The reaction on the new Olympus camera announcement has been quite mixed. Not few people are unhappy with the E-P2
Anyway, competition is coming and next year MicroFourThirds will have to fight hard against big brands like Canon, Sony and Nikon.
UPDATE: We will close the poll tomorrow.
You have a maximum of three votes!
The question is:
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Our friends from photorumors.com just discovered this nice countdown at tamron.de. Are they making a countdown for a new Canon-Nikon-Sony-Pentax lens? This would be boring normal. Let’s hope that this time they are going to make something for us! MicroFourThirds lenses? :)
It is not a rumor, just my personal wish! Come on Tamron! I know you can make my 25mm f/1.4 lens ;)
Ale
Olympus E-P2 Micro Four Thirds Hands-On Intro
The E-P2 is available for preorder at Amazon UK
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GF1 vs E-P1 comparison at dkamera.de. read the comparison in german or google english translation.
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The hungarian website Pixinfo.com tested the Panasonic GF1. read in polish (google translation doesn’t work..and I don’t know why).
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Olympus quietly introduces the E-600 (source: dcviews)
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Olympus Stylus 7010 Review at Steve digicam’s
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DxO Optics Pro Version 6 has been released (source: digitalpixels.net)
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E-P2 manual is available for download: http://www.olympusamerica.com/files/E-P2_Instruction_Manual_EN.pdf
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Amazon US ships the Olympus 50mm f2 lens for $400
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http://www.dpreview.com/news/0911/09111001ricohgxr.asp
And Photographyblog has a size comparison with the Panasonic GF1: http://www.photographyblog.com/news/ricoh_gxr_vs_panasonic_gf1/
Also preorder is available at amazon:Ricoh GRX
A special Ricoh website can be seen here: http://www.ricoh.co.jp/dc/gxr/special/ (Thanks GUWI for sending the link!)
£420 for the “unit”
£600 for the 12.3MP CMOS sensor & 50mm Macro Lens (HD Video)
£300 for the 10MP CCD sensor & 24-72mm Zoom Lens (5fps RAW, VGA video)
They say the Ricoh GX3 is smaller than the and Olympus .
Let’s start the poll!
Loading ... Loading ...P.S.: Our “Batman” source were right with the specs. I hope you can help us in future again ;)
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I didn’t expect such interesting times! There is no day that I do not receive any rumor about Ricoh-Sony-Samsung. They all talk about mirrorless camera coming in the next days and weeks! I am going to make you a summary:
RICOH
Ricoh should announce the new compact interchangeable camera system tomorrow. The camera will be very similar to the actual GX200. It uses a “slide-in” mechanism to attach lenses. Our source told us that “it will not have a proprietary bayonet mount, and to say that it will have an APS-C sensor is, well, not the whole truth…Ricohs camera system will start with two “lenses”, one prime, one zoom. The prime has 33mm real focal length, the zoom 5,1-15,3mm.“. It will have an electronic viewfinder accessory shoe for optional. It will not use the Epson EVF! One more source told us we should not expect a real MicroFourThirds competitor (don’t expect to have the image quality and flexibility of the MicroFourThirds System).
SONY
That rumor came like a bomb for all of us! SonyAlphaRumors says that Sony wants to launch a Panasonic GH1 competitor on November 18! It will record FullHD! Two of our sources heard about that camera but can’t tell us more about the specs :(
SAMSUNG
Samsung maybe will drop the ultimate bomb! K-rumors just published the last-minute rumors that Samsung will not only announce the NX System (mirrorless camera with APS-C sensor) but also the new GX fullframe mirrorless System. The new NX camera should be announced on December 10. All the specs about NX and GX System can be found here:
– NX specs
– GX specs
Let’s see what happens tomorrow with Ricoh!
UPDATE: Photorumors says that also Canon is planning a MicroFourThirds competitor in form of a fixed lens camera
Specs
Fixed-lens
2.5x crop factor sensor (~13.8×10.4mm).
5x zoom (26-130mm)
f2.8-4 IS L lens
The form factor is similar to the Pro1
Articulated Screen
800×600 EVF.
CMOS made by Canon
High FPS
1080p video like that of the SX1-IS.
It should look like the Canon PowerShot Pro 1
Tracking AF with Olympus E-P2
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The german Blog “Public Eye” demonstrates that images taken in RAW with the 20mm f/1.7 lens and imported in Lightzone without any correction do show more on the border. (Google english translation)
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Probably the worst Pansonic GF1 review ever is available here: http://g4tv.com/videos/42554/Panasonic-Lumix-DMC-GF1-DSLR-Review/
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Amazon US will have the Panasonic GF1 with 14-45mm Lens
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E-P2 preorder list (simply click on the shop name and you will land on the E-P2 camera page):
Amazon US
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Amazon US has some discounted E-P1 (via Calumet Photo):
– Olympus E-P1 Camera with 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens (Silver Body/Black Lens)
UPDATE: One of our source told us: “The new camera will not have a proprietary bayonet mount, and to say that it will have an APS-C sensor is, well, not the whole truth. At least the size and the optional viewfinder are correct.”
* APS-C sensor
* Interchangeable optics with proprietary bayonet mount
* Mirror Loose house with live-view
* Not so much larger than the GR-D cameras
* The same operation / control that the GR-D
* Electronic viewfinder accessory shoe for optional
“… a unique new compact camera in the premium class. Ricoh is a long time in development the forefront of compact cameras with very high quality. This new camera is no exception, it has both functions and properties that make it unique in the market. “
source: fotosidan
