We all had a busy news day and this is all the stuff we got today:
Olympus preorders:
Silver E-M1 body at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus. In Europe at Wex UK.
40-150mm f/2.8 PRO lens at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus. In Europe at Wex UK.
LH-76 lens hood at Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus.
MC-14 1.4x teleconverter at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus.
PRF-ZD62 Z protection filter at Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus.
PRF-ZD72 Z protection filter at Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus.
General links to all new Olympus stuff at Adorama.
ALL new stuff announced at Photokina at Amazon.
Panasonic preorders:
LX100 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto. Europe at Panasonic Germany, WexUK, Panasonic Austria, Panasonic France, Panasonic Italy, Panasonic Spain, Panasonic Netherlands, Panasonic Belgium.
GM5 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto. Europe at Panasonic Germany, WexUK, Panasonic Austria, Panasonic France, Panasonic Italy, Panasonic Spain, Panasonic Netherlands, Panasonic Belgium.
GM5 in red at Adorama.
35-100mm at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto. Europe at Panasonic Germany, Panasonic Austria, Panasonic France, Panasonic Italy, Panasonic Spain, Panasonic Netherlands, Panasonic Belgium.
14mm at Panasonic Germany, Panasonic Austria, Panasonic Spain, Panasonic Netherlands, Panasonic Belgium.
And now the big 43rumors readers question:
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44 Responses
14 mm lens?!…..where’s the news of that?
http://www.photographyblog.com/news/panasonic_14mm_and_35_100mm_hands_on_photos/
Just some pictures, no technical info, which might indicate it’s just a cosmetical job (like the 20mm).
The silver E-M1 looks like a $2 whore, the 40-150/2.8 looks the business….but the LX100 is the most tempting camera I have seen since….I don’t know? Has there ever been a camera this delicious?
43rumors, thanks for the wrong rumor with the firmware update. i hope it will turn over you someday. good job.
Simmer down. A rumour is exactly that, a eumour. Admin does a stellar job here.
LX100 hands down.
40-150 definitively comes in second, but only by a notch.
Notable mention: 35-100 – a lens that turns the GM series into something making much more sens.
Disappointment: GM5. OK, they have improved on the GM1, but next to LX100 the improvements fall short to excite. Bad timing, IMO.
+1 on the LX100 – Definitely!
About the GM5: Yes. IBIS, DFD focusing, internal 4K – Everything is missing.
At least 4K would have been great (as it´s a focus of Panasonic lately).
But it´s maybe just not possible with the GX7 aka GM1 sensor …
Though: It´s a nice GM1-upgrade. The internal EVF is nice.
The hotshoe too – And at least the annoying round dial has gone / moved.
(PLUS more assignable seperate FN buttons.)
Nice upgrade – AND the GM1 get´s even more discounted.
(Btw.: The GM1 internal flash is a little bit weak mechanically – Won´t miss it at all.)
Overall: Good times to upgrade (to a GM1 or LX100 / GM5).
And even the GX7 prices are falling – Quite nice to have IBIS at least for stills ^^.
I think Panasonic needs to replicate the LX100 without the fixed lens in the GX8. They could even make a stand alone version of that lens allowing automated sensor cropping. I think this has also been patented by olympus to make smaller zooms with higher brightness at longer focal lengths.
I think Olympus will finally listen to the loud noise that people demand more video features. Maybe another video oriented firmware update will come for the EM1 when the EM5 II gets released. Fingers crossed. They have a good platform with mic in and 5 axis. On to the next rumors.
Not possible I think… the LX100’s lens doesn’t have to deal with standardized flange distance. Also, PASM dial has to be present on interchangeable lens bodies because there’s no guarantee of aperture and focus rings being present on every lens. Let’s just enjoy LX100 for what it is – a specialized camera taking full advantage of its specialized design 🙂
And please keep the aperture dial on the protruding portion of the lens mount. This way all native electronically controlled m43 lenses could similarly benefit from manual control.
An ILC with these controls would be great, but they’d benefit from a lens lineup with aperture rings. Good that some of the new lenses from Panasonic have them, but Olympus lenses don’t, and most of the Pannys don’t.
But I’d love to see an LX8 with :
* LX100 style controls
* tilting touch screen
* improved EVF
* DFD
* weather sealing
* 4K
* dual cards
* bigger battery
Sounds good to me.
LX100 without the fixed lens = GM5.
Hardly. Direct manual controls, 4k, design. I do like the GM5, but would be willing to use a larger camera to get more features. The new Panasonic lenses would go very well in a non fixed lens lx100.
I vote for Oly 45-150mm but still I have to say the LX100 deserve the no 1 ranking due to innovation & creativity .
Such camera easily fall in love with & I’ll definitely pick it over the RX100 m3 , a highend compact that is hard to beat at it’s class .
My pick on the Oly lens mainly influence by the report of it’s optic performance that outclassed the SHG lens which I considered very impressive .
A beast of a lens on a small body that otherwise purports to not being small. What about the large number of bodies that do NOT purport to not being small and actually are small? And what was the purpose of discontinuing the FT DSLR range? Not to have a convenient body for the big zooms that will continue to be built? No, purpose obviously is to sell both body and grip for a lot of money.
