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Panasonic GH4 live webcast session starts at 1pm (New York time).

May 27, 2014
news
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Just a short reminder: Today at 1 pm New York time (19:00 in Berlin) you can follow and articipate the Live webcast session with Panasonic (Follow Here at BHphoto).

(FT5) Full E-PL7 specs.

May 27, 2014
Rumors
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These are the E-Pl7 specs which nicely almost match those of the current E-M10 camera. Exact announcement date is still not clear. But I am pretty sure it’s coming very soon :)

via Photorumors.

(FT2) Panasonic LX8 coming on July 16? With built-in EVF and larger sensor.

May 26, 2014
Rumors
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The current LX7 with [shoplink 34270 ebay]Gariz case[/shoplink].

An anonymous source at MirrorlessRumors reported that:

Panasonic lx8 comming soon.On July 16!Build in EVF and bigger Sensor.looks similar to the lx7

I cannot confirm via trusted sources if the rumor I got is correct. Hope to have an answer soon. For now this is ranked FT2 only! But this would become a serious competitor of the newly announced Sony RX100M3 (specs here). This is the first compact camera with pop-up EVF. I also don’t know yet how large the new sensor could be. Doubt it will be as big as the 1 inch sensor in the Sony!

By the way, the current LX7 sells with $95 off at [shoplink 46356 ebay]BigValue (Click here)[/shoplink]. Total price is $305 only.

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Rumors classification explained (FT= FourThirds):
FT1=1-20% chance the rumor is correct
FT2=21-40% chance the rumor is correct
FT3=41-60% chance the rumor is correct
FT4=61-80% chance the rumor is correct
FT5=81-99% chance the rumor is correct

What’s coming the next months before Photokina: Just compact cameras and one MFT (Olympus E-PL7).

May 26, 2014
Rumors
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The rumors I got so far from trusted sources do not point to any more MFT camera announcement before Photokina other than the Olympus E-Pl7. It really looks like both Panasonic and Olympus are focusing their attention at Photokina in September.

That said I heard that both companies will announce some compact cameras within the next 1-2 months. Don’t know if that includes the rumored Olympus “TRIP-D“. It should be a digital fixed lens version of their popular [shoplink 35471 ebay]Olympus Trip 35 film cameras (on auction here on eBay)[/shoplink]. That would certainly be a hot camera release! Stay tuned!

Short technical note: Site loading issues solved. Thank You all for the help!

May 26, 2014
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JUst a short note to Thank All the readers that helped me out to solve the site loading issue. It now looks like the problems has been solved. There was indeed a DNS problem which we solved this weekend. Now I can go back to my normal “rumor and news” work :)

TheCamera Store TV Autofocus Shootout: GH4 is damn close to the $6,500 Nikon D4s!

May 25, 2014
reviews
209 Comments

I know you will call me crazy or fanboy but I seriously believe mirrorlesss cameras are the future. DSLR still have some clear advantages and one of them is known to be the faster autofocus performance. Today TheCameraStoreTV team posted this autofocus shootout video to see how close the latest generation mirrorless camera are compared to the king of sports photography, the $6,500 Nikon D4s. Chris tested the Fuji X-T1, Sony A6000, Olympus E-M1 and Panasonic GH4.

Well according to their tests the Panasonic GH4 autofocus performance is damn close to the Nikon which is a huge surprise in face of the massive price difference. Yes, the day will come when a Mirrorless camera (maybe a GH5?) will match the best DSLR autofocus.

GH4 North American preorders, shipping date and price:
GH4 camera at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Ritz Camera and Panasonic. Price: $1,698. In Canada at Vistek.
GH4 camera with interface unit at Adorama and BHphoto. Price: $3,298
Interface unit only at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and Panasonic. Price: $1,998

GH4 Europen preorders, shipping date and price:
Germany: Wexcameras, Marcotec-shop.de.
UK at Wexphotographic, CameraWorld, UKdigital, CVP, TipTop.
Holland at Fotohanskeuzekamp.
Belgium at Fotokonijnenberg.
Norway at Fotovideo.
Sweden at Cyberphoto, Skandinavianphoto.
Finland at Telefoto, Topshot, Verkkoauppa.
France at Photocineshop.
Spain: Fotoboom.

Asian preorders, shipping date and price:
Digitalrev and Digidirect Australia.

4K cards
Kingston 16-32-64 GB SDHC UHS-I Speed Class 3 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Sandisk 16-32-64 GB Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-II Memory Card at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Transcend 64-128 GB High Speed 10 UHS-3 at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Panasonic 16-32-64 GB SDHC-UHS-I U3 Card (90MB/s) at Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).

Weekly 43rumors readers photo collection!

May 24, 2014
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Samuel Gauthier
Olympus EM5+ 25mm f/1.4
Sao Paulo Street Photography
More at
http://www.sfgauthier.com/recent/

These are some of the pics submitted by our readers on the 43rumors Facebook wall (Click here to see them all). What I show in this post are some of the most liked by our readers and by myself.