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Canon FD Metabones Speedbooster Ultra 0.71x VS Cheap Speedbooster

Field Test: Five High-Speed MFT Prime Lenses from Olympus (Explora).
Gear of the year – Carey’s choice: Panasonic GX9 (Dpreview).
Panasonic S1-S1R and lens: What we know and what’s “rumored” (L-rumors).

PM: “Just thought you may be interested in this. The DC Watch Camera Awards for 2018. Has a number of M43 cameras in the list. Actually, M43 has done pretty well in this years list. 4 in the top 20 (5 if you include LX100 ii). Proves that M43 is doing rather well (at least in Japan) still. https://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1160690.html“

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

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(FT5) Major Panasonic press event taking place the last week of January

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As I reported today on L-rumors.com Panasonic has organized a major journalist and store manager gathering for the last week of January. Usually this happens when they announce a new product. I don’t think they will unveil some new MFT gear but rather announce full specs and pricing of the new S1-S1R Full Frame cameras.

The best we can hope is that they might announce the pricing of that f/1.7 superzoom MFT lens…

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5 Reasons to Buy an Olympus Camera

Matt Granger says the L-mount alliance is a better Full Frame system than Canon-Nikon (L-rumors.com).
2018 was the biggest shakeup in years for the camera world (Engadget).
Sigma C 56 mm f/1.4 DC DN review at Lenstip.
Must-Have Accessories for Camera Bags (Explora).

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Panasonic interview at Dpreview: First 8K cameras will be launched AFTER the Olympics

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Better late than never they say…Dpreview just published their Photokina interview with Panasonic. There is a lot of talk about the S1-S1R cameras and the highlights have been summarized and posted on our sister site L-rumors.com.

Here is the merely MFT related part:

No APS-C:
Panasonic confirmed that they will never make APS-C L-mount cameras “We have our own Micro Four Thirds system and we think that [because of the greater difference in size between full-frame and M43] this is the best balance. We have no plans to develop APS-C products.”

8K only after 2020.
This is a bit surprising: ” After the Olympics, we will create a new generation of 8K video cameras, which are currently in development.” So unlike previous statements we will not get 8K cameras in time for the Olympics.

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New Olympus teaser for the E-M1X launch on January 24!

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The video above is the official teaser for the E-M1X launch on January 24!

A couple of screenshots:

Rumored E-M1X specs:

Name: E-M1X OMD camera
Sensor: 20MP (not global shutter)
Frame rate: 18fps
7.5+ EV stabilization
2 TruePic VIII processors
2x the processing speed of the E-m1II
Autofocus: Adaptive and expandable focal points. Two examples. If you are shooting a person, then shift to shooting a car, the number of focal points will automatically expand. If you are shooting a basketball player, you will get a vertical series of 5 focal points.
Body Size: 144.37 x 146.765 x 75.345mm (body with a built in vertical grip)
High Res: Can shoot handheld High Resolution images (around 80MP) at 1/60s
Photography focus: Sports and Wildlife shooters
Same batteries as E-M1 Mk II
Live electornic ND filter
Larger EVF
Price: Close to $3,000
Launch: January 24… along “2 tele zooms, 1 wide angle zoom. speedlight. zuiko binoculars”
Availability: February

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