Venus Optics announces the “World’s Widest f/2 Lens for Micro Four Thirds Camera”

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The Chinese company Venus Optics announced a new Laowa 7,5mm f/2.0 MFT lens. Press text:

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Anhui China, Sept 14, 2016 – Venus Optics, the camera lenses manufacturer who had previously launched a number of quality lenses with ‘World’s First’ specifications, is proud to unveil two premium lenses with extreme specifications and impressive performance, the Laowa 15mm f/2 FE Zero-D & the Laowa 7.5mm f/2 MFT.

Laowa 7.5mm f/2 MFT
The Laowa 7.5mm f/2 MFT is the Widest f/2 rectilinear lens ever designed for Micro Four Thirds Cameras. Despite the extreme specifications, Venus Optics has successfully minimized the weight of the lens to a merely 0.37 pounds (170g) and 55mm long. The extreme 110 angle of view, ultra- fast f/2 aperture and featherweight make this lens an ideal option to pair up with drones for aerial photography. It also gives photographers a fast and wide-angle option for low-light shooting as well as landscape photography.

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Availability
The Laowa 15mm f/2 FE Zero-D and the Laowa 7.5mm f/2 MFT will be available to the market in early 2017. Engineering prototype will be available to test in Venus Optics’ Photokina debut. Venus Optics’ booth is in Hall 2.1, Booth A-045.
Together with the new lenses, Venus Optics will also display a number of unique lenses with first class quality and unique specifications in Photokina 2016.

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YI Technology will announce a new MFT camera on Monday

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43rumors reader Xavier just sent me this:

A Chinese company called YI Technology is said to announce a new MFT camera on 19th Sept. This company was partnered with the famous Chinese electronics company Xiaomi and announced some good action cams in the past (including one 4K action cam with LED screen recently).
The image attached seems to be the invitation letter for the announcement (collected from Chinese social platform so might not be real). However it clearly indicates an interchangeable lens camera to be announced. Also the sensor would likely be provided by Panasonic from who shared this image.
It seems that we are going to have a budget alternative with great specs (at least on paper as usual for this brand) very soon!

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Thanks Xavier!

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Cool! Panasonic VariCam Pure 4K 120fps uncompressed RAW camera!

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Panasonic Announces VariCam Pure With Uncompressed 4K 120 FPS from cinema5D on Vimeo.

What a marvel! Cinema5D writes:

The VariCam Pure outputs RAW files to the Codex Capture Drives, which are solid state recording media of up to 2TB of storage and with a bandwith of 20Gb/s. The 4K recording is offered in uncompressed RAW, at up to 120 FPS. With its 14+ stops of dynamic range in HDR and with V-LOG, the VariCam Pure is used for leading television drama and cinematography capture, offering a modular configuration at a smaller size than the original VariCam setup even when the Codex is attached. The dual base ISO remains at 800/5000.

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Panasonic GH4 for $959 on eBay US/Canada

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The GH4 sells for $959 only on eBay US/Canada (Click here).

Reminder:
The big Olympus Lens Savings list can be found on those special pages at BHphoto and GetOlympus. You save up to $100!
Olympus launched a new E-M1 kit which includes the 12-40mm PRO lens. You can buy it for $1,299 at BHphoto (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).
You get an extra $150 gift card for free on the 35-100mm X lens sold by Adorama (Click here).
In USA you get a free flight (yes flight!) when purchasing the E-M5II at GetOlympus (read details here).

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Follow the Panasonic and Olympus announcements live here on 43rumors!

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In exactly one week on September 19 (next Monday) Panasonic and Olympus will announce their new MFT stuff:

  1. At 12:30 Berlin time Panasonic will have the press conference
  2. At 18:00 Berlin time Olympus will have the press conference

Olympus will have a video live streaming you can follow live here on 43rumors!

And so far this is what we will get on that day according to our sources:

  1. Panasonic G8x (name not 100% final yet). G85 specs in a G7 body. With 4:2:2 8bit internal 4K recording
  2. Panasonic GH5 pre-production version. Panasonic will “pre-announce” the non final GH5 camera. It records 4k at 4:2:2 10bit on SD cards.
  3. Olympus E-M1II: 4K, hand-held high-resolution mode, dual SD card slot. Unconfirmed yet if it has a Olympus designed sensor
  4. Olympus 30mm f/3.5 macro, 25mm f/1.2 and 12-100mm f/4.0 PRO lens
  5. Panasonic will also announce new lenses

Be sure to join the GH5 Facebook group.

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