Finally you can see plenty of image samples taken with the strangest of all Micro Four Thirds lenses…the Olympus body cap lens.
Pekka Potka just posted the first B&W pictures of his dog and writes: “Aperture f/8 is far too dim to be usable (without flash) casually in a traditional P&S style whenever, if you expect normally sharp images. You really have to set your eye and mind to f/8 and work with the consequensies of it, namely blur.”
Also Peter Norman (via mu43) posted a set of image samples on Flickr. This time in color!
For EU readers: The less than 300 Euro camera deals:
[shoplink 33945 ebay]White Olympus E-P1 body for 184 Euro on eBay Germany[/shoplink]
[shoplink 34108 ebay]White Olympus E-PM1 body for 199 Euro on eBay Spain[/shoplink]
[shoplink 34100 ebay]Black Panasonic GF3 body for 199 Euro on eBay Germany[/shoplink]
[shoplink 33940 ebay]White Olympus E-PM1 body for 249 Euro on eBay Germany[/shoplink]
[shoplink 33944 ebay]White Olympus E-P1 body for 249 Euro on eBay Germany[/shoplink]
[shoplink 33948 ebay]Silver Olympus E-PL3 body for 259 Euro on eBay Germany[/shoplink]
[shoplink 34106 ebay]White Olympus E-PM1 with kit lens for 279 Euro on eBay Germany[/shoplink]
[shoplink 34102 ebay]Silver Panasonic GF2 with kit lens for 284 Euro on eBay Germany[/shoplink]
[shoplink 34105 ebay]Black Olympus E-PM1 with kit lens for 285 Euro on eBay Germany[/shoplink]
[shoplink 33946 ebay]Black Olympus E-PL1 with kit lens for 287 Euro on eBay Germany[/shoplink]
Lenstip published the full Olympus 75mm f/1.8 lens review. And the conclusions says it all: “I do not hesitate to write it: testing such lenses is pure pleasure which starts when you take the lens out of its box and you look at it for the first time. You already know you deal with a very solid instrument. Pleasurable experience lasts when you take sample shots or photos of testing charts“.
I hope the new 17mm f/1.8 lens will be as good as that lens!
The best price I found in Europe is at [shoplink 34070 ebay]Pro Video France (Click here)[/shoplink]. A third party lens hood is sold by [shoplink 33366 ebay]ProPhotoshop Germany (Click here)[/shoplink]. In US the lens will be back inS tock at Amazon on October 22th.
As you know not only Panasonic and Olympus but also Blackmagic announced their first videocamera with native Micro Four Thirds mount. The video on top shows how good the Blackmagic compares with the popular Canon 5DmarkII Full Frame camera.
The camera itself can be preordered at BHphoto (Click here) and will ship from December 30th.
The Panasonic G5 sensor got tested at DxOmark (Click here). The good news is that it is better than the G3 and GX1 sensor. But it’s still 10 points away from the best m43 camera which is the [shoplink 29074]Olympus E-M5[/shoplink]. Can’t wait to see the GH3 score! My guess is that it will be on par with the E-M5!
Hot deal of the day: The Panasonic GF3 with kit lens is available for $311 only at Amazon (Click here). And it quickly became the most sold m43 camera (ranking here). Thanks jdhodges.com.
The super fats spedd of the E-M5 compared to the Fuji X PRO 1 (found via Fujirumors)
I have to catch up with some recent Micro Four Thirds camera and lens review. This time we have quite a lot of popular blogger and website tests. Hope you have enough time to read them all today:
Robin Wong posted the second part of the E-PL5 review: “E-PL5 is what an Olympus PEN has always been famous for:light-weight, small in size, full with features, such as the built in Image Stabilization, full manual controls and customization,and now, add the highly regarded image quality of OM-D to the E-PL”
Craig Litten posted a full E-M5 review. Some E-M5 image samples from the deep water at Digitaldiver. A full review has also been posted by Gianni Galassi: “All in all, the Olympus OM-D E-M5 is a camera that one can be tempted to build a system around. Which is exactly what I have been doing this summer after selling my whole Leica equipment. No regrets here.”
Matti Sulanto posted a new 60mm test on his blog and writes: “I liked it so much that I bought one after trying it.” Doens’t happen that often that a reviewer buys the tested stuff! Some image samples have been posted by the dutch guys from Focusmedia. A full Japanese review of the lens has been posted by DC.watch (funny comlicated google translation here).
ePhotozine posted the 35-100mm X lens review: “It is a fine lens that is priced reasonably, especially when compared to lenses covering the same angles of view for 35mm format, with the added bonus of being much more compact, and lightweight.”
So that’s all for today! It’s always great to see how many positive reviews we can read about the recent MFT cameras and lenses. The system popularity is really growing day by day!
Dpreview (Click here) posted the 35-100mm X lens hands-on along some image samples. They write: “our first impressions of the Lumix G X Vario 35-100mm F2.8 OIS are that it’s an excellent little lens – well made, fast-focusing, and optically impressive. A familiar question mark hangs over Panasonic’s pricing, though; the $1500 / £1000 tag is far from insignificant.”
Indeed the high price may be the the only real big downside of this lens. Anyway, we can still hope that Panasonic will make some nice discount like they are doing now on the 12-35mm X sister lens (-$200 here at Amazon). That would make it much easier to sell this lens!
