Like you know the superzoom compact camera market is still growing and that’s why we already have the next new superzoom announcement: Ricoh launched the new Pentax XG-1 (specs here at BH).
It doesn’t feature a large 1 inch sensor like the recently unveieled Panasonic FZ1000. But it costs also less than a half!
I shoot interior and exterior with my OMD and prefer the quality over my D7000. Don’t get me wrong, I still love my D7000, it’s an awesome camera. But it’s so heavy and bulky……if you have never tried shooting with a mirrorless camera you should. They are amazing! I hardly ever take my Nikon out anymore. Simply no need. Even the need for a full frame camera…right now no need. When Olympus comes out with a mirrorless full frame…which I’m sure is coming soon. THATS where I will upgrade. ….shoot well my friends……
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Hello All! As a fan and reader of Mirrorless rumors since its inception, I’m excited to be writing my first guest post here. Some of you may be familiar with me, having done some reviews and tutorials over on my blog, but for those I’ve yet to connect with, my name is Tyson and I love photography. This love of photography and photographic gear has seen my day job merge with my moonlighting job as a photographer and blogger with the building of my new wrist straps.
I’ve been building, and shooting with my own wrist straps for about a year now and have fine tuned the process. I use high performance, yachting rope and nautical rope splicing techniques to build what I think might be the strongest wrist straps out there. While I’m going to stop short of saying they’re indestructible (they’re not) I can say that they are capable of supporting well over 200 lbs, and if you venture over to my blog you can see self depricating and hopefully entertainingly comical video proof.
I’ve got these priced at $30usd delivered within the US, $36 to Canada and Mexico. They’re also available for £25 in the UK or €30 in the EU through my friend Tommaso in Italy.
For more info and ordering, you can visit my T&T Wrist Strap page HERE over on the blog.
Thanks for reading and happy shooting!
Cheers,
Tyson
Fuji released a massive firmware update for many cameras and lenses. You can download them here: http://www.fujifilm.eu/eu/news/article/news/new-firmware-updates-for-several-x-series-cameras-and-fujinon-zoom-lenses/
This is the official press text:
We are pleased to announce that new firmware updates are now available for the following products:
(1) X-Pro1 : 3.20 (current 3.10)
(2) X-E1 : 2.20 (current 2.10)
(3) X-E2 : 1.20 (current 1.10)
(4) X-M1 : 1.10 (current 1.01)
(5) X-A1 : 1.10 (current 1.01)
(6) XC16-50mm : 1.12 (current 1.10)
(7) XF18-55mm : 3.11 (current 3.10)
(8) XF55-200mm : 1.11 (current 1.10)
The updates for the camera models incorporate the following changes:
1) Addition of compatibility with XF56mmF1.2R.
2) Improvement of AE accuracy with XF56mmF1.2R
3) Improvement of AF accuracy with XF56mmF1.2R (only for X-E2)
For the lenses, the following changes are applied:
1) Improvement of OIS function for movie shooting when panning and tilting a camera.
2) Improvement of OIS function for still image shooting.
3) Fixed a bug where the maximum aperture always displays F5.6. (only for XC16-50mm. )
4) Improvement of AF response during continuous shooting with X-E2 and X-T1. (for XF18-55mm and XF55-200mm)
Please click on any of the product names above for more information and to download the new firmware update.
GH4 specs, price and preorder notifications: Panasonic GH4 body at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here). DMW-YAGH interface unti at Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Panasonic US (Click here). DMW-FL580L Flash at Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
Previews, tests and image samples: Hands-on at EosHD, Quick summary at Dpreview, Hands-on at Pocket Lint, First impressions at Trustedreviews, Hands-on pics at Cnet, First impression at ThePhoBlographer, First impressions at Quesabesde (Spanish), First impression at Cmaeras.Reviewed,
Videos: “Light of the Yucatan” in 4K by Bryan Harvey (youtube), Shooting Impression by Bryan Harvey (youtube), GH4 Shooting Impression by Bence Máté (youtube), GH4 Shooting Impression by Takehito Miyatake (youtube), Panasonic GH4 commercial (youtube), Shooting Impression by Daniel Berehulak (youtube), Gh4 at Videoaktiv (German),
Hot Notes: 1) Pricing will be announced in mid March only! (Camera will cost less than $2000 or 2000 Euro). 2) This is the world’s first mirrorless interchangeable lens mount camera recording 4K 3) The external XLR / HD-SDI add-on for this camera allows for uncompressed 10bit 4K output over 3G HD-SDI – the kind of spec Canon currently charges $25,000 fo (EosHD). 4) DFD (Depth-of-Defocus) autofocus works like this: During live view (before a half-press of the shutter button), the camera will occasionally make a tiny adjustment to focus, to check whether subjects in the frame are in front of or behind the current focus point. In addition to this information, the camera judges how far out-of-focus objects in the scene are, based on how blurred they are, assessed using a profile detailing the blur behavior of the lens at its current aperture. Although this combination of data itself doesn’t give the GH4 enough information to achieve precise focus, it does give it a clear idea of where it should start using conventional contrast detection AF process to achieve fine focus. (Dpreview). 5) Recording 4K will crop your image by an ulterior 1,25x factor (Quesabesde). 6) The new sensor seems to be able to get more detail out of the highlights than the sensor in the Olympus EM1 (ThePhoBlographer).
Press release: Dpreview, 43rumors, SystemKameraForum (German), Pocket Lint, Engadget, Photographyblog, Photoscala (German), DSLRmagazine (Spanish),
I posted a few thoughts regarding where we now stand in the mirrorless market, including a very high level review of the Sony A7. In it, I’m essentially declaring Fujifilm the winner in these early rounds. Here’s the link. Interested in your thoughts.
A fake mirrorless Leica render by leicarumors.
It’s really not a surprise but at least we can confirm it via our own very trusted sources. Leica’s new mirrorless system will not be part of any current mount. Leica has chosen to go their own route and will offer their very own mount. The cameras will be built by Panasonic and what remains to be answered yet is if Panasonic will join the system with their own branded cameras too. I think it would be good for Leica to have them onboard. it could be a remake of the Oly-Pana partnership that made MFT that successful. But I still think the chances stay very low for this. Probably Leica want to give away their “exclusive” character?
