Panasonic GH4 Shoot with Lumix Luminary William Innes
Win an Olympus Stylus 1 by joining the Olympus Impressions Contest.
Olympu SP-100 hands-on at DSLRmagazine.
JPEG Standard 9.1 Will Bring 12-Bit Color, Lossless Compression (Popphoto).
Pocketable paparazzi: Real-life test of the Tokina 300 mm f/6.3 reflex lens for street photography on the GM-1 (Medium).
Oly 25mm 1.8 Unboxing, first impression and image samples (Mirrorlessreview).
Peter Van Agtmael used the EM5 and 45mm 1.8 for some of the images in the winning series at WorldPressPhotos.
E-PL5 and 45mm f/1.8 lens combination: taking photos with a pocket camer at Qamera.
E-M10 test at Akam.
E-M10 hands-on at DC.watch.
Panasonic GM1 Field Report at Luminous Landscape.
Panasonic Lumix Leica DG Summilux 25mm f/1.4 ASPH review (ShotSlot).
DIY Slide Digitizer with Olympus OM-D and Leica Projector (TheDigitalStory).
9 Responses
user review of tokina 300 is cool…nicely written!
picture of bridge is great…but the bokeh is awful on the pic with lampions
should have post more pics as the text is nicely written and want me to see more pics done by tokina ( but not ducks ;-)!
+10
Yep. Good article. I’d forgotten about that lens, but the article is excellent and kindled some lens lust. I never would have thought of a lens like that for street shooting, but the size is pretty amazing for a 300mm!
B&H has them for $199! I bit the bullet and got one today.
Shot with it a bit on a walk downtown. What a fun lens!
Thanks for posting that Lumix 25mm lens review! I was waiting for a good one. Look at Wong review, I will definately trash my fake leica lens and buy two olympus 25mm in case one gets broken!! I wish they made it in china, and I love that Olympus lens so much I would pay 600€ for it!!!
Crybaby
Olympus 25mm versus Pana/Leica 25mm versus Nokton 25mm: http://www.pixelmania.nl/2/2143/Olympus_M.Zuiko_Digital_25_mm_F1,8
What was their conclusion? (I don’t have google translate on this computer)
FWIW, they gave it a PixelMania (gold) Award.
Conclusion summary: Sharpness and contrast are excellent. Distortion is minimal, bokeh is nice. Mininal focus distance of 25 cm is a plus. Price is very reasonable. Difference in sharpness between corners and centre is less than Pana/Leica and Voigtlander, but Pana/Leica and Voigtlander ownwers don’t have to rush to the stores because those lenses are also very good.. Based on price vs. quality they give the Oly 25mm a Pixelmania Award.
“JPEG Standard 9.1 Will Bring 12-Bit Color, Lossless Compression.”
Sadly the news are not as exciting as they might seem.
JPEG “standard” for very long time stayed in hands of the developers of the “libjpeg”. And now they have simply went rogue – because they want more publicity.
The new JPEG files, as produced by the new version of libjpeg, are *not* backward compatible with literally everything: your browsers, your image viewers, your editors. Because none of them are using the “libjpeg” anymore.
The debacle with libjpeg developers shook seriously the Linux development landscape already 1-2 years ago and as result everybody went on with the libjpeg-turbo instead. It is slim, it is fast and it is ISO/IEC 10918 compliant.