Leica 8-18mm review at ePhotozine: “lives up to its Leica tag”

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ePhotozine published the full lens review and the bottom line is:

The Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 8-18mm f/2.8-4 Asph. is a pleasure to use, but the greatest pleasure is arguably in the outstanding sharpness, giving a real punch to images. The pleasure extends to enjoying fine engineering as well, because there is the high quality of the construction and finish to enjoy for its own sake.
In summary, a lens that lives up to its Leica tag and should serve very well for many years of use.

Leica 8-18mm lens at  Adorama, BHphoto, Panasonic and Amazon.

And this is the first look video from Photogearnews:

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First Look: CAME-TV Panasonic GH5 Cage

Why DSLRs will Ultimately Lose (Atmtx).
E-M1 Mark II Experience Day at Kew Gardens (Olympus-imagespace).
how to color your photos (using the hsl tool) at Brevite.
Testing Veydra Mini Primes on the Panasonic GH5 (Newsshooter).
Panasonic GH5 No Autofocus Drama – Real World Tests & Review – in 4k (ZedProMedia).

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

Iamstillill:Here’s a fun vid I shot last night with GH5. All AF except for where I had to refocus on the main singer
youtu.be/rVkO-x8I0t4

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Olympus 25mm f/1.2 PRO lens designer interview: More f/1.2 lenses are coming!

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The Japanese site DC.watch (google translation) interviewed the designers of the Olympus 25mm f/1.2 PRO lens. There is a lot of in deep technical talk about the new lens. The engineers also shared two info about why they did choose the f/1.2 aperture and if there are more fast lenses to come:

  1. It would have been possible to make the lens even faster but the size would have become a lot larger and autofocus a lot slower.
  2. The f/1.2 series is going to be expanded with new lenses. Olympus collected the customers request at the CP+ show

We reported in previous rumors that Olympus already designed two more fast f/1.2 primes. And of them is for sure a new 17mm f/1.2 PRO lens.

Note: The current Olympus 25mm f/1.2 is in Stock at [shopcountry 64545].

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SLR Magic 8mm f4 Review

hsc.tv Shoots Network Sports, Documentary Features With its Full Line of Panasonic VariCam Cameras (Panasonic).
How does ZEISS define Bokeh – An Interview with Dr. Stefan Ballmann (Lenspire).
Casey Neistat switches to Pansonic Lumix GH5 (Giulio Sciorio).
GH5: first impressions and continuous AF in video (Newsshooter).
GH5 – @Daniel Peters How To Fix Slowmo Exposure Drop (Stronz Vanderploeg).
E-M1II with 25mm PRO test at DC.watch.

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

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