Portrait of a Soviet Lens; JUPITER 8 “RED-P” Version

Does Micro Four Thirds Really Need a New Camera Manufacturer? (ThePhoBlographer).
Soligor 1.33x Panasonic GH5 with 25mm f1.7 // Anamorphic lens test with AF// Chung Dha
Teru Kuwayama: What is Photography? (Explora).
Canon CEO thinks the digital camera market will shrink further the next two years until we finally hit the bottom (Mirrorlessrumors).

Jan: “Here is an example (in German) of what the Lumix LX100 can do as a compact travel camera. It is still a great camera if you want to travel light.
https://youtu.be/eaumBL5656c“

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

Olympus released the Q3 financial report. And while the company as a whole is doing ok the Imaging Business reported a major revenue loss. Also the forecast had to be revised down:

Part of the loss lies in “The impacts of ceased operations at the Chinese manufacturing subsidiary”. So this should be a one time loss only. But another more important cause of the loss is the “intensified competition“.

We have to keep in mind that Olympus did not announce new products at last years Photokina and this certainly had a big impact on their financial results. I hope the new E-M1X and the next new product launches will invert this trend.

Bcnaward.jp published the full 2018 Japanese market share analysis. Olympus lost 4% of the market share during 2018 while Canon had an impressive +10% jump. Still, the good news is that Olympus sold more camers than Sony and that is a good news if you think they had the new A7III. Let’s see if in 2019 Olympus will stay ahead thanks to the new E-M1X and the PEN-FII.