It’s now available for preorder at WexUK (Click here). I haven’t found preorders in other countries yet…

Sigma 28-45mm f/1.8 preorders links:
In USA at Amazon, Bhphoto, Adorama.
in EU at FotoErhardt, Calumet, WexUK.

Sigma 28-45mm f/1.8 preorders links:
In USA at Amazon, Bhphoto, Adorama.
in EU at FotoErhardt, Calumet, WexUK.

Reviews:
Review at Explora. Review at SonyAlphaBlog. French review at Alphadxd. Product page at Sigma. Test by Yuichiro Fujishiro. Test by Jack Redgate.

Youtube reviews:

At 13:00 London time Sigma will announce the world’s first Full Frame autofocus zoom lens with constant f/1.8 aperture!

Sigma 28-45mm f/1.8 preorders links:
In USA at Amazon, Bhphoto, Adorama.
in EU at FotoErhardt, Calumet, WexUK.

LA Expo kicks off on June 7

Taz Frase wrote on Threads:

Spoke to a LUMIX rep at NAB and they said Panasonic is announcing something at cine gear aimed at the high end cinematographer and that it would hint at what’s happening with the Varicam line 👀 v interested to see what happens next weekend.

I got some totally unconfirmed rumors saying there is a GH7 MFT camera coming soon. Would fit that “description” from Taz don’t you think?

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Thanks G!

Preorder at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, FotoErhardt, WexUK.

Dclife.jp reports that the Lumix 28-200mm is in short supply and new reorders will ship in August only. While the lens is out of Stock in Asia and US Eu stores sill have them in Stock. But probably only in limited quantities.

Lumix S9: Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, BestBuy, Panasonic US, FotoErhardt, FotoKoch, Calumet, WexUK, Panasonic UK.

As you know the Japanese Panasonic S9 product page briefly made use of Stock photos to showcase the S9 features. Some of those photos were even shot on Canon/Nikon cameras.

Sankei had a chat with Panasonic managers and reports:

A company representative explained, “More than 20 years ago, in a video camera advertisement, there was a technique of inserting images that were not the actual product, and we created the site with that mindset.” The company is a latecomer manufacturer that launched the “LUMIX” brand in 2001 and entered the digital camera market in earnest. Before that, it mainly dealt with home video cameras.

The marketing and development departments work together to decide on the content of the product sites for cameras, including the S9, and there were instances of misleading paid images being used on all sites for current models. The photos are currently being replaced one by one, and details will be explained in the future, including the rules for creating new sites.

I am sure Panasonic isn’t going to make these kind of errors anymore…

Lumix S9 preorder links:
US&CA at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, BestBuy, Panasonic US shop
EU at FotoErhardt, FotoKoch, Calumet, WexUK, Panasonic UK shop.

18-40mm and 26mm reorder links:
18-40mm f/4.5-6.3 at BHphoto, WexUK.
26mm f/8.0 at BHphoto, Adorama, Panasonic US, FotoErhardt, Fotokoch, Calumet, WexUK, Panasonic UK.