After over three years of continuous fall the system camera market stabilized this year (See latest CIPA report PDF here). It’s now an open question if the market sales will remain constant or go back to some degree of growth. Hard to say now…
Olympus Air A01 and OM-D E-M5: First View
Fine Tuning the EVF on Your Olympus OM-D (TheDigitalStory).
Omar: “Your readers will be interested in my new article about my switch to m43 and point and shoot cameras and lessons learned about photography gear during the 10 plus years to make my book and calendar.
http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2015/11/07/tips-from-shooting-the-egyptian-wilderness-dr-o”
Germany:
List of todays Gold Box deal at Amazon.de (full page here).
Bis zu 150 EUR Sofortrabatt auf Olympus Objektive at Amazon.de.
100 EUR Amazon Aktionsgutschein beim Kauf einer Kamera E-M5II/E-M1 at Amazon.de.
50 EUR Amazon Aktionsgutschein beim Kauf einer E-M10/E-M10II Kamera at Amazon.de.
UK:
Up to £150 Cashback with Selected Panasonic Cameras and Camcorders at Amazon.co.uk.
Claim up to £100 Cashback when Purchasing a Selected Olympus Lens or Camera at Amazon.co.uk.
France:
Offre de remboursement OLYMPUS – Jusqu’à 150€ remboursés sur une sélection de produits at Amazon France.
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Canadian item prices seem to be often much lower than US prices. And Quickndone just posted two really great new deals:
[shoplink 56557 ebay]$520 off on the brand new Panasonic 35-100mm X lens (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 56558 ebay]$350 off on the brand new Panasonic 12-35 X lens (Click here)[/shoplink].
And already reported previously are these other Quickndone deals:
[shoplink 56561 ebay]Silver E-M5II for $799 (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 56560 ebay]Black E-M5II for $799 (Click here)[/shoplink].
[shoplink 56562 ebay]GH4 for $1,069 (Click here)[/shoplink].
I just got that anonymous message (Thanks to the source!). He wrote:
“Panasonic will soon release new firmware update about end of November. The new function will be post-focus. It works just like 4K Photo as a photo mode. Camera shoots short 4K MP4 video and user can touch on any area to change focus point and save as JPG.”
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We just got a new MFT lens! But you will have to wait till Summer 2016 to get it. It’s the Meyer Optik Görlitz Trimagon 95mm f/2.6 lens. The price is yet unknown but the lens is made to have an extremely nice bokeh and to outresolve 60+ Megapixel sensors.
Technical specifications:
Aperture & Focal Length: f/2,6-22; 95 mm
Lens construction: 3 elements in 3 modules
Picture angle: 25 °
Filter Diameter: 52 mm
Characteristics:
Lens construction in classical triplet | 3 lenses / 3 groups
Iris diaphragm with 15 specially constructed aperture blades and special anti-reflective coating
Mounts: Canon, Nikon, Fuji X, Sony–E, MFT, M42 and Leica M
Available from early summer 2016
Click on the image to see the full size version:
Found via MirrorlessRumors.
Panasonic Lumix GH4 vs Panasonic Lumix GH4R
Irfan: “Here’s the new test video on FZ300 4K camera & surprisingly the image quality is really nice. Link: http://youtu.be/8osYwN5Nbro”
Mezza: “GH4 shoot at Oxford Uni Exam School with a write up of how it went, what lenses we used and using a Letus Helix Jr steadicam device.
http://ignitecreative.co.uk/2015/11/oxford-marketing-video/”
David: “I’ve recently expanded my brief reviews of lenses and accessories for MFT to include additional lenses and combinations, more photo samples, and a listing of lenses that work well with infrared (not all do), with B&W IR photo samples added for these, at: http://www.david-ruether-photography.com/MFT-Lenses.htm”
Sol: “I’ve been shooting with the Speed Booster XL and I wanted to share some details on the pros and cons of using the adapter with the Panasonic GH4: http://suggestionofmotion.com/blog/metabones-speed-booster-xl-nikon-mft-review/”
Germany:
List of todays Gold Box deal at Amazon.de (full page here).
Bis zu 150 EUR Sofortrabatt auf Olympus Objektive at Amazon.de.
100 EUR Amazon Aktionsgutschein beim Kauf einer Kamera E-M5II/E-M1 at Amazon.de.
50 EUR Amazon Aktionsgutschein beim Kauf einer E-M10/E-M10II Kamera at Amazon.de.
UK:
Up to £150 Cashback with Selected Panasonic Cameras and Camcorders at Amazon.co.uk.
Claim up to £100 Cashback when Purchasing a Selected Olympus Lens or Camera at Amazon.co.uk.
France:
Offre de remboursement OLYMPUS – Jusqu’à 150€ remboursés sur une sélection de produits at Amazon France.
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For a limited quantity you get the E-P5 with 17mm f/1.7 lens and VF-4 EVF with a huge $550 discount at [shoplink 56566 ebay]RobertsCamera eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. On other US stores like BHphoto you have to pay $1,249 for the same kit.
