US deal: Panasonic 45mm for sub $700 (+ more lens price drop)

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The Panasonic 45mm lens is now in Stock for less than $700 at Amazon and BHphoto. That’s a much more affordable price than the almost $900 we had to pay for it months ago. You can read a review of the lens at Photozone.

And also the new Panasonic 100-300mm lens gets a new discount. It’s in Stock for less than $540 at Amazon (Click here). Combine those deals with the recent Panasonic 7-14mm price drop and you will notice that Panasonic is lowering the price of some of their best lenses. To bad the prices in Europe and Asia are still high. Look at the price trend of the 7-14mm lens in Germany:

Pretty boring :)

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AG-AF100 lens iris noise…

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John Brawley tested the [shoplink 16254]Panasonic GH2[/shoplink] and the [shoplink 16841]AG-AF100[/shoplink] cameras. He complains one particular issue the AG-AF100 has:
“Listen to the noise picked up by the camera mike as I change the iris on the camera. It actually sounded worse to me than what was recorded in this clip This is a test clip shot on an AF 102 (AF100). that was done using the Olympus 7-14 and a Panasonic m4/3 adaptor. I tested it with a great many 4/3 lenses from both Panasonic and Olympus. They all make the same noise. The interesting thing is that the same lenses and adaptors on the GH2 didn’t seem to make the same noise.”

More at johnbrawley.wordpress.com

AG-AF100 preorder links at Adorama or BHphoto.

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SLRmagic needs your advice (50mm, 40mm, 12mm lens?)

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As you know SLRmagic makes cheap quality and cheap priced m43 lenses based on current CCTV lens design (like the [shoplink 18603]26mm f/1.4[/shoplink] and [shoplink 14881]35mm f/1.7[/shoplink] lenses). Via Twitter they are asking m43 owners what kind of lenses they would like to be developed by the company. I thought it would be nice to help them by creating that poll:

What lens would you buy?

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[shoplink 18603]Click here to see the current 26mm f/1.4 lens auctions on eBay[/shoplink].
[shoplink 14881]Click here to see the current 35mm f/1.7 lens auctions on eBay[/shoplink].

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Panasonic GF2 review at DCresource (+Olympus XZ-1 test at Focus Numerique -> f/1.8 lens super sharp!)

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DCresource tested the new Panasonic GF2: “It offers very good photo quality, snappy performance, a touchscreen LCD with a customizable interface, the best Auto mode on the planet, and Full HD video recording. The bad news is that it has issues with redeye, underexposure, and highlight clipping, and one of the available kit lenses isn’t great, either.”
GF2 shop links: Amazon US , Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon UK, Amazon DE and [shoplink 19414 ebay]eBay[/shoplink].

Focus Numerique tested the Olympus XZ-1 and the results are astonishing! The lens is super sharp even wide open (at f/1.8)!!! Distortion is minimal. The only moderate issue is Vignetting. Image quality is good from ISO 100 to 400. Dynamic range is a little bit less than the [shoplink 17288]Panasonic LX5[/shoplink]. Message to Olympus: Great acamera, but please we want more good lenses for our Micro Four Thirds system! Thanks :)
Olympus XZ-1 direct shop links: Amazon US, Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR

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a little bit of everything…

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[shoplink 16841]AF 100 / 101[/shoplink] Testscenes by CINEMATICZ

Field Review (Day 5): [shoplink 17163]Olympus E-5[/shoplink] at ThePhoBlographer.

Leica D-Lux 5 vs. Panasonic LX 5 image comparison (Leicarumors)

GH2-EPL-E620-Comparison (Flickr)

Lumix TZ22 • Hands on (Flickr).

[shoplink 18844]Olympus E-PL2[/shoplink] test at mobile01 and yesky (Both google translated).

Penpal module test at DC.watch.

LUMIX GH2 vs. Leica M8 at Systemkameraforum (but you have to be a registered member to download the test!).

[shoplink 16254]Panasonic GH2[/shoplink] sensor data analysis at chipworks (Attention: You have to pay to download the data).

Why Panasonic want to block hacked firmware (EosHD).

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Panasonic UK success report

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Panasonic UK just released a press release saying the GF2 will be in Stock (in UK) starting from today. There are a few very interesting info:
1) 1 of 4 system camera sold in December (in UK) is a mirrorless camera (Panasonic calls it CSC=Compact System Camera).
2) Mirrorless share grow 194% vs. the previous year!
3) 1 of 10 of all changeable lens cameras sold were from the Panasonic!

Those are good news for Panasonic. I hope this will convince the head office to increase the camera production to satisfy our demand for a shorter time supply!

The GF2 is already in Stock at Amazon UK, via third party resellers at Amazon DE and at [shoplink 19414 ebay]asian+european eBay resellers (Click here to see current auctions)[/shoplink].
According to BHphoto (Click here) the GF2 will arrive in February. Also Amazon US and Adorama are accepting preorders.

Click the button to read the press release:

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