Out to Lunch – Anamorphic Test from Jurek Ugarow on Vimeo. (With SLRmagic Anamorphic lens and GH2).

43rumors reader Beson Russell organized an OMD touch and try event in Dublin (April 5th) If you want to participiate read more at Onlinepictureproof.com.

One Year Testing the Panasonic Lumix GH3 (Naturalexposures).
E-M10 Image samples at Itmedia.co.jp.
First impressions review of Olympus’ new 9mm Fisheye lens in a body cap at Furnfeather.
Comparison between Olympus 25mm f/1.8 and 45mm f/1.8 at Samgoldphotos.
Olympus FL600R review at Betterfamilyphotos.
Catechism Class: the Olympus 25mm f/1.8 lens (Jlwilliams).
My OMD camera has multiple personalities (ThisIsNotaPrint).
Olympus 9mm f/8 Fisheye Body Cap Lens Review at ePhotozine.
BMPCC (Micro 4/3) based on a few months of using the camera by Marchal.
iPhone lens used on a M43 camera at Witonosfreestyle.
Sustos de infarto en Sol – Prueba de Panasonic DMC – GM1 (Youtube).

Josh: I have just done a shoot with the Sigma 60mm (MFT mount) lens and Olyumpus EM1…here is my recent blog post about one of the shoots if you would like to share it. http://joshmcleodphotography.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/sigma-60mm-f2-8-dn-lens-mft-mount/”

UPDATE: BHphoto is the first worldwide store accepting preorder of the new Panasonic-Leica 15mm f/1.7 in Black (Click here) or Silver (Click here).

It’s finally official! The new Leica 15mm f/1.7 lens will ship from early June! There will be a Black and Silver version. It will come in standard GM1 package for £999.99 while the lens only will be £549.99. A bit strange to see that only Panasonic UK unveiled the news (and therefore only price in Pounds is available). UPDATE: This is the official lens page at Panasonic UK (thanks Dicahub for sharing this). UDPATE_2: Presentation page is now up at Panasonic Germany too.

Here is the full press text:

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Panasonic Announce New F1.7 High Speed Leica Summilux 15mm Lens to Allow Photographers to Capture Fashionable Defocused Reportage Pictures

24th March 2014 – Panasonic has unveiled a new digital interchangeable lens, the H-X015 LEICA DG SUMMILUX 15mm / F1.7 ASPH. (35 mm camera equivalent: 30 mm) for the LUMIX G range, based on the Micro Four Thirds standard, which is both compact and lightweight.

The new LEICA DG SUMMILUX 15mm / F1.7 ASPH. allows photographers to capture supreme daily life pictures with beautiful bokeh.  Exceptional optical performance is assured with certification granted from the world-renowned LEICA.

The new lens system comprising of 9 elements in 7 groups uses 3 aspherical lenses. The aspherical lenses suppress spherical aberration and distortion effectively while enabling the lens unit to be made smaller.

Panasonic’s Nano Surface Coating technology is adopted to minimize the reflection at entire visual light range (380nm-780nm) resulting in the super clear picture quality by avoiding ghost and flare.

The lens incorporates a superior inner focus system, which enables excellent resolution and contrast from close-up to infinity. The inclusion of a newly developed stepping motor makes the focusing action smooth, silent and quicker for use in both photo and video recording.

Notably the performance of AF is by far superior to the phase-difference AF when fast lenses with a smaller F value are used. It is also compatible with the sensor drive at max.240 fps to take maximum advantage of the high-speed AF of LUMIX G cameras.

The LEICA DG SUMMILUX 15mm / F1.7 ASPH. comes equipped with aperture ring and AF/MF switch for direct, intuitive operation.  Furthermore, the robust metal design of LEICA DG SUMMILUX 15mm / F1.7 ASPH., including the hood, is highly reliable and durable for repeated exchange of the lens.

