Kascarade – Long Kiss Goodbye – Acoustic version from kascarade on Vimeo.
P13: “I’ve just finished a video with the final retail version of the SLR Magic Anamorphot with the SLR Magic 35mm T1.4 Cine Mark II, also the SLR Magic +0.33 and for some shots the +1.3 acromatic diopters were used. I’ve found the lens practical to work with on a portable rig (I’m using the Edelkrone Pocket Rig), with it being easy enough to rack focus to a sharp image.”
TheNewYorker reviews the GF1 🙂
A shallow depth of field with a Micro 4/3s camera? Yes, it is possible! (BestMirrorlessCamerasReviews).
Review: Panasonic Lumix DMC-GM1 (Adminringlight).
Olympus E-M1 is the mirrorless camera of the year at Photographyblog.
Olympus E-M1 vs Panasonic GH3 at EosHD.
Gm1 review at Marchal.
Comparingthe E-M5 with the Fujifilm X100S (Duncan Martin).
Dan Cheung a wedding photographer from Sydney (http://www.sutoritera.com/) decided to sell all of his existing Canon gears and converted to m43 (EM1). Here’s his mini review: http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?p=15824023#post15824023
Test pictures of the new MFT 12-40mm/f2,8 PRO and the older FT 12-60mm/f2,8-4 SWD lenses (Pixelmania).
Frank: “I came across this review and thought you might be interested: http://brooksreview.net/2014/01/omd-em5/. Seems like it’s still a nice camera, even at 18 months old.”
Joel: “I put together a demo video of some video and photos taken with the Olympus Zuiko ED 50-200mm f2.8-3.5 paired with the Panasonic GH3 for some extreme focal length shooting. Check it out below to see what can be done! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CAfAVW4crI”
Roy: “As it is a festive time, I happened to shoot street in Kolkata (India) with my gear Olympus OMD-EM5 with M.Zuiko 45mm f/1.8 at night. I have written my experience in my blog. Here is the link for it: http://www.samudranil.in/blog/?id=71643644708”
Hinting: “I have just completed the quick test on leica M and screw mount lenses on the tiny GM1. This time the post is linked to individual lens test, which was fun to do. This is not a scientific test, just some real world samples to see how the different lenses compares. The images are developed from RAW files, processed in lightroom and resized to 1600 pixel wide. Enjoy!
https://plus.google.com/115255826572441766446/posts/4KpWQsyKug5”
Telemach: “I’m not sure if this was posted yet but Panasonic Poland is offering extended warranty – 5 years for selected Lumix G cameras if bought at listed stores. Details are here: https://lumixg5lat-panasonic.pl/pl-PL/Start.aspx“
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Interesting demonstration By Joel. The supertele works good. On the omd’s with video ibis it would be a percect match, as some shots look really nervous with the GH3.
ofcourse the omd doesnot have the tele crop function like the GH3 has, I forgot.
A cheap 30 year old photohead and no follow focus do no justice when it comes to getting stable video! I created the video because samples of the combination are rare if non-existant. I’m hoping to find a high resolution lens in the 400-500mm range to push effective focal lengths over the 2000mm mark on the GH3 so keep a look out for that if it ever comes.
Regardless, getting footage like that off a $500 lens is stunning especially considering the 400mmE @ f3.5 available. My canon loving friend was quite jealous after seeing what he’s been drooling over for quite some time (300 2.8 + 1.4 TC)
VERY FUNNY Ale! Craig Mod’s article in the New Yorker is NOT a review of the GF1 (hence, your smiley face, no doubt! LOL!). The title of the very well-written article, (it is the New Yorker, after all) is “Goodbye Cameras”…Ale…how COULD you post that HERE! 🙂
Unfortunately the is a lot of truth there and some great photos along the way…..I will never own a smart phone!!! (I really won’t!). 🙂
” You are no longer half-human half-camera …” very nice way to say it 🙂
The article about DOF in BestMirrorlessCameras by Mathieu is spot-on and (for once), illustrated with beautiful, meaningful images. Refreshing!! Nice job Mathieu!!!
yes nice photos, but other then that, its more for noobs(using a close subject/objest gives always shallow dof on any small sensor).
+1
And shallow has not much to do with subject isolation. Subject isolation for me is picking a subject and make it pop out in a distance of maybe 2-10m out of itÄs surrounding. On M43 this is mostly only possible for headshots, not for a full person in front of the background.
Isn’t the “GF1 review” Goodbye Cameras by Craig Mod pretty refreshing?!
His style seemed familiar, and then he refers to another of his pieces titled “Annapurna Moonrise” which stands out in my memory as one of my favorite travel photography articles, or any article for that matter, that I had been directed to from 43rumors.
Reminds me what 43rumors is all about, and somehow why the GF1 embodies this.
*embodied
maybe phones will replace travel cameras.. not for me!
Is this the Anamorphic lens we were expecting a few months back for mft? Din’t know it was released…and as an adapter instead.
It’s the SLR Magic Anamorphot which works with M43 and I believe there’s a kit for Sony E-mount users too, SLR Magic have done an initial release to people already owning anamorphics; EOSHD did an article about it here: http://www.eoshd.com/content/11290/exclusive-slr-magic-anamorphot-1-3x-50-pricing-announced
You can buy it as an adapter alone or part of a kit, which includes the SLR Magic 35mm T1.4 Cine Mark II and +0.33 and +1.3 acromatics.
For this video I’d pointed a halogen light direct at the lens to test the flare at extremes so it can be used in a far more tame manner too.
Questions about the lens can be directed to support@slrmagic.com
Is there a particular reason that you outputted the final file in 2.4k?
There is no picture when playing the downloaded file on my Macbook because it exceeds the resolution of the screen.
1920 x 1.33 = 2554 so that’s the true unsqueezed width of the anamorphic footage, you can reduce the size and squeeze it into a 1920 frame with borders but that defeats the benefit of the extra resolution.
Will VLC on the Mac work better for playback?
That makes sense.
VLC does not seem work here. I will look at the footage tomorrow night when I get back to my studio. I’m very interested in this adapter.
(Vimeo does some strange things to certain footage on this computer, including mine).
of course you can get shallow DOF with a a M43 if you go close. You also can with a compact or a smartphone. But in real life in those situtation that you really want subject isolation at a given distance it’s hardly possible others then fo a headshot. Not even with the expensive 1600$ F1.2 lens!
M43s advantage is now only small size for long focal legths. For everything normal or wide I’d use Fuji or Sony ASP-C or even Sony FF as they provide clearly more flexibility with DOF in a very similar package.
The Voigtländer lenses give you enough subject isolation. Most photographers I know use an aperture of 2.8-5.6 for portraits, only for special shots at large distances they use the glass wide open (and this can be achieved by m43, too). However, not many lenses are sharp wide open already.
And how many have a Canon 85/1.2? This is overrated. I like using my FF with shallow DOF for flowers and similar things, i.e. for creative stuff. What is important for me is that a 50/1.8, 85/1.8…. is not expensive for FF, an equivalent lens in terms of DOF for m43 is expensive, however. That’s why I use both.
“…For everything normal or wide I’d use Fuji or Sony ASP-C or even Sony FF as they provide clearly more flexibility with DOF in a very similar package.”
Why would you want shallow depth of field and subject isolation in a wide shot? This just the same tired mantra of the clueless.
(Hint – buy a T0.9 lens. It’s cheaper than another camera.)
Admin, any news about the rumoured AF-GH4K which is rumoured to be announced in February? Which is only a few days away now…