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Zeiss have just issued a press release at the IFA show in Berlin, saying that:

"In addition to the PL-, EF- and F-mount, Carl Zeiss will soon also be offering the Compact Prime CP.2 lenses with Micro 4/3 and A-mount."

Above - worldwide trends - Philip Bloom and Filmmaking

According to data released by search engine giant Google, filmmaking is declining in popularity and will be overtaken by Philip Bloom in mid 2011.

Philip Bloom is gaining on filmmaking for the world's attention because the British cinematographer sports a trendy hairstyle and enjoys a lot of self promotion! The trend of Bloom now has almost as many Google searches to his name than the industry itself.

Please take this as a rumour because I have no idea whether it is a prank, or whether it is the genuine item!

Today I received an email containing photos, which the sender claimed were of the GH2's new 18MP sensor. The photos were sent to me from a source claiming to be at a factory (although he would not say whether it was in China or Japan) and look to have been taken with an iPhone (you can see a faint outline reflection of the outer edge of it in the 2nd photo). The sender removed any EXIF and GPS data from the photos - obviously the GPS data would be a big give away as to which factory - even which office - the photos were produced in. If the source is genuine, this would have caused him some problems.

Image source: IFA 2010, press pack - Sony's press conference today at the IFA in Berlin
Source: German website Slashcam.de reports via Sony Alpha Rumors

Ichiro Takagi (Deputy President of the Imaging Business Group of Sony) today told a press conference at the IFA show in Berlin that manual video controls will be added, expressing his surprise at the reaction of customers to the lack of manual video controls.

The move follows an online campaign by EOSHD.com coinciding with the launch of the Sony A55 which pointed out the glaring omission from our perspective, of having such limited video controls! Sony followed this up with some damage limitation and then took the criticism on board.

EOSHD brings you an interview with the man behind the first broadcast quality 3D DSLR rig and you won't need 3D glasses to read it...

David Cole and his team at Beampath are currently building a DSLR 3D rig with dual Panasonic GH1s to compete with the best of them. The rig will be used by professionals, for broadcast or for film. It uses dual hacked Panasonic GH1s and it's hoped that customised firmware can be created for it.

This is an article not about licensing music. Music should always be paid for when the artist makes money from the work of others. This article is instead an impassioned plea for unrestricted use of music in non-profit personal videos, as long as the artist is credited. However there is a worrying trend of some recording artists who look negatively at their work being used in non-commercial films without prior permission - they are missing the spirit of what creativity is, and the opportunities afforded by the internet.

Rather than getting bogged down over which DSLR has the best microphone socket and lug straps, and then discussing it for 7 days on a 500 page thread, some take the approach that I too prefer. Get your arse outside. Shoot something. Preferably not your arse!

(Rig by Jay Shaffer)

Good news. I have received a rumour from a very good source close to the Panasonic group that the Panasonic GH2 features manual audio control.

CPN (Canon Professional Network) has released an interview with Tsunemasa Ohara. A brilliant engineer whose team developed the first every digital EOS camera, Ohara is now Senior General Manager for the Canon Photo Products Group. Here are the interesting bits...