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New Panasonic GX8 tests (Great images from Gagan Sadana)

September 10, 2015
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A DMC-GX8 in Brussels from Pier-Yves Menkhoff on Vimeo.

Here are some GX8 news and tests:

GX8 Street Photography using a Fisheye lens /August 26, 2015 by Gagan Sadana
GX8 4K video at Soundimagesplus.
Focus Numerique (google translation here) says the GX8 is “exciting” and the “ultimate M43 camera from Panasonic“.
Comparing the Panasonic GX8 and Olympus OM-D E-M1 – Sensors and stabilisation (Mirrorlessons).
Polish GX8 test at Fotopolis.

Black GX8 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and Panasonic. In Eu at Amazon DE, Amazon UK, WexUK.
Silver GX8 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and Panasonic. In Eu at Amazon DE, Amazon UK, WexUK.

a bit of everything…

September 10, 2015
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Olympus OM-D E-M10II Review by Thomas Leuthard

European readers have a Gold Box deal on Transcend and Samsung SD cards at Amazon.de (Scroll the horizontal deal bar).
Panasonic G7 review at Photobyrichard.
Olympus OM-D E-M1 and Sony a7RII comparison on Rackibrothers.com
Sony a7r II or…Panasonic DVX200PJ 4K? (Planet5D).
Panasonic Lumix G7 test at Mobile01.
E-M100II test at Itmedia.
Lensbaby Velvet 56 mm f/1,6 : le test (Focus Numerique).

Scott: “I’m currently travelling across Europe (Netherlands, Italy, Britain, Germany, Austria) with a Panasonic G6 and the fabulous Pana-Leica 25mm f1,4 + ND0,9. This Setup is great for Street Photography as well as Street Portraits. Plus it’s super light and fits into any bag.
You can see and follow the journey here:
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.737209886424669.1073741839.584827588329567&type=3”

Anonymous: “Weddingvideo shot using em5 m2 & em1. Airial footage shot with phantom 3. https://vimeo.com/136502966“

BHphoto sells the GH4 with free 3 year warranty, $50 gift card and free 32GB Class 10 SD card.

September 9, 2015
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Not only did the GH4 got a $100 off. You get a free 450 gift card, extended 3 year warranty and a 4K ready 32GB SD card with the Panasonic GH4 sold by BHphoto (Click here).

Reminder:

There is a new action where you save some $$$ on Oympus lens and camera combinations. It runs on Amazon (Click here) and GetOlympus (Click here). And you save $200 on the E-M1 which now sells for $1,099 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.

Zhongyi 25mm f/0.95 lens will cost $499. Poll: Would you buy it?

September 9, 2015
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Yesterday I wrote how Zhongyi is about to release a new 25mm f/0.95 Micro Four Thirds lens. I now have been told by the developers that the price will be around $499. This is $300 less than the current price of the [shoplink 55477 ebay]Voigtlander Nokton 25mm lens (here on eBay)[/shoplink]. ANd the developers said optical quality will be higher (and compact size as you see much smaller).
As this is a very big investment from their site they asked me to ask you the following question:

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Zhongyi-Mitakon already have two MFT lenses for sale on eBay:
Mitakon 42,5mm f/1.2 on [shoplink 52611 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Mitakon 24mm f/1.7 on [shoplink 52612 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

Camera Market in July: Camera unit sales as good (or as bad) as last year.

September 9, 2015
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It’s still too early to be really be sure of that but it really looks like the camera market stabilized after years of fall. The latest July camera shipment report form the Japanese CIPA association seems to confirm that. More detailed charts can be seen at Personal View.

There is yet no info about the specific Olympus and Panasonic sales in those months but from the CIPA report we know mirrorless sales are slightly growing.

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New $100 price drop on the GH4. Now you have the money for the V-LOG update :)

September 8, 2015
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Panasonic US dropped the price of the GH4 which now sells for $1397 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and Panasonic. So now you have an extra $100 you can spend on the V-Log update :)

New Panasonic Preorder links:
Panasonic Lumix G 25mm f/1.7 ASPH. Lens at Amazon. BHphoto. Panasonic Store.
Panasonic Lumix G Vario 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 II ASPH. MEGA O.I.S. Lens at BHphoto.
45-150mm MATTE version at BHphoto.
14-140mm MATTE version at BHphoto.
Panasonic V-Log L Function Activation Code for Lumix DMC-GH4 at BHphoto, Panasonic Store.

WOW-Lens: Zhongyi (Mitakon) about to release a f/0.95…Pancake(!) for MFT!

September 8, 2015
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What you see on the image above is a new [shoplink 52611 ebay]Zhongyi (Mitakon)[/shoplink] protoype lens. And on paper this really looks like a killer product: It’s a 25mm f/0.95 pancake(!) MFT lens! The fastest most compact lens of the world yet!
There is yet no info on the exact release date but the lens will come in Black (no Silver version). The price will be about the same as the [shoplink 55477 ebay]Voigtlander Nokton 25mm lens (here on eBay)[/shoplink]. But the developer said the optical quality will surpass that of the Voigtlander Nokton competition. It has a 11 lens design and great close up effect. These are the very first image samples. Click on the image to see a larger version:

Looks very godo to me..what do you think?