Keep Snapping // Iceland // Lumix LX100 Photos by Erik Hecht

Eric (video on top): “I put together this 4K slideshow of photos taken with my LX100 in Iceland: http://youtu.be/CKHwg8nTsf4. I also made a gallery on my website of the images: http://www.erikhecht.com/iceland/. I’m incredibly impressed with the quality of the raw images of this camera and I think your readers will enjoy the images as well.”

Panasonic 35-100mm f/4.0-5.6 Field Test (TheDigitalStory).
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GM5 review-in-progress posted (Dpreview).
One format to rule them all? Shall “mirrorless full-frame digital” become the universal photographic standard? (Eyesuncloudedphoto).
Panasonic GM5 Shooter’s Report (Imaging Resource).
Olympus E-PL7 TIPA Review at Photographymonthly.
E-Pl7 test at DC.watch.

Karsten: “During ‘Illuminale’, a festival of lights at Trier (Germany), we shot the following official movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMzMSY6yvlI. Foremost in the hall of Konstantin Basilika it was extremly dark so I was wondering how the GH4 would manage the situation in UHD mode. Finally it worked great at max ISO 1600 and noise reduction level 0! Our lenses were Olympus 14-35 f2.0, Nokton 17.5 and Nokton 25, most of the time wide open.”

Bolt: “just made unboxing of leica dlux typ 109: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JME3eFXoB5s and leica d-lux typ 109 4k video test sample https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH1BGZZVqew”

Gene: “Just edited up a few shots from a recent trip to India. Everything was shot on our GH4’s with Panasonic Lenses. https://vimeo.com/113346707 https://vimeo.com/113176496”

Shaun: “This short documentary was filmed on the Lumix GH4. The story is about a young teenager who loves photography, has never been on a college campus, but is given the opportunity to visit Duke University and photograph a football game with an all access media pass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6lARirchro“

Atomos CEO Jeremy unveiled at Newsshooter that they had to delay the Atomos Shogun 4K recorder launch to have enough tine to finilize the firmware. But he promised it will ship right before Christmas. It will now ship on December 15 according to BHphoto (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).

Tore Hansen‎
Shining Future
Model: Heidi Ariélle Nestaker
Olympus OM-D E-M1
Olympus m.zuiko 12-40mm f.2.8 PRO

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Manual focus techniques for mirrorless cameras

Using the LX100 in studio at Mirrorlessjourney.
E-Pl7 review at Trustedreviews.
Asian Design award won by the GM5, GX7 and 40-150mm PRO lens (Phileweb).
The Extremely Wonderful Olympus M.Zuiko 75mm F/1.8 Lens (Soundimagesplus).
Comparison between the Fuji X-T1 and the Olympus E-M1 at Fotodesign.
GM5 test at DC.watch.

Kevin: “https://vimeo.com/113183920. Shot with the Panasonic GH4. Sleeping in The Cosmos is a portrait on driver (sleeper mechanic) Scott Sousa. In late 2014 Scott took his sleeper Saturn up to the line against a 5th generation Chevy Camaro and not only won, but achieved an entirely new record for himself putting the car into a whole new time bracket. Join Scott on a journey through the cosmos to understand what makes him and his car tick!”

Andrew: “Your readers may be interested in some of the unique architecture in Rangoon (Yangon), Burma: http://worldofdecay.blogspot.com/2014/11/burmese-days-1-very-odd-lim-chin-tsong.html This is a very odd mansion built a century ago by a Chinese businessman. http://worldofdecay.blogspot.com/2014/11/burmese-days-2-decay-at-pegu-club.html This is the famous Pegu Club, the British gentleman’s club from 1882, now deserted with fate unknown. Most photographs taken with the Olympus 9-18mm lens, processed with PhotoNinja software.”

Shaun: “This short documentary was filmed entirely on the Lumix GH4. The story is about a young teenager who loves photography, has never visited a college campus, but is given the opportunity to go to a Duke University football game and photograph it with an all access media pass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6lARirchro”

Mike: “I just got my GM5 a few days ago and did a first impressions review focusing on the size advantage and how it works with various micro four thirds lenses: http://backgroundblur.com/#!/articles/547e16cd4306f47b33c62b10”

