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First Full Olympus 12mm f/2.0 lens review!

July 11, 2011
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[/shoplink]Our Spanish long time friend Valentin Sama has been the first to post a full [shoplink 23576]Olympus 12mm f/2.0[/shoplink] review! You can read it at DSLRmagazine (Click here). In short we can say the lens has an awesome mechanical and optical build quality! And we all really appreciate that we can have some nice pro lens in our m43 lens system! The distortion is low and very harmonic (will make it very easy to correct). The diffraction is very high at f/22 making that aperture pretty unusable. There is a bit of astigmatism on the corners but nothing to be worry about. Color aberrations and Vignetting are almost non existent. The autofocusing with the lens is incredibly fast and manual focusing very precise. According to Valentin this is the best lens tested to date!

Thanks Valentin for being the first to test the lens and thanks Olympus for finding the way back to your strenghts (at least with the lenses!).

UPDATE: “Uwe” sent me this: Diffraction has nothing to do with the lens itself. It is only defined by f-stop and pixel size. Making a not about f/22 for a m43 lens does not relly make sense. I think m43 with 16MP sensor is easily diffraction limited at f/8.

Clcik those links to preorder the Olympus 12mm f/2.0 lens at Amazon US, Adorama, B&H and [shoplink 23576 ebay]eBay[/shoplink]

E-PM1 and E-PL3 get priced in UK!

July 11, 2011
news
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Finally we can know the price of the other two PEN cameras! The E-Pm1 will cost 429£ at Cameraworld in UK! That should be around 499 Euro in Europe and 499 Dollars in US. It means the camera will be 200 Euro/Dollar cheaper than the Panasonic GF3 (Check the price at [shopcountry 23109]). It will be also 100 Euro/Dollars cheaper than the Sony NEX-C3 (Check the price at [shopcountry 23799]). Only the Samsung NX100 is cheaper but only becuase it’s going to be replaced soon (Check the price at [shopcountry 20762]).

The E-PL3 will cost £529.00 at Cameraworld. That should be around 599 Euro in Europe and 599 Dollars in US.

As you know the E-Pl3 should be in Stock by late August/early September and the E-PM1 in October only.

Hot preorder list:
Olympus E-P3 preorders at Amazon US, Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon UK and Amazon DE.
Olympus 12mm f/2.0 preorders at Amazon US, Adorama, B&H and [shoplink 23576 ebay]eBay[/shoplink].
Olympus 45mm f/1.8 preorders at Amazon US, Adorama, B&H.

Olympus refurbished cameras reloaded with new E-450 Komachi kit!!!

July 11, 2011
deals
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Usually you can find around 200 refurbished Olympus items at [shoplink 22691 ebay]Olympusmarket[/shoplink]. But now we have over 400 cameras and lenses! And ther is also a special [shoplink 23884 ebay]Komachi kit[/shoplink].
Those is the list of 43, m43 camera where the auctions are ending the next two days (I included some XZ-1 auctions). First ending auctions on top:

[shoplink 23874 ebay]Olympus 9-18mm[/shoplink] [shoplink 23875 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with 14-150mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23876 ebay]Olympus 14-150mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23877 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23878 ebay]Olympus E-450 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23879 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23880 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23881 ebay]Olympus FOUR THIRDS 11-22mm[/shoplink] [shoplink 23882 ebay]Olympus XZ-1 compact camera[/shoplink] [shoplink 23883 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with double kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23884 ebay]Olympus E-450 Komachi kit with 25mm pancake[/shoplink] [shoplink 23885 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with double kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23886 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23887 ebay]Olympus 9-18mm[/shoplink] [shoplink 23888 ebay]Olympus E-450 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23889 ebay]Olympus 9-18mm[/shoplink] [shoplink 23890 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23891 ebay]Olympus 14-150mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23892 ebay]Olympus FOUR THIRDS 40-150mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23893 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23894 ebay]Olympus E-450 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23895 ebay]Olympus 35mm macro lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23896 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23897 ebay]Olympus FOUR THIRDS 18-180mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23898 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23899 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with double kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23900 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with 14-150mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23901 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23902 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with 14-150mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23903 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with 14-150mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23904 ebay]Olympus XZ-1 compact camera[/shoplink] [shoplink 23905 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23906 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with double kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23907 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with double kit lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23908 ebay]Olympus E-PL1 with 14-150mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 23909 ebay]Olympus E-PL2 with double kit lens[/shoplink]

