Image courtesy: Hardwarezone
Hardwarezone attended a Panasonic presentation in Singapore:
Panasonic also displayed some alternate designs, with unique colors and textures, for the GM1. The company said that if one of them proved popular enough, it could make it into actual production.
Panasinic also displayed the lenses coming in 2014:
Image courtesy: Hardwarezone
That 15mm Leica will be perfect on my GM1 🙂
Now let us know:
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with those different colours and finishes it is definitely being marketed
as a ladies handbag camera,
it does give the pens a run for their money in terms of style
will have to wait and see the prices of those lenses
Well, looks like I need to go out and buy a lady’s handbag…I rather like them.
Does anyone know the speed of the zoom lens? I must have missed a post.
Indeed me too, especially the grey (or green) lizard-skin one !
The one in gold though, now that is a ladies camera, like the gold iphone. 😀
“The company said that if one of them proved popular enough, it could make it into actual production.”
So how are they going to know that, unless we do a poll ? 😉
I would change the pana 14mm 2.5 for 15mm 1.7 in a minute
anyway I believe the price will bring me back to reality
colourfull GM1 are great!
I vote for my dream lens , 42.5mm .
I have very high expectation from this lens & really hope Pana can deliver , no crazy prices please !
Hmm… the 20/1.7 is too wide for me even for street photos, cannot get the point to pay premium price for a Leica-branded 15/1.7.
As opposite the other 2 lenses are really nice releases.
Really? I find the 20mm just about perfect for environmental portraits. Depends how you like to crop I guess.
set starts from here, then approx. 10 shots with the 20mm which I love as it’s so pocketable.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bicyclelad/10860846806/
Too bad i can spend my money just once and not twice, i am not that rich.
The 15mm would be a better alternative for the 14mm pancake that i really liked.
And the 42mm f1.2 is king! Yes there is a Voightlander but this one has af. Olympus did never dared to go past f1.8 , so good move Panasonic !
Depends how much the new 42.5 f1.2 will cost compared to the Olympus 45mm f1.8…If it will cost around 1000$ (2.5 x the priece of the 45mm) it better be as sharp as the Olympus 75mm f1.8. That’s razor sharp from f1.2 up to f8!
I think the 45mm is already very sharp wide open, so i dont need even more sharpness. I just hope that the gain in speed pays of by giving even nicer bokeh(the 45 also already shines here but we can never get too much..). If the Noctitron delivers here, then I know I have to collect money again.
f/1.2 perfect match with 1/8000s shutter (also 1/16000s shutter speed of GM1 but too tiny for tu use the nocticron)
The 42.5 may give better bokeh (I would hope so since I’m guessing it will indeed be 2-3 times the price), but it won’t give much more DOF control. A little, but not a major change.
45mm f1.8 at 10 feet gives you about 9.5 inches in focus, 42.5 f1.2 at 10 feet gives you about 7 inches in focus.
That drab olive color would make it the perfect documentary camera for armed forces, if only it was weather sealed…
What do you think the armed forces does exactly?
Photographs of enemy combatants, their weapons, supplies, etc are valuable pieces of intelligence and are often fed back into intelligence units for further analysis. There is usually at least one person tasked with intel collection within a section.
Scout / Snipers and reconnaissance elements do sometimes break out photography equipment. I believe Canon DSLR is the typical fare, although 99% of imagery used for intelligence is from NRO and other airborne sources, to include post-airstrike target assessment.
I don’t think GM1 would EVER be considered. A couple of reasons – touchscreen and that many functions have to be done with LCD on. In fact, a film camera with zero LCD and only manual controls is pretty hard to argue against for military applications, but DSLR with the ability to operate in the dark, zero light emissions, is not going to be changed unless there is a really good reason to do so. Also, no built in flash. Can you imagine someone accidentally having the flash on automatic?
I seriously doubt DSLRs are used for this purpose as they make far too much noise.
Ha…
Silver 30-100mm? I hope they won’t go the Oly way.
Pentax LX Gold was a slr that looked like the perfect camera for an african dictator (like Idi Amin). Now those Panasonics are a dictator’s wife dream come true 🙂
You have a very strange way of looking at the world.
Why not a black body with different wrap-around color?
Why not just ship all-black to the US?
Because they think the US market is radioactive, as we discussed many times.
Or they are simply, just stupid.
one word for you: MARGINS.
If they cared about margins Panasonic would either shut down the camera section completely (it’s losing money, check it out), or release just one color and distribute it seriously to the whole world to maximize sales and minimizing expenses. Panasonic distribution network (for mirrorless cameras) really sucks in the USA. The silly part it’s that the distribution network is fine for microwave ovens!
