DEAL: Panasonic 20mm lens for$328.95 (340€ in Europe). E-P2 with lens and EVF for $779.

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The Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 has been announced exactly one year ago. Now US stores are selling the lens with the lowest price I have ever seen…$328 only! Click on these shop links to get the lens: Adorama, Amazon (sold by Adorama) and BHphoto.

As usual we europeans are not as lucky as you americans. $328.95 is 237€, but sadly we have still to pay 340-350 Euro for the lens :(
Look at Pixmania (DE, BE, FR, AT, UK, NL, PL, ES and IT) or [shoplink 16752]eBay[/shoplink].

The hottest deals since a few days are the Olympus E-P2 with 14-42mm and EVF for $799 at Amazon (Click here) and the Panasonic GF1 kit for $670 at Amazon (Click here)

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Diwa award for the E-PL1 and the G2

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Panasonic won three DIWA awards with the Panasonic G2, the Panasonic DMC-FX66 and the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10.

“The Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2 features the world’s first touch-screen shooting control in a system camera. This small mirror-less system camera, tailor-made for the super-compact Micro Four Thirds System standard, makes the G2 package exceptionally portable, yet delivering professional image quality. In addition to its compactness, the Panasonic DMC-G2 receives its DIWA Gold Awards for its intuitive operation, first class screen and LVF (Live View Finder), and last but not least – its ability to capture high quality 12.1 MP stills and HD movies.”

P.S.: The Panasonic G2 is currently in Stock for $649.95 at Amazon (Click here)

Also the Olympus E-PL1 won the DIWA Gold Award:

“When it comes to user-friendly operation without losing creativity, the Olympus PEN E-PL1 really responds on demand. Special creative filters, HD-movie support, built-in flash and comfortable Autofocus Live View give photographers a complete set of photographic tools in a remarkably small package. Add to this its easy operation, photo shooting fun and professional image quality; a combination that made the DIWA organization honor the Olympus PEN E-PL1 camera with a Gold Award.

Kai Thon, test manager of DIWA Labs comments: <With the PEN range, Olympus has proved that it is perfectly possible to combine system cameras flexibility and professional image quality with a super-compact camera body. The Olympus PEN E-PL1 also has a built-in flash and improved control functions for added versatility. All in all, a full featured camera for any photographer who wishes to scale down in size, without compromising on performance and image quality. >”

The Olympus E-Pl1 is currently in Stock for $509 at Amazon (Click here)

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Lensbaby Tilt Transformer photos & mini review (+ Panasonic 100-300mm image samples)

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GiantGinko (dpreview forum) posted some image samples taken with the new 40mm f/1.6 Lensbaby for MicroFourThirds. The Lensbaby is currently in Stock at Amazon US (Click here!).
A week ago Tyson Robichaud posted a review of the new lens. The Lensbaby is not yet available in Europe.
Reminder: You can get the Arsat Tilt-shift lens with MicroFourThrids mount available now on [shoplink 16586]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

P.S.: Panasonic.net posted two image samples taken with the new Panasonic 100-300mm lens

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a little bit of everything…

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Original Panasonic GH2 Footage – 720p50 (part 2) from Uwe Lansing on Vimeo.

Olympus Japan announced that the white E-P2 and all-black E-P2 kit will be available from October 15th.

Exclusive: Sigma and Foveon discuss the forthcoming SD1 (Dpreview)

Olympus FE-5050 Review (Trustedreviews)

Panasonic Lumix G2: King ergonomics (Digimanie.cz)

DIWA Gold Award for Olympus E-PL1 (Photographyblog)

Panasonic Lumix G Photography Gift Pack for UK (ePhotozine)

Field Review: Olympus PEN E-P2 (ThePhoBlographer)

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Modified Kowa 55mm f/1.0 on eBay

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This is a modified Kowa 55mm f/1.0 lens. You can use it on your Micro Four Thirds camera without using any adapter. It is currentlz for sale on [shoplink 16724 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. Didn’t find any image smaples taken with that lens :(
A High quality alternative is the [shoplink 14988 ebay]Canon 50mm FD 1.2 (Click here to see current auctions on eBay)[/shoplink]

P.S.: As you might know Kowa announced that they will be making the 350mm f/4, 500mm f/5,6 and 850mm f/9,6 telephoto lenses for Micro Four Thirds.

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Panasonic GH2 without 25p in PAL regions? (P.S.: 14-140mm firmware upgrade)

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[shoplink 16254]Panasonic GH2[/shoplink] 30P Test

EosHD reports that:”I’ve been told by a source close to Panasonic that the final (non-prototype) PAL camera does indeed lack 25p and only has 24p“. If the rumor prooves to be correct than this is really a sad decision. I would love to know from Panasonic why they didn’t add 25p!

P.S.: Panasonic new[shoplink 14802]14-140mm[/shoplink] lens firmware update is now available for download at Panasonic Japan. The new firmware improves the speed of AF(Auto Focus) performance.

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New Olympus E-5 tests…

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Robin Wong (Click here to read) posted a new E-5 test. This time he tested the Low Light performance: “What I can tell you is that, there is a noticeable improvement. At ISO3200, the noise level was evident, but still the details are well maintained. Overall sharpness was very good too, but of course that was due to the presence of luminance noise all over. One good news is how the JPEG engine handles the chroma noise. Up to ISO3200, I almost did not detect (yet again, some people have super magnifying eyes that can spot pixels 6 feet away from the computer screen) any chroma noise. Even at ISO6400, the majority of the noise is luminance, and I do not mind much luminance noise, which was of course, again my preference.”

Great work Robert!

One more E-5 test: Fotopolis.pl (google english translation) previewed the E-5.

High quality ISO 3200 E-5 RAW filed developed by OlympusClub user ‘qbic’ – using Lightroom 3 (2shared.com)

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