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Olympus PEN(E-P1,E-P2) leather skin

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Japanese E-P2 review at asahicamera.net (google english tranlsated)
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Last week japanese DSLR sales ranking. Only the white GF1 resists in the top-10
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Raphael Goetter tested the Panasonic GF1 (Original text in french. Clich here for the google english translation)
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dpreview started the new MicroFourThirds PhotoContest!
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Today Deals:
Amazon US: Olympus E-P1 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens (Silver) for $749.99
Amazon US: Panasonic GH1 for $1,248.46!
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OFFICIAL! Samyang 8 mm fish-eye and 85 mm f/1.4 with Olympus 4/3 mount.

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Finally it is official! We have new lenses for FourThirds mount :)

Press realease:
Samyang company has informed that new lenses: Samyang 8mm f3.5 fish-eye and Samyang 85mm f1.4 with a mount for Olympus 4/3, have been released to the market. The lenses complete the series of mounts designed for Canon, Nikon, Sony and Pentax.
Apart from adjusted bayonet, optics in the products will remain the same. Both lenses will be available with manual focusing. Delta company, the general distributor of the Samyang products, shall be responsible for sales in Europe. Both lenses will become available at the end of March 2010.

via: lenstip

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Voigtlander 50mm Nokton f1.1 VM on microFT

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plevyadophy wrote a very interesting post inside the dpreview forum:

“Today I purchased the Voigtlander 50mm Nokton f1.1 VM for my G1.

There have already been a number of announcements, reviews and repots with sample images of/from this alternative to a super expensive Leica Noctilux f1.0 (or the ultra super expensive, but admittedly better, Leica Noctilux f0.95 ASPH):

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/…on-50mm-f11-in-leica-m-mount.html

and

http://www.cameraquest.com/voigt_5011.htm

and

http://forums.dpreview.com/…forums/read.asp?forum=1038&message=32714149

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http://forums.dpreview.com/…forums/read.asp?forum=1038&message=32714149

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This lens on the Oly EP-1
 http://forums.dpreview.com/…forums/read.asp?forum=1041&message=32431892

and

http://forums.dpreview.com/…ums/readflat.asp?forum=1038&thread=32905712

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http://forums.dpreview.com/…forums/read.asp?forum=1038&message=33609252

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Review by the British Journal of Photography

http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=869720

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This lens versus Leica Noctilux f0.95 ASPH

http://forums.dpreview.com/…orum=1038&message=33556550&changemode=1

and

http://www.l-camera-forum.com/…rum/94093-curiosity-m8-cv-nokton-50-1-a.html

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This lens on the GF1 and GH1

http://davidmartynhughes.blogspot.com/…h/label/voigtlander%2050mm%20F%2F1.1“

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Japanese DSLR sales ranking of the whole year 2009!

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So here we are. it is the end of the year and we have the Japanese DSLR sales rankings from January 1 to December 24!

P.S.: Click on the camera name to see the product in Amazon.

Ranking Camera Market Share
1 Canon EOS Rebel T1i / EOS Kiss X3 15.9
2 Canon Digital Rebel XSi / EOS Kiss X2 13.2
3 Nikon D90 9.1
4 Nikon D5000 6.6
5 Nikon D60 5.4
6 Nikon D40 5.1
7 Panasonic G1 4.2
8 Canon 50D 3.5
9 Olympus E-P1 3.0
10 Panasonic GF1 2.7
11 Pentax K-m 2.5
12 Sony A300 2.2
13 Canon 5DII 2.1
14 Nikon D3000 1.8
15 Sony A350 1.8
16 Pentax K-x 1.8
17 Canon 7D 1.6
18 Canon 1000D 1.6
19 Panasonic GH1 1.6
20 Olympus E-520 1.3

source: bcnranking.jp

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