January shipment report: Huge DSLR shipment drop, Mirrorless doing worse in Japan.

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Image courtesy: Personal View (Click here).

As usual Personal View (Click here) did a great job summarizing in graphs the Japanese camera shipment data (contains exact number of shipped cameras manufactured by Japanese companies). And there are two important news we can learn from the January report:

1) DSLR shipment dropped down to the lowest level since two years.

2) While mirrorless shipment to EU slightly increased (from 39,483 in December to 48,321 in January) and America where constant the shipment in Japan surprisingly dropped in Japan.

It’s really a challenging time for all companies producing system cameras! I am now wondering if sales will ever go up again…

More graphs can be seen at Personal View (Click here).

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Big BHphoto deals roundup: $100 off on the E-M1.

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We have many new interesting deals. First off there is a huge 24 hour Gold Box deal with Up to %65 off on Sony SD cards at Amazon US (Click here).

And than there is the big  BHphoto deals action that can be seen on that page (Click here). Some of the cool MFT deals:

$100 off on the Olympus E-M1 (use promo code “107510326998772173902”).
up to $18 off on Lensbabies (use promo code “107510326998772173902”).
$100 off on the Bower 16mm Cine Lens (Click here).
10% off on Yashuhara lenses and accessories (Click here).
$130 off on the Blackmagic camera kit.

But there are so many deals that you really have to check out that BH deal page (Click here) for yourself!

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(FT3) New GF camera to be announced in Spring.

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I got word the new Panasonic GF camera will be launched in late Spring. There is no bog surprise to expect on these cameras. It will be an evolution of the current Panasonic GF6. Patent images of the new GF have been found and posted here a couple of months ago (See images on top).

Question: GF, GM, G, GH, GX…a bit confusing. Why not merge GF and GM into one system?

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Mark Baber from Panasonic talks about the GH4.

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The video on top has been posted by Panasonic Japan.

Mark Baber from Panasonic UK made a long introduction of the GH4 (Courtesy of Personal View). The video can be also seen directly on Vimeo.

As you see the GH4 menu system hasn’t been finalized yet. Mark also confirmed the final price will be unveiled in a few weeks.

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