I am traveling from Tuscany to France today. Hope to not find any jam like I am used to find every time I am travelling across Europe! In the meanwhile you can have some fun by trying out the new updated version of the Four Thirds Matching simulation (Click here). You can now select the grip color of the new [shoplink 23568]Olympus E-P3[/shoplink] and also add some other fancy accessory like the [shoplink 24233]MAL-1[/shoplink] pictured on top.
It’s not a review but let’s give some free space to our “emotional” part of the brain :) Here is the first [shoplink 23576]Olympus 12mm f/2.0[/shoplink] video! The lens is in Stock Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), B&H (Click here) and [shoplink 23576 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. Feel free to send me your first image samples and videos if you already managed it to get the lens!
P.S.: A Black E-P3 with 17mm lens is in Stock at Amazon (Click here). And a third party reseller is trying to sell the first Silver E-P3 for $1,799.00 on Amazon (Click here).
The japanese website BCNranking displayed the latest data about the japanese camera market.
Most sold cameras with interchangeable lenses:
The E-PL2 is on position three with 6.4% of the whole volume share. The [shoplink 17361]Panasonic GF2[/shoplink] is on Position 5 with 6.2%. And on position 9 you can find the in Japan only available E-PL1s.
Mirrorless Market Share (January to May 2011):
Olympus (37.95%), Sony (32.02%), Panasonic (30.03%). The year 2010 ended with following shares Panasonic (38.7%), Sony (32.2%), Olympus (29.1%).
Market share for all interchangeable cameras (Mirrorless and DSLR):
Canon (29.3%), Nikon (27.4%), Sony (15.0%), Olympus (12.7%), Panasonic (9.7%)
P.S.: 31% of all sold interchangeable cameras are Mirrorless.
In Europe and US you cannot have such detailed reports. You can get a very vague idea about the popularity of a camera by checking the Amazon rankings:
– System camera rankings (DSLR+mirrorless) at Amazon US (Click here)
– All digital camera rankings Amazon Germany (Click here)
– All digital camera rankings at Amazon UK (Click here)
– All digital camera rankings at Amazon France (Click here)
EosHD (Click here) made the video you can see on top by using the hacked [shoplink 16254]GH2[/shoplink] with 42Mbit AVCHD 1080/24p! He mostly used the new amazing [shoplink 24213 ebay]Samyang 35mm F1.4 lens (Click here to get that Four Thirds lens on eBay)[/shoplink]. In Short EosHd says that low light performance is just better, less electronic looking noise, less compression appears to have helped with banding on gradated tones, color and detail are much better. What do you think after seeing the video? The official Hack website is here: http://www.personal-view.com/
One more GH2 relate news. Do you remind the battery grip announced by the chinese company Ownuser? They delayed the product release and a dpreview forum user got the following message:
“Dear sir
We have project for GH2’s grip. We are very sorry, because some problems cause project delay. We also hope that GH2’s grip will be available at 7 / 31, but there may be extended to 8 / 15~30.
thank!Sincerely,
Ownuser Customer Service”
Our original article about the Ownsuser battery grip is available here: https://www.43rumors.com/battery-grip-for-panasonic-g-cameras-now-in-stock/
The G1 G2 GH1 G10 Ownuser battery grip is already in Stock on [shoplink 21130 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
There is a new firmware update for the 14-42mm II and 14-150mm Olympus lenses. Source: Olympus Japan. With the fw update the lenses will focus faster on the new [shoplink 23568]Olympus E-P3[/shoplink]!
Panasonic GF3 Hands-on Review by Digitalrev.
Pocket-Lint (Click here) tested the GF3: “Whilst the GF3 might not include everything we would have put on our wish list, for those making the step up from a point and shoot camera for the first time, this GF series Lumix is its most accessible yet. Plus, for any new users what it doesn’t offer in comparison to its predecessors won’t be missed”.
Cnet Asia (Click here) tested the new Panasonic G3: “Panasonic has impressed us with the G3’s sleek downsized chassis, but the touchscreen interface could have been more responsive“…”Though the G3 does have its quirks, the new camera offers good image quality and improved noise performance at higher ISO settings.”
The polish website with the so complicated name “Optyczne” (Click here) posted their G3 review: “After the test we have mixed feelings. On one hand, the camera offers very good image quality and low noise over a wide range of sensitivity, on the other hand, however, falls quite poorly in terms of tonal range. (google translation from polish)”
Panasonic G3 search page at [shopcountry 22077].
Panasonic GF3 search page at [shopcountry 23109].
P.s.: One of our readers told to us the Panasonic DMC-G3 kit with 14-42mm zoom lens is now available at retail in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
The E-PL3 will be in the shops from late summer in black, white, silver or red with 14-42mm II R zoom lens; pricing £549.99 for the standard kit. (Source: Photographyblog). There is no store accepting preorders yet. And only B&H (Click here) is showing them in their database (without price info). Olympus Japan also announce that a list of new E-P3 grips and caps will be available in August (See them at DC.watch).
From the new Olympus products only the 12mm is in Stock in non asian countries. At Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and B&H (Click here). The E-P3 is now out of Stock but could be in Stock at any time again at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and B&H (Click here)!
