The world first place having already(!) an offer on the brand new E-M5II is UK. You get a 5 and half-year extended warranty plus a free bag with the E-M5II sold at Amazon UK (Click here).
There are also four refurbished E-Pl7 cameras for sale at [shoplink 22691 ebay]Olympusmarket[/shoplink]:
[shoplink 51326 ebay]Black E-Pl7 (Click here)[/shoplink]
[shoplink 51327 ebay]White E-Pl7 (Click here)[/shoplink]
[shoplink 51328 ebay]Silver E-Pl7 (Click here)[/shoplink]
[shoplink 51329 ebay]Black E-Pl7 (Click here)[/shoplink]
And new Panasonic UK cashbacks
Lx100 £50/€60 cashback + 5yr warranty + free case
Fz1000 £50/€60 cashback + 5yr warranty + free case
Gh4 £100 / €120 cashback + 5yr warranty
Gx7 £50/€60 cashback + free case
John Brawley posted that great Vimeo video you can see on top. And there is another Behind The Scenes video you can watch on Vimeo (Click here). And there is an overall E-M5II review on his blog at johnbrawley.wordpress.com. At the end he says:
Olympus are officially in the filmmaking game and this is only their first serious effort at making a camera with appeal to those of us that want our stills cameras to also shoot motion. Although the headline specs might not seem all that impressive compared to others at first glance, you should consider the total package and with their IS it starts to become a really interesting camera for certain applications. There’s certainly nothing else like it.
Now let’s see what Olympus will do with the E-M1II ;)
A trusted source told me that Panasonic plans to show two more new MFT lenses at CP+. One should be almost certainly the 30mm f/2.8 macro lens. The specs of the second lens are unknown but that lens should be displayed as mockup only.
Reminder about the new 30mm macro:
Panasonic writes about that lens:
The new 30mm/F2.8 macro lens enables not only life-size macro photography but also offers further versatile styles of capturing photos, such as landscape photography thanks to a focusing distance of 60mm (35mm camera equivalent). For high precision focusing in macro photography the new lens also supports 240 fps high-speed AF, while integrating optical image stabiliser. It features a sophisticated exterior design in metallic finish for the stylish appearance.
43rumors reader Leo reported at Photokina:
I was at the Photokina today and Pansonic had a mockup of a 30mm lens with the label “Lumix G macro”. There was no further explanation and nobody at the booth could give me details. In fact they were surprised by the display themselves ;).
Along the E-M5II Olympus announced also the Air Clip MFT camera! it’s going to be sold in Japan only (for now). First real hands-on pictures can be found on that Engadget gallery (Click here) and at DC.watch (Click here). There is also an official video here:
The big question to you is:
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The Air Clip specs are:
– 16 MP MFT sensor
– MFT mount
– 81-point AF system
– 10fps
– electrnic shutter with speed up to 1/16000s
– has physical shutter release button and tripod mount
– microSD slot and lithium-ion battery
– microUSB
– Air Clip control via Wifi from a mobile device.
– Art filter support
– Bluetooth
– Come with Open Source Api
– To be released in Spring in Japan
– 56.9 × 57.1 × 43.6mm. Weight about 146g (without memory card, battery built-in).
– Comes in Black or White
– Price: 33,800 yen for the body and with kit lens 14-42mm EZ 49,800 yen.
While the two images are fairly similar in most respects for overall sharpness and clarity, the one clear difference is the lack of moiré in the E-M5 II on the green label, where the D810 produces obvious moiré artifacts. The results at ISO 1600 are equally interesting, even here with in-camera JPEGS and default noise reduction settings. The shadow area at the top right tends to produce ISO noise in most cameras by this time, and while the D810 handles it about as good as most any camera we’ve tested, the E-M5 II also handles it surprisingly well and even produces slightly sharper results in the mosaic tile pattern.
With the obvious limitations (tripod needed, no moving objects) the Olympus 40MP “trick” really seems to work very well!
Videos:
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II Hands-On Field Test by TheCameraStoreTV:
Olympus OM-D E-M5 MarkII (Youtube), Olympus EM5 Mark 2 versus a DLSR (Youtube), Olympus OM-D E-M5 MarkII The Runner (Youtube),
5-Axis Image Stabilization (Youtube). London Taxi – A short film shot on the Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II (Vimeo). Cool car test E-M5II vs GH4 on Youtube. Review by Dimitri Novak on Youtube. Video by DSLRmagazine (Vimeo). E-M5II unboxing (Youtube). Olympus OM-D E-M5 MkII 10fps Continuous Shooting shutter sound (Youtube). Video by Quesabesde (Youtube).
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