You don’t need grip if you don’t shoot lots of portrait photos. Don’t get it because size or weight or battery. Only if needed to have easy rotation.
Yawn, again such confused nonsense. The O 2.8/40-150mm is the smallest and cheapest 2.8/80-300mm equiv. lens on the market. It fits well to the E-M1, with whom it is an excellent combination. You won’t get anything smaller with this performance.
And stop whining about DSLR lenses and bodies from Olympus. They are products of the past. Get over it. Sell them and get the new stuff.
mahler: “You won’t get anything smaller with this performance.”
I will. If I buy the 2.8/40-150mm, I will hook it onto one of my 3 E-PM2s and, with some loss of handling, it will perform better in lower light conditions than on the E-M1. Guaranteed – by the Sony sensor. As for the E-M1, if I get it, I will couple it with my 12-60 and will get a more useful range than from the 12-40. Sell the 12-60? No way. Or will couple the E-M1 with the Sigma 150mm 2.8 – with better 150mm performance than from the 40-150. With the E-M1 + Sigma 150mm 2.8 combination, again, I will be better off for shorter focal distances with the PanaLeica 25mm and the Sigma 60mm on 2 of the 3 E-PM2s (using them all simultaneously – I always carry 3 cameras). So, although seriously misled and hampered by Olympus, I have different good ways, precisely thanks to the FT system that they abandoned – making a terrible mistake.
Oh, you and your glorified point and shoot E-PM2’s. Do you ever stop?
Low light may spec better at DXO, but there is ZERO real world difference between my E-PM2 and my (now sold) E-M5 or (current) GX7.
Imagine the pictures you can take with a viewfinder and/or a high res tillable screen. The E-PM2 is so hindering to creativity that you must be the most stubborn SOB to continue to use them, or thoroughly ignorant of the advances in MFT cameras.
Of course less of a difference – the E-M5 and the E-PM2 have the same sensor.
I have viewfinders (VF-4 and VF-3) on my E-PM. And I have a toltable screen in my E-600.
Advances are there – it’s a pity they are intertwined with blunders.
Carrying three E-PM2s definitely sounds like a blunder. Bragging about it incessantly on the internet is just sad.
Hahahaha! You’re a broken record.
photokina is no big deal anymore…really not much happening here
What should happen on first day? Isn’t it while week event?
Seems like a pretty good first day to me: Panasonic wins day one, but the Oly lens is really strong, the Canon 1″ sensor camera sounds like a credible competitor to the RX100 and Samsung released a GH4 competitor. Day two will go to Leica. Sounds like they’re releasing a ton of beautiful stuff I can’t afford.
The only problem is that technically, Olympus announced almost nothing fundamentally new since the 40-150 was technically announced a year ago.
The best new product? The Panasonic LX100. The rest are – sorry folks – overpriced gadgets.
….just to you.
Not all of us want an overpriced P&S camera. 🙂
Pany LX100 looks really nice. Is there any stabilization in sensor or lens. I wish they make similar body with interchangeable lens so that I can use my lens too 🙂
hmmm…I am surprised at all of the interest in the LX100… I just do not like P&S style cameras.
I actually kind of dig the EM1 in silver the way it all wraps around on the back. Not boring anyway!
I also am intrigued by the Panasonic phone….that is pretty cool…but looks prone to being damaged…maybe there is some special case designed for that to protect the lens?
My favorite item of all Photokina though is the GM5 …which totally surprises me!!!! LOL!
I am an Oly Fan!!!! HELP!!!!!!!! I will resist preorder..but I may cave in when they are available!
A silver one with a silver 15mm f/1.7 may be more than I could resist!!!!!! LOL!
EU prices 1399€ and 1599€ in kit with TC
TC only 349€
It would be cool if they would offer a E-M1 pro kit with grip for say, 3300€
There are just so many other factors that make a lens worthwhile than f/stop.
And for $1400, this thing damn well better nail ALL of them.
I take back my complaints, that silver E-M1 looks stellar. Of course these are renderings, but it looks really good. But that price is ridiculous. It’s a $1099 camera.
That is some serious techporn at the top of the page!!!!!
40-150 looks very impressive. Olympus pro lenses have a build that you can get all giddy over. Plus, 2.8 is plenty fast. My only gripe is I wish it offered a comparable 2.8 FF DOF. But even if this was 1.8 it would be crazy huge. For those dedicated though to this system, I think olympus has really put it’s all into this one. I hope it’s a big seller.
Not that I was in the market, but the silver e-m1 is just not for me. It looks hideous imo.
I know someone is going to say “that’s what she said”, but that thing is massive!
That’s what he said.
Of course it’s LX100! The rest are boring.
The LX100 is the coolest, the GM5 is the most useful, and the 40-150 is the only one I might, finances willing, actually buy…
If you are after value, Oly and Pana are among the worst choices. LX100 looks interesting though.
the 40-150/f2.8 is the only one of the batch I’m interested in, but my $100 40-150 still does the job. Still going back and forth between the 12-40 and 12-60, but between the 12-50 and a couple fast primes, I can put off that a bit longer. E-M1 (black!) is top of my list. I was hoping to pick one up in time for sending my E-M5 in for it’s free cleaning/servicing, but may put the purchase off another year.