New PEN reviews and one new giant PEN commercial!


A very cool giant PEN commercial! Thanks -> F.J. for the link ;)

Neutralday tested the Olympus E-P2Olympus E-P2Olympus E-P2Olympus E-P2Olympus E-P2Olympus E-P2Olympus E-P2Olympus E-P2Olympus E-P2Olympus E-P2Olympus E-P2Olympus E-P2 (Highly Recommended!). Click here to read their review! And click here to get the camera (it automatically redirects you to the closest amazon or eBay store): Olympus E-P2Olympus E-P2Olympus E-P2Olympus E-P2Olympus E-P2Olympus E-P2Olympus E-P2Olympus E-P2Olympus E-P2Olympus E-P2Olympus E-P2Olympus E-P2

DPinterface and Infosyncworld just posted their respective Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1 review (found via: noisycamera). Click here to check out the price or to order the Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1

Olympus 14-150mm tested at SLRgear

SLRgear tested the new Olympus 14-150mm lens. They found the image quality to be very good. And like the other Olympus lenses it suffers from “some high chromatic aberration at certain focal lengths, but for the wide range of focal lengths the lens offers, it’s probably a small price to pay for the all-in-one versatility.”

Read their review: http://www.slrgear.com/reviews/showproduct.php/product/1320/cat/15

Click here to preorder the lens on amazon.com

Sony NEX tested and compared with the Olympus E-PL1 (at dpreview)

Dpreview (click here) tested the Sony NEX camerasSony NEX camerasSony NEX cameras and compared them with the Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1, Samsung NX-10Samsung NX-10Samsung NX-10Samsung NX-10Samsung NX-10Samsung NX-10Samsung NX-10Samsung NX-10Samsung NX-10Samsung NX-10Samsung NX-10 and the Canon T2i

1) The NEX images do have slightly less noise than the smaller sensored Olympus E-PL1 but the images do not have much more detail
2) Olympus jpeg engine works better than the Sony engine
3) Very bad handling of the NEX

Overall score:
Nex5 64%
E-PL1 69%

Read the review at: Dpreview

Is the Panasonic 8mm too expensive? Get the Samyang 8mm f/3.5 for $300

GF1 + Samyang 8mm from ADAM MADA on Vimeo.

One of our readers R.B. found a “solution” for all of you thinking that the new Panasonic 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens is too expensive.
If you don’t care about size or manual focusing you could go for the Samyang/Falcon/Bower/Rokinon/Opteka 8mm Fisheye that sells for $300. It produces sharp images and has no vignetting. Used with a $20 adapter for Micro 4/3 u get a nice fisheye image at half the price.

Click here to get the lens on eBay (and yes it is crazy that the same lens has so many names!):
– Opteka 8mm f/3.5Opteka 8mm f/3.5Opteka 8mm f/3.5Opteka 8mm f/3.5Opteka 8mm f/3.5Opteka 8mm f/3.5Opteka 8mm f/3.5Opteka 8mm f/3.5Opteka 8mm f/3.5Opteka 8mm f/3.5Opteka 8mm f/3.5

– Samyang 8mm f/3.5Samyang 8mm f/3.5Samyang 8mm f/3.5Samyang 8mm f/3.5Samyang 8mm f/3.5Samyang 8mm f/3.5Samyang 8mm f/3.5Samyang 8mm f/3.5Samyang 8mm f/3.5Samyang 8mm f/3.5Samyang 8mm f/3.5

– Falcon 8mm f/3.5Falcon 8mm f/3.5Falcon 8mm f/3.5Falcon 8mm f/3.5Falcon 8mm f/3.5Falcon 8mm f/3.5Falcon 8mm f/3.5Falcon 8mm f/3.5Falcon 8mm f/3.5Falcon 8mm f/3.5Falcon 8mm f/3.5

– Rokinon 8mm f/3.5Rokinon 8mm f/3.5Rokinon 8mm f/3.5Rokinon 8mm f/3.5Rokinon 8mm f/3.5Rokinon 8mm f/3.5Rokinon 8mm f/3.5Rokinon 8mm f/3.5Rokinon 8mm f/3.5Rokinon 8mm f/3.5Rokinon 8mm f/3.5

– Bower 8mm f/3.5Bower 8mm f/3.5Bower 8mm f/3.5Bower 8mm f/3.5Bower 8mm f/3.5Bower 8mm f/3.5Bower 8mm f/3.5Bower 8mm f/3.5Bower 8mm f/3.5Bower 8mm f/3.5Bower 8mm f/3.5

Thanks RB!

Panasonic 7-14mm tested (dpreview)

According to Dpreview the “Panasonic 7-14mm offers more consistent sharpness across the frame at 9mm”
Anyway, the Olympus 9-18mmOlympus 9-18mmOlympus 9-18mmOlympus 9-18mmOlympus 9-18mmOlympus 9-18mmOlympus 9-18mm “is noticeably sharper in the central region at 14mm”

Read the review: http://www.dpreview.com/lensreviews/panasonic_7-14_4_o20/

Direct links to the lens:
Amazon / Adorama / BH / Amazon Deutschland / Amazon UK / Amazon France

New reviews (Panasonic G10, Olympus 9-18mm and more…)

The Panasonic G10 has been reviewd by PocketLink. They found the image-quality to be better than the quality from the Samsung NX-10Samsung NX-10Samsung NX-10Samsung NX-10Samsung NX-10Samsung NX-10Samsung NX-10Samsung NX-10Samsung NX-10Samsung NX-10Samsung NX-10 (which has the same price-tag)
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Olympus 9-18mm sample images and comparisons (FourThirds-User)
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Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1Olympus E-PL1 – First Impressions on TheRandomPhotographer
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Panasonic SC-BT330 Review (Trustedreviews)
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10 review (CNET UK)
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Olympus µ tough-6020 test on Forum-Olympus-France (google english tranlsation)

First image samples taken with the new Olympus 14-150mm lens!

As you know by end of June Olympus will release the new Olympus 14-150mm f/4.0-5.6 lens (preorder on amazon for $599).

Inside the forum photofan.jp there is one of those lucky guys that had the chance to test the new lens (google english translation). He says that focus speed is fast and very quiet. The lens it selft is very lightweight, zoom ring is very large and focus ring is very smooth.

I will post here two of the images he has taken with the lens. The first image has been taken at 14mm and the second at 150mm. Click on the image to enlarge!

Click here and scroll down to see the image samples: photofan forum

UPDATE: “Olddo” just sent us the link to the original image samples on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/olddo
Thanks!

found via Fotoactualidad.

Preorder the lens on:
Amazon / Adorama / BH / Amazon Deutschland

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