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).

“A Verse Before Dying” (Shot with the [shoplink 16841]Panasonic AG-AF100[/shoplink])

Photographyblog tested the [shoplink 14802]Panasonic 14-140mm f/4.0-5.8 O.I.S.[/shoplink] lens.The lens gets Highly Recommended! “This lens is surprisingly small and lightweight for what it is….he lens is extremely fast to focus on the new DMC-GH2 camera with a response time of just 0.1 seconds….Optically, the lens is a good performer, much better than we expected from a 10x zoom. ”

DC.watch interviewed Panasonic engineers and asked them a lot of questions about the contrast autofocus development (Very interesting story!).

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF2 Test Images at Imaging Resource and first look at Digital camera review.

SHort GH2 review by Lisandra at E-P1.net.

Gajole in Chianti – Olympus E-P1+[shoplink 15659]Nokton 25mm[/shoplink] (It’s not me i the picturea but a friend of mine)

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