A dpreview forum user had the chance to test the Panasonic G2. He made a ISO comparison using Lightroom 3 beta-2 and G2 firmware 0.2. Probably the image quality will improove a little bit with the final firmware. Take a look here: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1041&message=34893256
Steve Huff seems to not sleep at night! Almost every day he is posting reviews about lenses and cameras and today he published the new Olympus E-PL1 (First Look).
DCresource updated their Olympus E-PL1 review with new tests.
One more (short) review has been published on pcpro.co.uk (found via noisycamera)
The dutch magazine pixelmania.nl also tested the E-PL1 (google english translation)
In the meanwhile the editors from quesabesde had a meeting with Olympus to talk about the E-PL1. After having shared the time with them quesabesde strongly believes that Olympus will sooner or later abbandone FourThirds! (google english tranlsation)
One more thing: The E-PL1 has been awarded (best product design) red-dot.de (found via Olympus Japan)
Olympus E-PL1 in Stock in: Amazon US
Redcoon Deutschland / Amazon France
Redcoon Italia
Sometimes we receive rumors about other brands. We received some about Samsung which we are going to post here. According to our sources a new Samsung NX camera could be announced soon. Very likely it will be a compact NX camera. One possible leak has been spotted on multitronic.se. They list the NX-5 on their homepage and the NX-5 +18-55mm costs 135$ less than the NX-10+18-55mm combo.
What’s more interesting for us as MicroFourThirds users is that today we found two new Samsung vs MFT comparisons:
1) The HongKong website Unwire.hk made a GF1
2) And there is one more comparison on the very known german magazine der Spiegel: Samsung NX10 vs. Olympus EPL1 (deutsch / google english translation)
P.S.: Today the Samsung NX10 is in Stock at Adorama and BHphoto. So it is official…we are not alone on the earth :)
New Olympus E-P2 review at dpinterface
I just saw a very good review on Pbase about various ‘legacy’ 50mm lenses on the Panasonic GF1.
Following lenses have been tested (click on the link to see the lens on eBay):
1. Canon 50mm f1.2 LTM
2. Canon 50mm f1.4 LTM
3. Leica 50mm Summilux f1.4 (first version) – M fit
4. Jupiter 3 50mm f1.5 (copy of the Zeiss 50/1.5)
5. Leica Summicron 50mm f2 (pre-asph new version, 1980s-1990s) – M fit
6. Leica Summicron 50mm f2 (pre-asph, chrome older version) – M fit
7. Voigtlander Heliar 50mm f2
8. Leica Elmar 50mm f2.8 (old M fit collapsable version)
It has been a huge surprise for me to read from the test that the Coigtländer Heliar showed the post performance! Do you agree?
He also tested the Black&White performance.
One more test is available here: http://www.pbase.com/nickdemarco/test_3_final
Forum Olympus France just posted a new Olympus E-P2 review.
http://www.forum-olympus-france.com/presse/16/03/2010/olympus-e-p2-review-2/
(google english translation)
This review is quite complete on how the E-P2 is in the “real life”.
For instance, you will find pictures of the E-P2 viewfinder compared with an E-3 and a Canon 5D and a picture showing how this viewfinder is efficient regarding depth of field an out of focus area.
