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Panasonic doesn’t believe Olympus shooters will switch to their MFT products

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Although Japan Industrial Partners has essentially come out and said that it’s business as usual for Olympus as a camera brand and that it has big plans (particularly with video) for the Micro Four Thirds system in the future, many MFT shooters are still in doubt about what may come under the brand’s new ownership.

A report on 43Rumors today, also suggests that Panasonic isn’t all that confident in MFT’s future, either. They say that Panasonic doesn’t see a lot of potential for Olympus shooters to switch to Panasonic’s Micro Four Thirds products, suspecting that they’ll just stick with what they or move over to an APS-C or full-frame system.

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Sony’s new tiny A7C full-frame mirrorless camera has now officially been announced

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While we have had a couple of photo and basic specs leaks, Sony has managed to keep the major specs of its new Sony A7C mostly under wraps. But now, it’s finally been announced and all the details are out – although, for some reason, Sony decided to announce it when much of the world was asleep.

Although ideal for vloggers and content creators, the A7C is no slouch as a regular photography camera, either. It’s is essentially an A7 III in an A6600-sized body and the specs aren’t that much different, although the A7C has a couple of extra tricks up it sleeve that beat out both the A7 III and A6600.

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Here are the first leaked photos of the upcoming Sony A7c

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A few days ago, Sony teased  A7c, a “new concept” camera scheduled to launch on 15 September. But as it often happens, a few images have leaked a few days ahead of the announcement. So, if you’re curious to see how the Sony A7c will look, you don’t have to wait for Tuesday. Let’s take a look at the images and the specs that have been revealed so far.

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Sony published a new teaser – A7c coming on September 15th?

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Sony has launched a teaser image for a “new concept” camera that’s being announced on September 15th – just one week from today. It’s been expected that Sony will launch another new full-frame camera at some point this month. Originally expected to be an A5 or A6, but now it appears that it may be called the A7c.

Other than the information shown in the screenshot above, there isn’t anything official yet. They don’t even mention what timezone the 10am announcement is for. But given that it’s on the Sony Japan website, I suppose we can assume Tokyo time. This would mean 2am in the UK and 9pm Eastern or 6pm Pacific on the 14th for the US.

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Panasonic’s new G100 vlogging camera makes on-camera mics obsolete but there’s no IBIS

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Panasonic has announced its new G100 camera (G110 in some regions) and it offers some very interesting features – like Nokia’s OZO Audio technology which allows the camera to listen to sound from every direction to pick out and record only what you want it to capture. It’s not perfect, though. In fact, there are a couple of points that have essentially become dealbreakers for me.

There’s no IBIS. Yes, that’s right, no IBIS. So, you’re reliant on using stabilised lenses or dealing with electronic image stabilisation. The 4K video also has the same 2.52x crop factor of their other 20-megapixel cameras, which means that 12-32mm kit lens essentially offers the same field of view as 30-80mm on full-frame.

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Panasonic’s new $799 G100 vlogging camera will also shoot vertical video for Instagram

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Well, Panasonic has a new announcement page ready for debuting what is expected to be the Panasonic G100 – a camera aimed squarely at vloggers. Whether or not the announcement page will have a live stream or simply a promotional video to coincide with the official announcement is currently unknown, but I guess we’ll find out tomorrow.

What is quite interesting, though, is that 43Rumors is reporting that the Panasonic G100 will actually let you shoot vertical videos for things like Instagram Stories and TikTok. Yes, I know you can hold any camera at 90 degrees and shoot video, but this one actually rotates the orientation of the footage so that it’s actually vertical in the file.

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Panasonic to announce G100 camera aimed at vloggers on June 24th

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It seems that Sony isn’t the only company finally seeing vloggers as a serious market. With the rise in vloggers on YouTube over the past few years, and particularly in the last few months as many are stuck at home, it was only a matter of time before companies finally started giving them what they really wanted.

Sony’s new ZV-1 vlogging camera seems to have been met with a very warm reception and now Panasonic’s apparently getting in on the action with the G100, according to 43Rumors, with an official announcement expected on June 24th.

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Sony UK teases “new compact camera” (likely the ZV-1) launching in 6 days

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Sony UK is teasing an announcement coming in six days and a few hours. The teaser doesn’t say anything about the camera. There’s no model name, no specs, nothing, just a silhouette and a countdown. Although, that silhouette might look slightly familiar to some.

If you spotted the leaked photos claiming to be the new Sony ZV-1 recently, then it’s pretty obvious that it’s going to be the Sony ZV-1 announcement. Sony’s new compact, which appears to essentially be an RX100 VII successor (but with a shorter focal length range) aimed at vloggers.

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First leaked images of the Sony ZV-1 show a vlogging-oriented RX100 VII successor

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The first images of the upcoming Sony ZV-1 have leaked, courtesy of Sony Alpha Rumours, and they show an interesting looking camera that would suggest that Sony is finally starting to wake up the massive vlogging market.

Sure, Sony has had a go in the past with strange handle contraptions and finally adding a microphone socket to last year’s RX100 VII. But finally having a flippy out LCD should make life much easier. Oh, and it also has a hotshoe for your top-mounted microphone.

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