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August 7, 2014
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Panasonic LUMIX GX7 Shooting Impression by Thomas Dworzak

Olympus Visionary Program at GetOlympus.
Panasonic GH4 Shooter’s Report Part II: Getting down and dirty with video recording (Imaging Resource).
Touch aperture control at Egami (google translation here).
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4 / Sony Alpha 7S Comparative Review (Dpreview).
Panasonic GH3/GH4 Pro-Level Flying Drone (Engadget).
LockPort GH4 released (http://www.lockcircle.com/)

Maxwell: “http://vimeo.com/101575229. A blog of me on my travels across the United States to national parks shot with a GH3 http://pizzapropaganda.squarespace.com“

New Olympus E-M5 sells for less than $600…

August 6, 2014
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OMD price are dropping! A couple of days ago for the first time the [shoplink 47312 ebay]E-M1 priced dropped below the $1,000 mark[/shoplink]. And now it’s the E-M5 turn: it sell for less than $600 at [shoplink 47352 ebay]6ave (Click here)[/shoplink].

More US deals Reminder:
Save $100 on the Open Box GH4 sold by [shoplink 47293 ebay]Samys one Bay (Click here)[/shoplink].
The Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 II for $319 in [shoplink 47330 ebay]Black (Click here)[/shoplink] or [shoplink 47331 ebay]Silver (Click here)[/shoplink].
Olympus US launched a $50 rebate on the following MFT lenses:
$50 off on the 45mm f/1.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
$50 off on the 17mm f/2.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
$50 off on the 60mm lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
$50 off on the 75-300mm lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
$50 off on the 40-150mm lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.

All current Olympus deals can be seen on that Amazon page and on that GetOlympus page.

Those are all current Olympus deals at GetOlympus:
Save $50 on Fast Prime Lenses for OM-D & PEN
Save $50 on Zoom Lenses for OM-D & PEN
Save $100 on the Award-Winning OM-D E-M1
Get a FREE Camera Grip with OM-D E-M10 Purchase
Up to $900 Off Lenses with OM-D or PEN E-P5 Purchase
Up to $100 Off Recorders with OM-D or E-P5 Purchase
FREE Wi-Fi Card with the E-PL5

(FT2): Updated 9mm lens specs. It has an f/1.8 aperture?

August 6, 2014
Rumors
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The current “official” Olympus road,ap doesn’t include a wide prime lens info…yet.

Got a correction from an anonymous (yet not trusted) source about the possible new 9mm PRO lens from Olympus. It has an f/1.8 aperture instead of the previously “rumored” f/2.8.

9mm F1.8.
8 elements in 7 groups.
Plastic and metal.
Distance markers.
No snapshot manual focus control.
No focus-by-wire.
Compact for competition.
¥91,000
Announcement forthcoming.

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FT1=1-20% chance the rumor is correct
FT2=21-40% chance the rumor is correct
FT3=41-60% chance the rumor is correct
FT4=61-80% chance the rumor is correct
FT5=81-99% chance the rumor is correct

Worldwide camera market: DSLR shipments decreasing. Mirrorless shipments (slowly) increasing!

August 6, 2014
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Image courtesy: Personal View.

Well, you didn’t see this coming: The DSLR market is considerably decreasing while the mirrorless market is slowly but constantly growing. The Japanese organization CIPA posted the latest June camera shipment data from Japanese companies. And you can see them on graph at Personal View.

In the period between January and June 2014 DSLR unit shipments did fall by 22% compared to the previous 2013 January-June period. Mirrorless camera shipments increased by 23%!

Of course Mirrorless market is still not exploding but in it’s holding well compared to the shrinking DSLR sales. And I guess that as soon that Nikon and Canon will “get serious” with mirrorless things will change even further.

Refurbished Panasonic GF3 with kit lens for $179.

