New Panasonic announcement in late August (entry level camera) and Olympus announcement on September 19

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The Micro Four Thirds is growing bigger soon:

  1. In Late August Panasonic will announce a new entry level MFT camera. There will be a new LX fixed lens camera too
  2. Olympus will announce the new E-M1II on September 19. It has an Olympus designed and Sony produced sensor. There should be also a new 12-100mm f/4.0 PRO lens, a new 25mm f/1.2 PRO prime and a 30mm f/3.5 macro

 

Dutch Nikon museum sells his entire camera and lens collection on eBay!

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The Dutch Nikon museum is selling his entire collection of over [shoplink 302613 ebay]75 cameras and lenses on eBay (Click here to see the acution with all pictures)[/shoplink].

The seller writes:

As you can see on the items which are being offered quite a number of these are samples or pre-series models which have not been offered on e-Bay (even a single one camera !!) before !! All together this collection makes it unique and is really a true one of a kind collection which makes it possible to create your own museum with !! A once in a lifetime opportunity so make sure you won’t miss out on it !!

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Not joking: Pokemon Go could revive the 3D camera market!

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A couple of years ago there was that big 3D hype. Panasonic even launched a [shoplink 302598 ebay]special 12,5mm lens for Micro Four Thirds system.[/shoplink] But the hype got killed by the fact that the consumer didn’t care about these kind of products.

But now everything is changing! Micronews reports that for the Pokemon GO game “3D cameras would make a better job at catching the small monsters.”. As a consequence “the share of Lenovo did take a good 10% upward due to this rumor. With the recent release of Phab 2 Pro, Lenovo integrated a PMD made 3D camera making it the first Google Tango enabled phablet.”

The day may come soon where camera manufacturers will make a special Pokemon GO camera????

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via Image Sensor World.

Samyang announces the new Full Frame 20mm f/1.8 lens (for all mounts)

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Samyang announced the new Full Frame 20mm f/1.8 lens. it will be available for all mounts including Sony E, Fuji X, MFT and even for the “dead” Samsung NX system. There is also a Cine version of the lens with t/1.9 aperture. The price of the non Cine lens is 549€ while the Cine versions cost a bit more 599€.

This is the image of the Cine lens version:

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