a bit of everything…

• March 15, 2018
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Olympus 17mm f/1.2 and 45mm f/1.2 Review Part 2

Panasonic G9 High Resolution mode and Landscape Photography (Soundimagesplus).
Things We Love: Macro Functions on Tough Cameras (John Harris).
The Best from Japan: Sony’s 400mm f/2.8; Olympus’ crazy concept cameras; Sigma’s “VR” lens hood service and more (Imaging Resource).
Panasonic Lumix GX9 | Kurztest der GX80-Nachfolgerin [CP+ 2018] A blast from the past II: revisiting the Olympus OM-D E-M5 (Robin Wong).

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

(FT4) Some “insider” info about the Panasonic G9

• March 14, 2018
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The following info is from a reliable source:

– The G9 is essential a GH5 in a new case. It shares the same hardware.
– G9 was initially planned to be a 16MP camera
– Initial plan was to release both G9 and GH5 at the same time with G9 focused primary on photographs and GH5 both video and photo.
– Due to availability issues with the new larger viewfinder they decided to launch GH5 first with the “smaller” viewfinder. They thought that a larger viewfinder is more important to photographers than to the movie guys
– Main competitor is Sony and not Olympus. They want to significantly expand the share in photo sector
– The 4K/6K photo modes are not well perceived by photo community thats why they decided to release the high burst modes (which they could have already).

Panasonic links:
Panasonic G9 at BHphoto. Amazon. Adorama. FocusCamera. Wex UK.
Leica 200mm lens at BHphoto. Amazon. Adorama. FocusCamera. Amazon DE. Amazon UK. Amazon IT.

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a bit of everything…

• March 14, 2018
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Mitakon Speedmaster 25mm f/0.95 Review

New E-M1 Mark II review from a former Fujifilm shooter (Mariusmasalar.me).
Panasonic GH5S Autofocus- an Unscientific Test (Cinema5D).
L’Olympus M.Zuiko 12-40mm F2.8 Pro: l’optique urbaine versatile (PhotoDanielM).
WPPI 2018: DJI Ronin-S (Explora).
EM1 II vs G9 by Mirrorlesscomparison

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

Today only: 15% off on all reconditioned Olympus gear. E-m1II for $1,275 only!

• March 13, 2018
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This runs today only: 15% off on professional reconditioned Olympus gear at GetOlympus (Click here). This means you get the E-m1II for $1,275 only! You have to use promo code “SPRINGSALE” to get the discount

Bad start of the camera industry: 28% drop in camera shipments this January

• March 13, 2018
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So CP+ is over and we can go back to some worrisome news: CIPA released the January 2018 camera shipment data. And this was by far the worst month of the last 10 years. Shipments went down nearly 30%. The only small good news is that Mirrorless system camera sales went down much less than the compacts and DSLR. But still…

Up to 200 Euro Cashback on Panasonic camera+lens bundle (including GH5s and G9)

• March 13, 2018
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Panasonic extended the camera+lens cashback on the GH5s and G9 bundles. Info at Panasonic Germany and Panasonic UK.

Amazon Gold Box on PNY cards and Apple laptops

• March 12, 2018
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Amazon has two deals running today only:
– Save up to 25% on PNY memory cards
– Save 18% on 2016 Macbook PRO laptops

More Deals:
Rokinon 12mm f/2.0 MFT manual focusing lens for $279 only at Adorama.
Use the coupon code “AMB43R” to get a 10% discount on Capture One 11 (Click here).
You save $65 on the E-M1oIII sold by GetOlympus, Bhphoto, Adorama and Amazon.
You now get a lot of free extras with the GH5 at Amazon.