Category Archives: Press releases

Meyer-Optik Görlitz Primoplan f1.9/58 Kickstarter

By Louis Ferreira | Published: September 9, 2016

Meyer-Optik Görlitz has another Kickstarter campaign to bring back the Primoplan f1.9/58. Don’t miss out on the early perks if your interested in picking one up.

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Olympus and Panasonic Win 2 EISA Awards Each

By Louis Ferreira | Published: August 17, 2016

Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II The Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II is a compact and lightweight camera with excellent ergonomics. With a 16.1-million-pixel Four Thirds Sensor, a high-end electronic viewfinder with 2.36 million dots and fast autofocus it is technologically state-of-the-art and delivers pictures of high quality. Thanks to the 5-axis image stabilization the camera […]

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

By Louis Ferreira | Published: July 29, 2016

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

By Louis Ferreira | Published: July 23, 2016

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

By Louis Ferreira | Published: July 4, 2016

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

By Louis Ferreira | Published: June 23, 2016

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

By Admin | Published: June 10, 2016

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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