As you know Kodak already has a Micro Four Thirds camera named Kodak S-1 which you can find on sale on [shoplink 50392 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] and Amazon US (Click here).
Well there is another one coming. Kodak will launch a new Instamtaic camera with Micro Four Thirds mount. There is yet no picture of that camera (what you see on top is an image of the fixed lens version). But here are the specs from instamatic2014.com/specs/:

As you see the camera comes with a PixPro 24-260mm f/2.4-5.3 lens. Nice fast at the wide end and quite useful long 10x zoom range. If the optical quality is decent it may be an interesting option for all us current Olympus/Panasonic camera owners!

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Thanks Andrea for sharing!

A Certain Time Of Year (GH4) from Colby Moore on Vimeo.

Panasonic Lumix FZ200 Review (Wrbdigitalcamerareviews).
Olympus Stylus 1s hands-on at DC.watch.
Panasonic patent to obtain a high-resolution image from the RGB and IR (Egami).
Sony RX100 III, Canon G7X, Canon G1 X II, Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX100 and Fujifilm X30 battle at Lonelyspeck.
Panasonic HX-A500 Quickreview + RAW Footage (ActionCameraRumors).
Digimanie.cz FZ1000 4K test videos (one and two).
New GM5 bag in Japan (DC.watch).

Gary Yost: “Well, here’s another Micro 4/3 piece that I think your readers will appreciate. I was the colorist on a holiday video for a popular San Francisco Italian restaurant called Delfina, and the video asks the question “What is Happiness?”.
It was entirely shot on the GH4 in 4K (with the Lumix 12-35 and the Nokton 42.5, using the Natural picture style. I was the colorist on the project and graded the entire piece in Davinci Resolve and it looks quite beautiful… extremely filmic with no crunch “video look.”
Here’s the piece:
https://vimeo.com/115015228
and the before/after comparisons between straight-out-of-camera footage and the graded final work.
https://vimeo.com/114977553
A typical node graph in Resolve for one of these shots would start out like this:
1st: primary adjustment for global exposure, contrast and white balance.
2nd: power windows to separate foreground subject from background (usually two ovals… one for head and one for shoulders, linked and tracked together). This window optimizes subject contrast and lighting, adds eye sharpening, in some cases pro-mist for skin treatment
3rd: outside node inverting the power windows to darken background and in some cases also desaturate background slightly.
4th: Osiris M31 LUT at somewhere between 40-60% along with final global contrast and exposure adjustment.
Beyond the above, there were plenty of shots that needed additional HSL qualification for doing things like recovering green in the parsley, doing Hue vs Sat and Hue vs Hue adjustments, and operations like that. Probably 50% of the shots needed additional work with these types of secondaries.”

Jonas: “I made some pictures that move, using the Panasonic LX100 and the GoPro Hero4 Black. http://youtu.be/CT2gavQUfQA“

The Japanese site DC.watch interviewed Panasonic manager to talk about the present and future of photography.

– High Megapixel cameras are coming (from all manufacturers). Megapixel race will never go away says Panasonic
– Panasonic is working on 6K and 8K video recording. 8K will come before 2020 (Olympic year).
– The ultimate “dream” is to beat the human eye performance
– There is the potential to use pure electronic shutter only
– Micro Four Thirds is the perfect sensor size for Panasonic. But they not rule out to create a second larger sensor size system.
– A medium format camera from Panasonic is highly unlikely to happen :)

You can follow the Panasonic CES press conference live on that page: panasonicces2015.com. I am yet not sure Panasonic will announce new MFT cameras at CES. CP+ show is the more “ideal” event for that. But there may be new compact cameras and video cameras they will show at CES. Panasonic itself writes about CES:

In addition to 4K camcorders and twin camera compatible camcorders, visitors will also be able to try LUMIX cameras equipped with the “4K Photo” function, which enables users to capture one-of-a-kind, memorable still photos from 4K videos, as well as a wide range of semi-professional 4K products.

43rumors reader W. (Thanks) shared that image of the official answer he got from Olympus. The Open Platform project will take place in Japan only. So there is no way for non-Japanese residents to join the program :(

opc.olympus-imaging.com/tools/#opc

Wondering what are the 2014 most read articles on 43rumors? Here they are:

First place: (FT5) First images of the new Olympus E-M10!
Second place: (FT5) First Panasonic GH4 images!
Third place: (FT5) Hot! New Olympus OMD camera to be announced at Photokina in September!
Fourth place: Readers stories: 7 Reasons Olympus OMD-EM5 is the Best Travel DSLR (Chris Vervaeke)
Fifth place: (FT5) Panasonic will launch a new GM2 with built-in EVF!
Sixth place: (FT5) E-M5 successor has sensor shift to create up to 40 megapixel images on the fly!
Seventh place: First pictures of the next two Olympus PRO zooms: 7-14mm f/2.8 and 300mm f/4.0!
Eight place: (FT5) First images of the new Olympus lenses!
Ninth place: (FT4) Olympus 7-14mm f/2.8 to be announced soon? Priced at around $1,799.
Tenth place: (Fool Days Joke) Panasonic will restructure camera division. Micro Four Thirds project will be killed and focus now on Full Frame!

Slh Dub‎
Făgăraș Mountains, Romania
E-PM2 + oly 45mm 1.8

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