Category Archives: Press releases

Petition to Add a LOG video profile to the GX85/GX80

A 43addict reader started a petition to add a LOG video profile to the Panasonic GX85/80. Please lend your support. “In May 2016, Panasonic announced their new camera: the GX85. With its revolutionary 5-axis stabilization and 4K video, it began a new era for Panasonic users. However, users and potential customers see themselves limited in […]

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Panasonic is Changing How They Name Cameras

Panasonic is simplifying their naming convention. There will only be G.GX and GH, followed by a single digit for professional, double for amateur, and triple for consumer. “To clear things up, so Panasonic is planning to put all these flat names to reduce all three families: G, GX, GH. GM names and GF therefore pass by […]

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New SAMYANG 50mm F1.2 AS UMC CS

Kind of an interesting lens because there are a few reviews on the web of it, but I can’t find it anywhere on Amazon (has the generic, but not the Samyang), B&H Photo, or Adorama. Translated: Kenko Co., Ltd., the sale of South Korea · Samyang Optics Co., Ltd. of the interchangeable lens “SAMYANG 50mm F1.2 AS UMC CS”, will start […]

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Portraits of Love

Panasonic, Fujifilm, Sony, Nikon, Ricoh, Canon, Samsung, Sigma, Tamron, EyeFi, and Digital Photo Academy, sponsor the Portraits of Love project along with the USO and PMDA, which is a project that tries to capture a memory for soldiers to take with them when they are deployed. If you have the time/resources/skill it is a worthy cause to donate too. Alpha universe has and […]

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Panasonic issued an apology for the delay of camera shipments due to the Kumamoto earthquake

Update: Olympus issued a similar statement. Similar to other Japanese companies, Panasonic Japan also issued an apology for the potential delay of camera equipment shipments due to the Kumamoto earthquake. Here is the translated text:

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