Free lens and free cleaning kit with the GX85

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There is a lot of free stuff with the GX85 sold by Bhphoto. You get a 45-150mm and a cleaning kit for free on top of the $100 savings.

Current deals:
Save $200 on the E-M10II with kit lens at Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon, GetOlympus
$500 off on the GH4 at BHphoto and Amazon.
The GH5 superkit is back in Stock at Amazon.
$300 off on the G7 at BHphoto and Amazon.
Save $200 on the Olympus PEN-F at Bhphoto, Amazon, Adorama, GetOlympus.
Save $200 on the Olympus E-M10II double lens kit at Bhphoto, Amazon, Adorama, GetOlympus
$200 off on the GX8 at Adorama, BHphoto and Amazon.
$150 off on the 30-100mm lens at Adorama, BHphoto and Amazon.

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Interview with the designer of the Olympus 12-100mm PRO lens

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DC.watch (google translation here) interviewed the group of Olympus people who designed the Olympus 12-100mm PRO lens. There are a lot of technical details which are a bit hard to understand with the google translation tool. Here are just two general info about the lens:

  1. If they would have made the lens with f/2.8 aperture it would have been considerably larger
  2. Lens sales are strong and only recently the production did catch up with the high demand of the lens

Olympus 12-100mm PRO at [shopcountry 64782].

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New eyemore Live MFT camera

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Our reader SAM spotted a weird new MFT camera. It’s the eyemore live which appears to be on sale in China only. This INternet Broadcast camera has been produced by Shenzhen Eye Technology. The camera gets controlled via iPhone App.

I haven’t found the specs of the camera yet.

 

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a bit of everything…

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Panasonic Lumix GX850 – Stylish new LUMIX G with 4K Photo/Video perfect for selfies

Panasonic Lumix FZ80 / FZ82 review (CameraLabs).
Gh5 test by Mapcamera.
5 Reasons Why the Olympus PEN-F Crushed it in San Francisco (TheDigitalStory).
Things We Love: “Public Relations,” a Book by Garry Winogrand (Explora).

Plenty of news on the facebook E-M1II group and the GH5 group.

Patrik: “There is always alot of talk about fullframe vs m43 in different forums. I owned a a7 and a gx7, and was able to lend a em1mk2. Here are some raw files from both the em1mk2+12-40/2.8, gx7+12-40/2.8 and a7+24-70/4. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tqhi278u4d3x6mv/AACKBzGXfQp-XKLqAmBWp9qQa?dl=0 I tried to make the same kind of frame using the same kind of settings (sometime manual, some times P, A or S). Maybe it is a good compare, maybe not. I’ll just let the viewer decide ? ”

Jaime: “I wanted to show this 360 infrared panorama, with b&w and color conversion and html coding to keep the point of view when you change the panorama, made with a Sony Nex5 converted to 720nm, hope you like it.
http://panoramicasaereas.es/panorama/panoramica-infrarrojo-en-el-palmeral-de-elche/“

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Panasonic GH5 is back in Stock at Bhphoto and Amazon

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The GH5 superkit is back in Stock at Amazon. And also BHphoto has the camera in Stock after week of absence.

Current deals:
Save $200 on the E-M10II with kit lens at Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon, GetOlympus
$500 off on the GH4 at BHphoto and Amazon.
$300 off on the G7 at BHphoto and Amazon.
Save $200 on the Olympus PEN-F at Bhphoto, Amazon, Adorama, GetOlympus.
Save $200 on the Olympus E-M10II double lens kit at Bhphoto, Amazon, Adorama, GetOlympus
$200 off on the GX8 at Adorama, BHphoto and Amazon.
$150 off on the 30-100mm lens at Adorama, BHphoto and Amazon.

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Olympus 12-100mm gets Highly Recommended at Photozone

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The German folks over at Photozone tested the Olympus 12-100mm lens:

There are many ways to judge the results of the Olympus M.Zuiko 12-100mm f/4 IS PRO. If you want to phrase it in a negative way, you may call it a jack of all trades and a master of none. However, that’s unfair really. You could also argue that it doesn’t show any true weakness and that’s quite something considering the range. More so than the charts, the provided sample images may show that you can use this lens at pretty much all relevant settings with very good results at the wide end and still good results at the extreme long end. Lateral CAs are no issue. Vignetting and distortions are handled nicely (albeit somewhat lossy) via image auto-correction. And the quality of the bokeh is pretty decent for a zoom lens.

The lens gets Highly Recommended!

Olympus 12-100mm PRO at [shopcountry 64782].

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