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Gary Fong Puffer Flash Diffuser Review
By Photo-John
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Gary Fong has announced a flash diffuser called the Gary Fong Micro Four Thirds Puffer Pop-Up Flash Diffuser. It has a plastic frame that slides into the Olympus Pen and Panasonic Lumix GF Micro Four Thirds camera hot shoe and places a white plastic diffuser in front of the flash. Besides diffusing light from the […]
Read More »Panasonic Lumix G3 Micro Four Thirds Camera Announced
Panasonic has upped-the ante in the Compact System Camera arena with the smallest EVF-equipped (electronic viewfinder) Micro Four Thirds camera yet. The new Panasonic Lumix DMC-G3 has a built-in electronic viewfinder but is only about half an inch taller and wider than their LCD-only GF3 Micro Four Thirds camera. However, it’s not really that much […]
Read More »Sony Alpha SLT-A55 Review
The 16-megapixel Sony Alpha SLT-A55 was introduced in 2010. It has a full range of exposure modes, 1920 x 1080 full HD video, a new 15-point auto focus system with continuous auto focus in movie mode, 10 frames per second maximum burst rate, a tilt-swivel LCD display and an electronic viewfinder (EVF) instead of an […]
Read More »Think Tank Retrospective 5 Bag For Micro Four Thirds Cameras
Think Tank Photo has a new camera bag designed especially for Micro Four Thirds and rangefinder camera systems. The Think Tank Retrospective 5 shoulder bag can carry a complete Micro Four Thirds or rangefinder camera system or a digital SLR with a couple of extra lenses. The throwback canvas styling of Think Tank’s Retrospective camera […]
Read More »Olympus 75-300mm Micro Four Thirds Zoom Lens Review
One of my favorite things about the Olympus Four Thirds digital SLR system is their 70-300mm zoom lens. Now there’s Micro Four Thirds version for the Pen system cameras, the Olympus 75-300mm f/4.8-6.7 ED MSC zoom lens. I was in Vail, Colorado with Olympus last week, playing with their camera gear and one of the […]
Read More »Samsung Adds Five New NX Lenses
Last week, Samsung announced five new lenses for their NX mirrorless camera system. Like the Panasonic and Olympus Micro Four Thirds cameras and the Sony NEX cameras, the Samsung NX system has interchangeable lenses but eliminates the mirror and optical viewfinder of a traditional SLR and replaces it with an electronic viewfinder or just a […]
Read More »Leica “Mirrorless” Camera Rumor Quickly Snuffed Out
Subtitle: I Want My M9 Lite. Yesterday a rumor about a possible “mirrorless” Leica camera popped up on the Twitter account of Spanish photography publication, DSLR Magazine. This morning, that information was reposted by the Web site, 4/3 Rumors. The gist of the rumor was that one of the employees of DSLR Magazine had information […]
Read More »75 Years Of Olympus Zuiko Lenses – Plus – Mystery Lens!
At the CP+ tradeshow in Japan this week (Feb 9-12, 2011), Olympus will be celebrating 75 years of Zuiko lenses by showing off one of the original Zuiko lens cameras and a model of a new M.Zuiko Micro Four Thirds mystery lens scheduled for later this year. Stop and think about that for second – […]
Read More »Sony Alpha SLT-A55 Studio Sample Photos
This page has links to high-resolution studio sample photos taken with our 2010 Camera Of The Year, the Sony Alpha SLT-A55. We made test photos across the full sensitivity range, from ISO 100 to ISO 12,500. The images are downloadable so you can pixel peep, print and compare to your heart’s content. All sample photos […]
Read More »2010 Camera Of The Year
It’s June of 2011 and I’m adding a little update to our 2010 Camera Of The Year article. I originally wanted to create a little suspense in the introduction but since we’re well past the end of 2010 and we now have a full review up I’ll just go ahead and say the camera is […]
Read More »Olympus E-PL2 Hands-On Sneak Peek Video
Olympus has announced the E-PL2, the second generation of their entry-level E-PL Pen Micro Four Thirds camera. They sent me an E-PL2 a few days ago so I could get to know it and post a hands-on intro when it was announced. Compared to last year’s E-PL1, the Olympus E-PL2 is more of a refinement […]
Read More »Samsung NX11 Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera
Samsung announced the new NX11 mirrorless interchangeable lens camera. Similar to Samsung’s previous model, the NX10, the NX11 now features an upgraded design and i-Function lens compatibility. The NX11 has a designated i-Function button that accesses shooting controls such as shutter speed, aperture, ISO and white balance for fast and easy shooting. The Samsung NX11 […]
Read More »Panasonic Lumix GF2 – Touchscreen & Full HD Video
Panasonic has announced the follow-up to their popular Lumix GF1 Micro Four Thirds camera. The new Panasonic Lumix GF2 is smaller and lighter and trades the traditional camera controls found on the GF1 for a more consumer-friendly touchscreen control interface. It appears to use the same 12-megapixel Live MOS sensor as the GF1 but has […]
Read More »Sony Alpha SLT-A55 and SLT-A33 Translucent Mirror Cameras
There’s a new twist on the “EVIL” (Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens) camera strategy. Yesterday, Sony announced two “SLT” (Single Lens Transparent) cameras, the 16.2-megapixel Alpha SLT-A55 and 14.2-megapixel Alpha SLT-A33. Both cameras use “Translucent Mirror Technology,” which I think is what we used to call a pellicle mirror. Like Sony’s recent NEX cameras and the […]
Read More »Olympus E-PL1 Review – The Ultimate Travel Camera
I started out writing a short piece on traveling to Mazatlan with the Olympus E-PL1 digital camera. However, that short article turned into a full review. That’s just as well since the E-PL1 and Olympus’ other Micro Four Thirds cameras deserve more attention. The Micro Four Thirds camera design eliminates the mirror and optical viewfinder […]
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