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Panasonic Lumix 25mm F/1.7 lens Review

The Panasonic Pro Trio: A Buying Guide (Explora).
6 Portrait Lenses For M4/3 Cameras That Will Make Your Images Pop (ThePhoBlographer).
Fotodiox RGB Large Panel Lights, Including Prizmo 1×2 (Personal View).
Multiple Exposure on Lumix G9 -Surprisingly good fun! (Matti Sulanto)

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

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Olympus G. Zuiko 40mm f/1.4 AUTO-S (PEN-F) Review by ePhotozine

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ePhotozine published this curious Olympus G. Zuiko 40mm f/1.4 AUTO-S (PEN-F) Review. The verdict:

Whilst the lens is very pleasurable to use, in a technical sense the results are not particularly exciting. However, as always, if we are exploring a different, vintage look for our images then maybe this could be just the optic to make that difference and let our shots stand out. It’s all about creativity, and after all, we don’t buy, say, a Lensbaby to take pictures of test charts.

Hopefully, we can now see what the potential might be, and if this is available at the right price then any individual photographer will know what they are buying and exactly why they are buying it.

Of course this lens is available used on eBay only.

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Panasonic Leica 10-25mm f/1.7 lens | FEIYUTECH AK2000 GIMBAL

Lumix G 42,5mm f/1.7 -the best tiny portrait lens (Matt Sulanto).
Panasonic CX-350 | First Look by ProAV
ZCAM E2 + Laowa 7.5mm f2 // Night Test // Chung Dha
When You Don’t Want to “Add It in Post,” An Introduction to Optical Filters (Explora).

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(FT3) New E-M5III could use the BLS-50 battery from the PEN series

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Image on top shows the current E-M5II model

I have been told that unlike the current E-M5II camera the soon to be announced new E-M5III will use the same BLS-50 battery of the PEN and E-M10 camera series

E-M5III rumor summary:
Announcement in late Summer (99% certain)
Same E-M1II sensor with 121 cross-type phase detection pixels. (60% certain)
New processing engine (90% certain)
Lighter, more plasticky but still weather sealed body (60% certain)
Same BLS-50 battery of the PEN and E-M10 camera series (60% certain)

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Olympus classic cameras: O-Product and Stylus Epic

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We have two new reviews of classic Olympus film cameras

Allan Weitz (Click here) tested the O-Product:

Technologically, the O-Product is bare-bones as it gets. The lens is a fixed 35mm f/3.5 semi wide-angle lens with an 80s-vintage center-weighted autofocus system. The auto-exposure system offers zero overrides, and it comes with a detachable “potato-masher” style flashgun for indoor and low-light shooting.

Even if your sense of humor is buried deep within you, there’s no way you can pick up an O-Product and not crack a smile. Better yet, when you aim the camera at somebody, the camera invariably brings a smile to your subject’s face simply because unlike black-clad, Darth Vader-like DSLRs, the O-Product is not at all threatening when aimed one’s way.

Bjorn Petersen (Click here) tested the Stylus Epic:

What originally drew me to is, back then, was the reputation of the 35mm f/2.8 lens. “It has legendary sharpness,” I was told. That, and friends talked about how quick it was to use, how it was weather sealed, and how well the flash worked. I had to have it, if just to contrast the slow-moving medium format systems in which I was invested.

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