MicroFourThirds now owns 20.2% of the japanese DSLR sales share!

• April 7, 2010
• news
• 9 Comments

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 was available the MicroFourThirds share was 5.5%.
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

Need for speed: The 75mm f/0.85 Leitz lens

• April 6, 2010
• deals
• 4 Comments

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)

Thom Hogan talks about the camera future

• April 6, 2010
• news
• 7 Comments

This is a must read! Thom Hogan talks about the future of digital photography: http://bythom.com/design2010.htm.

According to his predictions DSLR sales will slowly decrease in favor of the new mirrorless camera segment. And the new Cellulars phones will eat the reduce the compact camera sales.

But there are also very interesting considerations about social network integration and video recording!

UPDATED-> for small sensors -> Panasonic Image Sensor Roadmap (Let’s join the Megapixel race)

• April 6, 2010
• Rumors
• 18 Comments

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!)

Panasonic G2 preview by quesabesde.

• April 6, 2010
• reviews
• 0 Comments

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

P.S.: No preorders are available on Amazon or BHphoto

(FT5) Competition is fighting back. 2 new mirrorless cameras from Samsung.

• April 5, 2010
• Rumors
• 12 Comments

Via K-rumors.com:
There will be two new Samsung NX cameras between April and June. The first will be the NX5 we already told you about on k-rumors. The second camera will be the NX100. The NX100 will be released sometimes in May-June and be the first very compact NX model. It is aimed to compete “against” the Panasonic GF1 and Olympus PEN cameras.

Both camera will use the same NX10 sensor.

Please follow K-rumors.com if you are interested to see all rumors regarding Samsung next mirrorless cameras.

Noktor news…

• April 5, 2010
• news
• 0 Comments

Noktor pre-orders are now closed but you can still visit the product page and add your email address to be notified when the lens will be in Stock.

In the meanwhile we have some new Noktor news for you:

1) New image samples are available on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/syf0n/sets/72157623669052808/
2) Noktor added a new FAQ page: http://noktor.com/faq.php
3) Ken Rockwell talks about the Noktor marketing strategy.

The only (pre-)reviews to date have been made by Philip Bloom and Steve Huff