I have been told that because of possible patent issues the Kipon EF to MFT adapter with full electronic control will not be produced.

Non electronic Kipon adapters are already available on [shoplink 20746 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

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Panasonic (Click here) just announced that they will release a new GH3, H-FS45150, H-PS14042 and H-PS45175 firmware update in late March of 2013. The improvements are listed on the screenshot you see here on top. The firmware will also fix the intervalometer issue we reported last week.

Meantime the GH3 is now regularly in Stock un US atores like Amazon (Click here), BHphoto (Click here) and Samys (Click here).

In Canda there is a $200 price drop on the GH3 with 12-34mm X lens kit at Henrys (Click here).

Panasonic GH3 Lumix 12-35mm vs Canon FD 35mm – Moire and Aliasing Test

Jackar Snapshooter 34mm f/1.8 review at ThePhoBlographer.
A full PEN story in Spanish at DSRLmagazine.
A “french” OMD-7 wishlist at Lepidi.
Olympus E-Pm2 test at Digitalcamerareview.
17mm f/1.8 lens test at ePhotozine.
GH3 vs NEX-7 video quality comparison at Popco.
E-PM2 review at Steve Digicams.

Mpgxsvcd: “Here is a video that shows some of the impossible shots you can get with the GH3’s in camera RAW stacking mode.
Panasonic has not said anything about the RAW stacking capabilities the GH3 has. In fact I didn’t even know it had it until I first got mine. However, I had a chance last night to really play around with it for Astro Photography.
Simply put. The in camera HDR and stacking could be game changers. The GH3 already beats every single APS-C camera on DXO mark Canon makes. Canon has been the defacto camera for AP for many years.
Here are some images and videos I took last night while the full moon was out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJFaw-burCI
The in camera RAW stacking that the GH3 offers could finally allow us to get impressive images in camera and without ever hooking up a computer to the scope. For me that is essential.
The big issue is that you simply must guide the scope. Trying to do it with tracking alone won’t work. Right now I can’t afford to guide so I did some testing with brighter objects.”

Anonymous: “Below is a single image that was produced in camera by stacking many RAW images from different areas of space together. The only thing I edited was that some of the stars show through the moon. However, I have posted the original out of camera RAW file if you want to play with it.
I took the image of Orion first and then stacked for quick exposures of the moon over it. It is really easy because the GH3 shows you the original RAW image with the live view super imposed over it.
http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/4222674355/photos/2445623
And here is the dpreview thread where we are discussing it.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3389829”

Gregory: “I have since been working on a separate project: a photography blog where I’ve gathered the best of my street photography in Istanbul, where I live. Most of the shots where taken with a GF-1, many with the E-M5 and a handful with a Pentax K5. m43 lenses used: mostly 20mm 1.7. and 14mm 2.5 but also 45mm 2.8. and 45mm 1.8 Pentax lenses used: Sigma 17-50 2.8, Pentax 15mm 4.0 Ltd. You can check my site there: istanbulcandids.com”

Thiago: “I would just like to share my just-made blog dedicated to the BCL-15 Body Cap Lens. http://bodycap.tumblr.com/”

Romain: “A little test between Canon 5D Mark III and Panasonic GH2, with Canon 50mm F1,4 and Voigtlander 25mmF0,95 160 iso / 7500 Kelvin here -> http://vimeo.com/60832620“

The German company SVS-Vistek announced the first Industrial Micro Four Thirds camera. The name is “EVO Tracer” and it reminds me of my nice [shoplink 37063 ebay]Hasselblad 903SWC camera[/shoplink] with that cube style :)

• Micro Four Thirds mount
• full electronic support for aperture control and autofocus
• Remote Lens control via Ethernet
• Monochrome or Color sensor (made by Truesense Imaging)
• Full-Frame speeds of 146Hz, 85Hz, 40Hz and 21Hz at 1, 2, 4 and 8 Megapixels respectively
• Dual GigE Vision Data-Interface (Gigabit Ethernet Standard)
• GigE Vision und GenIcam Standard compatible
• Two parallel Ethernet connections
• variable AOI
• SDK for Windows (32/64 bit) and Linux.
• Sequence Shutter mode and enhanced Strobe control
• On-the-fly programmable AOI for higher frame rates and reduced data transfer
• 3 Inputs and 3 Outputs (put details in the spec table)
• 2 Outputs for driving LED flash illumination or Pan-Tilt mount (see spec)
• RS-232 communication for controlling external devices over the Gige interface
• Rugged IP-67 rated housing
• Standard M12 industry-proven connectors for use with COTS cabling

Full specs can be read on that pdf (Click here to download).

There was a time when everyone was talking about the 3D future. And we MFT users also got the first 3D lens for a digital mirrorless system from Panasonic (the 12.5mm f/8 here at Amazon). Now the hype is over but I am sure 3D will come back. Image Sensor World spotted that Panasonic design explaining the new Single Lens technique. Instead of using special 3D lenses you focus on the use f special 3D sensors. I guess smartphones and compact cameras may will be released with the mentioned technique. Don’t believe Panasonic will make a MFT 3D camera but if they do you may be able to use all your MFT lenses for shooting 3D. Nice.

A Review of the Panasonic GH3 Compact System Camera by David Thorpe on Youtube.

Sigma 19mm f/2.8 EX DN review at M43photo.
New Olympus 75-300mm lens will ship in Japan from March 1 (DC.watch).
Mirrorless Battle: OM-D vs GH3 vs X-E1 by Admiringlight.
E-PL5 review at TechHive.
Olympus 15mm f/8 Body Cap Lens review at Admiringlight.
Spanish M.ZD 17mm f/1.8 review at Juansinponte.

Riccardo: “My last work with my gh2, Hope you like it (youtube)“