Battery grip from China for most Panasonic Micro Four Thirds cameras

Just a couple of weeks ago, Chinese company “Ownuser” released an announcement concerning a battery grip that will target all Panasonic Micro Four Thirds cameras save for the popular GF1 and GF2. Just to get a better idea on the type of battery grips you are able to purchase on eBay, you might want to ...

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Carl Zeiss to Produce Micro Four Things Lenses

If you're any sort of self respecting photography enthusiast you've undoubtedly heard of Carl Zeiss. This company has been around since 1846 producing some of the finest optical systems the world has ever seen, but you probably already know that. What you may not have known is that Carl Zeiss has just signed on to produce lenses for ...

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Panasonic Poised To Ship AG-AF100 Micro Four Thirds Camcorder In December

Today, Panasonic announced that its new Micro Four Thirds camcorder called the AG-AF100 will be shipping on the 27th day of December. Interestingly enough, that's two days after Christmas, talk about timing! Anyway, this video camera features native 1080/24p recording, variable frame rates and professional audio capabilities. However, you'll be paying handsomely ...

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Lensbaby Tilt Transformer For Nikon Lenses

Recently, Lensbaby developed the Tilt Transformer as a device to make Nikon lenses compatible with Micro Four Thirds and Sony NEX cameras. With the Tilt Transformer, any Nikon lens can be mounted on a Micro Four Thirds or Sony NEX camera and get twice the tilt of a standard tilt-shift lens. This allows ...

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Panasonic Officially Announces AG-AF100 1080p Camcorder

Panasonic has come forth today to announce their latest micro four thirds camcorder dubbed the AG-AF100. This camcorder is capable of shooting 1080/24p 24MBps video and can utilize standard DSLR lenses. Additionally, it features a SD/SDHX/SDXC card slot, HDMI out, HD-SDI out, a USBO 2.0 and even a remote control port. Obviously Panasonic has thrown an ...

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Panasonic Unveils The AG-AF100 Camcorder

According to Gizmodo, reports about Panasonic's new camcorder started surfacing this past April and it mainly seemed to be a conceptual design still on the idea table. But now, Panasonic has officially announced it as an upcoming product and it's supposed to be a micro four-thirds camcorder apparently. Furthermore, this device will be able to ...

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Panasonic releases firmware update for G1, GH1 and GF1

Panasonic has just announced that they have released firmware updates for their DMC-GF1, DMC-GH1 and DMC-G1 DSLRs. They have told us that these firmware updates will improve the camera's autofocus when using third-party lenses in addition to be able to recognize Panasonic's new 14-42mm kit zoom. The GH1 and G1 are also said to be getting ...

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Olympus’ E-P2 now available in silver

Previously only availabe in black, Olympus has just announced that their PEN E-P2 Micro Four Thirds camera will be available soon. The camera will shiip next week and include an M. Zuiko Digital ED 14-42mm 1:3.5-5.6 lens. Of course don't except it to come cheap as the MRSP for Europe is right around €799 ($1,017). via dpreview

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Panasonic AG-AF100 Micro Four Thirds Camera

Here's one of these "professional" cameras from Panasonic called the AG-AF100. This camera has a Micro Four Thirds sensor, and is capable of recording in 1080p/24p using AVC/H.264 Hi Profile AVCHD codec. It has a pair of XLR inputs, 48-kHz/16-bit two channel digital audio recording, support for LPCM/Dolby-AC3. It has dual SD ...

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Olympus Pen E-P1 Micro Four Thirds Ad

The video above is an ad for Olympus’ Pen E-P1 Micro Four Thirds camera. The Pen story shown in the video above was created by stitching together some 9600 prints with the help of stop motion animation. Unfortunately the concept behind the ad is not that original. Apparently the same stop motion animation concept was used ...

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