First, the older news – or is it actually news? It’s still got rumor status, but I believe chances are good it’s going to happen. According to several recent posts at 43rumors.com, Olympus is going to develop a new modular camera, not unlike the Maitani concept from the sixties:
If Olympus are actually developing a modular camera, and if they’re doing it right, it would have different modules for:
- Mount, mirror and shutter, offering to adapt either Four Thirds, Micro Four Thirds or OM lenses (maybe even Pen F lenses)
- Viewfinder, either optical (for mount modules with mirror) or electronical (for mount modules without mirror)
- Different backs with different sensors, layouts and displays – maybe entry-, advanced- and pro-level.
The more recent rumor is that Pentax might be either developing a Micro Four Thirds system themselves, or licensing their lenses to Micro Four Thirds. Someone on the e-p1.net forums posted three patent drawings of Pentax lenses with a 21.6mm image circle – the same as Micro Four Thirds. The three lenses are:
- 17mm f/2.8
- 17mm f/2.0
- 14mm f/2.8
Nothing really interesting (except maybe for the 17/2), but promising nonetheless.
The fields around our village prove to be a great location for taking pictures every so often again. This week, we’ve been walking (and me shooting) there several times, and I took some great pictures that I’d like to share with you.
 "Fence" | Leica M8 + Biogon 35/2 @ f/2, 1/8000 sec, ISO 160 Continue reading Out in the fields, shooting the M8
As announced earlier, Steve Huff reviewed the Fujifilm GF670 medium format film rangefinder, which offers 6×6 and 6×7 aspect shooting on 120 or 220 roll film. The camera has a silver body, 80mm f/3.5 fold-out bellows lens and is a Fujifilm branded copy of the black-bodied Voigtländer Bessa III, which is essentially the same camera.
 Image courtesy of B&H Photo. If you’re curious about medium format film, don’t miss this review, as it goes deeply into detail and features some marvelous pictures!
Buy the Fujifilm GF670 medium format rangefinder camera from B&H Photo Video Audio!
No, says Efix. ISO 6400 is always going to look horrible with the E-P1. I’ve done some ISO 4000 black-and-whites when light was really low or I needed fast shutter speeds to freeze movement, and even when resizing to web format they looked awfully grainy (although they were still quite usable!)
But Ctein’s processing technique is intriguing nontheless, and he did indeed manage to produce some results that can be used as emergency solutions. But still, I wouldn’t.
Read Ctein’s article at The Online Photographer here.
On the bus this morning.
 "Watching as the outside world passes by" | Leica M8 + Biogon 35/2 @ f/2, 1/1000 sec, ISO 160 I decided to dial in a little less contrast this time, which I think I like better. But I’m still not sure if the picture is bright enough overall. What think you?
Continue reading Picture(s) of the day (June 17, 2010)
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