a bit of everything…
Why My Favourite Beginners Camera is also Lumix’s Most Hated Camera
Today deals at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, FotoErhardt DE, FotoKoch DE.
Best External Hard Drives for Mac (42West).
OM System OM 1 Focus Stacking Speed & Level Meters & Face Tracking (Rob Trek).
Lensbaby Announces Double Glass II Optic for Composer Pro II (Explora).
Fotodiox, a bracket “Lens-Yoke” that supports a large lens (DC.watch).
Plenty of news on the facebook OMD group, Panasonic FF and the GH5 group.
Amazon Europe launched the massive Spring sale: Save big on OM products
You save up tp 40% on a ton of products sold on this pages at Amazon Germany, Amazon UK, Amazon France, Amazon Italy, Amazon Spain, Amazon Netherlands, Amazon Sweden. Some details:
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The Grip Sling: A modular daily carry Sling that adapts to your shape and protects your gear, including your camera.
The new modular Grip sling has been successfully funded on Kickstarter (Click here to back it).
Two more hot Kickstarter projects:
- If you need a flexible, portable high quality 4k Laser projector to show your images and videos than check out the new JMGO N1 Ultra on Kickstarter (Click here). It’s the first gimbal and easily portable 4K Laser projector.
- The new Benro Theta has collected voer 1 million Dollars on Kickstarter (Click here)!
- Duovox successfully funded their new Night Vision and Sony Starvis powered Monocular on Kickstarter.
Panasonic interview at Dpreview: Younger generation may be a target group for MFT cameras
Yosuke Yamane has been interviewed by Dpreview. This is the part were he talks about MFT:
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He emphasized that the size and portability of Micro Four Thirds lets it deliver things that full-frame systems can’t. ‘Micro Four Thirds is a compact and lightweight system that enables hand-held photography in combination with a telephoto lens, which is not possible with full-frame,’ he said. ‘And we believe it is an indispensable system for achieving a compact body that can be easily carried.’
‘I think the need for small, lightweight cameras that can be carried around all the time like smartphones will increase, especially among the younger generation.’
That combination not only underpins its appeal to groups such as wildlife photographers, but could also give it a role as a gateway for younger users more used to smartphones, he suggested. ‘One of our goals is to tell the story of the benefits of a dedicated camera to teens and people in their 20s. We need to tell them that there is a world that can’t be achieved with a smartphone.’ But to achieve this, ‘you need the portability the smartphone has,’ he said. ‘I think the need for small, lightweight cameras that can be carried around all the time like smartphones will increase, especially among the younger generation.’
He wouldn’t be drawn on whether this might result in a return of the GM series, but said we weren’t the only people expressing an interest in a small, capable camera. ‘The press in Japan ask the same thing,’ he said, ‘but for full-frame.’