Image of the 30mm macro from Panasonic (Biglobe.ne.jp).
Images of the Panasonic and Olympus booth on Flickr.
Images of the 30mm macro lens at Biglobe.ne.jp.
The Olympus PRO lenses on video by Capa on Youtube.
The Olympus AIR MFT camera by Capa on Youtube.
AIR 01 talk show at CP+ Olympus stage on Ustream.
CP+ 2015 Olympus booth opening talk by Mr. Ogawa (president) on Ustream.
Nokton 10,5mm MFT lens at DC.watch.
Panasonic booth by DC.watch.
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So no Panasonic announcements just like Olympus (and Canon, Nikon, Pentax) did a few days ago? Only a 30mm macro as Panasonic news? To bad, I was hoping they would try harder to gain market share.
No, because Panasonic is abandoning the m4/3 and is developing a 120Mpix organic 53,7×40,4mm size sensor that will have 31 stop exposure range and will capture total flat middle grey photos and video that everyone can then try to grade or edit (impossible because everything is grey).
There you have it, you got what you wanted, a 8K camera, 240fps a second with total flat middle grey video. And no, you don’t get even uncompressed HDMI because it records internally in h.266 codec and with 256Gb card you can capture little over 9 seconds before its full.
Could be, a few months back there was a report out from Fuji that the sensor was too hot currently but that definitely shows they are still working on it with Panasonic. Maybe its getting closer to release.
If your idea of close is years, then yes.
late 2015 to begin 2016 look at fujirumors articles ,release mass product
is “P” !! ,yeah P that mean Panasonic then what about FujiFilm
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i guess Fuji can’t implement by themselves because they had no Image Sensor factory .
Oh yea, whatever happened to Panasonic? Not a peep from them for the biggest photography trade show.
I hope they are preparing something awesome for later this year. By the way, it happens from time to time that a manufacturer doesn’t have anything prepared for a huge show.
If at least we had a roadmap..
That’s it from Panny? Seriously?
So weird given that the title of their press conference was supposed to be: “Creating a New Photo Culture by the expansion of “4K Photo”“. Then they only release a 30mm macro lens. Seems like something went wrong.
They are trying to push taking frame grabs from 4k video as the new way to take photos. It is an interesting concept but of course the resolution is not there quite yet for many people as the images are only about 8 megapixles
Is your current camera broken?
My current camera works just fine, thank you very much (and I use it often as well; probably more than you use yours), but that doesn’t mean I’m not interested in new/future developments.
You have G.A.S. bro. Just go shoot. Anything rushed to market would be a repackaging of same tech in a shiny new case.
I feel sorry for most commenters to this post. They are obsessed with new gear.
Is there anything on the specifications of this lens anywhere?
Folks,
I just got my EM5 MK2. Trying everythint out. Let me know if you got questions! I got the silver one, and it is awesome looking!
Sweet, where did you get it from? How does the af-performance compare to the e-m5, e-m10 and e-m1? Is the electronic/silent shutter useful or is rolling shutter problematic?
I got this from Hong Kong. It just released here today. it is night time right now, and I can’t test rolling shutter with some fast moving object. But I can’t assume it would be any good. the 1/16000 shutter speed only work in silent mode. It took me a long time to find and to activate. The shutter is much much softer than EM5. I only have em5. The AF on single AF is a tad bit faster than em5. Can’t say for em10 or 1. Will test C-AF and Rolling shutter tomorrow.
Thanks for the info so far!
The IBIS is much better. I can handhold a shot at 1/1.3 sec for a 25mm (50mm equiv) lens.
I can handheld 150mm up to couple seconds often and very well for 1/2 or 1/3 shutter speeds.
Never tried 150mm but I took a good picture with 12mm and an infrared filter on it: 2 seconds. It’s a wide angle lens so the shaking is less visible. IBIS is already a blessing, I’ll compare it to that of Em1.
thank you for the info. Have a nice sleep, it would be a busy day tomorrow!
How much did you pay for yours in HKD?
I pay hkd 9390 with 1 additional battery and the vertical grip + battery grip, hld8 or something like that
Does anyone here speak japanese and maybe could translate what the Oly guy says in the pro lens video, please?
ED 8mm f1.8 Fisheye PRO, an all weather wide angle fisheye and bright lens.
Next, PRO ED 7-14mm f2.8 in all ranges with all weather. Will be sold on this summer. Next, same PRO model 300mm F4 all weather lens, on sale this October. All three lens will be our vision (PRO) lineup completion lens.
The lumix 30 f2.8 could be nice if it’s half the price of the zuiko 60 mm macro, but isn’t 30 mm kinda short?
I hope you mean kind a wide?
Yes, but OK for some wider work like rings and jewelry.
short minimum focus distance for macro, rings and jewelry may not be a real problem, but more distance also gives more room for lighting the subject, so the subject wont be in the lens shadow.
longer macro lenses are a pleasure to use. the longer the better. There are 150mm macro lenses for aps-c, and all Panasonic gives us is a punny 30mm that sigma offered anyway
50-55mm was a classic FF macro field of view back in the manual film days. So this one is not that far off the mark. I always preferred the longer macros however because with these you have to get very close to the subject and bugs in particular don’t like that too much.
tumbleweeds …………………….Panasonic seem to have lost direction how about a 25mm F1.2 oss lens or something useful
What about the Panny Leica DG Summilux 25mm f/1.4 ?
I hope pro lens pricing is directly correlated with size 8mm<12-40mm<7-14mm<40-150mm<300mm
I’d guess 8 mm < 12-40 < 40-150 < 40-150 < 7-14 < 300 with the 8 mm starting at 750 € and I really, really hope the 300 is under 1700 €. I need it so bad… The original Zuiko 7-14 was pretty expensive but an amazing performer. It's going to be one the absolute finest lenses in the system like the 300, 40-150, 75 and 45.
So that’s all we get from Panasonic, eh?
What happened to the other lens that they were supposed to have on display. Huh…
If Panasonic remains this uninspiring I may switch to Olympus.
Good to see you have Olympus-sized money to burn. Let me guess: all the Lumix lenses that you don’t own, you don’t want, instead, you prefer to want all the gaps filled? 🙂
In what way? fanboyism? You will switch from being a Panasonic fanboy to being an Olympus fanboy?
Granted, I wish Panasonic would have at least displayed a few more teasers of what is in their pipeline.
Panasonic could at least revail some details about the new macro lens! We saw the mockup already at the Photokina last year; now it would IMO be time to announce an official release date and price. If Panasonic really wants to launch this lens in Q1/2015 (like it was rumored), it’s about time to share some further information with us potential customers!!!
Panasonic, Fujifilm and Sony haven’t announced anything at this CP+. They just show us lens mockups and road maps, but no product announcements. Calculated strategy or missed production deadlines or what?
I guess no one gets that the 30mm macro is a lens for the GM-series..
It would seem to be, and that is why I was asking about the specifications. It would help if Panasonic themselves were a bit clearer about this rather than just displaying a lens behind glass.
People complaining on why m43 cameras and lens are big, now is Panny/Oly answers with slew of smaller lenses
why do not post this news?
http://digicame-info.com/2015/02/75mm.html
i want to know about non-spherical lens , i use google translator but too much wrong meaning
from Japanese text.