August 5, 2014
deals
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[/shoplink] You want to enter the MFT world and get a camera and lens for less than $200? Get the refurbished GF3 with 14-42mm kit lens sold on [shoplink 47354 ebay]eBay US (Click here)[/shoplink]. Great price!

More US deals Reminder:
For the first time the Olympus E-M1 sells for under $1,000 via [shoplink 47312 ebay]Thegamesarena one Bay US (Click here)[/shoplink].
You also save $100 on the Open Box GH4 sold by [shoplink 47293 ebay]Samys one Bay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Save $100 on the superb Nocticron 42,5mm f/1.2 lens at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
The Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 II for $319 in [shoplink 47330 ebay]Black (Click here)[/shoplink] or [shoplink 47331 ebay]Silver (Click here)[/shoplink].
Olympus US launched a $50 rebate on the following MFT lenses:
$50 off on the 45mm f/1.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
$50 off on the 17mm f/2.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
$50 off on the 60mm lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
$50 off on the 75-300mm lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.
$50 off on the 40-150mm lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and GetOlympus.

All current Olympus deals can be seen on that Amazon page and on that GetOlympus page.

Those are all current Olympus deals at GetOlympus:
Save $50 on Fast Prime Lenses for OM-D & PEN
Save $50 on Zoom Lenses for OM-D & PEN
Save $100 on the Award-Winning OM-D E-M1
Get a FREE Camera Grip with OM-D E-M10 Purchase
Up to $900 Off Lenses with OM-D or PEN E-P5 Purchase
Up to $100 Off Recorders with OM-D or E-P5 Purchase
FREE Wi-Fi Card with the E-PL5

(FT5) New proof the E-Pl7 is coming: Official Taiwan document!

August 5, 2014
Rumors
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Here is one more proof the E-Pl7 is a real thing. The image on top is an official document of the Taiwanese agency that registers new wifi capable devices :) Thanks to the anonymous source who sent me this!!!

Specs are already known (article here).

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Rumors classification explained (FT= FourThirds):
FT1=1-20% chance the rumor is correct
FT2=21-40% chance the rumor is correct
FT3=41-60% chance the rumor is correct
FT4=61-80% chance the rumor is correct
FT5=81-99% chance the rumor is correct

The Photokina rumor roundup (Silver OMD, E-Pl7, new FT fixed lens, new Pro lenses…)

August 5, 2014
Rumors
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Photokina is getting closer and some of you may be confused about what could be announced and what is NOT coming. So here is a list of the cameras and lenses you can expect to see announced. Of course these are rumors only for now :)

Panasonic cameras:
FT5: A new Micro Four Thirds camera.
FT5: A fixed lens Four Thirds sensor compact camera.
FT2: LX8 (article here).

Olympus cameras:
FT5: A new E-PL7 camera (article here).
FT3: A new Silver E-M1 edition and maybe a 4K firmware update (article here).

Lenses:
FT2: Olympus 9mm PRO prime (article here).
FT4: Black Olympus 12mm f/2.0 lens (article here).
FT4: Olympus 40-150mm PRO lens (article here).
FT5: Panasonic 35-100mm lens (article here).
FT5: Olympus 7-14mm and 300mm PRO lenses (article here).
FT5: Panasonic 150mm f/2.8 lens (article here).

Third party stuff:
FT5: Zyoptics 42,5mm f/1.2 coming (article here).
FT5: Samyang 50mm f/1.5 for MFT (article here).
FT4: Schneider Kreuznach lenses (article here).

What’s not going to happen:
No Olympus Full Frame camera (article here).
No 100-300mm X from Panasonic (article here).
No Panasonic G7 (article here).
No GF camera coming this year (article here).

Like you see there are really many new MFT lenses to come!

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Rumors classification explained (FT= FourThirds):
FT1=1-20% chance the rumor is correct
FT2=21-40% chance the rumor is correct
FT3=41-60% chance the rumor is correct
FT4=61-80% chance the rumor is correct
FT5=81-99% chance the rumor is correct