Good Morning (at least here in Europe)! Let’s start the new day with a roundup of news about the recently announced Panasonic/Olympus stuff. On top you can watch a commercial uploaded by Panasonic.
Panasonic GH3:
GH3 image gallery at Popphoto.
First three hours impression by Wasabi.
Olympus E-PL5:
Ming Thein posted the first Olympus E-PL3 review: “Ultimately, success at this end of the market will depend heavily on the camera’s price point. The rich feature set and overall refinement in operation make me curious to see what will succeed the E-P3; now if only they’d make one with a built-in EVF like the NEX-6…”
An E-PL5 hands-on has been posted on DC.watch (Tranlsation here).
Olympus 60mm macro:
Quick Look at the Olympus 60mm f/2.8 Macro at Lensrentals. They compared it with the 45mm Panasonic macro and said that: “the resolution of the two lenses is identical.”
First impression review by Admiringlight.
One more thing: A new article about the next generation viewfinder likely going to be used by Olympus in next generation cameras at ePhotozine.
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Panasonic and Olympus Preorder Links with specs and price:
Special GH3 page at Amazon (Click here) and a full Olympus presentation page at Amazon (Click here).
GH3 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), Bhphoto (Click here) and in Europe at Wexphotographic UK (horrible price in UK!).
35-100mm X lens at Amazon (Click here), Bhphoto (Click here).
E-PL5 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), Bhphoto (Click here). In EU at Amazon Germany, Amazon UK, Amazon France,
E-PM2 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), Bhphoto (Click here). In EU at Amazon Germany, Amazon UK, Amazon France,
XZ-2 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), Bhphoto (Click here).
60mm macro at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), Bhphoto (Click here).
12mm Black prime lens at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), Bhphoto (Click here).
15mm cap-lens at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), Bhphoto (Click here).
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“…curious to see what will succeed the E-P3; now if only they’d make one with a built-in EVF like the NEX-6…”
How many of us and how loud do we have to shout in order for Olympus to finally hear?
says alot about the quality of 60mm. I hope olympus keeps this streak
@admin: Your English is starting to look like German.
Nice typo. LOL.
Yep sorry. I am having an important week at work. I am organizing an exposition in Seul and having a lot of stress. I will have more time for 43rumors from Monday 🙂
“I am organizing an exposition in Seul”
Any Samsung rumors 😉 ?
Seems the Seul [sic] comment was a clever reply to the early post about English level.
That’s what EM-6 ought to look like, plus no-compromise FT-lens compatibility. We, FT users, do not want much, do we?
Are the Ira Block photos OOC JPEG?
They look too mushy, even at low ISO.
How can such a nice camera produce such ugly images? I wonder if Panasonic insists in those ugly colors on purpose or if they really can’t fix them even though they try.
Those popphoto shots are about a 10 on the Unimpressive Scale. Not to mention them being not very good photos to begin with
Admin: The Wasabi link is broken
LOL !!! all my friend can take better climbing pictures with their compact camera !!!
My climbing pictures taken with E-M5:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/j-f_leguen/7345784364/in/set-72157630056815734
http://www.flickr.com/photos/j-f_leguen/7338648228/in/set-72157630056815734
http://www.flickr.com/photos/j-f_leguen/7380174408/in/set-72157630056815734
And with GH1:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/j-f_leguen/7380121810/in/set-72157630056815734
http://www.flickr.com/photos/j-f_leguen/7380151842/in/set-72157630056815734
http://www.flickr.com/photos/j-f_leguen/7973515260/in/set-72157630056815734
The climbing picture on popphoto is bad but I must say that there are some good shots by Ira block here: http://www.irablock.com/#
Agree, Panasonic’s engine is so bad IMO especially the colors. I think the best colors come from Olympus, Fuji, and Nikon.
Panasonic could do better if they would just go to Flickr, search for their previous model (in this case GH2), go to interesting, and request the top 3 photographers there to take some pictures. Just like with the coverage of the Olympic Games, I cannot say that I am very impressed and am sure some enthusiasts could do better (and would be a lot happier as well).
Not even there. (The GH2, I mean)
Those shots are less then impressive to me. I sure hope this camera (GH3) is a good step up. I’m not seeing it yet.
I would like image-samples without noise reduction….
Exactly. Current samples are pretty boring. Do do not give us a clue at what to expect, at least not these ones (I believe they are not new either, have seen them before)..
i found this, are the same images!
http://www.lumixlifestyle.co.uk/lumix-gh3-showcase/ira-block-photography/
I thought the composition of those pics were pretty good only let down by the low dynamic contrasts. More of the fault of the camera.
