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It’s hard to spell it but Panasonic invented a new “Leica” name for the 42,5mm f/1.2. it’s called Nocticron! Sounds like some sort of magic letal machine 🙂
Preorders price and specs:
Silver GX7 body at Amazon US (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and Wex UK (Click here).
Silver GX7 with 14-42mm lens at Amazon (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and WexUK (Click here).
Black GX7 body at Wex UK (Click here).
Black GX7 with 14-42mm lens at Wex UK (Click here).
Black GX7 with 20mm lens at Wex UK (Click here).
Silver GX7 with 20mm lens at Wex UK (Click here).
Previews, reviews and tests:
First impression review at Dpreview, Hands-on by ePhotozine, Preview at Techradar, Spanish Hands-on at DSLRmagazine, Toma de contacto Quesabesde, Hands-on pics at Photographyblog.
Surprise:
Panasonic also announced the Leica 42,5mm f/1.2 Nocticron (Source: Panasonic Japan). No price or release date unveiled.
Image Samples:
Photographyblog,
Videos:
First look by WDC, Introduction Video (Panasonic), Koji Ueda (Panasonic), Bernie DeChant (Panasonic), Kyoto (Panasonic), Praxistest in German (Chip.de), Scandinavian Photo,
Worldwide Press releases:
42,5mm lens at Dpreview.
GX7 at Dpreview, ePhotozine, Photoscala (German), Quesabesde (Spanish), DC.watch (Japanese), Panasonic (Japanese), Zoom (Dutch), LeMondeDeLaPhoto (French), Focus Numerique (French), LesNumeriques (French), Fotografidigitali (Italian), Photographyblog, Fotomagazin (German).
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8 Responses
Nokticron 3000 is here to kill you.
I don´t think it´s hard to spell. Derived from noctus and cronos, for night and time, i think, so it has got nothing to do with letality, if you mean necro…
Some observations from poring over the spec sheet:
— The field-sequential EVF is back, as on the GH2. Maybe I’m wrong, but I thought that the GH3 had switched over to an OLED EVF, and the Olympus E-M 5 has an LCD EVF. Personally, I’ve always liked the GH2’s field-sequential EVF better than the E-M 5’s LCD EVF (own both) but I suspect a lot of forumbators will paint this as a step backward.
— Panasonic describes the internal stabilization via the curious phrase “Mega OIS-like” and notes that it’s “almost” as good as in-lens Mega OIS. Oh, well, I guess we can’t expect them to admit that Olympus was right about where the stabilization belongs… but the vagueness about how the stabilization works is peculiar. They wouldn’t try to palm off pixel-shifting “electronic” image stabilization in this day and age, would they?
So it’s only available in silver in the US, both silver and back elsewhere?
I am Noctocron of the North!
Nictocron
Steep price. Will keep my GX1 and wait for what the Mirrorless FF market has to offer in 2014.
As for the shape and look, this is the perfect camera imo. If I were into the m4/3, I’d buy this immediately.