New book from Gordon Laing: “Perfect Pictures Straight Out of the Camera”

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I guess you all know Gordon Laing from CameraLabs. Well our friend just wrote his first bok and it’s available for preorder here at Amazon US, Amazon CA, Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.

Panasonic-Olympus deals and in Stock status updates:
Full special deal pages at BHphoto and GetOlympus.
Full special Panasonic deals page at BHphoto.
$400 off and free 12-50mm EZ lens with the E-M5II at BHphoto.
$150 off on the 40-150mm f/2.8 at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama and GetOlympus.

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Lumix GH5 vs Olympus EM1 II vs Fujifilm XT2 vs Sony A7s II 4k movie quality

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Gordon Laing from CameraLabs compared the 4K perforamcne of the four cameras. You can also Download the original file. Gordon writes:

In the video I compare the low-light quality of the Lumix GH5, Olympus OMD EM1 II, Fujifilm XT2 and Sony A7s II in 4k 25p at 1600 ISO to their maximum movie sensitivities of 12800, 6400, 12800 and 409600 ISO respectively. Each camera was set to the same colour temperature and using its standard profile. I used lenses which delivered roughly the same field of view and adjusted the distances where necessary – the Sony samples look different due to the perspective of a longer lens and bigger sensor. The lighting was fixed and the exposures matched at each sensitivity, so any difference in brightness here is due to processing styles and variations in actual sensitivity.

GH5 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama and Panasonic US. In EU at Amazon.de, Cyberport.de and ParkCamera.

 

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GH5 Vlogging by Richard Sibley and new G85 review by Daniel J.Cox

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Two of my favorite bloggers posted their new Panasonic GH5 and G85 tests/insights:

1) Photo Gear News Editor, Richard Sibley, spent a few days in Iceland, with the new Panasonic LUMIX GH5. He created a short vlog using the GH5 and shares some of his thoughts about using the camera for stills and vlogging.

2) Daniel J.Cox from Naturalexposures tested the G85

GH5 at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama and Panasonic US. In EU at Amazon.de, Cyberport.de and ParkCamera.

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Olympus interview at IR: “Sensors are coming close to the physical limit”

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There is a new Olympus interview at Imaging Resource. Most of the talk was about the new E-M1II, But Mr.Haruo Ogawa gave us a couple of “extra” interesting info:

  1. He expects that in five years the new Olympus cameras will be four times more powerful than the E-M1II (you need this for 8K for example)
  2. When asked if  sensors can improve in terms of noise and sensitivity or if we are very close to physical limits he answers: “I think that now [regarding] the noise level, we are coming close to the physical limit.”

So it looks current sensor technology doesn’t allow major leaps forward. But I am pretty sure new things will happen in the future. Something like three layer sensors, graphene sensors and so on could still give us major improvements.

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a bit of everything…

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GH5 Prototype TEST#2 Paris Place de la concorde

Eagle-eyed lenses (Science Magazine).
Telephoto Prime Shootout and the OM 500mm f/8 Reflex Lens (Jim Chung).
Finding your style (Olympus Imagespace).
Buying Guide: The Best Cameras for Vlogging (Adorama Learning Center).
10 Recommended Full-Sized Tripods (Explora).
ND Filters and Long Exposures with Olympus cameras (OlympusPassion).

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

Thomas Hogben: “Short film made of my recent trip to Iceland with the Panasonic GX80/GX85 .. it might be small but it packs a punch – https://vimeo.com/201404180”

Fredrik: “Here’s a fun video I shot with the GX85 and Panasonic Leica 25mm. Loving how easy it is to get good colors out of the new generation Panasonic camera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI8pSER4mV0“

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