Panasonic removes the camera silhouettes from the teaser!

• February 18, 2010
• Rumors
• 9 Comments

Few days ago the same teaser had two camera silhouttes inside the white circular space. Now you can read the “Lumix” word only.

Check it out: http://www.panasonic.co.uk

[Thanks Philipp]

US MicroFourThirds deals update…(GF1+20mm and 7-14mm in Stock!)

• February 18, 2010
• deals
• 0 Comments

Deals summary:

1) Finally Amazon has the Panasonic GF1 with 20mm f/1.7 Aspherical Lens in Stock (amazon itself is selling it for $899!)

2)The Panasonic 7-14mm is in Stock at amazon for $1,049.00 (via third party reseller) (Once clicked scroll down to find the dealer).

3) Few weeks ago we told you that Amazon has also some colored GF1 in Stock via third party resellers. There has been some price drop on some of them:
– WHITE GF1 with 20mm Lens now for $1,029.95.
– RED Panasonic GF1 with 14-45mm Lens + WSP Mini Camera Tripod for $999.95.
– SILVER GF1 with 14-45mm Lens + WSP Mini Camera Tripod. for $999.95.
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4) Panasonic GF1 (Black Body) for $599.99

5) Panasonic GH1 for $1,189.95 at amazon / for the same price also available at BHphoto

6) Olympus E-Pl1 preorder table is available here: https://43rumors.com/updated-olympus-e-pl1-preorder-table/

Thanks to everyone who sent us the link!

Aperture 3 to add support for Panasonic GF1 and Leica M9.

• February 18, 2010
• news
• 4 Comments

According to the website aperture.maccreate.com Apple will update the Aperture 3 software to support the Panasonic GF1 and the Leica M9 RAW files.

(FT5) UPDATED: New Olympus teaser….for a new website :(

• February 17, 2010
• Rumors
• 46 Comments

Olympus Malaysia launched a new website with the following teaser: http://www.evolve.com.my/.

But CNET Asia learned that this is not a teaser for a new product announcement:”We got back to Olympus Singapore which told CNET Asia that the microsite is just part of the company’s marketing scheme for the already-announced E-PL1 Micro Four Thirds camera. Also, no new dSLRs are expected on February 28.”

[Thanks Sam and Thanks Leonard Goh from CNET Asia]

(FT3) New dual exposure technique sensor for the GH2?

• February 17, 2010
• Rumors
• 8 Comments

The website EOShd.com reported what Panasonic engineer T. Azuma’s said during the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco (which took place last week).

Basically Azuma says that Panasonic developed a sensor based on ‘dual exposure technique’ which improves the sensitivity by a factor of 4. This goal has been archived allowing green pixels to be read independently of the blue and red ones on the sensor. They are exposed four times longer than the red and blue pixels.

More details on EOShd.com.

White Olympus E-P1 discontinued at BHphoto.

• February 17, 2010
• news
• 2 Comments

The white Olympus E-P1 has been discontinued at BHphoto. Is that the first sign that the E-P1 will slowly be faded out after the E-PL1 announcement? Amazon has the white model in Stock via third-party resellers only. And Adorama doesn’t list the white model.

P.S.: Anyway the silver models are still in Stock.

micro 4/3 adapter for enlarger lens (Rodenstock-Schneider-DURST…)

• February 17, 2010
• news
• 3 Comments

The italian engineer Adriano Lolli created a new adapter. Original description from his website: “Adapter for obiectives by magnifying with screw thread M39 cameras in 39×1 graft Olympus, Lumix, Panasonic, Leica, etc. with bayonet micro 4 / 3. Allows you to mount all the breeding objectives with M39 thread on graft focamere micro 4/3. If somebody has a lens with a different diameter of thread, please note that we realize every kind of fitting. Also check the draft of your objective for allowing focus properly: it must be put into the range of the values shown in the second photo (from 20 mm to 28 mm). We realize the same adapter for different measures, see article: 3189”

Nice! Now we can use our “old” enlarger lens on MFT!