Nokton 10,5mm listed at BH. And few new image samples.

• September 30, 2014
• reviews
• 14 Comments

The new Nokton 10,5mm f/0.95 is now listed without price info at BHphoto (Click here). I hope preorder options and pricing info will be online soon. In the meantime you can see some new image samples at Bestmirrorlesscamerareviews. Their first impression:

The 10.5mm can focus as close as 17cm. The first Nokton, the 25mm, was very soft at f/0.95 but with the following releases Voigtänder has improved the performance at the fastest aperture and the 10.5mm shows good results even at 0.95. We can detect some vignetting but it can be expected with this type of lens

Ending tonight: Up to $200 off on E-M10 bundles.

• September 30, 2014
• deals
• 1 Comment

Lats chance to grab it! The double deal on the E-M10 is ending tonight at GetOlympus (Click here).

Reminder: $110 off on the GH4 sold at [shoplink 48590 ebay]Prodigital on eBay (free shipping and no tax to pay)[/shoplink].

How should the E-M5 successor be to make you buy it?

• September 30, 2014
• Rumors
• 418 Comments

Last week Olympus confirmed the E-M5 successor is “coming soon”. I think it’s going to be tricky for Olympus to position it “right”. Of course it should be better than the E-M5 and more advanced than the E-M10. But can/should it be better than the E-M1 flagship?

Let us know dear readers what you would like to see on the new E-M6! I want a 4 million dot EVF, new 3 layer sensor, faster AF in low light…

P.S.: I will collect your suggestion and features list and sum them up in a POLL to be posted the coming days. Will be nice to see what 43rumors leader want!

Three new Digital Bolex C-mount lenses (will work on MFT too).

• September 30, 2014
• news
• 33 Comments

After two years of development the first three Digital Bolex C-mount lenses have been announced. These can work with adapter on MFT cameras too as stated on their website:

The Kish Optics/Digital Bolex Series 1 Super16mm Primes are fixed aperture F4 lenses fine-tuned to the optical sweet spot of each lens. C-mounted for native use with the Digital Bolex D16 camera, these lenses will cover sensors from 16mm to M43, and can be used on traditional C-mount 16mm motion picture cameras.

Full specs and few image samples can be seen here: http://www.digitalbolex.com/product-category/optics/lenses/

found via Mirrorlessrumors.com.

Deals: Panasonic 20mm 1.7 for $299! Silver and Black E-Pl7 in Stock.

• September 29, 2014
• deals
• 44 Comments

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Brand new Panasonic 20mm lenses now sell for $299 at official [shoplink 48618 ebay]Panasonic partners on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. And now both E-Pl7 kits are in Stock and shipping:

Silver E-PL7 with lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, GetOlympus, Wex UK.
Black E-PL7 with lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, GetOlympus, Wex UK.

There is also a Gold Box deal on the VG190 at Amazon (Click here and than scroll the bar until you find it).

Olympus new site shows the new 300mm and 7-14mm optical design.

• September 29, 2014
• news
• 282 Comments

Olympus (Click here) updated the Zuiko PRO page which now includes the yet not released 300mm f/4.0 and 7-14mm f/2.8 lenses. You can also see the optical design of those:

Can’t wait to know how much we  have to $$$ for those!!!

Olympus updates E-M1 manual with new firmware update features.

• September 28, 2014
• news
• 23 Comments

I think this is the first time a company updates the camera manual including the new firmware features info. The “new” E-M1 manual can be downloaded here:

English:
www.olympus.co.jp/en/support/imsg/digicamera/download/manual/omd/man_em1_ver2_e.pdf
French:
www.olympus.fr/site/rmt/media/consumer/pim/_manuals_aw2014_/E-M1_MANUAL_V20_FR.pdf

Thanks J-Marc for finding the news!