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Olympus US rebates summary (and Panasonic GH1 rebates in Germany?)

April 10, 2010
deals
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As you probably know Olympusamerica started a new rebates program valid from 4/1 through 5/31. Now all the major US shops do show the reduced prices of the single items:

E-620 – $50 Instant Savings -> Check out on Amazon / Adorama / BHphoto
E-30 – $100 Instant Savings -> Check out on Amazon / Adorama / BHphoto
Olympus E-3 – $100 Instant Savings -> Check out on Amazon / Adorama / BHphoto
ED 14-35mm f.2 SWD – Save $300 -> Check out on Amazon / Adorama / BHphoto
ED 35-100mm f2.0 – Save $200 -> Check out on Amazon / Adorama / BHphoto
ED 50-200mm f2.8-3.5 SWD – Save $200 -> Check out on Amazon / Adorama / BHphoto
ED 70-300mm f4.0-5.6 – Save $100 -> Check out on Amazon / Adorama / BHphoto
ED 18-180mm f3.5-6.3 – Save $100 -> Check out on Amazon / Adorama / BHphoto
17mm f2.8 – Save $50 -> Check out on Amazon / Adorama / BHphoto

One more thing for German 43rumors readers. One of our readers noticed a special Panasonic rebate program on the Panasonic GH1. “Today I bought an Panasonic GH1 at may local dealer here in Germany: 1199EUR. (see this link http://www.foto-haas.de/pdf/201003_aktion.pdf -> page 5)
Regular price 1399EUR but when you bring in your old camera you get 200EUR discount. For me this was an great offer. As far as I understood my dealer right, this is an offer from Panasonic …”
I checked on Panasonic Germany but they do not mention any special rebate program. And Amazon Deutschland doesn’t show the same deal. Let me know if you find something else…Thanks!

a little bit of everything…

April 9, 2010
Rumors
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GF1 vs EPL1 Shooting Performance

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Hands On With The Panasonic Lumix G2 Micro Four Thirds Camera (Gizmodo Australia)
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7 Review at digitalcamerareview
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550d vs E-PL1 (dpreview forum)
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How would you change Olympus’ E-PL1? (Engadget)
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Olympus E-PL1 review on the Wall Street Journal.
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“My E-PL1 Review” by Sam Bennet (dpreview forum)

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(FT2) UPDATED -> Panasonic camcorder with m43 lenses to be on NAB?

April 9, 2010
Rumors
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UPDATE -> NAB Press conferences will take place from April 10 (tomorrow) to April 15. I will follow the event and keep you updated.

As you may know on April 12 the NABshow starts. The NABshow is a dedicated Broadcasting event.

And we just received a rumors from a new source (so we can’t say if the rumor is more or less reliable or not):

“Confirming that Panasonic Pro Video dep. will present at NAB a VCR with micro 4/3 optic.
It will enter the market late Nov 2010.
Its have a non DSLR shape, more shaped like Hasselblad.
No more detl. known now, its still parts of it that is work in progress.
OBS
its outside consumer products but thist focus on the bright future of the Micro 4/3 lens system.”

If that rumor turns out to be true this will be indeed awesome news! Would you not love to use your MicroFourThirds lenses on a deicated camcorder? Wow!

Hot Amazon US deal: Panasonic 7-14mm lens for $999!

April 9, 2010
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Hot deal on amazon: For the first time you can have the Panasonic 7-14mm f/4.0 Micro Four Thirds Lens for $999.77 (click here) (via third-party reseller). Amazon itself sells it for $1,024.95. Probably the new Olympus 9-18mm f/4.0-5.6 lens is pushing down the price of the Panasonic lens.

A review of the 7-14mm lens is available on slrgear.com

One more amazon deal: Panasonic 45mm f/2.8 Lens for $866.97 (You Save: $32.98)

(FT5) Leica version of the Panasonic TZ10-ZS7

April 9, 2010
Rumors
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UPDATE: This is not a 4/3 or m4/3 rumor but I thought I should post that because at least it is interesting to see that Leica and Panasonic are still working together. To bad Leica didn’t choose to join the MicroFourThirds system.

Soon Leica will launch the new C-Lux 20 (the Leica C-Lux 3 successor). It will be the “copy” of the Panasonic TZ10-ZS7 camera.

Source: Leicarumors

Olympus E-P1 with the Zeiss Ikon viewfinder turret

April 8, 2010
news
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That’s a nice piece of a viewfinder! The japanese blog DC.watch.impress tested the Pentax 110 F2.8 70mm and the Zeiss viewfinder turret on the Olympus E-P1.

This is the first time I have seen the Zeiss viewfinder on a MicroFourThirds camera. Click here to see some nice images: DC.watch.impress

The rumors we are working on…

April 8, 2010
Rumors
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During the last two weeks I didn’t post many rumors but I am currently working on some hot stuff:
1) Next Olympus FourThirds and MicroFourThirds PEN camera
2) Sigma MicroFourThirds lenses (Yes! can’t wait to know more about them!)
3) Fuji and Olympus partnership rumors (probably a new sensor?)
4) Panasonic GH2 and GF2 news

What I know for certain is that Sony and Samsung will bring some fire in the mirrorless market! Will tell you more about that soon!

If you have some rumors feel free to contact me at 43rumors@gmail.com.
I will keep you anonymous of course. You can also create a fake gmail account if you don’t want to use your real email account.

Thanks!