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Real Right Stuff L-plate For Olympus E-M1 Mark II

Overview Really Right Stuff camera body plates are all custom designed for each camera body and precision machined from solid blocks of 6061-T6 aluminum. Fully compatible with any Arca-Swiss style quick-release system, our plates feature precisely contoured anti-twist flanges for a perfect fit that prevents twisting between the camera and our plate. All of our […]

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Olympus Discontinues Four Thirds, But Not m43

I have followed 4/3 since it was announced as the first “designed for digital” system. I liked much of what Olympus and Panasonic preached in the early days about faster sensor read out speed, better battery life, lower prices, smaller cameras, small high quality fast lens, and more. This all lives on in m43, which should […]

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Olympus OM-D EM1 Mark II vs Panasonic GH5

Imaging Resource and DPReview have updated their comparison tools to include the Panasonic GH5 and Olympus OM-D EM1 Mark II. The Olympus seems to be a hair ahead of the GH5 in ISO performance, but you can check out the tool yourself. The Image Resource Comparometer can be found here and the DPReview studio scene can be […]

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Panasonic GH5 10bit Flaws in Vlog and Coverage Round-Up: Updated

Cinima5D has completed their extensive review of the Panasonic GH5 and while the over all results are very good, but they discovered a few issues. “It seems that none of these cameras truly records 1.1 billion colors and, unless my skin is made up of distinct color patches, there seems to be more to “10-bit color” than we […]

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Olympus Interview by Imaging-Resource at CP+ 2017

A very lengthy, but informative interview with Haruo Ogawa and Toshiyuki Terada from Olympus. The bullet points cover the key points, but the lengthy autofocus and sensor discussions are interesting. I imagine they will eventually design chip based instruction sets to speed up some operations, while reducing power consumption, but it will most likely come from […]

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Olympus Trade-In Event Makes Olympus OM-D EM1 Mark 2 Reasonably Priced

B&H Photo’s latest promotion makes the Olympus OM-D EM1 Mark2 reasonably priced finally! It also applies to other Olympus cameras, but the OM-D EM1 Mark2 bundle is by far the best deal in my opinion. Trade in any camera or lens to B&H Buy any of the specified cameras or lenses on the link below Use […]

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