24 hour deal: Save up to $100 on all Olympus and Panasonic gear on eBay.com!

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Today you save up to $100 on nearly all stuff sold on eBay.com (Click here). Use promo code “PSPRING20“. This one works on nearly all items sold on eBay.com and will work on MFT gear too!

More Deals:
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 get the reconditioned E-M1II for $1,499 only at GetOlympus.
You now get a lot of free extras with the GH5 at Amazon.

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Competition news: Canon confirms they will go “All-in” on Mirrorless

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CP+ is over and the many websites are now publishing their interviews with company managers. And we have some key news to report:

1) Canon confirmed they will now move their resources to develop mirrorless system cameras
2) Nikon said 100 Megapixel FF camera will eventually arrive
3) Fuji once more confirmed once more they will never go FF

To sum up: Both Canon and Nikon are rumored to launch Full Frame mirrorless system cameras by end 2018. The big question is whether they will launch cameras with a completely new mount or just rip off the mirror box from their current DSLR :)

I don’t know what impact these companies will have on the Micro Four Thirds world. By going Full Frame the will compete on a higher end market and not directly to the MFT-APSC world. And Canon might as well kill their EOS-M system which would be a MFT challengin system but has no native lenses at all to support it.

More news:
Sigma CEO gives rare insight on future tech: Plastic Glass, Curved sensors and more… (Mirrorlessrumors).
Canon manager confirms: Company shifts focus from SLR to mirrorless cameras! (Mirrorlessrumors).
Fuji once more closes the door to any Fuji Full Frame camera development (Mirrorlessrumors).
Nikon: “100 megapixel Full Frame cameras are possible” (Mirrorlessrumors).

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Lensrentals tests all fast 40mm MFT lenses

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Lensrentals tested these fast 40-45mm MFT lenses:

– Olympus 45mm f/1.2 ED PRO
– Olympus 45mm f/1.8 ED
– Panasonic 42.5mm f/1.7 OIS
– Panasonic Leica 42.5mm f/1.2 OIS
– Panasonic Leica 45mm f/2.8 DG OIS Macro
– Voigtlander 42.5mm f/0.95 Nokton

The conclusion:

Well, I learned that no matter how much I hate Voigtlander, the company, I sure do admire Voigtlander lenses. The performance of the 42.5mm f/0.95 is spectacular. Of course, you also have to be OK with manually focusing, but still, that’s a lens worth considering.
If you want a f/1.2 lens in this focal length, well, let’s face it, it will probably come down to whether you want Power OIS or not. If you don’t, the Olympus 42.5mm f/1.2 PRO is slightly less expensive and has less variation. But a good copy of the Panasonic 42.5 Noctitron is excellent.
Both of the less expensive lenses in this range deliver a lot of bang for the buck. They have very good image quality, and if you don’t need the widest aperture, they give you a lot for 1/3 the price of the wide-aperture duo. If I were most interested in this focal length for portraits, I’d probably want the Zuiko Digital f/1.8; that field curvature will help throw everything other than the subject out of focus. For landscapes or architectural shooting, the flat field of the Panasonic f/1.7 would be an advantage.

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New Capture One campaign and Major ON1 Raw update

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ON1 Photo RAW 2018.1 has is a jor firmware update which brings the following improvements:

• New Improvements include improved debayering, improved HDR alignment and deghosting, faster thumbnail generation in browse, faster searching, improved noise reduction & sharpening, and better preview quality.
• New features include Import module, Tethered Shooting, Soft Proofing, Metadata Templates, Video Browsing & Organizing, Custom Sorting, Additional Cameras and Lens Support, and more.
• A viable Lightroom® & Photohsop® alternative available now

Capture One launched the new “Dedication” campaign. More info here: https://www.capturededication.com/. Reminder: Use the coupon code “AMB43R” to get a 10% discount on Capture One 11 (Click here).

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