The likely most difficult to find E-M5 camera is the Silver body only option. But it’s now in Stock at Amazon (via JR), Cameta (Click here) and also on their [shoplink 32548ebay]eBay page (Click here)[/shoplink]. Menatime Amazon said that they will ship them on August 7th (Click here). The Black ktis are more or less all in Stock at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
New E-M5 reviews have been posted at Rasmusphoto and OpenPN (french).
New G5 reviews at WhatDigitalCamera: “The G5 has to be the most complete Lumix G-series camera we’ve seen, that mounts a serious challenge to established DSLRs.” Cnet Asia: “We were also impressed with the improvement in video quality, which is one of the best we’ve seen from an ILC“. First pics of the G5 at the Olympus in London at Techradar. Panasonic G5 review at Fotovideo.nu (Translation here) incl. Imatest results.
P.S: Farrukh: “The G5 may shoot the Olympics, but I used the EP3 there yesterday 😉 http://www.flickr.com/photos/swamibu/sets/72157630793769412/“
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The OMDs go fast. Cameta was out of stock for the silver OMD body by the time I saw the notice and accessed the link. This has to have been a matter of minutes. I monitor both 43 Rumors and Cameta multiple times a day … both as a distraction as well as monitoring the prices of Cameta’s refurbished PEN cameras.
J&R says they will receive more silver body only OMDs on August 8.
Olympus in London. Hehehe…
admin, is Sllver a new colour? Available only in the USA perhaps . 🙂
If only I we’re in the US right now…
GH3 specs should be good, as long as there is no deliberate crippling in favour of an AF100 successor. Any bets on when the first detailed “leaks” will occur?
The Dutch G5 review says that for video it “now features manual controls like aperture and shutter speed”. That’s the fifth site I’ve read to mention that it has manual controls in video mode. Two have explicitly said it does not. The rest make no mention. Don’t know what to believe, hahah. However I’m leaning towards no because it seems easier to mistake it having manual control than to make a mistake about not having it.
I bought the Silver E-M5 from Cameta this morning 🙂 But there are 3 more at the same price on Ebay: from BuyDig (Item number: 320956697830) and BeachCamera (Item number: 190709952331)..
With the poor sales of the AF100 that we hear about, I’ve sometimes wondered if at some point Panasonic may dump the GH line, so as to make the AF line more attractive to video people. I guess that wouldn’t bother me so much, as long as they put a multi aspect ratio sensor in one of their bodies. I’m not a big fan of the 4/3 ratio. It’s OK for some things, but I’ve be using 3/2 ratio, for so long, that it feels like part of the image is missing, without it.