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Micro Four Thirds lens choices is getting bigger.  GH2 owners will need to watch to see what this brings. Olympus News Release: Olympus Imaging Corp. and Panasonic Corporation jointly announced the Micro Four Thirds System standard in 2008 and have since been working together to promote the standard. Now we are pleased to announce that three more companies have recently declared their support for the standard and will be introducing products compliant with the Micro Four Thirds System standard. ASTRODESIGN, Inc., a developer of advanced imaging-related equipment, such as the 4K camera system, that incorporates the latest technology; Kenko Tokina … Continue reading →

This article by George Will in the Washington Post is of importance to all photographers: A snapshot of our times By George F. Will, Published: January 18 LOS ANGELES Shawn Nee, 35, works in television but hopes to publish a book of photographs. Shane Quentin, 31, repairs bicycles but enjoys photographing industrial scenes at night. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department probably wishes that both would find other hobbies. Herewith a story of today’s inevitable friction between people exercising, and others protecting, freedom. When the Los Angeles Police Department developed a Suspicious Activity Report program, the federal government encouraged local law … Continue reading →

Stop Internet Censorship Now. Call your elected officials. Tell them you are their constituent, and you oppose SOPA and PIPA.  Why? SOPA and PIPA would put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites won’t have sufficient resources to defend themselves. Big media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for their foreign competitors, even if copyright isn’t being infringed. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won’t show up in major search engines. SOPA and PIPA would build a framework for future restrictions and suppression. In a … Continue reading →

Imaging Resource (Click here) had a long talk with MR. Darin Pepple, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Imaging at Panasonic Consumer Electronics Co. He was interviewed by Imaging Resource publisher Dave Etchells, senior editor Shawn Barnett, and features editor Arthur Etchells.  Here is a section about the GH2 from the interview: AE: What sorts of things might we see and what sorts of directions might Panasonic go with the successor to the GH2? DP: Much has been talked about a successor for GH2. The GH2 has been out now for a little over a year, so people are wondering about the next model. There’s no one great … Continue reading →

And now a break from CES news. Enjoy. This is a very well done video.  Shot on a RED One.  http://jesserosten.com/

Yes, that is right, the long rumored zooms have made an appearance.  Here are the photos from CES 2012 that show a Panasonic Lumix Vario 12-35 F2.8 O.I.S and a Lumix Vario 35-100 F2.8 O.I.S. concept prototypes.  These pictures are at Vitaliy Kiselev’s site personal-view.com.   He is responsible for the GH2 Hack. These pictures are from the PhotograhyBlog.com People are asking on DPreview why is Panasonic showing theses lenses and I responded: “Some of you are missing what the these lenses are being make for. Another camera in the Panasonic 4/3d’s line up is the professional AF100/101 video camera. As a user of … Continue reading →

In one of the more interesting things coming out of CES 2012, Tech Tilt has a new video about the new LaCie Thunderbolt devices. The newest Thunderbolt device is an eSATA hub, which features 2 eSATA ports and 2 Thunderbolt ports, which allows for additional Thunderbolt devices to be daisy chained. Also in addition to the previously announced Little Big Disk, the LaCie 2big sports dual drives for a total of 4TB or 6TB capacities were shown. They should ship first-quarter 2012. Check out the video below for a closer look.