November, 2011

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More Rokinon 85mm f/1.4 Micro Four Thirds fun

Monday, November 7th, 2011

Another walk through my lovely home city of Melbourne, Australia yesterday, with only my Panasonic GH-1 Micro Four Thirds camera and the wonderful, cheap, manual focus Rokinon 85mm f/1.4 lens.

The old and the new, marvellous Melbourne:

marvellous melbourne

The surveyor:

surveyor

The immigrants, life sized statues:

immigrants

I extended my walk into the Botanic Gardens during the balmy warm Spring showers, and took time out to smell the roses – this image really is best seen in large view:

rose

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Panasonic announces a new Micro four Thirds camera – an enthusiast’s compact – the GX-1

Monday, November 7th, 2011

Panasonic GX-1

  • announced Nov 2011 at MSRP $US699 body only
  • 16mp sensor (? same as in the G3), compact enthusiast design with solid metal body weighing 272g similar to the GF-1 body styling
  • built-in pop up flash plus hot-shoe
  • optional add on EVF – the new high resolution 1.44megadot tiltable LVF2 viewfinder (older LVF1 will not fit!)
  • ISO to 12,800
  • revamped CD-AF with full-area AF, fast 0.09sec AF (10% faster than the G3), new AFF focus mode which allows half-press shutter to lock a subject but then move with the subject
  • 3″ touch screen 460K dot LCD
  • new level gauge, orientation sensor, 4 Fn buttons
  • stereo mic with choice of four microphone input levels
  • 17Mbps 1080i AVCHD video similar to the G3
  • same battery as G3 and GF2

For comparisons of Micro Four Thirds cameras, see here

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Canon announces new Cine video camera system including 2 very expensive EOS dSLR cine cameras and a series of Cine lenses

Friday, November 4th, 2011

The anticipated announcement from Canon today has revealed a new pro Cine video camera system based around their EOS system, but with also a camera designed to take PL Cine lenses, the EOS C300 PL.

1st the two new video cameras:

Canon EOS C300 Digital Cinema Camera

  • two versions – EF lens mount and PL lens mount with expected list price of $US20,000 for body only.
  • 8.3MP Super 35mm sized CMOS sensor with automatic vignetting correction for recognised lenses
  • max. recording rate 50Mbps using MPEG2 1080p full HD video via industry-standard MXF (Material eXchange Format) audio and video file formats
  • frame rates of 59.41i, 50.00i, 29.97P, 25.00P and 23.98P (plus 24.00p in the PL camera)

4K Canon EOS dSLR in design stage

  • 35 mm full-frame CMOS sensor in a traditional dSLR camera body
  • 4K video (cropped to APS-H size) at 24P, with Motion-JPEG compression

EF Cine lenses:

  • CN-E14.5-60mm T2.6 L S
  • CN-E30-300mm T2.95-3.7 L S
  • CN-E24mm T1.5 L F
  • CN-E50mm T1.3 L F
  • CN-E85mm T1.3 L F

 

EF Cinema Zoom Lens_CN-E14.5-60mm T2.6 L S_EF Mount

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