Merry Christmas!

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A short post to wish you all Merry Christmas! Enjoy the time with your families and take some nice pictures of them ;)

Greetings from Antwerp!

Ale

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Some info about the real Samsung semitransparent viewfinders (may be used by Olympus)

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A Samsung source just sent me some info about their semitransparent electronic viewfinder. Samsung is one of the companies working on that technology that Olympus could use in future cameras.
The source gave me bits of very intriguing info. Thanks!!!

Here is the text:
“Samsung has two small prototypes of semitransparent OLED, that officially are known as ST-AMOLED, they are truly AMOLED devices (Active Matrix OLED). Samsung can not make a higher resolution EVF, the limit right now is just 750×560 on 0.55″ 4:3 display with 52% of transparency. The new device for late of 2012 will reach 1080×815 on 0.75″ 4:3 display, offering 1080×720 on 3:2 mode and 73% of transparency. The final device will have a RGB-W pattern, including a White photodiode to improve the high contrast scenes.
I have not information about commercialization to 3rd companies, but it will offer an advanced technology on the market for competition.”

Samsung is not the only electronic viewfinder maker. Also Epson, Fuji and Sony could sell them to Olympus.

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New refurbished Olympus camera roundup…

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Here is the new list of refurbished m43 cameras. Reminder: Europeans only can purchase the cameras! Other refurbished cameras are available at BHphoto (Click here). These will ship worldwide!

[shoplink 27889 ebay]Silver Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 27890 ebay]Silver Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 27891 ebay]Black Olympus E-P3 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 27892 ebay]Red Olympus E-PL2 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 27893 ebay]Silver Olympus E-PL1 double lens kit[/shoplink] [shoplink 27896 ebay]Black Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 27897 ebay]Black Olympus E-PL1 double lens kit[/shoplink] [shoplink 27898 ebay]Black Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 27899 ebay]Black Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 27900 ebay]Black Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 27901 ebay]Silver Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 27902 ebay]White Olympus E-P1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 27904 ebay]Silver Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 27905 ebay]Black Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 27906 ebay]Silver Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 27907 ebay]Black Olympus E-P2 with 14-42mm lens and external viewfinder[/shoplink] [shoplink 27909 ebay]White Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 27910 ebay]Red Olympus E-PL2 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 27911 ebay]Black Olympus E-PL1 double lens kit[/shoplink] [shoplink 27912 ebay]Silver Olympus E-PL2 double lens kit[/shoplink] [shoplink 27918 ebay]Silver Olympus E-PL1 with 14-150mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 27919 ebay]Silver Olympus E-PL1 with 14-150mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 27920 ebay]Black Olympus E-PL2 with 14-150mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 27921 ebay]Silver Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 27922 ebay]Black Olympus E-P2 with 17mm lens and external flash[/shoplink] [shoplink 27927 ebay]Silver Olympus E-PL1 double lens kit[/shoplink] [shoplink 27928 ebay]Black Olympus E-PL1 double lens kit[/shoplink] [shoplink 27929 ebay]Red Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 27930 ebay]Black Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink] [shoplink 27931 ebay]Silver Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm lens[/shoplink]
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Olympus patent discloses a “Hasselblad” alike camera.

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The latest Olympus patent found by Egami (Click here) describes a new Vari-angle LCD screen. But what’s really intriguing is the medium Format design of the camera body. In some way it reminds me the leaked Samsung medium format camera. And seeing that there are rumors that Olympus may will work closer with Samsung this starts to look more than just a casual pattern. Below you can see the leaked Samsung image I posted months ago on MirrorlessRumors (Click here):

That’s just my speculation for now, but if Olympus is working on such a camera than the Samsung square sensor could be definitely the way to go!

Back to reality, camera companies do register plenty of patents that will never be applied on real camera. So don’t get too much exited about that one!

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New Micro Four Thirds reviews roundup (GF3 gets DxOmarked).

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DxOmark (Click here) tested the GF3 sensors: “We liked the GF3’s low-light ISO performance, its dimensions, and its price. This said, we were less enchanted by its ISO range, which we found limited its low-ISO scores in the Portrait and Landscape categories. (Its limited ISO also resulted in lower scores for Dynamic Range.)“. GF3 shop links: [shopcountry 23109].

New Panasonic GX1 review at Cnet Asia (Click here): “We have said before that the GX1 is what the GF3 should have been. Although, we wonder why they stuck with a seemingly industrial design and didn’t opt for something similar to the or the Fujifilm FinePix X10, which seems to be the trend these days“. GX1 shop links: [shopcountry 26836].

EosHD (Click here) released a bunch of downloadable GH2 patches. You have to hack your GH2 camera to use them!

There is a double Olympus lens review at Focus Numerique. First they tested the Olympus 45mm lens (Click here) and then the Olympus 12mm lens (Click here).

Sharpness of Lumix G 45-200mm and Lumix X 45-175mm at m43photo (Click here).

Nikon 1 V1 Vs. Olympus PEN EP-3 at Nikonrumors (Click here).

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USA deals roundup: Black GX1 back in Stock. Olympus 12-50mm lens preorder.

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The Black GX1 with 14-42mm lens is back in Stock at Amazon (Click here) and Adorama (Click here). Also the Silver kit is in Stock at Amazon (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).

The new weather sealed Olympus 12-50mm lens can now be preordered at Adorama (Click here). A perfect kit lens for the soon to come weather sealed camera :)

More deals:
Panasonic-Leica 25mm now for $499 at Amazon (Click here).
Panasonic GF3 with 14-42mm kit lens for $399 ay Target (Click here).
Olympus 9-18mm lens for around $580 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Black GF2 with kit lens for $361 at Amazon (Click here).

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