From that translated PL5 review, “When you purchase the E-PM2 or E-PL5, until January 23, 2013, a campaign entitled to receive either the lens or body cap FlashAir Toshiba is performed.” (referring to the 15mm f8)
Was something lost in translation or is the promotion that until Jan 23, 13′ when you buy a PM2/PL5 they will throw in the cap lens for free?
hmm.. I read that as “the lens or body cap “… so a lens cap or body cap… not a lens but the cap.
Get a new Pen with the 15mm f8 and you will be really confused 😉
Ok, cause it’s under the “Body cap Lens BCL-1580” talking point, so I though they would be giving these things away 🙂
But again, the translation is far from perfect as evidenced by “FlashAir Toshiba”, so was just wondering what it actually meant. I actually like the idea of this lens coupled with a PEN as a handout camera to people used to a point and shoot.
It says that if you buy the E-PL5 or PM2 before Jan. 13 you will receive (your choice) either a body cap lens or a Toshiba FlashAir SD card. The campaign is probably only valid in Japan though.
Meh… I know these are JPEG’s and a pre-prod GH3 and such, but IMHO it looks like they were shot with a cell phone or low-end P&S, there’s no detail in the highlights or shadows and no depth to the shots. The RX100 could easily do this and more. I’m sure this camera is capable of better images. Looking forward to seeing better samples.
Does the epl5 accept an optional viewfinder?
Yes, has the port for it.
THANKS!
SO..if a LANGUAGE does not fit because it looks
GERMAN…hm..
why can we talk, write GERMAN ENGLISH FRENCH SPAIN and think simultan in opposite
and do it..but some out ther only able to repead
something a priming-experiment ( call it marketing)
told him to say…
The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.
for me i work now in front of 7 i7 and 4 3d progs and
some post of 2 others and can read this on a macbook and play a guitar and think about a scrip in german translated to spanish…
so are you a robot sitting in langley
ore a pepsicola nerd in the nsa… hm.
dont folw me. soori vor mi misdaks
after seeing the samples the question comes to my mind. While everyone said that OMD being ultra good in DR, and it’s because they step down the exposure and using processing engine to compensate while creating jpegs, basically we can all do the same with our existing camera isn’t it? Just use the histogram to see if there are clippings, and step down (or maybe up) until the sensor can cover the best possible DR, and then use lightroom to do adjust the exposure, pretty simple?
You can expose properly with any camera, but that doesn’t increase the DR. Every sensor has its range and right now the EM5 has the most of any m43 camera. This is readily apparent with RAW’s and recovering detail in the shadows without the banding issues the GH2 has.
Olympus fanboys really are a nutty bunch , the E-M5 is not even a stop ahead of the GH2 I think the banding issue was the GH1.What will you all do when Sony takes over talk abut inviting a wolf to diner lol
@EFE
have you really nothing better to do with your left hand?
No.
Running sensor at lower “sensitivity” (if there’s thing which can be called as such) requires very low read noise and probably sensor circuitry is designed for it.
Sure you can retain more highlights with any camera by underexposing but at the same time you’ll loose DR in shadows because of more of them being drowned by noise.
You’ve incorrectly credited that 3 hour hands-on. It was by Aleo Veuliah, not Wasabi Bob. Please give credit where credit is due.
It isn’t incorrectly attributed – the thread was started by Aleo and contained his entirely subjective opinion with no photos or ‘evidence’ to back up the first impressions.
Wasabi Bob then contributed to the thread to say he had also had a hands on with the GH3 and posted links to some impressive photos taken whilst he had the camera – if you read the thread, you will see the links from Wasabi Bob which are far more impressive than the official photos that Panasonic sponsored.
Who cares anyway? It’s crap.
@Crap
sad life you lead.
The Wasabi bob photos are the best GH3 samples I’ve seen so far, fantastic detail and noise is well controlled with the long exposures. Much better than the Popphoto images posted.
Agreed. The popphoto long exposures have obvious hot-pixels. Perhaps the photographer did not map the hot pixels beforehand (or the preproduction firmware was missing this feature).
Can’t agree these photos are any good let alone demostrative of the camera’s true merits as most of them are “HDR”-processed with distinctive mushy glow around edges and unnatural hues all around, plus some banding.
All the camera firms ironically tend to post crap sample shots remember the infamous Olympus shot which was wildly over sharpened in attempt to hide it then just to add salt to the wounds the ad was extolling the AF system
Here are the direct links to the Wasabi photos.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wasabi_bob/sets/72157631585666847/show/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wasabi_bob/sets/72157631585666847/