[quote name='Klaus' timestamp='1283322016' post='2394']
I am, however, severely disappointed that Panasonic and Olympus are obviously always releasing lenses in the same class. Rather than filling the gaps competition seems more important to them which is an utterly useless approach at this stage. Who needs two fisheye lenses for god's sake ? However, this just reconfirms the poor marketing of the FT/MFT gang.
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Yeah, that's the most annoying thing about the so called "cooperation" in the mFT market.
If by some miracle panasonic releases a ~40mm f1.8 pancake, GF1 with these 3 pancakes (20mm f1.7 and 14mm f2.5) would be a perfect ultra-light travel kit. But I guess it's not going to happen in the nearest future <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='  ' />
Well, in principal this should have been posted by the "News Generator" but Olympus is obviously unable to maintain their RSS news feeds (the News Generator is based on a mash up of manufacturer RSS feeds).
[quote name='joachim' timestamp='1283290306' post='2390']
I agree, with you on the samples. They are full of artefacts - most likely to high JPEG compression.
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The 2nd photo has a problem with the optics (how is that called, when a light area starts to "shine" into neighbouring areas?), look at the finger tips/nails for instance.
Both of them are severely hampered by very strong/bad chromatic noise reduction, it is not so much JPEG artifacts. <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/huh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=' ' />
[quote name='Klaus' timestamp='1283322016' post='2394']
I am, however, severely disappointed that Panasonic and Olympus are obviously always releasing lenses in the same class. Rather than filling the gaps competition seems more important to them which is an utterly useless approach at this stage. Who needs two fisheye lenses for god's sake ? However, this just reconfirms the poor marketing of the FT/MFT gang.
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I though that was due to the fact that Panasonic uses optical IS and Olympus uses in-body IS?
[quote name='Lomskij' timestamp='1283329272' post='2395']
Yeah, that's the most annoying thing about the so called "cooperation" in the mFT market.
If by some miracle panasonic releases a ~40mm f1.8 pancake, GF1 with these 3 pancakes (20mm f1.7 and 14mm f2.5) would be a perfect ultra-light travel kit. But I guess it's not going to happen in the nearest future <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=' ' />
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Panasonic have a 45/2.8. This is is not particularly large or utterly slow. Until something faster gets released this can fill the void. Also when traveling macro capabilities can come in handy.
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[quote name='Klaus' timestamp='1283331397' post='2396']
Well, in principal this should have been posted by the "News Generator" but Olympus is obviously unable to maintain their RSS news feeds (the News Generator is based on a mash up of manufacturer RSS feeds).
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Klaus,
Is this "News Generator" paying for photozone in some way? If not I would kill it. I always thought it was a special feature of this very place, that forum members reported the news in a fashion they liked it. Sometimes just sharing a link, sometimes commenting on it as well.
If the New Generator is needed to pay for photozone, I can ignore it (which is what I do, after having reported it several times as spam and never seen any action/reply on my reports).
Ta
Joachim
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[quote name='joachim' timestamp='1283339863' post='2405']
Klaus,
Is this "News Generator" paying for photozone in some way? If not I would kill it. I always thought it was a special feature of this very place, that forum members reported the news in a fashion they liked it. Sometimes just sharing a link, sometimes commenting on it as well.
If the New Generator is needed to pay for photozone, I can ignore it (which is what I do, after having reported it several times as spam and never seen any action/reply on my reports).
Ta
Joachim
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There's no financial benefit for Photozone. These are just the official press releases by the primary manufacturers. No sales offers, no trojans, no fraud. Just the "press releases". So what's the problem ? That's exactly what the headline of the "News" forum is saying after all. :-)
Here's the techical background:
I checked the manufacturer sites for RSS feeds. These feeds are filtered for DSLR/EVIL related content and mashed up to a single newsfeed which covers all manufacturers but Sigma, Tamron, Tokina - these 3 offer no RSS news feeds. The "News Generator" is a feature in the forum engine - it translates RSS feeds to forum messages. It's no external supplier or whatever.
Alternatively I could also post a message here pointing to the press release of a new product but why should I do that if this RSS feed does just that for me.
The value-add is pretty obvious - it saves (my) time.
There's of course the downside that you sometimes get those colorful, nonsense "news" messages where the manufacturers try to promote something. I don't consider this to be disaster though.
[quote name='joachim' timestamp='1283339427' post='2404']
Panasonic have a 45/2.8. This is is not particularly large or utterly slow. Until something faster gets released this can fill the void. Also when traveling macro capabilities can come in handy.
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Not sure. Compared with pancakes, it is big, it has a DOF equivalent f/5.6 which is pretty rubbish for portraits and worst of all, it's incredibly overpriced. Some voigtlander m-mount pancakes might fit the bill, pity they're manual focusing only <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=' ' />
[quote name='Klaus' timestamp='1283341382' post='2406']
There's no financial benefit for Photozone. These are just the official press releases by the primary manufacturers. No sales offers, no trojans, no fraud. Just the "press releases". So what's the problem ? That's exactly what the headline of the "News" forum is saying after all. :-)
Here's the techical background:
I checked the manufacturer sites for RSS feeds. These feeds are filtered for DSLR/EVIL related content and mashed up to a single newsfeed which covers all manufacturers but Sigma, Tamron, Tokina - these 3 offer no RSS news feeds. The "News Generator" is a feature in the forum engine - it translates RSS feeds to forum messages. It's no external supplier or whatever.
Alternatively I could also post a message here pointing to the press release of a new product but why should I do that if this RSS feed does just that for me.
The value-add is pretty obvious - it saves (my) time.
There's of course the downside that you sometimes get those colorful, nonsense "news" messages where the manufacturers try to promote something. I don't consider this to be disaster though.
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Hi Klaus,
thanks for the explanation. As I said, I can ignore the news generator, but as you have seen, the things the news generator misses still get reported by members. Member reports typically carry more discussion (and pz-live) than the dire press releases. When I first saw this, I thought someone had hijacked an account to get free advertisement ...
As usual I voiced my opinion and you decide as PZ-super-guru.
Thanks again
Joachim
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[quote name='Lomskij' timestamp='1283342605' post='2407']
Not sure. Compared with pancakes, it is big, it has a DOF equivalent f/5.6 which is pretty rubbish for portraits and worst of all, it's incredibly overpriced. Some voigtlander m-mount pancakes might fit the bill, pity they're manual focusing only <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='  ' />
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[url="http://masters.galleries.dpreview.com.s3.amazonaws.com/112926.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=14Y3MT0G2J4Y72K3ZXR2&Expires=1283357289&Signature=BqGsBi%2fH2ggMuo2N1Lpve9XVYT0%3d"]http://masters.galle...N1Lpve9XVYT0%3d[/url] (from dpreview's review of the 45) looks ok to me regarding the blurr. Sure there is an ugly line in the back ground, but that is a mistake of the photographer and not a lens issue.
Considering the price tag, don't you value the Leica name <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=' ' />
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