Our friend Steve Huff just published his latest E-PL1 full review! The title sounds promising:”The Olympus E-PL1 Review. The best JPEG camera EVER?”
But we found even more E-PL1
Oh! I almost forgot him, the thephoblographer.com also posted a new review!
Reminder:
Finally also Pixmania has the Olympus E-PL1 in Stock!
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The new Samsung NX10
Key informations:
– The Samsung 30mm pancake is almost as good as the Panasonic 20mm
– Samsung NX10 and Panasonic GF1 jpeg comparison shows that the GF1 has the “lightest anti-aliasing filter“.
– In RAW the GF1 is “slightly out-resolving the Samsung”
– Overall score is the same as the GF1 (Click here to read the GF1 dpreview conclusions: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/PanasonicGF1/page33.asp
In March 2010 MicroFourThirds has been able to expand the japanese DSLR sales share and now crossed the 20% barrier! One year ago when only the Panasonic G1
I don’t know if Panasonic and Olympus really expected to have such a huge success when they started the MicroFourThirds “project”.
Click on the product name to jump on the amazon product page:
| Order | Manufacturer | Series model | Sales Share (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canon | Canon T2i | 12.5 |
| 2 | Canon | Canon T1i | 11.6 |
| 3 | Nikon | D90 | 11.4 |
| 4 | Nikon | D5000 | 10.1 |
| 5 | Panasonic | LUMIX GF1 | 7.8 |
| 6 | Nikon | D3000 | 7.1 |
| 7 | Olympus | OLYMPUS E-PL1 | 6.9 |
| 8 | HOYA | PENTAX Kx | 6.5 |
| 9 | Canon | EOS 7D | 4.4 |
| 10 | Canon | Canon Xsi | 3.4 |
Source: BCNranking
I just found one single 0,85/7,5cm Leitz lens on Ebay (click here) You do not often see the lens on Ebay. I searched for some image samples of this lens on a MicroFourThirds camera but I didn’t find anything. Probably nobody used it on non-Leica cameras until today.
Some image samples on flickr (on Leica cameras)
This is a must read! Thom Hogan talks about the future of digital photography: http://bythom.com/design2010.htm.
According to his predictions DSLR
But there are also very interesting considerations about social network integration and video recording!
Image Sensors World just found the new Panasonic sensor roadmap! The most interesting graph is the one I posted above. Click on the image to see it at originial size.
But what is coming in 2012? A 20 Megapixel sensor! Don’t get too excited, this is just a roadmap and as pointed by the ISW Blog roadmaps can change…
The pdf is available for download here at http://www.semicon.panasonic.co.jp/en/catalog/cat/pdf/A00006NE.pdf (Yes it is an official Panasonic document!)
Our friend Iker Morán just posted the new Panasonic G2 preview on Quesabesde (google english translation). They hade a pre-production model so things can change a little bit. They also have some image samples available for download and videos.
Interesting:
– There is a small pointer included! Didn’t know that.
– The 14-42 mm lens shows an excellent autofocus performance when recording video sequences
