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Panasonic GX80/85 3D printed grip on the GX9: Does it fit?

The Cheapest 8mm Fisheye Lens for Micro 4/3 – Pixco 8mm f3.8 (Rob Trek).
Professional motorsport photography with the E-M1X and EM-1.2 (Jim Chung).
Return to M43?! Panasonic 8 -18 mm f/2.8-4 Lens Review by Darren Miles
Night photographer David Maimó Lázaro shares how he created this mesmerising shot with the OM-D E-M1X (Olympus Imagespace).
Keep the Sea at Bay: Underwater Housings for DSLR and Mirrorless Cameras (Explora).

Share your best pictures on our new Instagram MicroFourThirdsGallery.

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

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Peak Design Carbon Fiber Travel Tripod now available for preorder at BHphoto and Adorama

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The new Peak Design Carbon Fiber Travel Tripod now available for preorder at BHphoto and Adorama.

Reminder:
You get the Olympus 40-150mm f4.0-5.6 R for $99 at GetOlympus and BHphoto.
YI M1 Micro Four Thirds camera kit now sells for $149 only at Amazon US.

New Luminar 4:
Skylum announce the new Luminar 4 software (info here). It’s available for preorder now and it will be available this fall. Among the many new features it also will have the world’s first Sky Replacement technology. There are two bundle offers:

1. Luminar 4 + Signature Looks bundle for US$59 instead of US$138
2. Luminar 4 + Signature Looks + Luminar 3 bundle for US$89instead of US$207

Current Luminar 3 owners pay $49 only:

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New Olympus patent discloses two layer sensor

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Olympus has patented a multi-layer sensor design which should help improve the color reproduction. Usually infrared light deteriorates the color performance of a sensor. And in this new patent Olympus added an infrared sensible sensor on the bottom of the classic RGB sensor. This way…

…Olympus subtracts infrared light information included in the visible light image captured by an upper-layer image sensor using infrared light information included in the infrared light image captured by a lower-layer image sensor so as to prevent the deterioration of the color reproducibility of the visible light image.
A subtracts a pixel value of an infrared light image from a pixel value of a visible light image to prevent the deterioration of the color reproducibility of the visible light image.

As usual with patents we will never know if this will be applied on MFT cameras. Afterall it sounds expensive to not have just one…but two sensors in a camera!

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Topaz Studio 2 announced. Get it on sale now for $79.99 before August 9th!

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The new Topaz Studio 2 has been announced. You get it on sale now for $79.99 before August 9th.

Press text:

A workflow devoted entirely to creative photo post-processing.

Topaz Studio 2 has only one purpose: creative photo editing. This starts after you select your image and ends when you export your finished work. It’s designed specifically around the artisanal post-processing workflow of carefully crafting a single image to your vision.

Studio is the editor to use when you want jaw-dropping images and you’re not afraid to spend the time to get them. It’s for creating works that push the bounds of your artistic vision; the few that you know you’ll look back upon in years as one of your best creations.

That’s why you won’t find library management, design tools, batch editing, or other common “image editor” tools in Studio. There’s a lot of photo editors out there that help you manage your workflow and make minor contrast adjustments. Topaz Studio is not intended for that. If it doesn’t contribute to the vision of creating singularly beautiful images through post-processing, then we’re not including it.

Instead, Topaz Studio 2 focuses on doing three things well. We consider these the product’s guiding design principles and firmly believe that they will make your creative workflow both easier and faster.

Check out all new Topaz Studio 2 features on this page!

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