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New E-P5 and new Lens+Viewfinder announced!

May 10, 2013
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Specs, Price and Preorders:
Full dedicated pages to the new Oly stuff at Adorama, Bhphoto.
E-P5 Black at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto. In Europe at Wex UK.
E-P5 White at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto. In Europe at Wex UK.
E-P5 Silver at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto. In Europe at Wex UK.
E-P5 Black with 17mm f/1.8 lens and VF-4 at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto.
E-P5 Silver with 17mm f/1.8 lens and VF-4 at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto.
E-P5 Black with 14-42mm lens at Wex UK.
E-P5 Silver with 14-42mm lens at Wex UK.
17mm f/1.8 Black at Adorama, Bhphoto.
45mm f/1.8 Black at Adorama, Bhphoto.
75mm f/1.8 Black at Adorama, Bhphoto.
VF-4 viewfinder at Adorama, Bhphoto.

Previews and Hands-on:
Preview at Dpreview, Robin Wong, ThePhoBlographer, Pekka Potka, TVSmith, Whatdigitalcamera, Torontowide, Hands-on with images by Ming Thein, E-P5 vs E-M5 at ThePhoBlographer, FourThirds-User, CNET Australia, E-M5 vs E-P5 size comaprison at Photogaphyblog, Hands-on with video at Engadget, Gizmodo, DSLRmagazine (Google translation here). Hands-on photos at Photographyblog, Techradar, Quesabesde (Spanish), ePhotozine, E-P5 vs E-M5 at ePhotozine, PenAndTell (German), OpenPN (French).

Image samples:
Olympus Imaging, Ming Thein.

Videos:
Presentation by Whatdigitalcamera, Key fetaures overview on youtube, Unboxing by Blunty, Official Olympus commercial on youtube, video overview by Adorama, hands-on Starintech, video of the launch in Malaysia,

Press Text:
Dpreview, DSLRmagazine (google translation here), LesNumeriques (French), Techradar, Photographyblog, DC.watch (Japanese), NeoCamera, Amateur Photographer, Photoscala (German), Quesabesde (Spanish), In Japane the E-Pl6 got announced too (DC.watch), Photoreview, LeMondeDeLaPhoto (French), VF-4 at OpenPN (French), SystemKameraForum (German).

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New Olympus E-P5 and Black Lens preorders are up at BHphoto (UPDATE: and Adorama)!

May 10, 2013
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The new stuff still hasn’t been officially announced yet but preorders can already be placed at BHphoto. You can see plenty of pictures and specs too:

Not that in USA only there is not E-P5 with 14-42mm kit option yet. That kit will be available from the start in Europe and Japan only. The bad news is that the body only is a tiny bit too expensive (in my opinion) but there are also two good news: The E-P5 with VF-4 and 45mm lens makes you save $220. And the Black Lenses have exactly the same price as the Silver version.

Photographyblog: “G6 is the best overall compact system camera that Panasonic have yet released”

May 9, 2013
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The new G6 high shoulder design seen before on the [shoplink 38236 ebay]Leica R9 (here on eBay)[/shoplink].

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Photographyblog (Click here) posted the first full G6 review and wrote a surprisingly positive conclusion: “In our view the Lumix G6 is the best overall compact system camera that Panasonic have yet released offering a great mix of must-have features, intuitive DSLR-like handling and speedy performance, all at a reasonable price.”

The G6 will ship from late June and preorders are up at Amazon (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and at Wex UK (Click here).

P.S: The previous generation G5 camera sells for $329 with lens at Groupon (Click here).

Mc GilliCuddy gets the E-P5. And new teaser in Singapore.

May 9, 2013
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Damian Mc GilliCuddy just posted this: “Uncle “Oly” has sent me a nice parcel this week… very smart! I’ll tell more when I’m able ;0)“. Guess what camera they sent him :)

The image on top is the new teaser from Olympus Singapore. But we already know how it looks uncovered :)

Reminder: Follow 43rumors live tomorrow (Friday) at 6am London time! That’s when all that new Olympus stuff will be officially unveiled. And I will be here with plenty of live updated to reviews, tests, image samples and so on.

Head to Head: E-P5 versus PEN-F.

May 9, 2013
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The Olympus E-P5 will be the first camera with the full “Olympus Pen” definition marked on the front. It’s a clear sign from Olympus that they consider the new E-P5 the real digital [shoplink 37006 ebay]PEN-F[/shoplink]. Too bad they forgot to made the built-in viewfinder that the PEN-F has :) As you know the PEN-F has “porro prism viewfinder” that allowed them to create a very compact camera with viewfinder.

Some of you said that the built-in exclusivity of the OMD range. Just for the record: Last year Mr. Tarada told at Onfoto (Click here) that “A built-in viewfinder is not exclusive for the OM-D line”.

P.S.: There are still plenty of PEN-F auctions on [shoplink 37006 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

(FT5) First image of the Black 45mm f/1.8 gets finally leaked too.

May 8, 2013
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There was only one image not leaked until now. But now its’ here: The Black 45mm f/1.8 lens! via Digicaminfo.

The Silver 45mm lens like so many other Olympus camera and lenses got a price drop in USA:
The 17mm f/1.8 sells for $449 at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
The 45mm sells for $349 at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
The 75mm f/1.8 can be found with a $100 discount at [shoplink 38467 ebay]CameraLand (Click here)[/shoplink].
60mm macro is available for $449 at [shoplink 38470 ebay]CameraLand (Click here)[/shoplink].
E-P3 with lens for $379 at Amazon (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).
Olympus E-PM2 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).

(FT5) First pictures of the camera most of you cannot buy! The E-PL6.

May 8, 2013
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This is the new E-PL6 and as I told you before it’s meant to be solt in Japane only! I guess you will have to wait next year and the E-PL7 worldwide edition to replace your E-PL5.