Reminder: Shipment to EU countries only!

ePhotozine says: Why buy a DSLR when you can have the G3? :)

July 10, 2011
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[/shoplink] ePhotozine (Click here) posted a new [shoplink 22077]Panasonic G3[/shoplink] review. And I love that part of their conclusion text: “With such impressive image quality and high speed focusing, the reasons for buying a true Digital SLR seem to be becoming less and less important, and the added bonus of a much more compact system is making the Micro Four Thirds systems much more appealing, especially with the number of high quality lenses available increasing.” And of course the camera gets “Highly Recommended” by the reviewer team.

If you want that camera click those direct search links to find the G3: [shopcountry 22077].

First images of the “new” Noktor 50mm f/0.95 lens (same old optical design!)

July 10, 2011
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Zdp-189.tumblr.com toke that picture of the new Noktor Hyperprime 50mm f/0.95 production (demo model) post acquisition by SLRMagic from their showroom in Sim City, Mongkok. I have been told by the SLRmagic guys that they remade the focusing part of the lens to get perfect infinity focus. And every lens has to be tuned before to go for sale and that (alng the stonrg yen) is the reason for the higher production costs. The new lens should hit the stores by end of the month.

P.S.: Those are the links to the other three lenses made by SLRmagic:
SLR magic 11mm f/1.4 lens you can preorder on [shoplink 22154 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] Toy Lens 26mm f/1.4 lens on [shoplink 18603 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] SLR Magic 35mm f/1.7 MC lens on [shoplink 14881 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]

First Hacked GH2 footage!

July 9, 2011
reviews
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“Cinegraphy” posted this very first 133 Mbit video shot with the hacked GH2 on Personal-View.com: “The name says it all: a 133 Mbit Mjpeg Clip, straight from my [shoplink 16254]GH2[/shoplink], not edited / graded / transcoded before upload…
Of course watching it on Vimeo doesn’t make that much sense, since it’s only interesting from a technical point of view; you’re welcome to download the source file…
Following settings were used (regarding Mpeg tweeking): Quality 400/300/250/188; Table 4/4/4/4 (as far as I know these are some settings, Modulr developed for the GH13 Firmware hack 1-2 years ago)…”

EosHD posted another video with the hacked GH2: “A preview of my shot film shot using the GH2 hack in 4:3 MJPEG mode with a LOMO 2x anamorphic lens. For the first time we can shoot as intended with a 2x anamorphic lens on a DSLR. 4:3 converts to true 2.35:1 cinemascope with such a lens. Anamorphic lenses were used on some great all time classics, Blade Runner and Alien for instance.” See a lis of anamorphic lenses on [shoplink 23850 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

Please follow that topic to read everything you need to know about the GH2: http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/332/ptool-3.60d-topic

Thanks again Vitaly for your amazing work!

Click those direct search links to see the GH2 price and specs: [shopcountry 16254].

(FT3) Is that the new external viewfinder from Olympus?

July 9, 2011
Rumors
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As you might remember our sources said that Olympus had a new cheaper external EVF but than Olympus didn’t announce it along the new PEN cameras. We were all wondering what happened. Finally our reader “Felix” noticed something very interesting in one of the E-P3 commercials from Olympus (Click here to see the commercial on youtube). At the end of the video (00:58) you can see the new external viewfinder we talked about for weeks! It’s definitely NOT the current Olympus VF-2 ([shoplink 23839 ebay]Click here to see images of that viewfinder[/shoplink]). Hope Olympus will let us know more about it soon!