Article recap: Fuji GF670, X100, Olympus Viewer and a panoramic Lomo

Today, I found a number of interesting articles on the web, and instead of posting seperately about each one, I decided to recapitulate them in a single post.

Fujifilm GF670 medium format film rangefinder reviewed by ePHOTOzine

Another review of the Fuji GF670 comes from ePHOTOzine — whom I would’ve least expected to do such a review. Anyways, they did, and it reads as though they quite liked it. Reminder: the Fujifilm GF670 is a film rangefinder camera that uses 6x6cm or 6x7cm medium format 120 or 220 roll film, has a built-in 80mm (50mm-equivalent on 35mm film) f/3.5 lens that is attached to a folding mechanism which makes the camera rather compact (for a MF camera, that is) when not in use. Except for automatic exposure, the camera is entirely manual in operation.

Exhaustive article on the Fujifilm X100 by Enticing the Light

Miserere of Enticing the Light has written an exhaustive article on the Fujifilm X100, (re-)collecting all the information that is available on the camera so far, including charts, pictures, videos and illustrations. The article also comprises a size comparison to a number of different cameras (among these the Leica X1, Leica M9 and Olympus E-P1) as well as some of Miserere’s personal thoughts on the camera. Shouldn’t miss this if you fancy the X100! :-)

“Sprocket Rocket” — a 35mm panoramic Lomo

Photoscala.de today reported about the “Sprocket Rocket”, a new Lomo camera that uses 35mm film to create panoramic pictures of 72x35mm size. It uses a fixed 30mm lens with two aperture settings (f/10.8 and f/16) and two selectable focal distances (0.6–1m and 1m–infinity). Shutter speeds are also limited to two options, 1/100 sec. and bulb. As always with Lomo products, this is a rather special tool, but considering the price of 80 €, probably a nice little fun toy for some.

Olympus release version 1.1 of their Viewer 2 software

On Olympus’ japanese website, a new version 1.1 of the Viewer 2 software was announced. Reminder: Viewer 2 is the successor of both Master 2 and Studio 2, Olympus’ formerly basic (Master) and advanced (Studio) picture viewing, managing and processing (JPEG and RAW) solutions. Viewer 2 offers the full functionality of the former Studio software and is available as a free download for all owners of an Olympus digital camera.

October 28th, 2010, 9:08 pm | , , | Archived | Leave a comment |

Micro Four Thirds module for Ricoh GXR coming?

It’s been in the ether since the GXR was first presented — why not make a module with Micro Four Thirds mount? Wouldn’t that be one great addition not only to Micro Four Thirds, but also to the GXR system? Imagine the possibilities!

According to this Chinese website, official Ricoh representatives have now confirmed that such a module will be coming during 2011. Exact specs and arrival date as of yet unknown, but isn’t that exciting?

Via Mirrorless Rumors.

October 15th, 2010, 2:02 pm | , | Archived | Leave a comment |

EOSHD on C-mount lenses

I just found out about this article, but it is in fact already a couple months old.

As EOSHD is a community for HDSLR movie shooters, naturally the topic of C-mount lenses — which are mainly cinema and TV lenses, hence “C(inema)-mount” — isn’t that far-fetched for them. That also explains why they would mention the use of the latter on a Panasonic GH1, at the time of the writing of that article the only Full-HD capable Micro Four Thirds camera.

The article covers the general issues with C-mount lenses on Micro Four Thirds and talks about a number of brands and lenses that can be used on Panasonic and Olympus bodies via an adapter. It also features a very neat table that compares sensor sizes all from 1/6″ up to medium format — very handy!

All in all a very nice little article that shouldn’t be missing in your collection of C-mount and Micro Four Thirds related articles!

EOSHD: “Is this the best value camera lens in the world?”

October 13th, 2010, 7:07 am | , | Archived | Leave a comment |

Photkina 2010: A report in pictures

As I previously announced, yesterday I spent the day visiting photokina 2010 in Cologne, and I brought back with me a huge load of impressions, pictures of latest models, of prototypes, and other stuff. So without much ado, here’s my report on the fair — by manufacturer, in alphabetic order.

Photokina 2010 south entrance

General impressions from the fair will be posted in a seperate gallery soon.

CAUTION! Massive amount of pictures ahead! Make sure your connection is fast enough, and that you have enough time! :-)

Continue reading Photkina 2010: A report in pictures

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Photokina day 2

Today the second day of Photokina went past, and it seems the main announcements have all been made either yesterday or the days before photokina. Still, there are some small things to report on.

  • Panasonic presented a new Micro Four Thirds lens roadmap, which mentions a 25mm f/1.4, a “bright zoom” and a “bright wide angle”. See 43rumors.com.
  • The Panasonic Lumix GH2, successor to the first full-HD-video-capable MFT camera, the GH1, is now also official. As rumored, it features a new 18 megapixel multi-aspect-ratio sensor, a design close to the G2 and some other interesting upgrades. See dpreview.com, who also have a preview of it.

That’s it for today!

September 22nd, 2010, 8:49 pm | , | Archived | Leave a comment |
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