The new Olympus E-5 has been a heavily criticized camera since it was announced. Now Olympus Marketing wants to prove that the E-5 camera has indeed a top image quality. So almost every known website published image samples and first Hands-on.
Steve Digicam’s published a long list of image and video samples on his website. Robin Wong published his E-5 conclusions and published a lovely request to the Olympus community: “Let the world see who we are, and what we can do with Olympus.“. Noisycamera also found a user review inside the dpreview forum. Zone-10 published the first and second part of the camera comparison. And Brandoneu published his first part of the personal E-5 review.

To find more E-5 news and reviews just click here: https://www.43rumors.com/?s=Olympus+E-5

You can support this website by preordering the camera click here: Amazon US, BHphoto, Adorama and in Europe at Amazon Deutschland.

LUMIX GH2 test – Marionette maker in Vienna

Click the following youtube link to see a GH2+20mm f/1.7 video test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoZfQoXRCx4&feature=related
Here to see a GH2 + 8mm fisheye test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za9lmqUNKKQ&feature=related
And here to see a GH2 + 14mm f/2.5 slow motion test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfU5JxEov4o
To read all our GH2 news and previews click here: https://www.43rumors.com/?s=GH2

Dcyesky (google english translation) posted a detailled Olympus E-5 review. A user on dpreview forum compared the E5 with the E-620 and the Canon 5D. There is also a new review made by pixelmania.nl.
To read all our E-5 news and previews click here: https://www.43rumors.com/?s=Olympus+E-5

Panasonic GH2 preorders:
Amazon US, Amazon UK and Amazon France.

Olympus E-5 preorders:
Amazon US, BHphoto and Adorama.

While searching for some news about the new Voigtländer 25mm f/0.95 Micro Four Thirds lens I found those awesome fast and tele manual focus lenses on [shoplink 16777]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. The [shoplink 16777]Zoomatar 250mm f/1.3[/shoplink] pictured above is the fastest tele lens I have ever seen (Did you ever find a faster lenes at 250mm?). The lens uses a Hassellbad mount!

The lens above is the [shoplink 16777]Zoomatar 180mm f/1.3[/shoplink]. It uses the Nikon F-mount. I found only a few image samples on a taiwanese blog (blog.xuite.net) and some info at Cameraquest.

There is also a [shoplink 16777]Zoomatar 75mm f/1.3[/shoplink] (mount is unknown to me) and I found one image of the lens used on the Panasonic G1.

Currently only the [shoplink 16777]Zoomatar 180mm f/1.3 is for sale on eBay ($10.000!!!)[/shoplink].

I didn’t find any image samples of that lens used on a Micro Four Thirds camera! Would love to see that 250mm f/1.3 on my tiny Olympus E-P1 :)

Can you find some more details about those lenses? Thanks!

Olympus.ourlife.ru just posted a new E-5 review using a production unit. You can download a huge ammount of RAW files. It’s incredible how much detail Olympus was able to squeeze from the same PEN 12 Megapixel sensor. Don’t know if you can do any better than this!

Reminder:
The E-5 should be in Stock by late October and you can preorder the camera at Amazon US, BHphoto, Adorama and Warehouseexpress.

720p 1/60th slowed by half.

The polish website Optyczne.pl just published a list of image and video samples on their website. The videos are availble for download! And they have fullsize image samples (JPG) from 160 up to 12.800 ISO. Also Dpreview posted a new Panasonic GH2 14mm and f/2.5 lens samples gallery!

PanasonicGH2 preorders:
You can preorder the GH2 at Amazon US but unlike BHphoto they don’t have the body only option :(
In Europe Amazon UK and Amazon France do accept preorders!

Panasonic 14mm f/2.5 preorders:
Availble at Amazon US and Amazon Deutschland.

Our friend Steve Huff posted a new”Real World” Panasonic G2 review: “Panasonic has won me over with their [shoplink 14834]G2[/shoplink]. The camera is nice to hold, nice  to shoot and looks much nicer in person than it does in the photos online.”

Also Clubsnap, Asahicamera and Optyczne.pl did post new Panasonic G2 reviews

GiantGinko (dpreview forum) posted some image samples taken with the new 40mm f/1.6 Lensbaby for MicroFourThirds. The Lensbaby is currently in Stock at Amazon US (Click here!).
A week ago Tyson Robichaud posted a review of the new lens. The Lensbaby is not yet available in Europe.
Reminder: You can get the Arsat Tilt-shift lens with MicroFourThrids mount available now on [shoplink 16586]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

P.S.: Panasonic.net posted two image samples taken with the new Panasonic 100-300mm lens