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  • Just posted: Olympus PEN E-P5 real-world samples

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    We’ve been shooting with the Olympus PEN E-P5 for the past few weeks, in preparation for our review. Using a selection of lenses, we’ve put together a real-world samples gallery showing what the latest big PEN can do. In addition to shooting at the default settings, we’ve also tried adjusting the noise reduction and sharpening settings, and have included both out-of-camera JPEGs and Adobe Camera Raw conversions to give an idea for the choices you’re offered. Click through for a link to the gallery.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Are you an addict? Photographer blogs about ‘Gear Addiction Syndrome’

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    Florida-based Olivier Duong has been blogging about a common addiction among enthusiast and professional photographers  – G.A.S., or ‘Gear Addiction Syndrome’. Among its symptoms are ‘hoarding gear that you don’t really need and getting stuff for the sake of getting it’. Does this sound painfully familiar? In his blog post, entitled ‘How buying cameras and lenses made me miserable and loose thousands’, self-confessed former ‘gear addict’ Dunong explains how his gear acquisition got out of control. Click through for a link to the full article.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • DIY ‘blimp’ case makes Nikon D800 silent and waterproof for $80

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    So-called ‘blimp’ cases are designed to greatly reduce the sound of a camera’s shutter, making it safe to take record shots during filming for TV and movies. Typically, commercial blimp cases cost upwards of $ 1000, but pro photographer Dan Tabár made his own using a Pelican case, some ABS pipe fittings, a wireless shutter release, and other simple parts sourced at a hardware store, for around $ 80. Click through to see how well it works for both sound suppression and underwater shooting.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Hands-on with Eye-Fi Mobi card

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    Eye-Fi’s X2 wireless SD cards, which provide your camera with a Wi-Fi connection have been around for a few years, and now the company has come out with a new range of ‘mobi’ cards. The Eye-Fi Mobi, which is available as a 8GB/Class 10 SDHC card for $ 50 and a 16GB/Class 10 SDHC card for $ 80, lacks some of the features of the X2-series but offers the ability to send full-resolution photos wirelessly as they’re captured to iOS devices and Android devices. Click through for our hands-on article over at connect.dpreview.com.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Panasonic releases firmware updates for Lumix GH3 and G5

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    Panasonic has released firmware updates for its Lumix DMC-GH3 and DMC-G5 mirrorless cameras. Version 1.2 for the GH3 adds a ‘Low light focus’ mode that works down to -3 EV, a ‘Silent Mode’, and an ‘Exposure Compensation Reset’ function. Meanwhile version 1.1 for the G5 only corrects wording of the Motion Picture menu on cameras sold in PAL broadcast regions, and therefore isn’t required by US owners. Click through for download links.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • French student creates SLR using 3D printer

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    We normally don’t cover film cameras on DPReview, but this one’s too cool to pass up. Twenty-four year old Léo Marius has created a 35mm film SLR using a 3D printer, complete with a viewfinder and compatibility for any lens mount (once the appropriate mount is created and attached, of course). The camera isn’t available for sale, but Marius provides instructions for creating your own. Click through for more details, and pictures of the homemade camera. 

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Gallery: Photographers capture the spirit of summer

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    Photographers around the world are sharing their favorite photos of summer (and winter, for those in the Southern hemisphere) across various social photography sharing sites. We scoured the web for some of the best shots of the season and are sharing them on connect.dpreview.com. Click through to see our selection, and remember that you can share your own photos on our busy Forums, and via our Galleries system. 

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Nikon looks beyond cameras as compact sales continue to slide

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    Nikon President Makoto Kimura says the company could make a non-camera consumer product, prompting speculation that it’s eyeing the smartphone market, in response to falling compact camera sales. With compact camera sales down by around 25% across the industry (according to market research company IDC) and shipments from Japanese makers down 47% year-on-year for the first five months of 2013, Nikon says it may fall short of its ‘fairly low’ earnings estimates for the first quarter of this financial year. Despite Japanese DSLR incomes falling by around 13% in the first five months of the year, Kimura says he expects the company’s DSLR sales to support the loss of compact sales for ‘several more years’ until it can produce ‘a product that will change the concept of digital cameras.’ Read more over at connect.dpreview.com

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Just Posted: Update to Sony RX100 M2 Samples Gallery

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    We’ve just posted an update to our samples gallery taken with the new 20MP Sony Cyber-shot RX100 M2. Now that we’ve had a little more time with the camera we’ve concentrated on getting a wider range of real-world shots, highlighting the potential of the camera’s fast wideangle lens setting, and its improved low-light performance. Click through to see our expanded gallery of real-world samples. 

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Olympus executives sentenced, avoid jail time

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    More than a year after their arrest in February 2012 for hiding massive corporate losses dating back to the 1990s, three former Olympus executives received suspended jail terms for crimes they admitted committing. In a story marked as one of the largest frauds in Japanese history, the executives conspired to cover up approximately $ 1.5 billion in investment losses. Olympus itself was fined ¥700 million (about $ 7 million) for the actions of Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, former chairman, Hideo Yamada, former auditor, and Hisashi Mori, former executive vice president.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)