A mirrorless pinhole camera made of wood!

Nowadays we are used to talk about new digital cameras only. But from time to time you still can find some “dreamer” developing film cameras. And the camera you see on top is a 4×5 pinhole camera made of wood! But this isn’t the only one made by Ondu (Click here). They also made 6×12, 6×6, 135 panoramic and a 135 pocket camera version. And if you think this camera will never have a sales success you proved to be wrong. The project already earned five times of the pledged money on Kickstarter. And that in one week only!

Going to buy one? :)

Olympus E-P5 and in Japan the E-PL6 announced!

Olympus officially announced the new E-P5 and for Japanese market only the E-PL6. Full roundup of links to tests and early hands-on can be read at 43rumors (Click here). There is not much to argue on the nice E-P5 improvements (like ISO 100 and 1/8000 shutter). But it’s a bit pity that the body only is priced at $1000 or 1000 Euro. And if you want a kit version you have to only get it with the (nice) new VF-4 viewfinder. Would have been kind from Olympus to allow us a bit more “freedom” when choosing our needed kit (for example camera+lens without viewfinder option).

A great news is that finally Olympus launched the 17, 45 and 75mm Black primes lenses. And unlike the previous 12mm Black Limited Edition the new Lenses costs the same as the Silver version. Well done!

Specs, Price and Preorders:
Full dedicated pages to the new Oly stuff at Adorama, Bhphoto.
E-P5 Black at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto.
E-P5 White at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto.
E-P5 Silver at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto.
E-P5 Black with 17mm f/1.8 lens and VF-4 at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto.
E-P5 Silver with 17mm f/1.8 lens and VF-4 at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto.
17mm f/1.8 Black at Adorama, Bhphoto.
45mm f/1.8 Black at Adorama, Bhphoto.
75mm f/1.8 Black at Adorama, Bhphoto.
VF-4 viewfinder at Adorama, Bhphoto.

Zeiss explains how the new Touit Lenses have been developed! 50mm macro to ship from October 1.

Thanks to BHphoto (Click here) we now have the estomated shipping date for the third Touit lens, the Zeiss 50mm f/2.8 macro. It will ship form October 1.

Zeiss (Click here) posted an article about “How an extraordinary family of ZEISS lenses were developed“. They explain why they didn’t go Micro Four Thirds: “In order to stay true to the high quality standards of the ZEISS brand, it was decided to focus on cameras with an APS-C sensor“. Some new image samples shot on the Fuji X camera can be found at SystemKameraForum.

Zeiss preorder links:
12mm f/2.8 at BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and Uniquephoto (Click here). In Europe at FotoMundus.
32mm f/1.8 at BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and Uniquephoto (Click here). In Europe at FotoMundus.

(UPDATE) New Zeiss Touit lens gets priced in Europe and US

UPDATE: The official US pricing can be read at Uniquephoto (Click here).

The big and well known German store Sauter posted the full price info for the new Zeiss Touit lenses:
Touit 32mm f/1.8 for 799 Euro (Click here).
Touit 12mm f/2.8 for 1099 Euro (Click here).

Obviously the price is the same for X and E mount lenses.

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