Lawrence: “I recently purchased the LX100 through your links and just spent a week with it in Japan. I took a few stills (attached 4 pictures from Japan and one from Seattle – feel free to share ) but focused mostly on video.
The video is below – originally shot in 4K, then downsampled to 1080p and edited in Premiere Pro (with a little color grading, levels, vignetting applied). Everything was handheld except for the time lapse scenes. So far I’ve found the LX100 to be a joy to use – substantially better handling than the RX100 series I had been using previously, with far better options for video and just as good image quality.
https://vimeo.com/113366484“

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What you see here on top is a frame from a video shot with the [shoplink 49834 ebay]Micro Four Thirds BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera[/shoplink] sent with a ballon on the space frontier! The lens Keisuke Iwaya used to shoot this is the [shoplink 49835 ebay]Panasonic Lumix G Vario 7-14mm f/4.0[/shoplink]. The video can be seen here:

Fusen Ucyu – BMPCC GOES TO SPACE from Raitank on Vimeo.

Keisuke writes:

“Fusen Ucyu (Baloon Space) Project” is a young ambitious amateur astrophysicist, Keisuke Iwaya’s private mission to send various cameras up to space beyond the earth’s atmosphere with Meteorological balloons to shoot beautiful images of our blue planet.

On 20th of July, 2014, Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera was sent up for the first time with Atomos NinjaStar, with 128GB CFast card, to capture the whole two-hour-long journey from the ground to 28.5km (17.7mile) peak at stratosphere, and free-fall back to the Mother Earth.

Newshooter writes:

Going into space was going to push the camera to its absolute limits. The BMPCC is only rated to work in temperatures between 0-40c. The camera also had to free fall for 30 minutes and then survive the impact once it came back to earth. The team designed several features that enabled all the equipment to return intact and operational.

The amazing pictures of the tools they used can be seen at raitank.jp/archives/18184. What a great project!

On 43rumors plenty of commenters keep saying that there is a “4 times factor” difference between Full Frame and Micro Four Thirds. For those people a f/2.8 PRO zoom from Olympus actually has an “equivalent” Full Frame aperture of f/5.6. Now, while I agree that this is in a very abstract theory correct… it is actually absurd and wrong if you look at the full aspects of the camera technology.

And without me having to explain you why it is so just read the super well written “”Sensor Crop Factors and Equivalence” article written by from Nasim Mansurov on Photographylife. Particlualry point 8) Total Light explains you why that “virtual equivalence” made by so many bloggers and commenters is de facto nonsense:

8) Total Light
“Equivalence” created another ugly child: total light. This theory, which is brought up by some photographers, says that smaller sensors get less total light than larger sensors just because they are physically smaller. That’s how they explain that small sensors have worse noise performance / overall image quality. That a full-frame sensor looks cleaner at higher ISOs than say Micro Four Thirds, just because its sensor area is four times larger. I don’t know where these theories originate from, but I fond the idea of “Total Light” and its relevance to ISO absurd. Explaining why sensor of one size has a cleaner output when compared to a smaller sensor just because it is physically larger has one major flaw – it is actually not true once you factor in a couple of variables: sensor technology, image processing pipeline and sensor generation. If larger sensors did receive more “total light” than smaller sensors, then every full-frame sensor made to date would beat every APS-C sensor, including the latest and greatest. Consequently, every medium format sensor would beat every full-frame sensor made to date. Is that true? Absolutely not. Just compare the output of the first generation Canon 1DS full-frame camera at ISO 800 to a modern Sony APS-C sensor – have a peek at this review from Luminous Landscape and have fun comparing. Surprised to see APS-C beat full-frame? No, not really. Newer sensor technologies, better image processing pipelines and other factors make modern sensors shine when compared to old ones. Simply put, newer is better when it comes to sensor technology. APS-C has come far along in terms of noise performance, easily beating first generation full-frame sensors in terms of colors, dynamic range and high ISO performance. CMOS is cleaner than old generation CCD that struggled even at ISO 400! Until recently, medium format cameras used to be terrible at high ISOs due to use of CCD sensors (which have other strengths). But if we look at the theory of “total light”, medium format sensors are supposed to be much better than full-frame just because their sensor sizes are bigger. But if we look at high ISO performance and dynamic range, it turns out that it is actually not the case. So these folks now add a few words / disclaimers at the end of their statements like “as long as the sensors are of equal efficiency and generation”. When we talk about aperture or shutter speed, there is no such thing as a new generation aperture and shutter speed, and yet they think they can slap on those words for sensor performance. Don’t be fooled by such statements, as they make no sense. The theory of “total light” is too darn confusing, so it is not worth wasting time on.

Thanks Nasim Mansurov for bringing down that discussion to a very “practical – reasonable” level :)