Author Archives: Louis Ferreira

Panasonic Stripped-Down GH4 4K Drone Camera/Gimbal Prototype

Newsshooter spotted two interesting prototype at photokina. It’s a fully functional GH4 that’s more suitable for drones and can be controlled via USB or wirelessly. There is also a prototype Panasonic drone gimbal in the video. If Panasonic gets serious about producing this we could see it in 2017, but maybe they will wait to do it with the GH5 guts.

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Photokina 2016 DPReview Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II

Pretty standard interview with Eric from Olympus, but one of the major revelations is that the 5-axis image stabilization will work along side in lens image stabilization while doing video, which gives you hand held steady came performance. Image stabilization technology is getting serious. The Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II will be a power house for […]

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Additional Details on The Xiao Yi M1

The announcement of the Xiao Yi M1 made waves with it’s Leica T like design and red square log. The English site is now online for those looking to learn more about this very interesting camera from China. It will be released September 23rd in China and shortly after in the United States. This camera […]

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Panasonic G85 First Look and Lumix 15th Anniversary

The Panasonic G85 has been over shadowed by the new flagship Olympus E-M1 Mark II, but the G85 is a substantial improvement over the previous generations of Panasonic cameras falling somewhere between the GX8 and G7. There is a lot of value in the Panasonic line of m43 cameras at the moment, you just need to pick […]

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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II 15fps

Olympus has drastically increased the speed of the Olympus OM-D E-M1. Interestingly the shuttler looks a little creased on the right side if you pause the video at just the right time, but someone might have done something really weird with a floor camera to cause the crease. I can’t wait to get my hands on […]

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