Three new infos for Europe:
Panasonic G6: Is now shipping at Amazon Germany, Amazon UK, Wex UK,
UK deals: Free 17mm pancake on the E-PL5 or E-Pm2 purchase (Wexphotographic). GF5X kit for 229 pound only at [shoplink 39585 ebay]Wilkinsoncamera[/shoplink].
Nokton: The brand new Nokton 42,5mm f/0.95 can finally be preordered in Germany at Fotokoch (found via DealsRunner.com). The lens costs 1199 Euro and will ship in late July according to Voigtlander. To get notified when this lens will be on auction on eBay Save this Slidoo search for notification.
For the record. These are the five f/o.95 lenses:
Nokton 25mm f/0.95 ([shoplink 36580 ebay]here one Bay[/shoplink]).
Nokton 17.5mm f/0.95 ([shoplink 36581 ebay]here one Bay[/shoplink]).
Nokton 42.5mm f/0.95 (not in Stock yet, save this search for notification).
SLRmagic 50mm f/0.95 ([shoplink 29455 ebay]here one Bay[/shoplink]).
SLRmagic 25mm f/0.95 (not in Stock yet, save this search for notification).
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The Nokton lens is too expensive for what it is. For that money better to buy a Olympus 75mm F1.8 though not the same equivalent FOV.
Price will lower easily by 100 euros i am sure, remember the Nokton 50mm f/1.1 was around 1000 euros at the intro, and you need to keep in mind that every extra bit of incoming light has to be paid for enormously.
For what they are, the Voigtländers are worth the price. Fast, superb image quality, close-focusing, beautifully engineered and built, creamy smooth focus and real honest to goodness aperture rings! My only quibble is with their rather lame focus scale. I love my 25mm and can’t wait to get a 42.5mm!
If you’re incapable of twiddling a focus ring with your fingertips, that’s another issue entirely. 😉
that free 17mm f/2.8 deal is for the silver or the black version
I’m not sure if the black version has ever actually been offered for sale in the UK as a stand-alone item?
Okay, so its not the sharpest lens they’ve ever made … but an E-PM2 + 17/2.8 is just about as small as a high end compact (G15, XZ2, X20, RX100) and with the larger sensor in the m43 camera compared to the compact its probably going to be capable of better results (if you like a fixed lens).
You forgot the slr magic f/0.95 35mm in that list 🙂
An updated Olympus EP-5 review by Ming Thein
I still think they’re still a hair better than the OM-D in terms of color and tonality, and possibly the best I’ve straight-from-camera output I’ve seen. If you don’t want to postprocess at all, I highly recommend taking a look at the E-P5 over the OM-D (or any other camera, for that matter).
wow.,.we’ll see is it true what he said about the JPEG output with this EP-5
http://blog.mingthein.com/2013/05/10/oiympus-pen-e-p5/
The E-P5 is a camera for dentists and/or money launderers from WS, no doubt.
The E-M5 instead is a camera for true aristocrats, no lowly troll or white trash, can dream about 🙂
but the E-M5’s buttons are made of marsh mellow
great sensor, great idea, buttons are a fail
E-P5 has lost the real thumb wheel … which is upsetting and a potential reason to skip it (okay its too darned expensive!)
Stopped me from buying one… Played with it and was discussed with them. Plus the placement with the lip.. This camera was designed for the Asia market, not pros/semi pros. If they learn anything, better spacing and kill the rubber buttons.
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yep shills like thein or Wong are always good sources of info lol you may be shocked to hear it but every decent camera on the market lets you tweak the default jpeg settings to what suits you . I am an ep5 user and much as I love the camera I find it and other Olympus defaults to rich and saturated for some uses especially shooting people
Well you’ll get used to the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious colour signature of the Olys, perhaps you are used to some other drab colour for lesser brands….
In fact I am onvinced that the E-P5 must be a lovable camera, it’s only that it is so damn expensive, and it didn’t even solve the built in EVF question.
One must understand that Oly engineers are geniuses, but also that they are unsufferable snobs, thinking that it’s all the other brands that are wrong, in this respect…
Almatic, I cannot read dyslexic.
Can you read: KMA? Wait, let me pull my trousers, I’ll get ready in a sec 🙂
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Stay classy.
You use the same words as Jeff Jeff
“If you don’t want to postprocess at all, I highly recommend taking a look at the E-P5 over the OM-D (or any other camera, for that matter).”
So, he’s telling you to buy a ridiculously overpriced camera over the OMD, because it’s jpeg’s are “a hair” better.
WOW.
Buy a camera without Weather Sealing, Built in VF and for more Money, BUT it’s jpgs are a “Hair” better than the OMD.
Yeah, Okay Olympus Lapdog…
Why aren’t they selling the G6 with the new 14-42 II in Europe? In in Japan and in the US they apparently do.