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First GH2 video with over 100mbit/s! (+SLRmagic 26mm review)

August 19, 2011
reviews
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The video on top shows a 110mb AVCHD GH2 Hacked video sample! There have been a lot of activity around the GH2 hacke. Check here at personal-view.com. There is a long list of videos you can check to see the new hack at work :)

GH2 on the roof of the world on Youtube.
Hacked Panasonic GH2 Quant = 4 42 mb/se on Vimeo.
Hacked Panasonic GH2 300% playback speed Moon video on Vimeo.

GH2 links at [shopcountry 16254].

ePhotozine (Click here) tested the SLRmagic lens: “Fun to use, with artistic results, but the price tag is madness.” You can get the lens on [shoplink 21590 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

UPDATE: Slrmagic sent me an official statement about the ePhotozine review: “The editor mentioned many lens in the “far east” has this lens for like 20 pounds. One thing the editor did not mention is the comparisons of both a CCTV lens along with our lens before making the comment. As you can see here some people bought these cheap ones and have their lens stuck on the camera permanently! We know about the cheap ones on eBay. It is the reject parts of factories in China. Some does not focus to infinity. Some are over tight. As you know our mount is smooth unlike what people experience here:http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1042&message=39011656

1) cctv lens has no reflective treatment. (silver inside and on the bottom)
2) cctv lens has much stronger vignette effect
3) some cctv have fixed iris
4) some cctv can be removed if over rotated and as you see our lens is not like this.

Our lens is similar to many CS mount CCTV with 12.9mm rear flange distance but our Toy Lens 26mm f/1.4 is a c mount lens with 17.5 rear flange distance that is designed to adapt to digital camera. The rear flange distance design is different. The CCTV lens your editor refer to has 10 variations in China. I have attached a video of one we bought to show people who has one. Some even twist off when rotated to the every end!”

First Olympus VF-3 unboxing video (+In Stock in US and Europe).

August 18, 2011
deals
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Our reader “Billy” made that first Olympus VF-3 viewfinder unboxing video. What I forgot to tell you is that the VF-3 is now also in Stock since a couple of days!
It is in Stock in US stores like Amazon US (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Amazon Germany (Click here), Amazon France (Click here) and Amazon UK (Click here)

(FT5) Panasonic upcoming 14-42mm and 45-170mm will have power zoom and inner focusing!

August 18, 2011
Rumors
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Over a month ago sources told us that new zoom lenses with power zooms would be announced soon. Now our soruces confirmed that both new zoom lenses will have Powerzoom and Inner focusing. And again the size is extremely compact! Also Andrew from EosHD got info about those lenses and said: “The zoom buttons are apparently on the lens itself so it will work with any current Lumix Micro Four Thirds camera.”

Andrew also mentions a new 45-300mm HD OIS. But according to our sources that lens will NOT be announced in late August.

All sources again confirmed that there will be no GF PRO (or GF7) camera yet. Panasonic wants to take some time before to announce the camera!

(FT5) The new lenses coming from Panasonic are two zooms!

August 18, 2011
Rumors
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Image on to shows the current [shoplink 23962]Panasonic 14-42mm[/shoplink] and [shoplink 14816]Olympus 14-42mm[/shoplink] kit lenses.

Over a month ago I posted the rumor about a new 14-42mm lens coming from Panasonic. Now I got the bulletproof confirmation that those rumors were correct! Not only the 45-175mm lens is going to be announced but there will be also a new 14-42mm kit lens. Both will have an extremely compact size. I was told the 14-42mm lens is actually MUCH(!) smaller than the Olympus collapsible [shoplink 14816]Olympus 14-42mm[/shoplink] lens. I would not believe that if the rumor wouldn’t come from known sources!!!

Reminder: Announcement expected by end of August! And you are not going to see the GF7 soon (coming probably in December/January)

Sending rumors: If you have some rumors to share feel free to use the contact form on the right sidebar which doesn’t store your IP address and you don’t need to send me your real name and email! Thanks!

Next bunch of refurbished cameras (Europe and US)

August 18, 2011
deals
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[shoplink 24862 ebay]

[/shoplink] Those are the latest refurbished Micro Four Thirds deals at [shoplink 22691 ebay]Olympusmarket[/shoplink]. Only EU citizen can buy the cameras and lenses.

E-PL1

[shoplink 24851 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with 14-150mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 24863 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 24853 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with 14-150mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 24854 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 24855 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 24857 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 24858 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 24859 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 24860 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink]

E-P1

[shoplink 24861 ebay]Olympus E-P1 with 17mm pancake[/shoplink] [shoplink 24862 ebay]Olympus E-P1 with double lens kit[/shoplink] [shoplink 24866 ebay]Olympus E-P1 with double lens kit[/shoplink]

E-P2

[shoplink 24864 ebay]Olympus E-P2 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 24865 ebay]Olympus E-P2 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink]

m43 lens

[shoplink 24852 ebay]Olympus 14-150mm lens[/shoplink]

For US readers: there are plenty of (m-)43 cameras and lenses at Adorama (Click here to see the full list).

Olympus E-P3 in depth review at Dpreview (E-P3 and X100 in Stock at Amazon)

August 17, 2011
reviews
81 Comments

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[/shoplink] The link is here: http://dpreview.com/reviews/olympusep3/ They liked the new features a lot and almost a perfect PEN. Handling and autofocus are superb. The only real “problem” is the aging sensor. It doesn’t bring any real improvement over the [shoplink 18844]Olympus E-PL2[/shoplink]. The camera earns a Silver Award and an overalls core of 74%.

I am just reading the review and will update this post soon :)

In Stock status:
The Black E-P3 with 17mm lens is in Stock at BHphoto (Click here).
The Silver E-P3 with 17mm lens is in Stock at BHphoto (Click here) and Amazon (Click here).
The White E-P3 with 14-42mm lens is in Stock at Amazon (Click here).
Not a Micro Four Thirds camera but a camera many hear do like. The Fuji X100 is now in Stock at Amazon (Click here)…with 12 months financing option :) (found via Noisycamera).

New Panasonic GH2 hack updated!

August 17, 2011
news
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[shoplink 16254]

[/shoplink] Vitaly Kiselev just updated the Ptool to version 3.62d. You can read more about that version at Personal-view (Click here). It pushed the GH2 bitrates to >100Mbps!
Those are the chnages from the previous version (written by Vitaly):
“– Improved bitrate patches
– Improved GOP patches.
– Improved MJPEG size patches.
– Added quantizer patches.
– Added few other encoder related patches.
– Few fixes, including 24L behaviour.”

US deal Reminder: There is a $55 price drop on the GH2 with 14-42mm kit lens on Amazon (Click here). Other price and kits check at [shopcountry 16254].