Panasonic shrinks Micro Four Thirds lenses: meet the new X-series Power Zoom lenses

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  • August 26, 2011 at 3:52 am

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Panasonic 14-42mm X-series Power Zoom lens extended and GF3 kit

Compact camera lovers are having their best year yet. Panasonic has just announced a new series of high-end lenses, Lumix X, utilizing a Micro Four Thirds mount, which will lie between the current standard Lumix G and the premium Leica lenses. The big news however is that the first two X-lenses feature an electric-powered zoom — the world’s first digital interchangeable power zoom lenses; you zoom-in/out using a rocker level rather than rotating a mechanical barrel. Utilizing a power zoom, Panasonic has managed to shrink the lenses and cut down on their weight.
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Sony NEX-7 vs. Fujifilm X100 vs. Olympus E-P3 vs. Panasonic DMC-GF3

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  • August 24, 2011 at 7:18 pm

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Sony NEX-7 with Alpha lens

Sony’s just announced NEX-7 digital camera is a real contender as the new king in the compact mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera realm. We’re sure that you are itching, same as we, to see how it stacks up against the competition. We’ve pitted the NEX-7 against two Micro Four Thirds (MFT) cameras, the new Olympus E-P3 and the Panasonic GF3 — although we are sure Panasonic is secretly cooking a high end shooter, the GF3 is currently their higher end compact MFT camera. We’ve also added the excellent fixed lens Fujifilm FinePix X100 to our comparison; the NEX-7 shares some of same genes having a no-nonsense retro look, APS-C sensor and lots of controls. Head over after the link to see a spec fight-out.
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Adobe Lightroom 3.5 and Camera Raw 6.5 with new camera RAW and lens profile support

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  • August 23, 2011 at 5:19 pm

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Adobe Lightroom 3

Adobe has just made available, for download, Release Candidates (RCs) for Adobe Lightroom and Camera Raw with RAW support for a number of new cameras. If you have one of the latest digital cameras from Olympus, Panasonic, Sony, Fuji or Phase One, and have been itching for RAW support from Adobe, this latest update should cover you.

The RCs also bring lens profile support for an additional 26 lenses from the likes of Canon, Hasselblad, Nikon, Sony, Pentax and Sigma including the Canon EF 14mm f/2.8 L USM. The updates also include a number of bug fixes and improvements.
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