Tons of new reviews! FourThirds ZD lenses , Panasonic G2/GF1 and Olympus E-PL1

Finally “someone” reviewed the very best Olympus FourThirds lenses! Kirk Tuck wrote a nice Olympus ZD 14-35mm and 35-100mm f/2 Zoom Lens review at TheOnlinePhotographer.

Also another FourThirds lens (the Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 Interchangeable Lens) gets tested at ePhotozine

New camera reviewes are also available:

Panasonic G2 review at DCwatch and DCresource

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Olympus E-PL1 review at CNET UK

New Noktor video. Noktor f/0.95 lens shipping.

Large format photography from 43rumors on Vimeo.

The cool thing about the Noktor is that f/0.95 aperture. So why not test the lens inside the darkroom? With no other lens I would be able to shoot in such a place. Take a look on the video to see the results. And keep in mind there was almost no light in the darkroom!
I found the f/0.95 aperture good enough for video shooting. Almost every part of the video has been taken at that aperture. Shooting handheld with a 100mm (50mm x2) lens is not easy. In fact you really need a tripod to take some “calm” pictures. But I didn’t have anyone with me on that day.

You asked me to post RAW images and original videos. Right now I am putting all the images together and I will upload them soon (it will take few hours).

By the way, the lens is in Stock now: http://noktor.com/products.php.

That hurts! What Jonathan Wong thinks about the Samsung NX10 (vs Olympus E-PL1)

Jonathan Wong reviewed both cameras, the Samsung NX10 and the Olympus E-PL1. You can read his review on SteveHuffPhoto.com.

In short what he didn’t like about the Samsung NX:
– the AF gets confused easily in low light
– the Auto-ISO programming is AWFUL (Some daft genius at Samsung, however, has decided in their infinite wisdom that a minimum shutter speed of 1/15 is ok!!!)
– the EVF is pretty horrid (pixels galore!)
– the Samsung has a tendency to blow colors out with all the elegance of a rhino in ballet shoes.

And here the conclusion:
“For all intents and purposes, this review could end here: the Olympus E-PL1 is a far superior camera. ”

That hurts!

a little bit of everything…


For those of you who might missed my first Noktor video :)

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Olympus E-PL1 review on quesabesde (google english translation)
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Some fake ads for Olympus (dpreview forum)
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Olympus Mju 9010 review (Letsgodigital)
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You need more Megapixels? DALSA Announces 140MP Custom Designed CCD (Image Sensor World)
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10 review (Letsgodigital)
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Panasonic GF1 + paris kynor 20mm f3.5 (blogs.yahoo)
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Olympus 9-18mm lens in Stock and reviewed on SLRgear

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And SLRgear tested the lens! The verdict: “For its size, the Olympus 9-18mm ƒ/4-5.6 provides impressive performance.”
The only flaws are Cromatic Aberration and Distortion. But both are easy to crrect in postprocessing.

a little bit of everything…

The author used the 25mm, 50mm, and 85mm all t/1.8 Red primes. Mounted with the Hot Rod PL deluxe adapter kit.

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17-68 T2.2 Angénieux zoom from 1956 with a Panasonic G1 (Forum Olympus France)
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Mirrorless will be like Netbook (bythom)
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Panasonic GF-1 and Sigma 10-20 4/3s Review (Davidclapp.co.uk)
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