Posts about 'Olympus'

Damn Apple, if you were trying to show us that you’re working hard on Aperture then job well done. Two major updates in two days? Fresh on the heels of the 3.0.1 update comes Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 3.1.The update, available now via Software Update provides support for the Hasselblad H3DII-50, Leica M9, Leica ... read more
February 25, 2010 in News by David Schloss

I found this interesting snippet from CES on the NY Times website. Eric Taub is reporting that Sony has finally seen the writing on the wall and is embracing the SDHC memory card format in addition to its own proprietary Memory Stick format in new consumer electronics devices. Both Memory Stick and SD have gone ... read more
January 7, 2010 in News by John Omvik

Panasonic has a fairly heavy-going promotional video on YouTube, but if you can get past the background music, and dead-pan delivery (sounds like it’s directly translated from Japanese), there’s plenty of info here. It’s also interesting to compare it (artistically) with the really rather excellent video commissioned by Olympus for the rival E-P1. Olympus always ... read more
November 25, 2009 in News by Kevin Carter

The Panasonic GF1 is the company’s foray in to the Micro-Four-Thirds market and it’s quite a hot camera. Akihabra News has a review up with sample images from the camera. This is one of their sample images, and they’ve got the full-res downloads of all their shots available.We’re impressed with the sharpness of it (as ... read more
November 21, 2009 in Reviews by David Schloss

As well as getting touchy-feely with the E-P2, the journalists present at the Olympus event on Friday (11/13) were also shown the forthcoming TV adverts (UK only) featuring stalwart supporter of the Arts, actor and director Kevin Spacey. The essence of the advertising campaign was outlined to those present by Julian Borra of Team Saatchi. ... read more
November 15, 2009 in News by Kevin Carter

We were invited to the London press launch of the Olympus E-P2. Mark Thackara, National Marketing Manager for Olympus cameras in the UK, gives his view of the future of the new mirror-less format cameras, including a lens road map, and details of the the differences between the E-P1 and the new model. Perhaps the ... read more
November 14, 2009 in News by Kevin Carter

As reported earlier, Olympus has announced the expected update to the original PEN E-P1, called, unsurprisingly, the E-P2. Available in a discrete black finish the E-P2 outwardly follows the same lines as its predecessor and borrows the same 12-MP resolution sensor, however, the new model adds an optional electronic viewfinder, AF-tracking, a color boosting i-Enhance ... read more
November 5, 2009 in News by Kevin Carter

The BJP-Online reports that Olympus is announcing an update to their E-P1 micro four thirds camera line. According to the BJP article, the new camera called E-P2. It features the same 12MP sensor but has an improved AF tracking allowing for better focus of moving objects. The camera also shows a new electronic viewfinder (EVF) ... read more
November 4, 2009 in News by John Omvik

Adobe released updates to ACR (Adobe Camera Raw) and Lightroom today. The most significant change is support for 5 new camera models and some bug fixes. ACR 5.5 and Lightroom 2.5 updates are available as a free download for current registered users, via the Adobe Auto Update tools.
Here are the list of changes from the ... read more
September 15, 2009 in News by John Omvik

Adobe has announced the availability of Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) 5.5 Release Candidate. This is technically still considered a “beta”, so most folks may want to wait for the final version to be released. If however you own one of the following four new supported camera models:Nikon D300s
Nikon D3000
Olympus E-P1
Panasonic DMC-FZ35It might be worth your ... read more
August 22, 2009 in News by John Omvik