the first pic of ep-3 is out
http://www.43rumors.com/category/rumor/

but i have some negative reaction towards the interchangeable hand grip design,it looks like some extra piece of plastic rubber attach to the nice metal body,kinda spoil the beautiful line and doesn't looks integrated with the camera,i hope looking at the real stuff would be a bit more attractive

almost ejaculated when e-p3 spec is officials,but little underwhelm by the iso performance

http://www.dpreview.com/previews/olympusep3/page11.asp

i think pana 16 megapixel sensor is doing a much better job
but still kudos to the ppl behind the autofocus department

small flash small power,i rather it looks ugly but serve the purpose of external flash,whats the use of an external flash which has unadequate power to bounce or to couple with diffuser

i more interested in the pricing of 45mm f1.8

even smaller sensor size than four third?i really dunno whats their head up to on nikon,its saying "forget bout artistic control and sensor performance,what ppl want today is a small camera!",it will be a major handicap factor for the system forever

why don't they just save on the $$ developing new sensor and join the 43 consortium or continue using the readily available existing aps-c sensor

This post has been edited by Valentino46: Aug 3 2011, 01:15 PM

i think i gotta start thinking from majority market perspective
sad to see even a company like nikon is moving the directions towards p&s market rather for their out and out image quality as like what they had for their dslr

i not sure bout the PnS market,im not going into mirrorless route for the sake of the form,sony are competing the wrong thing with their nex(bar the upcoming nex-7,which im sure to get it if the review is right),im sure some of us prefer pro camera to be a bit larger too,DSLR is gaining popularity these few years which shows that ppl which serious bout camera will still buy large camera(some ended as paper weight after sometime),but take samsung mirrorless system for example,thats the best size for me

This post has been edited by Valentino46: Aug 4 2011, 02:22 AM

accuracy of contrast detection,if u remember i complained focusing issue of my 7d with several lens before
size is a good by-product of mirrorless natural design but i treated it as just a bonus point for going mirrorless

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Added on August 4, 2011, 1:12 pmyeap,but i aint getting samsung system for the time being,their sensor technology isn't up to scratch yet,but im being biased here though

This post has been edited by Valentino46: Aug 4 2011, 01:12 PM

and she uses nokton manual focusing lens,how sexy is that!

ep-3 for sure!
the sensor is less noisy plus in body stabilization help u push the iso lower no matter wat lens u have

in real life the different is hardly noticeable,its not too much of the issue if there's no other camera to compare side by side,you won't felt the tiny details missing

This post has been edited by Valentino46: Aug 5 2011, 11:29 PM

the gf3 asking price was very attractive indeed,i'm tempted sometime ago
if you don't need the extra features like hotshoe and fp-syn those kind of stuff,get the gf3
imho the iso performance is not substantial enough to be the differential factor between the 2

something i find quite funny when looking at the statement by panasonic spokesmen about their design direction,according to one of the interview quoted from 43rumors website http://www.43rumors.com/panasonic-has-no-p...cameras-coming/

The polish website Optyczne (Click here) interviewed Mister Michiharu Uematsu from Panasonic. The most interesting points are:

2) And here is the reaosn why you want never see a Panasonic camera with built-in stabilization: “So far, no plans to assemble in a body-stabilized matrices. When recording movies acting to stabilize the matrix generates unnecessary noise on the soundtrack, and increases power consumption, and for all of our equipment we want efficient energy consumption.”


according to them the reason behind the absent of in-body stabilization in panasonic body was that they want "efficient energy consumption device",but interestingly panasonic was always significantly less power efficient than their immediate competitor olympus in this respect by a substantial margin despite their lack of the in-body stabilizer.

This post has been edited by Valentino46: Aug 13 2011, 02:50 AM

unlike changing sensor format,i reckon inclusive of in body IS is much easier and can be completely fluid in adapting existing lenses as well(we have no problem using stabilized pana lens on olym body for example),with very little innovative thinking they could easily give us something like dual IS control,with the camera control unit will automatic switching to appropriate IS system to achieve the best results(panning,video,still mode IS for example),only thing is perhaps the marketing ppl is not convince that inclusive of this feature will translate to increase sales,then thats the problem,i don't believe its a technological bound issue

This post has been edited by Valentino46: Aug 14 2011, 12:19 AM

a higher price which i'm sure you & me and many forumers here willing fork out,olympus counterpart doesn't cost that much more anyway,do you ever wished your 20mm f1.7 or the upcoming 12mm f2.0 or perhaps the 45mm f1.8 is stabilized to work better in low light?oops sorry you can't because you are using panasonic body,but panasonic themselves might think the majority others don't give it a damn

the soft stabilization of my xz-1 is ok i think,though it alter the FOV slightly
there are no proper dual stabilizer at the moment thats why i state "with a little innovative thinking" they could offer that for the first time
but there are third party lens manufacturer which offer their stabilized lens to other body with IBIS,think sigma OS and tamron VC on alpha and pentax system,which they can choose to turn off one of them or have them running both at the sametime

focus peaking and focus aid zoom is different,focus peaking is much easier to use

This post has been edited by Valentino46: Aug 16 2011, 03:54 AM

i think the bokeh has fuzzy looking to it

surely the pana 14-140mm lor...but pana is coming out with a new pancake version of 14-42mm ZOOM which is very very nice indeed
http://www.43rumors.com/ft5-hot-image-leak...m-is-a-pancake/

i don't have bad comment on the graphic design on the new lens,i find it to be informative,its not ah beng look la imho,cuma a bit more gadgetry like,and they looks to be much superior quality to the plasticky looks of the old pana lens

This post has been edited by Valentino46: Aug 26 2011, 07:16 PM