Panasonic CES live streaming on January 5.

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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.

 

 

Most read news of 2014 on 43rumors.com!

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!

 

Weekly 43rumors readers pictures roundup.


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

1) You can share your pics by using the message box on our 43rumors Facebook page (Click here).
2) All 43rumors readers pictures can be seen here: facebook.com/43rumors/photos. Like the pictures you like and chat with the authors if you want to know how they took the shot!
3) The most liked pictures and some pics selected by myself will be posted weekly on 43rumors

This is the weekly selection:

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Also Fuji says organic sensor developed with Panasonic will not come in any camera soon.

Fuji confirmed that there is still a long time to go before organic sensors will find their way in mass production cameras (More info at MirrorlessRumors). As you know that kind of sensor is developed in conjunction with Panasonic. I guess it will take at least 2-3 years before we geta MFT camera with such sensor. But maybe in the meantime other new tech will surface that will make that kind of organic sensor useless anyway…

Reminder:
On paper the new Organic sensor has the following advantages over conventional sensors:
1) it has only 1/6 of the thickness of the current sensors
2) Increased Dynamic range of 88dB
3) 1,2 ISO stops more sensitive
4) range of incident angles of 60 degrees, efficiently utilizing light entering at an angle for faithful color reproduction with no color mixing. It also gives greater flexibility in lens designs, facilitating the reduction of overall camera size.

The full press release can be found here: 43rumors.com/hot-news-panasonic-and-fuji-developed-the-first-organic-sensor/

Olympus interview at DC.watch: Talks about large sensor compact, Full Frame, Megapixel race and 4K.

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DC.watch interviewed the Olympus managers Masamichi and Suzuki. And those are some of the key info they shared:

– We are not focused on classic Mirrorless cameras only. We also work on completely new kind of cameras (like the Open Platform Lens Camera prototype).
– Olympus says MFT has the best size-quality balance. And Olympus main priority is to strengthen the line.
– Olympus acknowledges the trend now goes toward more high Megapixel cameras
– On the tech front Olympus wants to make cameras that are faster, consume less, better High ISO and with increased Dynamic Range.
– There is a possibility to also use different kind on non-Bayer sensor.
– electronic shutter is also likely to be introduced in future
– we are “investigating” the possibility to make a Four Thirds sensor and fixed lens compact camera
– we have no specific plan yet to use larger sensors (like Full Frame).
– we plan to improve video quality on future cameras (60p and 4K for example).

A bit of everything…


Olympus 25mm f/1.8 lens review

Focal length for Portraits (Padrone).
Rokinon/Samyang/Wallimex 12mm f/2.8 lens will cost 549 and 649 Euro (Cine and non Cine versions). Source: Photoscala.
40-150mm PRO test at Capacamera.
Olympus 40-150mm test at DSLRmagazine (google translation here):
Panasonic FZ1000 review conclusions at Imaging Resource.
German 9mm Body cap review at Stuffblog.
Micro Four Thirds – The Mature Mirrorless System. Olympus OM-D E-M10 (Soundimagesplus).
Jane Bown selfie with Olympus (TheGuardian)

Mirrorleassons:Since it has been extremely foggy here in Turin as of late, Mathieu and I decided document the phenomenon one Sunday morning with the Lumix LX100 and Fuji X100t. The result is this gallery. :) Hope you enjoy it! http://www.bestmirrorlesscamerareviews.com/2014/12/22/fog-on-the-river-po-in-turin-a-fujifilm-x100t-panasonic-lumix-lx100-gallery/

Jan:My best shot I did this year solely using the Panasonic Lumix GM1 in combination with the Voigtländer f0.95 25mm lens – no rig or whatsoever used. https://vimeo.com/101335718

Eyal:If you care for such comparison – I compared my LX100 and my GX7 20mm f/1.7 kit to see who’s sharper. The results are here: http://www.eyalg.com/blog/2014/12/lx100-vs-gx7-sharpness-comparison-test/