And EU readers might be interested to hear that you can grab the Nokton 25mm f/0.95 lens for 689 Euro at Pixmania Germany (Click here). For 699 Euro (10 Euro more) you can grab it at Pixmania France, Pixmania Italy, Pixmania Spain, Pixmania Holland.
Olympus released his latest issue of the Olympus Magazine. You can download it for free on iTunes (Click here).
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Why is this comment from JimD
“iphone ipad?
Ow common Olympus magazine. Get your fingers out of your nether regions. The vast majority use PC and android. This goes along with the refusal to put and EVF on the m43 cameras other than the EM5. Utterly stupid.”
in moderation
We have a total moderation bug.
Hmm, last try to sell them off before the supposedly (much) better SLR Magic Hyperprime hits?
Yup, my first thought too…
🙂
wow, wasn’t the Nokton like 1200 euros before?
I have always found Nokton25mm for less than 1000€, perhaps you are confusing it with more expensive 17.5mm.
The original price was $899 until they realized they could jack the price up to $1199 and still sell them all. I guess things have changed… 😉
The Voigtländer 25mm is still a great lens, but the SLRM 25mm looks pretty impressive from what I’ve seen here.
i bought it last year for 720EUR from official importer (incl VAT).
by the way: EP-5 will maybe have a external remote viewfinder! 🙂
Olympus Magazine? Great thing, but: how to read it without an iPhone oder iPad?! X-(
I said that but I’m still in moderation.
Jim, try reply without adding email adress
“Olympus Magazine? Great thing, but: how to read it without an iPhone oder iPad?! X-(”
See: http://www.olympusmag.co.uk/
Thank you. But the download doesn´t work. It always stops at 50%.
Works fine for me….
Thanks for the link! It was taking forever on my iPad, but by using my computer and your link, I was able to download each issue in about 5 seconds!
SLR Magic coming…
🙂
+1
…coming…and coming…and coming…etc…Να ‘χαμε να λέγαμε…
Same person who made the No EVF rule for pen cameras seems to have been involved in the distribution of this magazine.
A big fail on both counts so far. Totally silly and blind to anything other than what they are doing (Wrong University).
About time he was replaced by a Woman.
Clearly, Olympus wants us to have both iOS and Android devices… My PenPal PP-1 is not working with Apple devices, but their magazine is…….
Stupid i-stuff.
I’ve format shifted these to PDF for those who think its ridiculous to lock these into itunes and a lame flash reader.
http://ge.tt/3DpxNLa
Oh Olympus marketing, why do you suck so much? You know there is this thing called a PDF, it’s an open standard and viewable on all platforms! What in the f-uc-k made you think that releasing it on iTunes was a good idea?
Android is for cheapskates, where FREE outweighs quality. Olympus is going for the top end of the market, which Apple rules… iPod, iPhone, Pad, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, paid digital music… you name it… Apple owns it all. So, Olympus wants to reach people who like to spend money. It makes perfect sense for a company which struggles in the consumer space.
I agree, that releasing the thing as a PDF is a simple solution, but since when has Olympus given much of a damn about their users… except for milking them? Silver lenses? $1000 EP- series P&S? $100 lens hoods?
apple users would never degrade themselves to usage of adobe acrobat.
I’ve used Acrobat Pro on my Mac nearly every day and have for years.
Although, I use GoodReader on my iPad and iPhone.
Do they still make the mac? I thought that part of the business was kaput.
I’m a Mac user, and I too use Acrobat Pro.
The cheapskates (Android users) make up ~70% of the market. Apple ~13%. To assume that the 70% don’t have money to spend or don’t buy cameras, seems to be false logic.
Android is a far better platform than iOS. It’s far more flexible and you have more choice in hardware because of it’s open platform. iPhones are huge bricks compared to my android phone which is also weather proof like an OM-D. iPhones don’t even support flash. Apple doesn’t own anything, except for making trendy, hipster, look good hardware, that is under powered and over priced.
Let’s look at your list. Nobody uses iPod anymore since a phone can do the same thing, and plenty of people made portable music players that were better and more flexible. iPhone is over sized, under powered, and non flexible. iPad’s have been surpassed by Android tablet makers using better hardware at better prices. MacBook Pro’s are ok machines, except they are way over priced for their spec list. After all you can buy a 17″ metal laptop with core i7 quad cpu, 8gb ram, 1.5tb hd’s, bluray drive, 9hr battery, and a gaming quality video card for $1k from others. Macbook air is slow as dirt for anything serious, so you might might as well just use a tablet or netbook. Their paid digital music is a joke because you have to use iTunes which is horrible, and the songs are encoded poorly. I wouldn’t buy digital music unless it was flac. On my system I hear a HUGE difference, but I do have truly highend audio gear that allows you to hear the difference.
The Mac Pro tower is the only good product apple makes, and it’s still twice the price of what I could build PC wise using very high quality (better than apple’s) parts and it has a limited amount of software available compared to Windows.
Olympus can reach the same people and more by simply releasing PDF’s instead of dumping their mag on iTunes. Thanks to the person who converted them for us. I’d hate to install something as poor as iTunes just to get it.
Ah yes, it wasn’t enough to have pana/oly fanboy arguments here, lets add ios/android fsnboy ribbish..
Anyway, you completely missed the point of FREE, it is not free as in free beer, but free as in freedom. Freedom and being a cheapskate don’t mix well as freedom has a price.
Spot on.
Spoken like a true consumer, like most apple users are.
Had you been a dev you would’ve realised how much easier it is to work with an android device and not have to be constricted by apple’s draconian terms.
You can download the PDF’s here: http://ge.tt/3DpxNLa
Thanks, but those PDFs are not interactive – at least not on my computer. Using the UK website offered above by another poster gives the full magazine.
EPL2 with M. Zuiko 14-150 at Pixmania.es for 537euros. Seems like a great deal, the 14-150 alone is around that price range.
I downloaded the magazine on my iPhone. Don’t worry you are not missing anything. Basically a 20-30 page add.
Why all the vitriol? Take a pill and be contructive – tell them what you would like to see in an online magazine – it is after all an evolving process.
All the vitriol? Any one who puts out publications only on i xxx and refuses to put a viewfinder on the pen cameras deserves vitriol.
Only a man could be so stupid replace him with a woman, get things happening.
All the vitriol? Any one who puts out publications only on i xxx and refuses to put a viewfinder on the pen cameras deserves vitriol.
Only a man could be so stup!d replace him with a woman, get things happening.