a little bit of everything…

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Polish E-P2 event.

The E-P2 is available for preorder at Amazon UK / Amazon US / Adorama / BHphoto / Amazon DE
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At Thedigitalstory you can find a poadcast which discuss three camera: The Canon PowerShot S90, Panasonic Lumix LX3, and the Leica X1.
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Some nice Concepts for the latest Ricoh GXR at akihabaranews.com. Some nice accessories are available at amazon.com!
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Panasonic in ‘giant pigeon’ publicity stunt! Panasonic wake up! We need more cameras and not giant pigeons!
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DCfever article about the E-P2. Read in japanese or google english translation.
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The japanese website journal.mycom.co.jp made a GF1 vs E-P1 comparison. Read in japanese or google english translation.
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Deals:
The GF1+20mm lens is still not available in amazon.com but everything else is in Stock! Ships from and sold by Amazon.com with normal price!
Panasonic GF1 Camera with 14-45mm Lens (Ships from and sold by Amazon.com for $899.95! 5 items in Stock)
Panasonic LUMIX G 20mm f/1.7 Lens (Ships from and sold by Amazon.com for $399.95! 2 items in Stock)
Panasonic DMW-LVF1 External Live Viewfinder (Ships from and sold by Amazon.com for $199.95!)
and
Amazon US ships the Olympus 50mm f2 lens for $400

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SOLVED! -> 43rumors technical problem with our form

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UPDATE: the contact form problem has been solved. You can send me messages if you want!

Thanks!

Old message:

Dear readers!
We have some technical problem with Aksimet which blocks our form. It doesn’t work since 24 hours and your messages sent through our form are probably lost. If you want to contact me use write me at 43rumors@gmail.com.
I will let you know when the form will work again.
Sorry
Ale

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Panasonic GF1+14-42mm lens in Stock! And so the 20mm f/1.7 lens!

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The GF1+20mm lens is still not available in amazon.com but everything else is in Stock! Ships from and sold by Amazon.com with normal price!

Panasonic GF1 Camera with 14-45mm Lens (Ships from and sold by Amazon.com for $899.95! 5 items in Stock)

Panasonic LUMIX G 20mm f/1.7 Lens (Ships from and sold by Amazon.com for $399.95! 2 items in Stock)

Panasonic DMW-LVF1 External Live Viewfinder (Ships from and sold by Amazon.com for $199.95!)

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Tell Olympus and Panasonic what they should do next!

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The reaction on the new Olympus camera announcement has been quite mixed. Not few people are unhappy with the E-P2 improvements. On the other side people are happy to have seen Olympus fixing some of the E-P1 limits. But what surprised me more is that Olympus failed to announce prime lenses which many of us do need! I am no marketing expert but I strongly believe that there is a lot of money you can make here!
Anyway, competition is coming and next year MicroFourThirds will have to fight hard against big brands like Canon, Sony and Nikon.

UPDATE: We will close the poll tomorrow.

You have a maximum of three votes!

The question is:

If the image quality is on top will you buy that lens?

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Olympus PROFIT Surprise – up 47% over estimate

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Sounds good:
Olympus, which earns about 65 percent of its sales abroad, surged 9.2 percent to 2,900 yen, its highest in a year and the largest gain on the Nikkei 225. The company may report April- September operating profit of 28 billion yen ($306 million), 47 percent more than its forecast, Nikkei English News said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ab5OoDYhwbLI

MISTRAL75 added following interesting information:

“Olympus’s financial results for the second 2009-2010 quarter (June-September) have been published since (on 6th November):

http://www.olympus-global.com/en/corc/ir/financial/pdf/n091106aE_n.pdf

Group half year operating income actually amounted to 28.5 billion yen, down 11.2 percent from 2008-09, and quarterly operating income to 17.2 million yen, up 17.9 percent compared to the same quarter last year. These results are indeed better than the analysts’ expectations.

As for the “Imaging” business unit (= cameras and lenses), sales were down 42.9 percent for the first quarter (April-June) and down 31.6 percent for the second quarter (July-September), each time compared to the same quarter one year before. Operating income tumbled 96.2 percent for the first quarter and “only” 31.6 percent for the second quarter.

So the group as a whole is in a much better condition than the camera business.

Thanks Mistral!

Panasonic financial results are available here: http://panasonic.co.jp/corp/news/official.data/data.dir/en091030-5/en091030-5.html

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Tamron is coming up with something new! Let’s speculate…they will release a MicroFourThirds lens? :)

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Our friends from photorumors.com just discovered this nice countdown at tamron.de. Are they making a countdown for a new Canon-Nikon-Sony-Pentax lens? This would be boring normal. Let’s hope that this time they are going to make something for us! MicroFourThirds lenses? :)

It is not a rumor, just my personal wish! Come on Tamron! I know you can make my 25mm f/1.4 lens ;)

Ale

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Olympus E-P2 Micro Four Thirds Hands-On Intro

The E-P2 is available for preorder at Amazon UK / Amazon US / Adorama / BHphoto / Amazon DE

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GF1 vs E-P1 comparison at dkamera.de. read the comparison in german or google english translation.
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The hungarian website Pixinfo.com tested the Panasonic GF1. read in polish (google translation doesn’t work..and I don’t know why).
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Olympus quietly introduces the E-600 (source: dcviews)
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Olympus Stylus 7010 Review at Steve digicam’s
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DxO Optics Pro Version 6 has been released (source: digitalpixels.net)
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E-P2 manual is available for download: http://www.olympusamerica.com/files/E-P2_Instruction_Manual_EN.pdf
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Amazon US ships the Olympus 50mm f2 lens for $400
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