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a bit of everything…

March 1, 2017
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Olympus 25mm f/1.2 Lens Review at the New York Public Library

5 Tips For Getting Your Photos Published (Adorama Learning Center)
Norwegian PanaLeica 100 – 400 review at Lydogbilde.
1 and 2 second handheld shots : EM1-mkII + 12-100 f/4 (Photolari).
Upcoming Showtime Sports Six-Part Digital Documentary, Legacy: Bob Hurley, Shot with Panasonic VariCam LT 4K Cinema Camcorders (Panasonic).
Camera Sales: December 2016 and mirrorless issues (Personal View).
Plenty of news on the facebook E-M1II group and the GH5 group.

Tony: “Just wanted to share with your readers about a bug that I discovered in the E-M1mkII and have reported to olympus. The Flash and sync ports deactivate in Hi-res and focus bracketing modes. More details here:
https://unlockingolympus.com/2017/02/e-m1-mkii-bug-report/
This might save your readers some frustration or looking bad in front of a client if they aren’t prepared with the workaround!“

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

February 28, 2017
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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.

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

February 28, 2017
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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.

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

February 28, 2017
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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.

a bit of everything…

February 28, 2017
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GX850 review

Color Grading the V-Log L Color Profile on Panasonic GH4 (Fstoppers).
GX850, a SELFIE DELIGHT (Cyleow)
Olympus 12-100 f4 review (CameraStuffReview).
Dutch 25mm f/1.2 review at Pixelmania.
Blackmagic Releases Portable and Versatile Pro Video Gear and Lowers Price on Studio Cameras (Adorama Learning Center).
The Tripod Explained (Explora).
Plenty of news on the facebook E-M1II group and the GH5 group.

Trade in any camera and/or lens and get up to an $800 Bonus on Olympus cameras and lenses.

February 27, 2017
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In USA you can now trade in any camera and/or lens and get up to an $800 Bonus on Olympus cameras and lenses. Detailed info can be found on those special pages at BHphoto (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).

Panasonic-Olympus deals and in Stock status updates:
Full special deal pages at BHphoto and GetOlympus.
Full special Panasonic deals page at BHphoto.

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

February 27, 2017
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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:

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)
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.