43rumors reader Bigpicture (Thanks!) noticed how close the G6 design looks to the [shoplink 38236 ebay]Leica R9 (here on eBay)[/shoplink]. Panasonic’s new “high shoulder” design makes look the camera bigger and more “serious”. It may helps in stores when people compares the G& with Canon Rebel DSLR. First impression is everything don’t you think?

The G6 wins :)

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Panasonic G6 preorders at Amazon (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and at Wex UK (Click here).

HOOD from Henning Sandström. Shot with GH3 on a prototype MōVI M10 stabilized handheld gimbal

Panasonic Lumix DMC-L10 DSLR Review at Photographic-central.
Olympus XZ-10 Review at ePhotozine.
HolyManta internal ND lens Adapters (Fundedbyme).
E-P3 price drops even in Europe. Example: 499 Euro at Fotomundus.

Anonymous: “Don’t know if you’re needing any material for ‘remains of the day’ or anything, but I shot this short film as part of a 48 hour film competition earlier this month using a GH2 and the new SLRMagic 35mm lens. It was absolutely key to obtaining the low-light shots. Highly, highly recommended lens for MFTs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZZ858MXbkg”

Farrukh: “This short video on the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken was taken on the EP3, all stills were with the 60mm macro: https://www.facebook.com/Implausibleblog/posts/10152737346305328”

43rumors reader Gayan created a new APP and you may take a look on it:
“I’m excited to follow up to our previous email to let you know my new app for photo enthusiasts, Phokl, has now launched on the App Store – available immediately for iPhone, iPad and iPad Mini.
It’s full of features designed with the photo enthusiast in mind:
– Image galleries with user uploadable content
– Leaderboards
– Give and review emotional response feedback for your favourite images
– Up-to-the minute news and reviews from the world’s leading photo sites, including most particularly 43rumors :)
– Event and Topic Forums
– Follow your favourite photographers and forums
– Travel packs
– Deep Facebook and Twitter integration, and the
– Richest image search engine available on any App, letting you search by lens types, aperture settings, ISO – even geocode ranges and camera models!
Available on the App Store – for free:
https://itunes.apple.com/app/phokl/id589746672?mt=8
Thank you for your support. Perhaps most importantly I’m looking forward to following 43rumors through Phokl.”

Flowerbug: “I’m not a great fan of focus-peaking. Nothing beats the sudden beautiful clarity of perfect focus that jumps out at you when focusing with a manual lens…. Who would need highlighted edges to spoil that? So I have mostly ignored Oly fans’ hopes for the focus-peaking feature on future cameras.
When I got my VF-3 viewfinder last December, during the promotional discount, a firmware upgrade for my E-PL1 was required to make it work. So I went online to Olympus and got Firmware upgrade 1.2 installed on my little Oly. The viewfinder works well, but I regret not getting the higher resolution model. Price was a major factor, though, and I could not manage to convince myself to buy a $300 viewfinder for a $150 camera.
Ever since I installed the firmware upgrade 1.2 on the E-PL1, focus-peaking (with blue, glowing edges) has been a part of my manual focus. It’s kind of addictive, in a lazy sort of way. I found I was starting to use it as a rough guide when doing first focus, and then grew to realize it’s usually very close to the focus I set for myself using the magnified screen. I wouldn’t buy a camera to get this, but it’s sort of helpful, sometimes.
I haven’t noticed any mention of this feature in your forum, or others, so finally did a general online search and came up empty. Perhaps you would like to pass along the existence of the feature for folks who have never bothered to update their firmware. I haven’t noticed any new menu features related to it. It’s just there, whether you want it or not. If you have an E-PL1, check it out for yourself.
I enjoy your rumor site a lot. You take the trouble to keep it up to date, and that makes it worth reading. Thanks!“

The Kodak S1 MFt camera has been displayed in China. There are no specs but it should feature not yet definded “Sony sensor” and official release will be in Q3.

Source: Zol.

Specs and Preorders:
G6 at Amazon (Click here), BHphoto (Click here) and at Wex UK (Click here).
14-140mm lens at Amazon (Click here), BHphoto (Click here) and at Wex UK (Click here).
LF1 at Amazon (Click here), BHphoto (Click here) and at WexUK (Click here).

Previews and reviews:
G6 Hands-on at Dpreview, SmallCameraBigPicture, Techradar, Trustedreviews, Expertreviews, Photographyblog, Whatdigitalcamera, ePhotozine, Hybridcams (French) and official page at Panasonic.
LF1 hands-on photos at Photographyblog, Quesabesde (Spanish),

Image samples:
G6 at Panasonic website, Techradar.

Videos:
First Look Preview by Whatdigitalcamera, official shooting video by Panasonic, Italian presentation, Italian unboxing,

What’s hot:
The G6 gains considerably improved movie capabilities, including full exposure control, an external mic socket and the sensor from the GH2. It also adds the NFC-aided Wi-Fi for simple remote control and image download that we first saw in the GF6. it has the same GH2 sensor, albeit without that model’s multi-aspect feature. (Source: Dpreview).
14-140mm lens is smaller, lighter, less-expensive alternative to the original G Vario HD 14-140mm F4.0-5.8 ASPH Mega OIS. The latest version features three aspheric and two ED elements and an internal focus design with linear stepper motors to make the most of the faster focus processing of the latest Micro Four Thirds bodies (Source: Dpreview).
The LF1 marries the sensor from the LX7 to a longer, slower lens (but longer zoom range) and adds an electronic viewfinder (Source: Dpreview).

