Panasonic ready to ship the AG-AF100 Micro Four Thirds videocamera

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[shoplink 16841][/shoplink]A few weeks ago I told you that Panasonic Europe and Panasonic US already sold out the first stock of cameras (so if you preorder now you will still have to wait a little bit of time). Today Panasonic announced that they are ready to ship the AG-AF100. Right now you can preorder the camera at [shoplink 16841]BHphoto[/shoplink] or on [shoplink 18636 ebay]eBay[/shoplink].
Reminder: This is the link to the fist shortmovie made witht the AG-AF100: http://vimeo.com/18073096

Please click the link below to read the press release…

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(FT5) A successor of one of the current Olympus PEN to be announced in February.

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According to our sources Olympus will announce one new Micro Four Thirds camera in February. The camera will replace one of the current PEN cameras. Don’t expect major changes, it uses the same 12 Megapixel sensor but at least it features a new sensor engine. Along with that camera Olympus will announce three new lenses. One of those will be the new kit lens of the new PEN (it’s a pancake). I received a few more details about that camera but I want to double check them with my trusted sources. If you have some news to share feel free to contact me at 43rumors@gmail.com or use the contact form on the right sidebar. Thanks!

Reminder: The high-end MFT camera will be announced a short time after the new PEN (and yes it has a built-in viewfinder).

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(UPDATED with sample pictures) And here it is the new 26mm f/1.4 toy lens from SLRmagic!

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And here it is the new native Micro Four Thirds lens from SLRmagic. The [shoplink 18603]Toy Lens 26mm f/1.4 lens[/shoplink] is a multi coated manual prime lens. It is a special effects lens that is meant to capture impressionistic images. Dreamy, color twist, and noticeable vignette: “The lens is great for portrait photography and some say that it is great for Lo-Fi photography. We occasionally receive questions about how this lens differ from the kit lens. The simple answer is it will enable you to capture photos in every other way that the kit lens cannot. Toy Lens was designed to bring more fun to your photography.”

So it doesn’t sound like that lens has a great sharpness ;)

You can get that lens for $79 on [shoplink 18603]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

UPDATE: SLRmagic just contacted me and sent me those pictures (Click on thumbnail to enlarge).

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Panasonic GF2 in Stock in Japan and GF2 on eBay (english menu!)

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Panasonic officially started to sell the GF2 in Japan (In Stock at Amazon.jp). We also found a white GF2 camera + double lens kit with english menu [shoplink 18595 ebay] on eBay (Click here to see the auction[/shoplink])! Sold by a Hong Kong eBay powerseller for 844Euro. That’s a very good price! For reference, Amazon UK sells the GF1+14-42mm lens for706 Euro.

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Panasonic GH2, GF2, AG-AF100 news and 14-140mm review

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“A Verse Before Dying” (Shot with the [shoplink 16841]Panasonic AG-AF100[/shoplink])

Photographyblog tested the [shoplink 14802]Panasonic 14-140mm f/4.0-5.8 O.I.S.[/shoplink] lens.The lens gets Highly Recommended! “This lens is surprisingly small and lightweight for what it is….he lens is extremely fast to focus on the new DMC-GH2 camera with a response time of just 0.1 seconds….Optically, the lens is a good performer, much better than we expected from a 10x zoom. ”

DC.watch interviewed Panasonic engineers and asked them a lot of questions about the contrast autofocus development (Very interesting story!).

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF2 Test Images at Imaging Resource and first look at Digital camera review.

SHort GH2 review by Lisandra at E-P1.net.

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