I am not certain yet about the exact announcement hour. But usually Olympus announces the new stuff at 6am in the morning (London time). Panasonic should also announce the new compact cameras very soon (no Micro Four Thirds camera form them).

As usual I will collect al interesting news and reviews in one post. If you found something I didn’t already post here drop me a line! Thanks!

3,601 43rumors readers voted the poll for the best (Micro-) Four Thirds product of the year. And the winner is the [shoplink 16254]Panasonic GH2[/shoplink] with 1,150 votes (32%)!
That’s probably not a big surprise. The [shoplink 15659]Voigtländer 25mm[/shoplink] lens is on place two with 598 votes (17%). And on third place we have the [shoplink 17163]Olympus E-5[/shoplink] with 530 votes (15%). As you can see the high-end products are on top of the list. The Panasonic G10 had 4 votes only….that’s why BHphoto discontinued it? :)
And the worst placed lens is the Olympus 40-150mm lens with 6 votes.

The product of the year 2009 was the [shoplink 14828]Panasonic GF1[/shoplink].

Those are the results:

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Which one is better, Canon 5D mark II or vs Panasonic Lumix GH2? Mike Kobal used the new Voigtländer Nokton 25mm f/0.95 lens. P.S.: There is a lens in Stock on [shoplink 15659]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] and you can preorder at Adorama!

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Michael Reichmann and Chris Sanderson had more time to spend o the Panasonic GH2 and are sharing all their discoveries on Luminous Landscape. They explain you a manual focusing trick and found that “When shooting in low-light situations, the rear screen and EVF are quite inaccurate in both density, noise and colour rendition.” But the part I like most is the 24p Cinemod review: “We’ve never before seen a video DSLR with this film-like image quality.”

In US: To get the GH2 check those three websites like at Amazon US, Adorama, BHphoto and [shoplink 17664]eBay[/shoplink]. Every day they have a few GH2 in Stock which usually do get sold out after a few minutes :(
In EU: There are plenty of stores having the GH2 in Stock: Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Pixmania IT, Pixmania ES

P.S.: You can download the GH2 and GF2 catalogue here: http://panasonic.net/avc/lumix/popup/catalog/systemcameras.html

BCNranking posted the digital system cameras sales share of the whole 2010 (To be exact until the 12th of December)! Three Panasonic cameras  (the [shoplink 14828]GF1[/shoplink], [shoplink 14834]G2[/shoplink] and the G1) and two Olympus cameras (the [shoplink 14832]E-Pl1[/shoplink] and the E-P1) are into the top 20 of the most sold cameras with interchangeable lenses. The GH2 has come been available since late October only that’s why it didn’t made it into the top 20. There is still a lot to do to catch up Canon and Nikon but as you can see the situtation is changing slowly in favour of the new mirrorless cameras. Do you have any suggetsion to make for Panaosnic and Olympus on how to close the gap between them and the Canikon dominance?

Please click the link below to read the press release…

And here it is the new native Micro Four Thirds lens from SLRmagic. The [shoplink 18603]Toy Lens 26mm f/1.4 lens[/shoplink] is a multi coated manual prime lens. It is a special effects lens that is meant to capture impressionistic images. Dreamy, color twist, and noticeable vignette: “The lens is great for portrait photography and some say that it is great for Lo-Fi photography. We occasionally receive questions about how this lens differ from the kit lens. The simple answer is it will enable you to capture photos in every other way that the kit lens cannot. Toy Lens was designed to bring more fun to your photography.”

So it doesn’t sound like that lens has a great sharpness ;)

You can get that lens for $79 on [shoplink 18603]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

UPDATE: SLRmagic just contacted me and sent me those pictures (Click on thumbnail to enlarge).