Today Olympus america launched a new deal. You can save $50 on every Olympus E-PL1. The mother’s day deals is valid from May 2 to May 8 only! Click on those links to visit the E-PL1 deals page: Amazon / Adorama / BH.
Once again this kind of offers are not available for Europe :(
This is my very first video taken with the Noktor 50mm lens. All images have been taken at f/0.95.
The images with the two women were taken inside a Pizzeria. My goal was to move from one person to another and see how well I can focus when recording with f/0.95 aperture. The focus ring from the Noktor is very smooth but you also have to rotate very long from 60cm (distance of the young lady) to 2-3m (distance from the “older” women). That was the main issue I had because I needed to rotate the focus ring two times (with a short stop in between). That’s why you see the delay when I try to focus from on person to the other. The good news is that images do look pretty decent. Focusing the eyes of the person is easy when you shoot indoors (on the Olympus E-P1 screen).
One thing I did not like was the position of the focus ring which is close to the mount. I would preferr to have the aperture ring close to the mount and than the focus ring and not viceversa.
My first impression is that the Noktor lens is far more usefull for video purposes than photography (at f/0.95). I will add more videos soon.
Let me know what you think and what you want me to test for you!
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Panasonic G2 review on CNET
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Panasonic G2 preview on DCwatch (google english translation)
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GF1 leathercase (DCwatch)
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Panasonic GF1+45-200mm surf photography (brontecam)
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The new Adobe CS5 suite is now shipping! On photoshopuser.com/cs5 you can see a very well done list of the new features.
On his website you can see very nice images taken with each one of the four lenses.
And what is the final statement?
“All in all, I have to say that I have been impressed with the return for such a small investment.”
A dpreview user had a small talk with an Olympus representant. According to him the “E-PL1 will be bundled with the Olympus 9-18mm Lens and also with the Olympus 14-150mm Lens at very low prices, he seemed to be hinting at around £800-900. ($1200-$1400)”
More infos he received:
“new mount options being available via adapters by Novaflex”
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