Before you say that I’m fanboy for another company, let me say that I love every single m43 camera that Panasonic made/makes. And most lenses too. I owned/own many cameras and lenses they made and plan to buy the GM1 as soon as I can afford it (I’ve been affected by the flood and I’m spending all my saving on the house).
But they are stupid: I question their incompetent commercial and marketing departments, which make so hard even for me (which I love the products) to buy them, let alone for someone who is undecided!
camera racist !
Here Here! Black GM1s to the US!
Lol, the nocticron will NEVER be released, just permanent tease on this site…
+1 🙂
I dislike the “retro prestige” leather imitation. In the 1970s, Rollei did it the same way with their tiny cameras, they even used exactly the same bright red.
I want an 8mm 3.5 Pana/Leica with excellent iq and great distortion control für 600-800 EUR.
+1
I’d take a 10.5 even. Anything 21mm and wider with medium fast aperture would work. Hopefully it’s on pany’s radar…
Agreed, a non-fisheye UWA that is at least about 10mm or wider and isn’t super slow would be top of my list to purchase if it isn’t too pricey.
Depends what you consider “too pricey”, but it probably would be. 😛
If they kept it to f3.5 or f4, it might not be TOO bad.
Leica seems to badge engineer in order to squeeze money out of the rubes. They are turning into the Bell & Howell of the day.
A textbook case of skullfscking a strong brand for pennies, Hasselblad seem to be turning it into an art form
35-100 designed for GM1 should be released with thoses news colors like the 12-32.
The 42.5mm looks like the real deal in that photo, while the 15mm still looks like a mockup. 🙁
“kindly do not touch”..yeah right, put me in a small room with a noctitron and a juicy model, and i know what to touch.
I like the 35-100 the most, however it is not short enough at the low end…
which brings me back to my initial request:-
Olympus or Panasonic, please do a 20-60mm fast (3,x-4,x) and pocketable (12-32 or 17f1,8) lens
They need to make a GM that excepts an EVF…:(
Thats called a GX7, or GH3, or G6 …You wanta a smaller version as whats already on the back of the camera and you have to pay the price.
Panny makes an EVF used for their GX series and even on the LX 3-5- and 7…why can’t that go atop the GM I?
I’d buy 2
Why? Because the GM1 has no hot shoe.
Because the LX have much smaller sensors and therefore they have room for the hotshoe. If you really, really need a hotshoe you have other options, as others have said. And granted they are (marginally) larger.
Or an E-PM (or E-PL) with a viewfinder added on.
I’ve seen this before.. they are doing the same thing as Fuji did with XF1… actually, i like it.
You are not me, are you?
Identity theft?
i just know that the F1.7 on 15mm they called SUMMILUX,.isn’t that SUMMILUX have to be F1.4
you are right it should be called Summicrux
I was worried that the little, barely usable GM1 was going to be a little fashion toy. I guess I don’t need to worry. It is.
Is there so little of importance in your life that this is what makes you worry?
Poor child. Is there so little of importance in your life that you feel offended by such “blasphemous” comments?
I can settle this easy, youre both idiots
Now *that’s* the right answer! 😉
Yikes, I bet there will be some dirt cheap gold 12-32mm lenses around ebay in the future. Who would want that??
The 45/1.2 lens seems too big for the GM1. I would much rather have seen a 100mm/f2 smaller tele lens or the patent 12-120mm zoom for the GM1 instead of the 35-100mm.
I can assure you that a 100 mm f2 or a 12-120 mm would be much larger and definitely not a good match with the GM1. Does anyone know the aperture for the 35-100 mm, I guess f3,5-5,6 or f4-5,6, but f4 would be sweet, but then it would likely be bigger.
I might buy the 15mm, but I have to see the price, size and weight first.
I believed the 20mm f/1.7 (which I have) would have been perfect for this camera, but after having had it for a while on a E-PM1 I concluded that no, it’s too large! It must be smaller for the GM1! (I can’t believe I’m writing this about this lens…)
The 14mm f/2.5 is the perfect size, however it’s too wide and not fast enough (in term of f-stop, autofocus speed is great) to be worth the hassle of a separate lens.
Truly what was needed is a 20mm f/1.4 or even f/2 with the size (and autofocus speed) of the 14mm. Too bad that Panasonic instead did a 20mm mk2 which changed just the cosmetics 🙁
So, if the Panaleica 15mm f/1.7 is closer to the 14mm than the 20mm in dimensions, weight and autofocus speed, then it’ll go on my radar (if price will not be outrageous…) – and I’ll just crop it to 20mm.
Otherwise it’s useless to me, and I’ll stick with the kit (and the occasional trip with the too-big 20mm)
Faster, wider and smaller, pick 2.
