Panasonic (Click here) officially released the new GH4 firmware upgrade! This is the list of the improvements:

1. [4K PHOTO] mode is added which records 4K video exclusively for capturing a frame to save as a photo.
   • Settings can be adjusted as below when entering this mode.
   -Rec Format : MP4

   -Rec Quality : 4K/30p/100Mbps
   (System Frequency 59.94Hz)
   4K/25p/100Mbps
   (System Frequency 50.00Hz)

   -Luminance Level:0-255
   • In addition to 16:9 aspect, 4:3/3:2/1:1 can be selected.
   • Exif information is embedded to the captured image from the 4K video.
   • Marking function is available enables marker setting on the designated point while recording video and users can jump to the markers when playing back the video to capture the frame they want.
   • Loop Recording function is added, with which the camera keeps on recording video while deleting the old footage automatically.
2. 4K/23.98p/100Mbps mode is added in MP4 video recording.
3. The upper limit of the ISO sensitivity can be set in the menu of ISO sensitivity setting and emission amount of flash light can be adjusted in the menu of exposure compensation.
4. Focusing performance of 1-area AF in video recording is improved.
5. Tracking performance of tracking AF when used with the interchangeable lens H-FS14140 is improved.
6. Remote shooting via USB tethering is available by using PC software “USB Tether” supplied by Promote Systems.
   * For more information on Promote Systems, please visit http://www.promotesystems.com/

Ther eis also a special pfd file you can download with a very detailed descirption of the new features: https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/support/en/dsc/fts/win/GH4_V20_ENG.pdf

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GH4 North American store links:
GH4 camera at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Ritz Camera and Panasonic. Price: $1,698. In Canada at Vistek.
GH4 camera with interface unit at Adorama and BHphoto. Price: $3,298
Interface unit only at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and Panasonic. Price: $1,998

GH4 Europen store links:
Germany: Wexcameras, Marcotec-shop.de.
UK at Wexphotographic, CameraWorld, UKdigital, CVP, TipTop.
Holland at Fotohanskeuzekamp.
Belgium at Fotokonijnenberg.
Norway at Fotovideo.
Sweden at Cyberphoto, Skandinavianphoto.
Finland at Telefoto, Topshot, Verkkoauppa.
France at Photocineshop.
Spain: Fotoboom.

Asian store links:
Digitalrev and Digidirect Australia.

4K cards
Kingston 16-32-64 GB SDHC UHS-I Speed Class 3 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Sandisk 16-32-64 GB Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-II Memory Card at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Transcend 64-128 GB High Speed 10 UHS-3 at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Panasonic 16-32-64 GB SDHC-UHS-I U3 Card (90MB/s) at Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).

After two years of development the first three Digital Bolex C-mount lenses have been announced. These can work with adapter on MFT cameras too as stated on their website:

The Kish Optics/Digital Bolex Series 1 Super16mm Primes are fixed aperture F4 lenses fine-tuned to the optical sweet spot of each lens. C-mounted for native use with the Digital Bolex D16 camera, these lenses will cover sensors from 16mm to M43, and can be used on traditional C-mount 16mm motion picture cameras.

Full specs and few image samples can be seen here: http://www.digitalbolex.com/product-category/optics/lenses/

found via Mirrorlessrumors.com.

Olympus (Click here) updated the Zuiko PRO page which now includes the yet not released 300mm f/4.0 and 7-14mm f/2.8 lenses. You can also see the optical design of those:

Can’t wait to know how much we  have to $$$ for those!!!

I think this is the first time a company updates the camera manual including the new firmware features info. The “new” E-M1 manual can be downloaded here:

English:
www.olympus.co.jp/en/support/imsg/digicamera/download/manual/omd/man_em1_ver2_e.pdf
French:
www.olympus.fr/site/rmt/media/consumer/pim/_manuals_aw2014_/E-M1_MANUAL_V20_FR.pdf

Thanks J-Marc for finding the news!

43rumros Steve sent me that picture from the Photo Festa 2014. You see the Olympus 300mm f/4.0 size compared to the [shoplink 48604 ebay]Canon (here on eBay)[/shoplink] and [shoplink 48605 ebay]Nikon (here on eBay)[/shoplink] lenses. That’s the price and size you pay for Full Frame lenses :)

And also DC.watch posted some pics of the event. So here they are:

UPDATE: I corrected the ebay links ot the Canon and Nikon 600mm (and not 300mm) lenses.

Ekah Chi‎
Firefly in the Morning. E-M5 with 12-40mm at 40mm, 2x digital zoom, f/5.6, 1/125s.

Note: Facebook fixed their photo view issue and all 43rumors readers pictures are again available at facebook.com/43rumors/photos.

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:

Zhongyi Mitakon 42.5mm f/1.2 Lens sample video (shot with Panasonic GH4 @ f/1.2) from Steve Yeung on Vimeo.

Olympus 75-300mm tested at SLRgear.
Olympus 25mm lens review at DC.watch.

Anonymous: “Most pro cinematographers agree, resolution has nothing on DR and Color Space. Here are 5 reasons to buy the BMPCC for m4/3 video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=preneD7YY8I&sns=em”
An Overlooked Very Cool Feature of the Olympus E-M1 That I Had Previously Overlooked! (Thewanderinglensman)

Spencer: “Just wanted to share a short film I shot with my Gh4 Using the panasonic 12-35mm and my 7-14 occasionally: https://vimeo.com/103380910”

Tom: “I hope it is ok to use this form to send you a link to a video I made about micro jitter in the 35-100. This seems to be a very common issue that can likely be fixed with a firmware fix, if Panasonic bothers to do so. Reports about similar issues are on the 14-140, and previously on 12-35 f.28 until Panasonic did issue a fix for that: https://vimeo.com/106895202”

Apefos: “Some fantasy ideas about a perfect video camera with HDR video at Personal View“.

Bart: “I had the chance to shoot with the Otus 55mm on my GH3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBQlqYhDgII”

Marc: “I wonder if you’d be kind enough to feature my blog on one of your round ups as my photography blog has been shortlisted for a Blog North Award here in the UK. All of my work is made using Olympus digital cameras (a Pen and an OM-D) so hoped your readers might like to vote for me! http://marcprovins.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/squeeze.html”