Images via DC.watch.
During the GH4 presentation in Tokyo Panasonic showed again their MFT lens roadmap which includes the 15mm f/1.7 Leica and 35-100mm compact zoom. Still no news about the exact release date and pricing. But you can see two more pictures of preproduction version here:
Source: DC.watch.
The Samyang 85mm f/1.4 Lens for MFT is for the first time in Stock at BHphoto (Click here).
Also, third party resellers have the E-M1 in Stock for $1269 at Amazon US (Click here).
Reminder: Get 20% off on all Olympus camera by using the coupon code “PRESIDENT” in your cart for savings at GetOlympus (Click here). Still valid today only!
P.S.: The Panasonic GX7 with kit lens sells for $874 at Amazon (Click here).
A Japanese magazine is speculating about a soon to be released new PEN camera with integrated viewfinder. Well it’s possible this will happen and Olympus certainly needs to create some buzz on the PEN system after the OMD system did “steal the show”.
As you know for the latest Olympus financial reports (Click here) PEN sales were lower as expected and they need to clear the confusing PEN strategy. E-Pl, E-PM, E-P, are three small different PEN lines really necessary?
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On Saturday’s post (Click here) I showed you some real world pictures of the new Kowa 8.5mm f/2.8, 12mm f/1.8, 25mm f/1.8 MFT lenses. Now the full specs have been posted on Kowa’s website (Click here).
Here are the images of the new lens specs:
Kowa is know for making such Cine lenses and you can find plenty of them on [shoplink 44740 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
That’s a great deal: Get 20% off on all Olympus camera by using the coupon code “PRESIDENT” in your cart for savings at GetOlympus (Click here). These low outlet prices are valid for two days only (Feb 17 and Feb 18). This means:
1) You pay $895 only for the Black E-M1 at GetOlympus (Click here).
2) $703 for the E-M5 with 12-50mm at GetOlympus (Click here).
3) $863 for the E-P5 with 17mm f/1.8 lens at GetOlympus (Click here).
And so on….
That said the E-M1 sells for $1299 (new) via third party resellers at Amazon US (Click here).
Full list of Panasonic and Olympus deals can be seen at Amazon US (Click here).
A source just told me the following:
Olympus is preparing a small firmware update to the 3 OM-D cameras as well as the E-P5. To be clear, this update will not bring focus-peaking to the E-M5. However, it will add several new features when shooting through the viewfinder (VF-4 only for the E-P5). These features will…. surprise.
And as I reported on Saturday a new E-M1 firmware update is planned to improve audio recording levels of 3 steps up to 21 steps.
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