I just received an email from one of our readers which found that lens on ebay. The description of the owner says: “This lens is 55mm f/1.0~f/11 , was manufactory in Japan by Kowa. Lens rework on Panasonic Lumix G1 GF1 GH1 or Olympus E-P1 E-P2.“. The lens fits on a MicroFourThirds camera without any adapter!
Click here to read the full description on ebay.com.
(P.S: The lens is currently in auction)
At a convention in Munich Panasonic “unveiled” their 2010 plan for the G-System. Photographyblog knows the three key points of the “plan”:
– Expand Lineup
– Pursue Easy Operation
– Expand Lens Lineup
That’s kind of a plan! :)
Just a small update about the MicroFourThirds competition. It seems that Sony is going to announce two or more mirrorless cameras on PMA (click here to read the specs on SonyAlphaRumors). Samsung is also going to announce a cheaper NX camera (source: k-rumors.com).
What’s common with the the two rumors is that it seems that both companies will present very compact cameras (like the Pen-series or Panasonic GF1).
Interesting: Canon and Nikon should not unveil any mirrorless camera soon…
I just received this mail from Noktor: “Senko, Navitar, Yakumo, etc all re-brand their lenses from a single japanese optical company. They do not make the lenses. The Noktor lens is slightly different in mechanical design, and has a different internal anti-reflective coating as well.“
Olympus E-PL1 presentation in czech language :)
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SLR video camera accessories’ sales grow with popularity (usatoday)
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New weekly japanese sales rankings at bcnranking.jp
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Some E-P2 High Iso tests at Pixinfo
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The Beginner’s Guide to Photography Terminology (ThePhoBlographer)
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Giz Explains: Why ISO Is the New Megapixel (Gizmodo)
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Today DEAL: Panasonic GF1 with 20mm f/1.7 Aspherical Lens
The Notkor 50mm f/0.95 lens for MicroFourThirds is very similar to the three lenses pictured above. I looked around the web and that’s the info I found about the three lenses. Feel free to add your links by commenting this post.
Senko:
The Senko lens database.
Senko lenses on Ebay
Example of a Panasonic DMC-GF1 + Senko ADL 25mm f/0.95 flickr
Yakumo:
Flickr image samples of the Yakumo 50mm f/0.95 lens
Navitron:
Image samples of the Navitron 50mm f/0.95 on emi007blog
Navitron lenses on Ebay
Many of you do believe the Noktor lens could be a modification/copy of the Senko lens. The actual price for a Senko lens is $730 (check it out here).
Now if the price of the new Noktor lens will be under $1000 (Euro 750) and the quality decent at 0.95 and good at f/1.2-f/1.4….
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