Panasonic 45-175mm X lens for $209. 45-200mm for $174.

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If you need a cheap tele zoom than you may grab these just discounted Panasonic zooms:
The 45-175mm X zoom sells for $209 at Amazon (Click here). Yes, that’s a $90 price drop compared to the already good previous price. It still sells for close $400 in other big US stores ($362 at BH).
The 45-200mm which now sells for $174 at Amazon (Click here). You can also get the zoom lens for less if you buy it along the G5 kit (Click here).

All today new deals can be found at DealsRunner.com.

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Patents: Panasonic designs a cameraball. And Olympus the 40-200mm MFT lens.

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As you know the future of photography is changing. Smartphones and soon Google Glass, Watches and other uncommon devices will be the main tool for our daily photography. And what’s Panasonic vision of future cameras? A camera-ball :)
I don’t know why Panasonic is doing this, the patent is written in Japanese (Click here to download the PDF). Below you can the the section of the camera-ball. Would you walk around with a ball on your chest?

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Olympus patented a new MFT lens. It’s a 40-200mm lens with constant f/4.0 aperture (Source: Egami).

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New Panasonic G5 and new 14-140mm lens shipping in EU.

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While waiting for the GX7 release in August we can now look back to the two latest Panasonic MFT products:
The Panasonic G6 is now shipping for the first time in Europe via [shoplink 39526 ebay]eBay UK (Click here)[/shoplink].
And also the new 14-140mm lens is shipping in Germany at FotoWohrstein, Foto Erhardt, Rakuten.de.

And new refurbished Olympus stuff is on auction via [shoplink 22691 ebay]Olympusmarket[/shoplink]. Click on the links to open the auction:
E-M5 (different colors and kits): [shoplink 39541 ebay]one[/shoplink], [shoplink 39542 ebay]two[/shoplink], [shoplink 39543 ebay]three[/shoplink], [shoplink 39544 ebay]four[/shoplink], [shoplink 39545 ebay]five[/shoplink].
12mm f/2.0 lens auctions: [shoplink 39528 ebay]one[/shoplink], [shoplink 39530 ebay]two[/shoplink], [shoplink 39531 ebay]three[/shoplink], [shoplink 39532 ebay]four[/shoplink].
45mm f/1.8 lens auctions: [shoplink 39533 ebay]one[/shoplink], [shoplink 39534 ebay]two[/shoplink].
60mm f/2.8 lens auctions: [shoplink 39535 ebay]one[/shoplink], [shoplink 39536 ebay]two[/shoplink], [shoplink 39538 ebay]three[/shoplink],
75-300mm lens auctions: [shoplink 39539 ebay]one[/shoplink], [shoplink 39540 ebay]two[/shoplink].

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G5 kit for $325! Panasonic-Leica for $499. Last day of 4% reward deal.

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First of all: The great 4% Reward will end tonight at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here). So buy stuff today if you have something on your wishlist. 4% can be a lot if you buy a camera or lens!
Here are two new deals found via DealsRunner.com:
You can get the Panasonic G5 with kit lens for $325 thanks to a free included $75 gift card at BHphoto (Click here).
Uniquephotosells the Panasonic-Leica 25mm f/1.4 lens for $499 (Click here).

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a little bit of everything…

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A Carnival of Colour from James Norden on Vimeo.

The Panasonic warranty on G cameras now runs for 5 instead of 2 years in Germany (Photoscala).
Panasonic LF1 review at Photographyblog.
Olympus Corp. no longer on Tokyo Stock Exchange alert list (Dpnow).
Olympus Though review at ePhotozine.

Farrukh: “Hello, I attended the La Cambre fashion show where instead of having a steady stream of light on the catwalk they used flashing lights throughout. It’s reasons like this that I look forward to the dynamic range offered by the upcoming Black Magic Pocket Camera. Have a look and what I managed to get on the EP3:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152858225725328”

James: “http://vimeo.com/68034816 I Used the GH3 and SLR Magic 25mm 0.95 lens at a colourful carnival on Saturday. Try focusing on a moving float and people when it is that shallow… Steep learning curve but lots of fun!
Technical details: 50MB/s 1920×1080 50FPS MOV recording format. ISO 200. 1/100 Shutter speed. Edited in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. Graded with Magic Bullet Looks.”

Lior: “I wanted to share with you a video clip I shot with the GH3. The video shows the beauty of north Israel. I almost got killed by a cow while shooting… its in the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VgDqNwUOfo“

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US deals roundup: 4% reward ending tomorrow. GX1 and 20mm deal.

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The digital compact camera market is shrinking but these little shockproof and waterproof jewels from the Olympus Though series still are very useful cameras (especially for kids). And right now there you can save $100 on the red [shoplink 39511 ebay]Olympus Tough TG-820 at eBay via Adorama (Click here)[/shoplink]. It’s the deal of the day on eBay.

The 4% Reward back at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here) will end tomorrow!

Olympus deal pages at BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and Amazon (here are the cameras and here are the lenses).

The GX1 black body sells for $218 on [shoplink 39512 ebay]eBay via Robertscamera (Click here)[/shoplink].

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(FT2) New rumors about next OMD camera (has 15 stops DR?)

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A couple of 43rumors readers linked me to the latest post written by Bradley Cox on the Olympus E community flickr forum. Obviously I cannot guarantee the info he got from his “source” is correct. But if the info is correct than there is a good reason to be excited:

“During the interdiction phase of a workshop I attended the instructor talked about how he was leaving Nikon and going to move to Olympus. He said the Oly rep who had contacted him talked about the next OM D, and that it was a collaboration between Olympus Sony and Fuji and that the was going to have something like 15 stops of latitude and offer much more than anything we have seen to date. He is a well know national photographer. He was excited to see my gear. It left me very excited about whats next. Said it would be out this year.“

I rated this rumor as FT2 because I still didn’t get reliable info from trusted sources about the possible dynamic range of the new OMD. All I know is that the camera is definitely not the E-M5 successor and it’s going to be announce din September along other new cameras and lenses!

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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

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