Official press release:
G6 press text at Dpreview, Pocket Lint, Cnet, Fotopolis (Polish), Imaging Resource, SystemKameraForum (German), Photoscala (German), DSLRmagazine (Spanish), Quesabesde (Spanish).
LF1 press test at Dpreview, Cnet, Dpnow, Whatdigitalcamera, ePhotozine, SystemKameraForum (German), Photoscala (German), DSLRmagazine (Spanish), Quesabesde (Spanish).
14-140mm press text at Dpreview, ePhotozine, Photoscala (German), DSLRmagazine (Spanish), Quesabesde (Spanish).

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Panasonic Australia Lumix camera GH3 Tech Tips – Videography

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This will be an exciting week with Panasonic scheduled to announce the new LF1 and G6 camera on Wednesday. But before that let me catch up with some readers mails:

Russ: “Here’s my latest vid, a promo for wood-fired hot tub delivered by bicycle! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q622LMXN9ic. Shot with a GH2, 20mm 1.7, 45mm 1.8 and 50mm 1.4 Nikkor.”

Matt: “I just thought this was kind of an interesting project that I shot with a hacked GH2 in 720 60 for slow mo. It really ended up quite beautiful (though the ladies definitely help with that) and color corrected really well. If it’s interesting at all, feel free to share it. The video is for a kickstarter project for the swimsuits. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn31fqzvq3U&sns=em”

Anonymous: “The project got funded!   I don’t see that you have published anything on the digital Bolex.  This might be a good time and to provide a link to the kick start project. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cappuccino/beyond-the-bolex-a-documentary-film.http://nofilmschool.com/2013/04/beyond-bolex-documentary-jacques-bolsey/“ 43rumors Editor’s answer. Sorry, I simply missed to read your mail. And when I found it hours before the kickstarter money collection ended I tweeted this with my 43rumors twitter account!

Vincent: “I’ve shot a highway car race on the GH3. Maybe it’s interesting for the GH3 lovers! https://vimeo.com/64343246
FILM INFO:
What happens when young people start to listen to music in their cars? Well.. THIS happens!
You will probaly recognize yourself in this little short film. Young people tend to start racing when listening to music in their cars! In this film our main character starts to ‘visualize’ an entire racetrack on his way to work.
TECHNICAL:
This film was pre-produced in 2 days and shot in 1 one day. The driving part was pretty dangerous as our actor had to drive like an idiot on the highway and our camera-car almost had an accident. We took the same driving route for 5 times. Between these ’rounds’ we switched angles and put people inside the cars with shakey Canon 5D’s and 550d”

Marc: “I thought you might be interested in my work, all taken on an Olympus E-P2, I run a photo blog and recently I’ve been contributing to Untitled Cities, a New York based online magazine about all things urban. Anyway just in case you fancy dropping me into the next readers round ups…http://marcprovins.blogspot.co.uk/    http://untappedcities.com/author/marcprovins/”

Lawrence: “Music Video in Hong Kong shot on the GH3 with a Voigtlander 17.5mm mainly. 50p .mov low bitrate mode. Rode Video Mic Pro. Thanks! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZQBmHPAGV0“

Last week Metabones officially announced that the new MFT Speed Booster adapter release has been delayed til late 2013. But there could be a good news soon. The Chinese company Zhongyi Optical announced the cheap alternative of the Speed Booster named “Lens Turbo” The first adapters are made for the Sony E-mount system but the MFT version should follow soon. There are some differences with the popular Speed Boosters:
1) They have no electronic contacts (no AF and no automatic Aperture control).
2) To avoid patent disputes with Metabones the adapter has a different design and a reduction ration of 0.726 (Speed Booster is 0.71)
3) The Lens Turbo price is set at US$239 which is half the price of the Metabones Speed Boosters

Zhongyi Optical also makes the [shoplink 37365 ebay]Mitakon 35mm f/0.95 lens (here on eBay)[/shoplink]. But…I am not sure Metabones lawyers will stay calm on this…

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Reminder: Here are the links to the lenses you can find on eBay and that will be supported by the Speed Booster MFT adapter:
[shoplink 37925 ebay]Nikon F lenses[/shoplink] [shoplink 37926 ebay]Contax C/Y lenses[/shoplink] [shoplink 37927 ebay]Contarex lenses[/shoplink] [shoplink 37928 ebay]Alpa lenses[/shoplink] [shoplink 37929 ebay]Rollei lenses[/shoplink] [shoplink 37930 ebay]Canon EF lenses[/shoplink]

I think Sigma Foveon sensors are the technology of the future and it’s only a matter of time until they solve the few remaining issues (like low quality at high ISO). That said a Chinese company promises right now that they can modify your [shoplink 38063 ebay]Sigma DP camera[/shoplink] in an interchangeable lens camera for every mount. On the picture you see the Leica M-mount version.

Just send in your DP camera at Taobab (translation here) and ask for the mount you want. The full modification costs you round $300.