Metabones Speed booster Review & tested on BMPCC by Blunty.
E-M1 review at Amateur Photographer.
A fix for the Apple 10.9 Mavericks and App Nap performance Issues (Phaseone).
Is the Leica 25mm a portrait lens? (M43photo).
Olympus Stylus 1 First Shots posted: How do images taken with this high-end, long-zoom camera stack up? (Imaging Resource).
Olympus 45mm review at Fotooase (German).
Olympus Stylus 1 Review at ePhotozine.
GX7 review at Bestmirrorlesscamerareviews.
Olympus OM-D E-M1, Panasonic GX7, Fuji X100s: Refinement (TheOnlinePhotographer).
E-M1 test at Itmedia.
Stylus 1 – der Taschendrache mit voller Brennweite….(Pen And Tell).
12-40mm lens test at Yodobashi.
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera with a voigtlander 42.5mm lens at Footlessfish.
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I am waiting for the rumored metabones or lens turbo OM t m43rds… any news admin?
Yeah! +10 on this question.
Even a Canon-EF->mft-Booster would do it for me.
This would be the “master-solution” because there are many small adapter-rings for M42, FD, OM, M39, Pentax PK, Nikon G […] on EF. So you could use nearly anything on your mft-speedbooster without making it too big and heavy.
I’d buy one instantly! Maybe two or three. But…. where is it????
I’d want an EF Speed Booster that allows electronic aperture control on EF/EF-S lenses (I dont care too much about AF or in-lens IS).
Another vote here for a EF-m43 Speed Booster! That really would be the only Speed Booster we’d need.
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so many inaccuracies and negativity as per usual about Olympus and Micro Four Thirds in that “review” it’s hard to know where to begin 🙁
YDDY, you can never rule out ineptitude in any of the test sites not one of them is a paragon of scientific virtue. As for bias I certainly do not see that in this report at all. Their feelings rather reflect mine, the E-M1 is a wonderful machine with an awesome feature set and build quality with no worthwhile gain in image quality over the E-M5/E-P5/GH3 generation.I download dozens of RAW files to establish my opinion .mFT is more than good enough for most uses today and personally I wouldn’t be carrying a bag of brick sized FF gear just to get a bit better in a a handful of specialist scenarios.
Compared to my E-P5 the E-M1 has a fraction of a stop better DR but a fraction of a stop poorer high ISO.I am kinda glad it wasn’t significantly better . I have already been on a bit of a spending spree with mFT this year. I can hardly believe it I used to get annoyed carrying a P&S preferring to make do with my iphone :-). Then I got my first mFT and the photography bug bit me now if I am not out taking photos or working with them on the pc I am reading books by the dozen.Who knew pointing a camera and pressing a button had so much to it 🙂
I think that until we get some revolutionary development in sensor technology maybe that organic stuff or whatever, the advances are only going to be trivial from one gen to the next.I love landscape and architecture so for me more MP and a lower native ISO would be my request unfortunately the high ISO cat in the coal cellar photographers are more likely to get what they want. Not bto worry the sun is shining an I am off out to take some photos
Yes Sean, quality can be addictive but it’s worth it. And I hope you are also out shooting when the sun isn’t shining; even when it’s raining. That’s when you can really surprise yourself with what you capture.
Especially in black & white.
More power to your shutter finger.
I agree. Tech is somewhat “stucked”, we need new things to see bigger improvements (read new tech sensors, organic, new Merril and soon).
Having said so, I’m happy of Em1, build is great, handling is really good, its performance fits my needs and my work, I think it’s a must buy for 43 lens owners/users, and I suggest to try it, if interested in a second body.
I take photos in dim light, and even if specs say it has a worse high ISO quality compared to Em5, I prefer Em1 “grain”.
The 12-40 lens test is a nice example that google translate is far from perfect (understatement) 🙂 It’s funny to read but adds nothing of value, because I have no idea what he/she is trying to tell….
25mm can be a portrait lens: I have used it at a fashion event in Venice and 50mm field of view is the most versatile one, in my opinion.
Rainy day, going out with Em1. 🙂
Any lens can be used as a portrait lens.
The point of my article was to illustrate that if you use a lens shorter than around 40mm and let the face fill the entire frame, then you will get distortions to the facial features.
Wether the distortions are any problem or not is up to the photographer: Perhaps it adds “life” and “character” to the picture, or perhaps it makes the picture useless. That is the choice of the user.
But knowing this is still good, which was why I wrote the article.
I have used it too for a while, the Summilux 25, great lens, but since i am a single lens shooter, i returned to the 45mm 1.8 which I prefer, even while its less versatile then a 25mm FL (think small rooms)
Blunty, please, if your going to have close-ups of your hands and arms, please, cut or clean your nails, and wear sleeves.. lol