HOW TO VIDEO THE ECLIPSE – Smarter Every Day 2

Spring Cleaning: Examine Your Gear and Dump What You Aren’t Using (Explora).
Best Monopods for Cameras (Adorama Learning Center).
The 5 Year Mirrorless Affair (Fotozones).
Faszination Feuerwerk – Fotografie in Feuer und Eis (Shot on the E-M1II by Adrian Rohnfelder)
The Panasonic LX100 patent.

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

Chris: “I made another car video with the GH5 @ 180FPS. This time it is a Dodge Challenger SRT presented in the small showroom of an importer of US muscle cars here in Germany. Five shots were made with the support of my Kessler cineslider, all others are handheld. Thanks for watching and feedback! https://www.facebook.com/screendepartment/videos/1455271864560756/“

Brett: “My First GH5 Video. Lots to learn still. New Civic Type R! Produced by yours truly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_02Qtl-yZyk“

Lensbaby announced the new Velvet 85mm f/1.6 lens. You can preorder it for $499 at Adorama and BHphoto.

There is a review on Adorma written by Dan Mandell:

I could justify buying it simply because of its increased situational versatility. While you have the option to go full artsy with this lens, you can dial it down or season to taste if you prefer. It would have been interesting to really see how this lens works in even more diverse scenarios. Off the top of my head, I can think of a few things. There are probably ways to exploit what the lens does to create more targeted areas of effect. Using spotlights or fresnels, you could literally paint in or pinpoint areas of light that would receive the effect. Even light painting or long exposure shots have interesting possibilities here.
I’m happy to see Lensbaby making some moves in this direction. I look forward to more and more interesting entries into the market from them.

He was one of the most known Panasonic influencers. But now he walked away from the Panasonic sponsorship deal. Good Luck with your new future projects Giulio!

Olympus FL-900R on Cactus V6II hot shoe locking trick

Camcorder or DSLR: time to think again? (BBC).
The flattening of modern lenses or the death of 3d pop (Yannickk Hong)
General Tips for Online Security and Privacy (Explora).
Pros & Cons: Are Cine Lenses For You? (Adorama Learning Center).
The Panasonic pancake zoom MFT lens patent.

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

Nate “Not a rumor just sharing a video shot on m43. I shot this video of climbing El Capitan on my Olympus E-M10 with Panasonic 14mm f2.5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAKJiX76at8“

Sony announced a new 10 Megapixel Four Thirds sensor. That sensor is not going to be used on any future MFT camera. But there may be a higher Resolution version in the near future.

The particular new feature of the sensor is the Quad Bayer Coding HDR. Sony writes:

“In this case there is no time difference between long-time integration and short-time integration, which realizes HDR with little blending offset when imaging moving subjects”

That sounds intruiging!

Here are the fulls ensor specs:

Source: Sony-semicon.co.jp

via Image Sensor World