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Does the GH5 Autofocus HACK really WORK?

Panasonic AU-EVA1 Firmware Update Improves Compatibility with Sigma ART Lenses
Panasonic G9 High Resolution mode and Landscape Photography (Soundimagesplus).
Crise d’obésité chez les compacts “mirrorless” (PhotoDanielM).
The Pixel Wars are Back, and That’s Great! (Explora).
Rare 2540mm F/8 lens used by NASA goes on sale on eBay (Mirrorlessrumors).

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

 

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Leica 12mm f/1.4 review by Robin Wong: “enjoyed using tremendously”

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Image courtesy Robin Wong

Robin Wong posted his full Leica 12mm f/1.4 lens review:

What started out as a lens I was reluctant to review, became one that I actually enjoyed using tremendously.

Besides being a sharp wide angle lens, there is a pleasing quality to the way this lens renders the images. There is good amount of contrast and pop, creating a 3-D look which I normally do not see from wide angle lenses. Bokeh quality is excellent and autofocus works flawlessly. Nonetheless, the Panasonic 12mm F1.4 is not without flaws – the corner softness and chromatic aberration can pose serious problems. The corner sharpness is so bad that you need to stop down to F4 for decent results. Purple fringing is noticeable in high contrast areas, and software correction cannot account for this very well.

Despite these flaws there is currently no other alternative to a wide angle F1.4 lens. There really is no benchmark to compare to. Perhaps, it is a huge challenge to create a 12mm lens with such a large aperture opening.

12mm f/1.4 at [shopcountry 61026].

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Olympus OM10 (review + experience)

Panasonic Lumix GH5S sample gallery (Dpreview).
Sevenoak SK T1 Durable Mini Tripod Review (Personal View).
Things We Love: Really Right Stuff Base Plates and Brackets (Explora).
The new bokeh champs? Olympus cracks the code for beautiful bokeh with its F1.2 Pro prime lens series (Imaging Resource).
Les paramètres de la photo: du connu à l’inconnu (PhotoDanielM).

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

Ab: “I recently rented a 6D plus Zeiss primes to compare to the EM1.2 and VL primes. The results were unexpected with the VL primes really keeping neck and neck despite the talk of them being “unusable” wide open etc. Here is the link to the DPR forum thread; https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/60761165“

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