic Lumix GX7 (ThePhoBlographer).
Rode Reel Entry For 2014 (Photothisandthat).
BBC filming with Panasonic GH2 ” Brazil Seen from Above” (BBC).
GH4 review at Darktidemediaco.
New GH4 shooters looking for lenses might find this useful: 9 Awesome Primes for the Panasonic GH4 (Suggestionofmotion).

Beautemps:Did you know this GH4 96 FPS Sports Video? Stunning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh57PaA_ylo

Ben:short Anamorphic test with a GH3. I’d love for you to share this. http://www.dailystaley.com/2014/06/02/trust/

Heather & Mat: I just wanted to share our most recent article featuring guest poster Samuel Gauthier, a Canadian photographer who switched over to MFT (OM-D E-M5) when he moved to Brazil. I think you’ll agree that his work is stunning! Bestmirrorlesscamerareviews.com.

Glimpse into the future: Olympus Glass patent.

What matters for the younger generation of photographers is to be constantly connected in your virtual social world. They care less about sensor size, High ISO and Megapixels than we “older” people do. Portable devices like [shoplink 46152 ebay]Google Glass (they are to buy here on eBay)[/shoplink] could completely change the photographic industry. And it looks like not only Google but also Olympus is aware of that. The image on top comes from the newly published Olympus patent (JP2013/075623) describing a Google Glass alike device having actually two transparent screens on each eye.

Why should we “old generation” photographers using MFT camera care about it? Well according to previous Olympus patents you will be able to display live view images from your MFT camera directly on the head mount display on the Glass. You will no longer have to use the EVF or LCD screen to take pictures and review them. This is how you could take your pictures in a couple of years from now!

Olympus releases special edition E-M10. Gets sold also at Harrods!

Olympus launched a special edition E-M10 which will also sold by luxury store Harrods. As reported by ePhotozine:

Each E-M10 Limited Edition is available in a specially created shade of green, black or orange, and comes with an ‘OM-D’ lens cap that exactly matches the grip and shoulder strap. Shiny metal lettering on the cap extends the premium look and feel, as does the slightly different hue of the crevices and raised surfaces on the textured casing.
The OM-D E-M10 Limited Edition is available in three colour variations – orange and black which will be available through selected stockists and green, available exclusively at Harrods – from late June 2014, for £749.

The sensor technology trend (including Panasonic organic and color splitter tech).

This is a post for tech freaks :)

The video on top explains the trend in CMOS development. If you don’t have time to watch the full video than just take a look to that screenshot. It shows the single tech trends which do include organic sensor and color splitter tech which are developed by Panasonic (in collaboration with Fuji):

I think it will not take much time until we see most of these tech inside Panasonic and Sony (for Olympus) sensors.

found via Image Sensor World.

Weekly 43rumors readers pictures selection!


Ulli Bürer‎
Aneu Sonia, close to her 10th anniversary of being one of the most popular photomodels in Indonesia . I met her 1st in 2006 , fell in love with her distinguished looks, and decided to meet her again 8 years later in Jakarta. I bundled both sessions in a foliozine released on blurb.com (E-M5 & 45mm f/1.8 wideopen)

This is a mix of last week 43rumors pictures posted on our 43rumors Facebook Photo wall (Click here). What you see here are the pictures that either got the most likes by the community or liked by me God Almighty 43rumors owner ;)

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Panasonic GH4 engineers interviewed: Did you know it can track a train at 200km/h?

The GH4 developer team (Image: DC.watch).

DC.watch (google translation here) interviewed the Panasonic engineers in charge of the GH4 development.

– The “H” in the name stays for “High Definition” and “Hybrid”
– GH4 continuous shooting speed is now about twice as fast as on the GH3
– The biggest challenge was how to reduce the heat.
– Low pass filter has been necessary for video recording. But it doesn’t mean Panasonic will get rid of it in future.

UPDATE: Dicahub provided me with a nice translation and pointed me about one curious GH4 feature: The engineers said tracking performance of gh4 is 3x faster than gh3. And it can be tracking the train running about 200km/h!

GH4 North American preorders, shipping date and price:
GH4 camera at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Ritz Camera and Panasonic. Price: $1,698. In Canada at Vistek.
GH4 camera with interface unit at Adorama and BHphoto. Price: $3,298
Interface unit only at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and Panasonic. Price: $1,998

GH4 Europen preorders, shipping date and price:
Germany: Wexcameras, Marcotec-shop.de.
UK at Wexphotographic, CameraWorld, UKdigital, CVP, TipTop.
Holland at Fotohanskeuzekamp.
Belgium at Fotokonijnenberg.
Norway at Fotovideo.
Sweden at Cyberphoto, Skandinavianphoto.
Finland at Telefoto, Topshot, Verkkoauppa.
France at Photocineshop.
Spain: Fotoboom.

Asian preorders, shipping date and price:
Digitalrev and Digidirect Australia.

4K cards
Kingston 16-32-64 GB SDHC UHS-I Speed Class 3 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Sandisk 16-32-64 GB Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-II Memory Card at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Transcend 64-128 GB High Speed 10 UHS-3 at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Panasonic 16-32-64 GB SDHC-UHS-I U3 Card (90MB/s) at Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).