New Panasonic 45-175mm and Nanoha lens reviews (+french GX1 test)

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Klaus from Photozone (Click here) posted a new Panasonic 45-175mm lens review on Photozone: “The Panasonic lens is a good albeit not superb telephoto zoom lens as some might have hoped from its “X” designation“. The problem is that the X lens has huge vignetting and pronounced Chromatic Aberration. But overall Klaus says: “There is much to like about the Panasonic lens – also from a price/performance perspective.”

Digi163 (Click here) posted a Nanoha lens review. The bad news is that the review is made in Japanese and google translation tool doesn’t work on that website. But you can still look at the nice image samples!

Felix from ThePhoBlographer (Click here) tested the Zeiss 50mm Planar ZM on the E-P1 and G1: “The colors, contrast and bokeh are equally pleasing when used on Micro Four Thirds as they are on the Leica.“. The lens can be found [shoplink 30081 ebay]here on eBay[/shoplink].

Our french colleagues from Hybridcames (Click here to read the translation) also published a new Panasonic GX1 review.

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Have fun with the E-M5 matching simulation (and first unboxing pics!)

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It’s weekend and time for relaxing! Click here to have some fun with the Matching Simulation tool that now includes the new E-M5: http://www.four-thirds.org/en/special/matching.html.
Interesting to note that the most voted combination is the E-M5 + the [shoplink 30071]Four Thirds 50-200mm SWD[/shoplink] lens and on second place the E-M5+[shoplink 23576]12mm[/shoplink] combo.
And our reader Zetton Nara just got his E-M5 in Japan and you can see his unboxing pics on Flickr (Click here).

E-M5 Preorders: Amazon, Adorama, B&H, Jessops, Amazon UK, Amazon Germany, Amazon Japan and Digitalrev.

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New video by Seb Farges (+ Olympusmarket roundup)

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Seb Farges sent me the link to his next tiny anamorphic lens test with the GH2 and Canon 50mm FD lens. As you know he is using the small and cheap [shoplink 25880 ebay]Berthiot Tiny Cinemascope 2X[/shoplink] to realize these videos. Enjoy!

[shoplink 22691 ebay]Olympusmarket[/shoplink] published a long list of new refurbished m43 cameras and lenses. Here are the direct links. A susual, only European citizens can buy that stuff:

E-P3, E-PL3 E-PM1:
[shoplink 30048 ebay]Silver Olympus E-PL3 with double lens kit[/shoplink] [shoplink 30049 ebay]Black Olympus E-PM1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 30057 ebay]Silver Olympus E-PL3 with double lens kit[/shoplink] [shoplink 30061 ebay]Black Olympus E-PL3 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 30061 ebay]White Olympus E-PL3 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 30063 ebay]Brown Olympus E-PM1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 30064 ebay]Silver Olympus E-PL3 with kit lens[/shoplink]

Older PEN cameras:
[shoplink 30043 ebay]Black Olympus E-PL1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 30044 ebay]Black Olympus E-PL1 with 14-150mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 30045 ebay]White Olympus E-PL1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 30046 ebay]Black Olympus E-PL1 with double lens kit[/shoplink] [shoplink 30050 ebay]Black Olympus E-PL2 with double lens kit[/shoplink] [shoplink 30056 ebay]Silver Olympus E-P1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 30058 ebay]White Olympus E-P1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 30059 ebay]Black Olympus E-P3 with kit lens[/shoplink]

Lenses and Viewfinder:
[shoplink 30047 ebay]Olympus 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 30051 ebay]Olympus 40-150mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 30052 ebay]Olympus 9-18mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 30053 ebay]Olympus 7mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 30054 ebay]Black Olympus 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 30055 ebay]Olympus VF-2 external viewfinder[/shoplink] [shoplink 30060 ebay]Olympus 50-200mm SWD lens[/shoplink]

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USA Sunday deals (E-PL2, GH2)

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The Olympus E-PL2 with 14-42mm kit lens is now in Stock for $349 at Cameta (Click here) and for $359 at Amazon (Click here). The GH2 with 14-42mm kit lens for $865 at Amazon (Click here).

Don’t forget that Olympus USA started a new action on the PEN cameras too:
$75 off on the E-PM1: Check at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
$50 off on the E-PL3: Check at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
$50 off on the E-P3: Check at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).

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Vitaly the hacker now will work directly with Panasonic and will develop firmware for new cameras!

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In an extraordinary press release Personal View (Click here) informs that Vitaly and his hacker team finally signed an agreement with Panasonic! Vitaly writes: “Since today we are going to directly participate in design and development of system cameras firmware for selected cameras produced by Panasonic Corporation, and DSC Business unit specifically.”

That’s an extraordinary news you have literally mark on your calendar as remembering for the time being! I repeat, mark it! :)

UPDATE: What a good day today! You can even win an E-M5 at E-P1.net (Click here) …LOL!

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E-M5 is now in Stock in Asia!

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Readers reported us that the E-M5 is shipping in Japan (here at Amazon and Kakaku), Philippines, Hong Kong (Digitalrev), Malaysia ([shoplink 30031 ebay]here on eBay[/shoplink]) and some other Asian countries. Europeans and Americans have to wiat up to 2-3 weeks before to see the first camera shipments. Be patient! :)

Preorders: Amazon, Adorama, B&H, Jessops, Amazon UK, Amazon Germany, Amazon Japan and Digitalrev.

Rankings:
USA: E-M5 on position 8/13/19 (Click here)
UK: E_M5 isn’t doing as well as in USA (Click here).
Germany: The E-M5 is on position 13 and 14 (Click here).
France: not available (Click here to see rankings anyway).
Japan: E-M5 on position 4/11/14 (Click here).

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Phase AF and dynamic range sensor patent. Epson explains the EVF from the E-M5.

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Egami (Click here) found the next Olympus patent describing a sensor with integrated pixel dedicated for phase detection auto focusing and increased dynamic range performance. What I don’t know if a sensor with integrated phase auto focusing will really make it into a real Olympus camera. The current [shoplink 29074]Olympus E-M5[/shoplink] is already super fast and I guess it will be improved further in other model. There may be no need anymore to work on such a technology.

Speaking of the E-M5, Epson just issued a new press release (Click here) explaining the electronic viewfinder technology used for the camera. The EVF has been optimized to help photographers to shoot fast moving images without the color breakup experienced using other formats (The phenomenon by which a transient image appears when photographers move the camera rapidly or shoot fast-moving subjects).

Sounds great! Now let’s see if Panasonic will do it even better on the GH3 :)

E-M5 Preorders: Amazon, Adorama, B&H, Jessops, Amazon UK, Amazon Germany, Amazon Japan and Digitalrev.

 

 

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