The recent financial report from Olympus and Panasonic showed some sign of recovery in their imaging segment (which includes digital camera and other business). The trend seems to be confirmed by the latest March 2016 CIPA reports. For the first time in two years Japanese companies shipped more cameras than the previous year (and did even better than March of two years ago). But the good news may last shortly. As I heard from my sources the Kumamoto earthquake damaged many factories producing sensor or other camera parts. And I expect at least 3 months of supply shortage and product announcement delays. This means camera shipment in May-June-July will easily be much lower than in 2015.

We have to hope that after the Photokina announcement Olympus and Panasonic will face no problem in shipping the E-M1II and GH5 before the end fo the year.

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A lil drag portrait with the Oly 75mm attached to my GX8. smile emoticon

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Olympus renovated their US/Canada site GetOlympus.com (Click here). Check it out!

Cognisys StopShot Hands-On Field Test

£150 Amazon Credit and £100 Cashback on the GX8 at Amazon UK.
Olympus Europe launched a new summer special bonus. All details can be read here: bonus.olympus.eu.
Banding with 20mm 1.7 & GM-5 (not using Electronic shutter) at Dpreview Forum
Oversampling for Image Quality Makes Sense (Diglloyd).
E-M1II survey by Lepidi.

Kevin: “Here is a fun shoot we had for a local high school who went to the state championship and won! These two cameras performed admirably in a high paced, run & gun environment.
https://vimeo.com/159344300 GH4 w/ Ronin-M & G7 Shooting on Boston Celtics Floor. “

Panasonic published the 2016 financial report and the forecast for 2017. Alld ata can be found here: panasonic.com/global/corporate/ir/release.html

The whole company:
OP increased by 33.8 bil. yen y-y to 415.7 bil. yen, net incomeattributable to Panasonic Corporation increased by 13.8 bil. yen y-y to 193.3 bil. yen, where both figures exceeded their forecasts.

AVC Networks results (which also includes the digital camera and lens business):
Sales went up 1% and operating income went up 22%. There is no detailed info about the sole digital camera business.

Forecast for the AVC segment:
Sales are expected to increase with high quality imaging and high value added products mainly in 4Kproducts, such as projectors, digital cameras, broadcasting cameras and surveillance cameras

Mike (video on top): “My feature documentary is currently on the film festival circuit, would love to pitch it to you for feature on your blog for “a bit of everything” or otherwise. www.southbureauhomicide.com Trailer: https://vimeo.com/137415295
I bring it up because it was shot 99% with my two Panasonic Gh3 bodies. There are a several shots in the film from GoPro car mounts, but the Gh3 did everything else, either with the 12-35 2.8 or the 35-100 2.8.”

£150 Amazon Credit and £100 Cashback on the GX8 at Amazon UK.
Olympus Europe launched a new summer special bonus. All details can be read here: bonus.olympus.eu.
Predict the E-M1 II price (Dpreview Forum).
The Olympus 40-150mm PRo lens patent (Freepatentsonline).
Lumix zs100 images from vietnam by william innes (LumixLounge).

New TRIOPLAN “Soap Bubble Bokeh”‘ F2,8 100MM Review (Note: available as MFT mount option too).

£150 Amazon Credit and £100 Cashback on the GX8 at Amazon UK.
Olympus Europe launched a new summer special bonus. All details can be read here: bonus.olympus.eu.
Rokinon 100mm f/2.8 Macro review (Steve Digicams).
300mm F4.0 IS PRO LENS revew by Jet Daisuke.
Olympus Ambassador & Fashionfotograf Brendan De Clercq zur Pen-F (Digitech).
first look at the lensbaby twist 60 (Diyphotography).