The E-P1 now has the same price as the E-PL1
Curious: The Olympus E-P1
I don’t know if all this price drops have to do with the upcoming Sony mirorrless camera announcements..probably not. But fact is that many MicoFourThirds stuff has the lowest price ever!
The Panasonic 14-140mm price dropped under $800 for the first time ($788.95)
The Panasonic 45mm has also the lowest price ever seen on amazon ($817.85)
The Olympus E-P2 now for $998.95
The Panasonic GF1 with 14-45mm Lens for $754.45
Panasonic updates firmwares for DMC-GF1/GH1/G1 will be available worldwide the 10th of May
Firmware ver.1.2 for DMC-GF1
- Improved operation menu for image stabilizer ([OFF] will be added under [STABILIZER] only when LUMIX G VARIO 14-42 mm / F3.5-5.6 ASPH. / MEGA O.I.S. (H-FS014042) is attached)
- Improved AF performance with lenses of other manufacturer
Firmware ver.1.3 for DMC-GH1
- Improved operation menu for image stabilizer ([OFF] will be added under [STABILIZER] only when LUMIX G VARIO 14-42 mm / F3.5-5.6 ASPH. / MEGA O.I.S. (H-FS014042) is attached)
- Availability of AF performance in FHD (full HD) movie recording mode with Four Thirds lenses that are compatible with contrast AF
- Improved AF performance in movie recording with LEICA DG MACRO-ELMARIT 45mm / F2.8 ASPH. / MEGA O.I.S. (H-ES045)
- Improved modulation accuracy of flash
- Improved AF performance with lenses of other manufacturer
Firmware ver.1.5 for DMC-G1
- Improved operation menu for image stabilizer ([OFF] will be added under [STABILIZER] only when LUMIX G VARIO 14-42 mm / F3.5-5.6 ASPH. / MEGA O.I.S. (H-FS014042) is attached)
- Improved modulation accuracy of flash
- Improved AF performance with lenses of other manufacturer
The new firmware will be available worldwide at GMT: 8:00 the 10th of May, 2010 at
http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/dsc/.
Panasonic G10 review
Photographyblog is speeding up their review timings. Now they reviewed the new Panasonic G10
Next detailed Olympus 9-18mm review on quesabesde
The spanish website quesabesde tested the new Olympus 9-18mm lens (google english translation).
Their sentences in short:
– surprised by the smallness of their size, both length and diameter (but it becomes very long when you are at 9mm)
– fast autofocus (compared with older Olympus MFT lenses)
– 9 mm shows a significant distortion
– best results working with an aperture of f/8
– almost no vignetting
– moderate CA (Chromatic aberration)
Reminder:
Worldwide shipping starts on April 23!
Preorders:
Amazon US
Mass review attack: E-P2, E-PL1, GF1 and Samyang 14mm lens
Imaging Resource posted the new Olympus E-P2 review.
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A new Olympus E-PL1 review is available on Letsgodigital
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Forum Olympus France tested the new Olympus E-PL1 (google english translation)
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The german website Dkamera tested both the Olympus E-PL1 (google english translation) and the Panasonic GF1 (google english translation)
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As you know Samyang just launched three Samyang lenses for FourThirds mount. Lenstip posted some image samples of that lens. And more image samples are available here at canon-board.info
CNET tests the new Olympus firmware
As you know Olympus will release the new firmware for MicroFourThirds Pen cameras on April 22.
Lori Grunin from CNET had the chance to test the firmware. The good news is that they measured “22 percent improvement in shot lag”
They also tested the autofocus performance of the new Olympus 9-18mm
Preorders:
Amazon US
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