Very easy, I want it faster and smaller.
In fact (as I wrote) I need a *normal* not a wider, the 14/15mm ones are too wide and I might compromise on them but I’ll have to crop 🙁
Dont see a reason why to pick up the leica over the super-tiny-cheap 14mm/2.5.
The one-stop advantage is not enough and wont help to get bokeh with 2x mft crop.
They had to make it 1.2 at least to make it worthwhile IMHO.
“wont help get bokeh with M43…”
LOL ….Just go and buy a FF with some honking huge glass so you can get your “Bokeh” and leave M43 to those of us who know how to use our camera/lenses.
Why do you odd m4/3 fanatics get so riled up when people address legitimate shortcomings of the small-sensor format? Further, you pretend that, for some reason, you are more of a “photographer” than the person who is establishing that point. No amount of your amazing photographic prowess can change physics. If you prefer to hava wider depth of field for your portraiture work, that’s absolutely fine.
Ok, the other comment wasn’t very well argued but … Ahem … You do portraiture with a 28mm eqiv?
Your subjects must be thrilled! 🙂
Because the format is not under discussion. It’s trolling, can’t you see that?
Also, there is nothing but myth behind the argument that you need shallower DOF than µ4/3 delivers to do great portraiture. Whereas there *is* a valid argument that portraits with only half of one eyebrow in focus are generally second rate.
No amount of physics is going to help with your photographic prowess.
Because the poster above is not in any way trying to make a legitimate point but posing a bad assumption as truth (assumption being that everyone wants or even needs shallow dof at wide angles). You just continue by making the inane assumption that most portraits need more shallow DOF then m4/3 can provide.
Come back when you are capable of making an argument without making stupid assumptions about what others need.
LOL @ m43. “We can’t do shallow depth of field, so those formats that can must be bad. We want everything to be in focus… because that’s real photography. We are m43. We are the best.”
Really? Is that all you have?
Why are there so many trolls here? Why don’t you all go back to the bricks (DSLR) you were hiding under and do something constructive, like encourage your colleagues/baggage handlers to make great photos?
Wasabi Bob did put a few headshots on Flickr, some of those shot at 1.2 but the date of capture says march 2013?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wasabi_bob/11101605044/in/set-72157638146201873/
Date was not set up and alos taken with an GX7 which were not annonced yet
I really wish that 35-100 was a constant F4. Getting slower on the end that needs faster shutter speeds is really lame IMO. This could’ve been a cheaper alternative to the X lens, but this will probably just be cheap
Will someone FOR THE LOVE OF GOD come out with a prime ultra-wide angle lens, not a fish-eye but an ultra wide, preferably in 7, 8 or 9mm range. Don’t care if its auto-focus. Pleasssseeeeeee!
+1 a 10mm uwa would do it for me. the rest is to close to the 7.5mm prime
+1 on the 10mm
I like my 7.5mm fish-eye but I would still buy an equivalent UWA especially for use in urban environs
I WANT ONE —>> With Navajo / Zuni Turquoise Inlay! 🙂
hey talking tree hos its fell spend hours in pp to post pics in hispstagram?
*how does….*it……..*feel to…… spell so badly?
I want my GM1 in Western Diamondback Rattlesnake 😉
I can’t figure out how to vote, but I would vote YES for Summilux 15mm and YES for Nocticron 42.5mm.
many color camera thats a REAL pro system, it is full frame ? or have a tiny sensor?
Thank you troll. Now go back under your rock.
Bugger off with your miniature ‘full frame’ toy
I’ll take the green, thanks… Although if they released the orange one they already make to the US market, that would be a close second….
very good camera indeed for duckface sushi pis etc perfect for asian girls
Thanks, good idea. I like asian girls.
all that “leica” lenses i will called lieca :p cant cost more than 500$ oh aperture control so pro i wonder of any pro use that systen really sony kill m43 with mirrorless 35mm FF
I say this with all sincerity, You need help, please seek it out.
u need help to buy areal camera 😛
No, if we need help to buy a “real” camera we’ll ask an asian girl, not an illiterate troll. They do better research, and are much more helpful in negotiating a discount. They are also much better than a cat as a portrait subject for those vital first images from a new camera.
But hey, thanks for the dating suggestion. Who says trolls are useless?
Did I miss something? Is it a new 30-100mm lens? Or is it the good old 35-100/2.8 exc. for the typo and new colour? Can’t see for sure but it looks like the photo is reading “35-100″…
Where are all these colors?
What’s the aperture range on the 30-100mm lens? If it’s reasonably fast and affordable (let’s say an f4 constant zoom or, even better, f2.8-4), then I might want to get my hands on it. The 35-100mm f2.8 is just too pricey for me right now.