New GM1 kit, DMC-GM1L

The LEICA DG SUMMILUX 15mm / F1.7 ASPH. is the perfect companion for Panasonic’s recently released LUMIX DMC-GM1 and will be available with this camera in a new kit (DMC-GM1L) giving the photographer a sophisticated style with the ‘Got To have It’ camera enabling creative high quality photography.

The GM1 kit will be available in black from mid June priced £999.99 while the lens only will be £549.99 arriving early June. The lens will be available in black and silver.

Kodak is again displaying their soon to come new PixPro1 Micro Four Thirds camera. Photographyblog (Click here) posted 60 hands-on pictures of the camera with the new 12-45mm, 42.5-160mm and 400mm fieldscope lenses.

Dpreview (Click here) also had the chance to see the camera and writes:

This is the Pixpro S-1, an entry-level Micro Four Thirds mirrorless interchangeable lens camera. It will come with a 12-45mm F3.5-6.3 kit zoom that retracts when not in use for improved portability. There’s also a 42.5-160mm F3.5-5.9 telezoom and a slightly eccentric 400mm Fieldscope lens, which is manual focus and has a fixed aperture of F6.7. JK Imaging says that while these were originally designed for the Asian market, it plans to sell them in Europe too.

P.S.. Full camera specs at ePhotozine.

Blackmagic makes some great MFT and EF mount Cinema cameras but this one from Forest Gibson just got…exploded! Watch the video if you don’t believe this can happen :)

Petapixel reports:

It’s worth noting that this seems to be a one-time deal. No other Blackmagic cameras have done this that we or planet5D can find and BM has responded to the situation quickly and professionally to make sure that it isn’t a more widespread problem.

Aaron Wallace
Olympus EM-5 with Zuiko 7-14mm, Hope you guys enjoy. Check out more photos I shot with micro four thirds cameras at my fan page. https://www.facebook.com/awallphotos (14 likes)

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Welcome to the first edition of 43rumors readers pictures roundup :) What you see posted here are the most liked pictures of the week posted on our 43rumors Facebook Wall (Click here to see them all). Obviously there are many other great images that are not listed on this post but that you can see on the wall. Actually some of the pictures I liked most are not present here (but they didn’t get as many likes as the ones posted here).

I invite you all to share and vote the pictures and take the chance to chat with the photographers to learn more about their shooting technique! Link to the wall: https://www.facebook.com/43rumors?filter=2

As you know it’s all about 4K this year! Panasonic has been the first but soon also Sony and Canon and maybe Olympus too will announce their 4K cameras. Do you believe 4K is just the next hype or the real big deal?

Trustedreviews talked with Panasonic Product manager Craig Cunningham. He said 4K will not “fail” like 3D did:

“When you see the different in picture quality between even Full HD and 4K, you see that it’s the future”. “At Panasonic we are doing what we can to address 4K content so our Lumix cameras for example all can film 4K so you can still create some 4K content you just need the movies now and the broadcasters to get on board. Netflix is going to be a great start to that.”

I can tell you from my small experience that unlike 3D…4K is very seriously considered for some present and many future documentary productions! And once you watch 4K video on a 4K TV you will not like it to go back to 1080 resolution :)

North American GH4 preorders, shipping date and price:
GH4 camera at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), and Panasonic (Click here). Price: $1,698. In Canada at TheCameraStore (Click here) and Vistek (Click here).
GH4 camera with interface unit at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here). Price: $3,298
Interface unit only at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here) and Panasonic (Click here). Price: $1,998

European GH4 preorders, shipping date and price:
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.

We are certainly not used to get four(!) new Micro Four Thirds mount lenses in one single day :)

Samyang just announced them today and here are the full details including the worldwide first preorder links and pricing info via BHphoto. Links are marked in blue as usual and will take you to the direct lens page!

-10mm f/2.8 ED AS NCS CS lens in Micro Four Thirds mount (Click here).
– 12mm f/2.0 NCS CS lens in Micro Four Thirds mount (Click here).
– 24mm f/1.4 ED AS IF UMC lens in Micro Four Thirds mount (Click here).
– 35mm f/1.4 AS UMC lens in Micro Four Thirds mount (Click here).

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