Blackmagic Pocket Camera Review Part 2: The real world from Philip Bloom Reviews & Tutorials on Vimeo.

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Phillip Bloom posted Part 1 and Part 2 of the Blackmagic Pocket Camera review (Click here). Final Conclusion will be posted by Philip soon! By the way Philip, if you read this next time call me when you are in Venice. I am very close to you now :)

And what about the Blooming Issue? At Blackmagic Forum there is an official BM statement:

Hi guys,
As promised, here’s an update on the ‘blooming’ sensor topic.
All sensors, be it CCD or CMOS, will have a ‘blooming’ effect when during severe overexposure, the pixel is over saturated and excessive charges overflow to neighbouring pixels. It just looks different depending on the sensor type.
We are not seeing this on some of our test cameras so it might be something that is calibration related. Please contact your nearest support office and we’ll run another calibration on the camera.
regards
Kristian Lam
Blackmagic Design

That’s great news! P.S.: Link found via Slashcam.de (Thanks!).

P.S.: Blackmagic Pocket Cinema preorders in USA at Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here) and in Germany at Technikdirekt, in France at pbs-video. In Sweden at macoteket, scandinavianphoto, protel.jetshop, webhallen.

Michael Woodford and Tsuyoshi Kikukawa

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I was happy that the Olympus manager fraud story was over…but in reality it isn’t! BBC reports that “Olympus and its UK subsidiary Gyrus Group will be prosecuted by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office.”

Olympus answered that:
“it is difficult to predict the outcome of this matter or estimate the level of fines that may be imposed on the company and Gyrus Group Limited, the potential financial impact of this prosecution on Olympus group’s business is unclear”.

I really hope the prosecution will not have consequences for the company and their effort to write Black Numbers again!

You still remember the Sony-Olympus joint press release saying they would work together on the digital dying compact camera market? This is how they are going to revive it….make “Lens-Cameras” directly for smartphones!
The New Sony QX cameras are already available for preorder at Amazon US (Click here to see them)! Here are all direct links to the two different cameras and colors and accessories:
Black QX100 (Click here).
Soft Carrying Case for DSC-QX100 (Click here).
Black QX10 (Click here).
White QX10 (Click here).
Soft Carrying Case for DSC-QX10 (Click here).

These QX cameras are based on current Sony compact camera tech. And It’s easy to guess that Olympus will launch them soon too. Just take some compact camera sensor and lens, get rid of the classic body and sell them as QX. Is that the future?
I really would like to hear opinion on that, because as a classic photographer I cannot imagine this would work for me…

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Egami spotted a new Olympus patent describing a 15mm f/2.0 lens. It’s quite an “unusual” focal length and I don’t think this lens will make it into mass production. Anyway, you never know…GX7 and Olympus 12-40mm patents now became…real products :)

Back in January Tamron announced a new 14-150mm F/3.5-5.8 Di III VC Micro Four Thirds lens. At the time they didn’t unveil neither the release date nor the price. After 9 months(!) Tamron website still doesn’t disclose the release date and price. The lens is listed on BHphoto too but without any useful info.

Some of our readers got any hint about the lens release???

Here are the lens specs:

Berlin Shadows from Andrew Reid on Vimeo.

Metabones Speed Booster for Micro Four Thirds – Review at EosHD.
Nothing to fear from Olympus ISO values (DuncanMartin).
Olympus E-P5 Review at Atmtxphoto.
Zuiko Digital 17mm f/1.8 review at Zuikoholics.
Olympus M.Zuiko 75-300mm f/4.8-6.7 II review at Admiringlight.
GX7 test at Chip.de.
Best lenses for your Olympus PEN E-P5: Zooms and Primes (DxOmark).
E-P5 challenges E-M5, epic battle breaks out! (Mu-43).
Panasonic Lumix GX7: primeras muestras (Quesabesde).
Lumix G HD 14-140mm f/3.5-5.6 review at M43photo.
Panasonic G6 – Metabones Speed Booster – Focus Peaking – Part 1 (Soundimagesplus).
Street Shooting with the Olympus OM-D and 14-42mm Zoom (TheDigitalStory).
Panasonic 100-300mm f4-5.6 review at ThePhoBlographer.
Meet lifestyle photographer Kristen Jensen and check out the new Panasonic GX7 at Cameta.
Using the M.Zuiko 45mm f/1.8 as a Landscape Lens (MirrorlessLessons).
New free Olympus Magazine issue (Olympusmag.co.uk)

PRNewswire reports that Panasonic invested in Pelican Imaging:

“Pelican’s array camera technology is extremely innovative; they’re pioneering the next generation of video and image capture,” said Patrick Suel, Venture Partner at Panasonic. “We think there are broad applications for depth-enabled imaging in many industries.”

Pelican Imaging CEO and President Chris Pickett noted, “We’re extremely pleased to add Panasonic to our investor group, which includes other industry leaders like Qualcomm and Nokia. Our relationship with Panasonic will provide further market leverage to bring Pelican’s solutions to multiple market segments.”

Image Sensor World reports that “Pelican array camera provides depth information of the captured scene, allowing users to refocus after the fact, create 3D models, and perform an unprecedented range of edits. At under 3mm thickness, Pelican’s array camera is said to be about 50% of the thickness of the best-in-class camera modules shipping in mobile phones today (not clear what resolution is compared).“