Olympus-Sony partnership now completed.

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AP reports that “Sony has today become the largest shareholder in Olympus as the firms complete a £400m deal first announced last year.” Only in the years to come we will see how far the Olympus and Sony partnership will go when it comes to develop their digital cameras. For now there is no doubt that Olympus will keep reinforcing the MFT system and Sony will do the same with the NEX system. But they may share some tech like sensors, OLED technology and more.

Their first main goal has been defined last year by Olympus President Hiroyuki Sasa “the company might need further collaboration with Sony to turn around Olympus’s unprofitable compact-camera business.” (Source: Wall Street Journal).

 

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Olympus refurbished roundup for EU readers.

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European readers can grab a new long list of refurbished Olympus cameras offered by [shoplink 22691 ebay]Olympusmarket[/shoplink]. There are plenty of different PEN’s with different colors…even pink ;)
Latest added auctions are on top (Click on the name to see the auction):

Olympus E-M5:
[shoplink 36981 ebay]Black E-M5 with kit lens[/shoplink]

Olympus E-P3:
[shoplink 36963 ebay]Silver double lens kit[/shoplink] [shoplink 36965 ebay]Silver E-P3 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 36974 ebay]White E-P3 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 36976 ebay]Silver E-P3 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 36977 ebay]Silver E-P3 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 36982 ebay]Silver E-P3 with kit lens[/shoplink]

Olympus E-PL3:
[shoplink 36964 ebay]Black E-PL3 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 36971 ebay]Silver E-PL3 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 36972 ebay]White E-PL3 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 36980 ebay]Silver E-PL3 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 36984 ebay]Silver E-PL3 with kit lens[/shoplink]

Olympus E-PL2:
[shoplink 36987 ebay]Black E-PL2 14-150mm lens[/shoplink]

Olympus E-Pm2:
[shoplink 36985 ebay]White E-PM1 with kit lens[/shoplink]

Olympus E-Pm1:
[shoplink 36961 ebay]Brown E-PM1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 36962 ebay]Silver double lens kit[/shoplink] [shoplink 36966 ebay]Silver E-PM1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 36967 ebay]Pink E-PM1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 36968 ebay]Brown E-PM1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 36970 ebay]Black E-PM1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 36973 ebay]Brown E-PM1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 36975 ebay]White E-PM1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 36978 ebay]Silver E-PM1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 36979 ebay]Brown E-PM1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 36983 ebay]Black E-PM1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 36986 ebay]Brown E-PM1 with kit lens[/shoplink]

Olympus E-PL1:
[shoplink 36969 ebay]Black E-PL3 with kit lens[/shoplink]

 

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GH3 outscores SLRs in Consumer Reports’ lab tests! And in Stock at Adorama and Samys.

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Last week we hit hard on Panasonic because of the two small issues with the 12-35mmX long exposures steady shot problem and the unreliable Intervalometer of the GH3. But today we can reports some very good news for Panasonic and I hope this will bring them to love me back again :)

The usually very sever Consumerreports website (Click here) just posted an extremely positive report about the GH3! They write: “We recently tested a number of new SLR-like (mirrorless) cameras, and we were surprised to find that one, thePanasonic Lumix DMC-GH3, scored higher than all the SLRs tested in this group.” and also  “So if you’re in the market for an advanced camera, you’re not restricted to models with mirrors in them—SLRs, that is. The age of mirrorless SLR-likes appears to have arrived.”

And for US readers: Finally the GH3 is in Stock at Samys (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).

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Olympus working on a sort of Speed Booster adapter too?

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The Speed Booster adapter created quite an excitement on the web but it seems that Metabones wasn’t the only one having that smart idea. AN Olympus patent just posted on Egami shows how Olympus is working on a very similar adapter! Now, I don’t know if Olympus will or can ever do this. Metabones also patented the idea and there may be a conflict if Olympus goes into mass production with this…

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Nikon goes Four Thirds :)

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A tiny bit over a month from now Panasonic will announce the new Micro Four Thirds cameras. But the competition already started with the new 2013 camera announcements. Sony released the smallest APS-C mirrorless camera (the NEX-3n) and there is a small interesting news on the new Nikon D7100 (here at Amazon). It uses an APS-C (1.5x crop) sensor that has an additional 1.3x Crop Mode. In short the camera will have exactly the same 2.x crop mode of our FT and MFT cameras. Nikon writes: “the D7100 has the unique ability to shoot in a 1.3x DX crop mode for both stills and HD video. While in this innovative mode, shooters will gain an extra telephoto boost (2X), and a boost in burst speed to seven fps, with 15.4- megapixel resolution. Additionally, while in this mode, the 51-point AF array covers more of the frame, allowing improved subject acquisition and tracking performance through the viewfinder.”

To bad the camera doesn’t take FT lenses, it would have become a nice FT camera! ;)

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