Japanese Olympus AIR hands-on.

Neil Buchan-Grant On Shooting Olympus Micro Four Thirds (ePhotozine).
“User experience” review of the Oly 40-150mm f/2.8 pro lens and 1.4x teleconverter at Seldomscenephotography.
Firmware v11.0728 for the CM1 (Panasonic).
We Take the Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II & TG-860 to Bermuda for Some Hands-on Fun (Steve Digicams).
Panasonic Lumix GM5 podcast at Thisweekinphoto.
New B-grip line at Bgrip.
Panasonic Varicam 35 4K goes to the sea pools (Newsshooter).
E-M5II toma de contacto at DSLRmagazine.
E-M5II pricing info in Japan (Itmedia).
E-M5II an Altglas: Makro-Shootout (Pen And Tell).

Ferenc:  “I’ve been to Northern Norway in January, taking pictures and making a time-lapse compilation of the Northern Lights, Aurora Borealis. http://youtu.be/K8Gx9sXCOpw. Shot entirely on an Olympus E-M5, with a range of m4/3 lenses (7.5, 12, 17, 25, 45 primes, 12-32, 14-150 zooms).”

Morang: “If your readers like markets, they do not get much more interesting than some of the ones in Rangoon (Yangon). This was my first trip to Myanmar in 57 years.
1. The Thiri Mingalar is one of the largest produce markets I have ever seen:
http://worldofdecay.blogspot.com/2015/02/burmese-days-12-sensory-overload-at.html
2. Regular city residents buy from the street market:
http://worldofdecay.blogspot.com/2015/01/burmese-days-11-bo-kyoke-road-sidewalk.html
3. The huge Scott’s market has textiles and jewelry. My mother shopped here in the 1950s: http://worldofdecay.blogspot.com/2015/01/burmese-days-10-plenty-to-see-at-scotts.html
I used an Olympus 9-18mm lens on a Panasonic G3 as well as a 27mm lens on a Fuji X-E1.“

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The market share leaders within the mirrorless system camera category

In Japan for DSLR and Mirrorless system cameras are equally strong. But that said Olympus just lost the leadership in favour of Sony which now holds 34.3% of the market share. Olympus had a 6% drop while Panasonic had a 2% drop. Of course this was a bit inevitable seeing that more and more players are competing within the market. Still, the Sony A7 series seems to be very successful there and it raises the always returning question if Olympus and Panasonic should also offer a second and new mirrorless system with larger sensor…

The Russian site Kroupski (google translation here) interviewed Mr. Michael Guthmann from Olympus. And these are some of the key info:

1) It’s not possible to add the 40MP High resolution feature on current cameras via simple firmware upgrade. It”s not just algorithms that is needed. ON the E-M5II Olympus improved the positioning accuracy of the stabilization system. Mechanical components were changed and optimized.

2) Olympus is not sure if they will add the 40MP feature on future low-end cameras too.

3) Olympus recognizes there is a request for 4K on Olympus cameras. But they cannot guarantee the E-M1 successor will have 4K. Olympus does not see great potential for 4K at the moment. Once the market is ready for it, they will make 4K. Panasonic, Sony, Samsung  are “forced” to add 4K on cameras to create content for their 4K TV’s.

4) Olympus is not worried about the fact that Full Frame cameras are becoming cheaper. Because they think what matters is the camera+lens performance and size.