Panasonic LUMIX G7 Mirrorless Camera – Never Miss That Moment Again

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX100: Product Overview with Marcin Lewandowski (Adorama Learning Center).
The Olympus Pen D3 – emulsive half-baked half-frame tour begins (35mmc).
Is it Time to go Full Frame? Weight These Pros and Cons Before You Decide (Digital-photography-school)
Lomography Petzval 58 Bokeh Control Art lens Review (Photobyrichard)
Olympus rebates at Amazon Germany.
Olympus and Panasonic Cashback at Wex UK.

SLRmagic: “rule.com/know-how/learning-lab There will be a talk for people to signup next week for peopl who want to learn about anamorphic workflow and the new SLR Magic Anamorphot-CINE 2x micro four third primes will be at the event. Venue is Rule Boston Camera in Boston and Mathew Frazer from Panasonic would be giving the talk.”

Preorder links to the two new MFT lenses:
Panasonic-Leica 100-400mm lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and Panasonic. In EU at WexUK. Fotosidan.
Olympus 300mm f/4.0 PRO lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, GetOlympus. In EU at Amazon DE. WexUK.

A full list of the Olympus instant savings can be found on that Adorama page (Click here) and at GetOlympus (Click here).

Nicolas Fischer‎
A small seasonal contribution: EM-1, M.ZUIKO 40-150mm Pro at F8, 64mm, 1/1000s at Sölden Austria (Feb.2015). “Flowing Clouds” – small seasonal contribution.

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The Drone make Yuneec partnered with Panasonic to make a sort of fixed “drone-ready” version of the Panasonic GH4. All info can be read here: yuneec.com/node/1192. The whole package sells for [shoplink 58021 ebay]5.999 Euro in Germany[/shoplink].

Short question: How are PEN-F preorder going?

According to Amazon US rankings (Click here) the Black PEN-F sells better than the Silver one. Both have strong sales but still didn’t manage to dethrone the A6000. But of course the Sony is sold in one color only.

On the other side of the world Amazon Germany rankings (Click here) shows that the Silver version is definitely selling better than the Black one.

Of course Amazon rankings are non conclusive. But still it’s the only way we have yet to see if a camera is popular or not.

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PEN-F Preorder links:
Silver PEN-F in USA/Canada at Bhphoto, Amazon, Adorama, GetOlympus, GetOlympus Canada.
Black PEN-F in USA/Canada at Bhphoto, Amazon, Adorama, GetOlympus, GetOlympus Canada.
Silver PEN-F in EU at Amazon Deutschland, FotoMundus, WexUk, ParkCameras.
Black PEN-F in EU at Amazon Deutschland, FotoMundus, WexUK, ParkCameras.
Olympus E-M10 Mark II Limited at BHphoto and Adorama.
Olympus CBG-11 PR Premium Leather Camera Bag for PEN-F (Brown/Black) at BHphoto.
Olympus CS-48 PR Premium Leather Wrapping Cloth for PEN-F (Brown/Black) at BHphoto.
Olympus ECG-4 External Metal Grip for PEN-F (Black) at BHphoto.
Olympus CSS-S120L PR Premium Leather Shoulder Strap for PEN-F (Brown/Black) at BHphoto.
Olympus CS-47B Leather Body Jacket for PEN-F (Black) at BHphoto.

There are some really unexpected news coming from the Bcnranking 2015 Japanese markets share report:

1. Olympus gained 12% of market share in the mirrorless segment!
2. Panasonic lost the third place to Canon

I want to remind you that in Japan the mirrorless market is as big as the “classic” DSLR segment. This makes the Olympus +12% jump even more impressive! The big looser is Sony that didn’t release any major sub $1,000 camera in 2015. It’s really a good news for Olympus who has been often written as “dead” in the past. Now let’s hope the PEN-F and E-M1II (Photokina) will help to keep the momentum.

On the other side Panasonic gave up the third place to Canon. And this is also a surprise if you take int account that Canon EOS-M system is quite a joke in terms of lens offerings. So I wonder what “went wrong” at Panasonic. They certainly had some nice cameras released in 2015. So maybe there is a marketing issue and not a problem in the product range?

found via Mirrorlessrumors.