Mixture of Panasonic GH2 and GH4 footage. from Benjamin Kenobi on Vimeo.

Review of GH4 DFD Predictive AF Capabilities at Naturalexposures.
Panasonic Lumix GM5 Digital Camera Review (reviewed.com).
TEST / Olympus PEN E-PL7, a Mini OM-D E-M10 with No Viewfinder or Flash (Digitalversus).
Lensbaby 5.8mm f/3.5 circular fisheye review at m43photo.
I bought some interesting cameras this year. Some are better than others. But let me tell you which one was the most FUN (Visual Schience Lab).
Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO lens user review at Nabityphotos.

Rip Smith: “With so much emphasis on video it’s sometimes hard to remember that the MFT system is great for stills photography. I work as a volunteer with the Berkeley Arts Council in Martinsburg, West Virginia. We are getting ready for our second Dance Works Festival and I thought your readers might enjoy a short slide show of images I captured of the first festival last year. Most were captured with the Olympus EM-1 with some backup shots with the EM-5. I rented a 75mm f/1.8 for the shoot and used it a lot along with the Panasonic/Leica 25mm f/1.4 and a couple of other lenses. I loved the 75mm so much I bought one within two weeks after renting it! http://www.sterlingimages.com”

Ray: “Looking at one of Olympus’s perhaps forgotten lenses and a reminder to all that many of the older lenses are as good, if not better, than what has come later. The following story contains photos taken with the E-M1 and 90-250mm f2.8 lens, plus EC-14 tele-extender, all handheld; a testament to the quality of these older lenses, as well as the IBIS in the E-M1: http://australianimage.com.au/wordpress/?p=3832.“

We know the E-M5II will have sensor shift function to create high resolution images. A similar multishot technique could be used to reduce noise as a new Olympus patent explaines. Two (or more) images shot at different exposures can be used to create one single image with very low noise. In that case there is no sensor shift in action but just two same images shot at different exposures just like you do when shooting HDR.

And in a second patent Olympus also explains how to get rid of blurred images. That yes could be used in conjunction with the sensor shift mechanism as this is likely to create some blurred images when objects are moving.

On a sub page of their opc.olympus-imaging.com/tools/3d/ page you can find those pictures showing how you could use the Olympus Lens Camera in many different ways. Not sure how useful it is but I really do like that “Spider” camera!

First of all I Wish all 43rumors reader a Happy New Year! I hope you had some fun on 43rumors during 2014 and I hope we can have an even more exciting year in 2015 :)

And now it’s time to make a very simple question. Look back and tell us:

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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 :)