Camera Conspiracies:

Olympus EM1 II got the firmware update of the century adding in phase detection autofocus somehow. Is it now the perfect vlogging camera? Is it really worth buying in 2019 when the EM5 III looms around the corner? Let’s talk about it :)

Dan Pocock‎
M31 Andromeda Galaxy
Only 2.5 million lightyears away…
Olympus E-M5 MkII
Samyang 135mm f2
iOptron Skytracker Pro
20x 60s, ISO 800 @ f2
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Interview with Sonny Lui who is European marketing director at Sirui about their new unusual product. Sirui is known for astonishingly good monopods, tripods and other similar products. So, it is quite unusual to see afforable, but high quality anamorphic 50mm F1.8 lens from them. Lot of people are ready to kill for such a lens and shooting anamorphic is still very attractive for many amateur shooters and small teams as it allows they production to stand out.
It will be interesting to test the lens in full and check how it perform in the real filmmakers tasks.

How to synchronise OM-D Video and Audio using the LS-P4 Portable Hi-Res Recorder

High ISO can look good (Sulantoblog).
Color and Resolution Tools: Why You Need Them (Explora).
Panasonic interview at Newsswitch.
Panasonic 10-25mm review at Optyczne

Plenty of news on the facebook E-M1II group, Panasonic FF and the GH5 group.

Venus Optics announced that the new 4mm MFT lens is now shipping out.  It’s in Stock for $199 at BHphoto and directly at Venuslens.net .

And DC.watch posted the images of a factory  tour at Venus Optics. Here you can see a Stock of 4mm lenses:

DC.watch also wrote:

By the way, the current best seller is “7.5mm F2 MFT” for Micro Four Thirds, and the second is “9mm F2.8 Zero-D” for Micro Four Thirds. In both cases, the lens body is very small and light, and features a super wide-angle lens with a filter attached to the front.