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Every Camera Should do This – OM-1 Mark II
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Micro Four Thirds FLEXIBLE Photography Setup: Panasonic G100 + Lumix 14-140mm Superzoom – Landscape (Gary W)
OM-5II test at DC.watch
SmallRig Announces Transformers-Branded Products and Prizes (Explora).
AFTER THE SHOT IS DONE: Things to do before publishing your photos (42West).
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Lumix MFT gear savings ending this Sunday!
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The Nightmare Scenario: What if the new OM telephoto zoom is just a rebadged Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8?
OM Digital is set to announce a new telephoto zoom lens soon—but there’s one possibility that gives me real nightmares. What if, once again, it’s just a rebranded Sigma full-frame design?
There’s an unconfirmed rumor suggesting the upcoming OM lens might actually be a white-painted, OM-branded version of the Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 full-frame lens—similar to what we saw with the OM 150-600mm, which turned out to be a rehoused Sigma.
Hopefully, this is just a bad dream—and we’ll soon wake up to see OM Digital unveil a truly original, high-performance lens, crafted in-house with the same level of excellence as the legendary 150-400mm PRO.
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OM System Should Update This Amazing Lens!
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How to Plan Every Detail of a Short Film (Explora).
Photo Industry Recap Summer 2025 (42West).
Capturing Moments: My journey through the lens (Olympus Passion).
Let’s go out and take street snapshots with the OM SYSTEM OM-3 and OM-1 Mark II (Kitamura).
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DJI-owned Hasselblad has just unveiled the first mirrorless camera with built-in LiDAR autofocus — and that’s actually great news for Panasonic.
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DJI owned Hasselblad has officially unveiled the new X2D II medium format camera. The one big new feature is the integrated Lidar autofocus system. As you probably recall Panasonic has a partnership with DJI on this tech. And if this works well on the new X2D II it might find it’s way in future MFT cameras too!
Some time ago Panasonic managers had a chat with Petapixel on why they think Lidar AF is useful:
Panasonic explains to PetaPixel that the system, when active, would take over the hybrid phase detect system depending on the camera. It would bypass it and pull focusing information from the LiDAR module instead, which then sends focusing information to the lens autofocus motors.
LiDAR has distinct advantages over phase detection and DfD focusing on a small number of use cases, namely in extremely low-light situations. Phase detection weakens in ultra-low light, and many cameras disable phase detection and move to contrast-based in those situations as a result. It is here that LiDAR is superior but with some tradeoffs.
For one, many filmmakers describe LiDAR focusing as “twitchy” in how it drives lenses as it searches for a focus point. Additionally, the range of LiDAR is relatively weak: indoors filmmakers can expect about 15 meters of range, while outdoors that falls to an even more limiting seven meters.
As a result, this functionality is only going to benefit a very small number of filmmakers, but since it was possible to do, Panasonic decided to just allow for it and expand the shooting capabilities of its cameras with filmmakers that happen to use the DJI RS 3 Pro gimbal. Even if the choice isn’t going to be the best for many shooters, it is at least a choice they can make.
But the new Lidar AF on the X2DII seems to be improved. So this is a tech that will only get better in time!
More info about the new Hasselblad X2DII at B&H Photo!
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This Camera Changes Adventure Photography
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LUMIX Live: LUTS, Proxies, Real Time LUTS
Om-3 test at Kitamura.
How to Use Lightroom’s Color Mixer Tool for Perfect Colors (42West).
Bags and Pouches for Film and Photo Majors (Explora).
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