A Buddy of mine wrote this review and as soon as I read it I had to ask if I could link it through my blog. This is a link Review of the 14-35 SWD Olympus SHG Lens.

Image by Brandon Eu Photograpy
The newest SHG flagship lens. If you shoot with a 4/3 body professionally or as a serious hobbyist it is definitely a lens you have to check out. Click the title or photo to go to his review or HERE
I hope you take the time to check out Brandon's Review as well as his blog. As always feel free to leave your comments, feedback, and questions. Thanks, Corey Brown (Glory 2 Jesus 4 Photography)

This is some interesting news (Photography wise)
The ability to mix match hardware and basically software as well.

I think this will be interesting to watch how

this develops.
Would it not be a dream to be able to use Olympus Super High grade lenses with a D3X sensor. It would not be something I would be willing to spend my money on until it has a few years and or some really solid results. However I would be willing to do some alpha and beta testing for the project. Here is a link to the full artical overall a good read make sure you check it out.
Open-source camera could revolutionize photography

Corey Brown (Glory 2 Jesus 4 Photography)

Somebody stumbled upon a Leica web page for the M9 and was able to grab some screen shots before Leica locked the page up.
Here is a sneak peak of the page.

There are 15 other screen captures of the page. If interested in seeing them let me know and I will post the others. Here is a link to the now locked M9 Page http://m9.leica-camera.com/home_en.html Which seems to me an official Leica url. So if it a hoax some one has went to a ton of trouble for something that is going to be announced in only 4 days. Oh P.S. here is a link to the Brochure http://litpixel.com/m9_brochure_english_RZ_low.1.pdf

As every one who knows much about photography Leica is a world renowned Camera manufacture. Though this day and age a lot of there "new" products are still dated by todays standard. Even with that in mind the Co. has managed to stay afloat as well as there own. If you know Leica Cameras very well you will notice Or think you notice a few things and differences that you have not seen on previous Leica's. Feel free to leave you Thoughts and comments. Thank you and God Bless, Corey Brown (Glory 2 Jesus 4 Photography)

Smugmug has long announced that they were going to be integrating a new Pro lab. In fact they have been saying this for about a year. Well it looks like it may come to pass. A few clues have been given to me by David Jay and Andy Williams. The first clue is: That they met in California last week for a few hours. The next clue is that they will be with the new pro lab at WPPI Feb. 14-19. Well if you look at the floor plan of WPPI booth 1525 is Smugmug right next to it is 1519 which happens to be a Pro Lab. This same lab is located not too far from the physical address of Smugmug. One is in Santa Cruz, the other in Mt. View. If you do not know where they are here is a map View Larger Map So you want to know what Pro Lab is in Santa Cruz, CA? It is Bay Photo. Now keep in mind this is pure speculation and I am only going by clues and could be wrong but we will see before the 14th of Feb. Thanks and God Bless Corey Brown (Glory 2 Jesus 4 Photography)

That is right it is that time of year. Let me tell you to say I am excited is a understatement. We have so many more options and possibilities for our customers this year I can hardly contain my self. This year we are offering both 5X7 folding cards as well as the 4X8 flat cards. To get more details visit my web site Link Here. Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks and God Bless. Corey Brown

Just a quick update to the previous post Panasonic has definitely made the announcement official and here is a link to the English web site.

Panasonic has a web page up that has not hit the us market as I write this but these are some of the photos off of Panasonics site. It looks as though that the Panny/Olympus announcement was not to be taken very lightly because be the looks of it and the information that I have gathered shows that we could expect to see this camera on the shelfs as early as Mid November. Shown above is some of the CAF tracking and note the micro 4/3 symbol top left corner of the body. The first lenses that should both be avalible at the same time as the body are the 14-45 F 3.5-5.6 and the 45-200 F 4.0-5.6. Both equipped with O.I.S. Which works very well Panasonic as been using this kind of image stabilization for a few years and improving it along the way. As you can see that this camera has a few color choices and by the scene selection and the open user interface will make it very desirable for a novice wanting to expand their quality of their photos. However if you look closely below you will see on the mode dial on the right hand side of the body that this camera has a full line up of user controlled empowerment including full manual. Making it a camera that will be very easy for an inspiring amateur to learn with and whant to carry with them. This will have a 12 MP sensor making it the most MP on a 4/3 sensor that I know of. The body it self is supposed to way a mere 385 grams that is less then a pound ruffly the same as a Wendy's triple cheese burger. It will also have the Supersonic wave filter dust reduction system Which is very effective and highly rated in many reviews. The G1 also features a flip out screen like that found on the Lumix L10 and the Olympus E3 which in some circumstances makes getting so much easier if not the only way. It is just in my professional observation that this sure does look like something aimed at soccer moms collage students needing a little more camera for a course but still something easy to carry around ect. ect. However many professionals will be happy to find a smaller package to use with this kind of flexibility and control. Though there is not a lot of information out on this camera at least in English I expect we will get the full details at Photokina. Here is the Link to the Lumix/Panasonic Web site if yo would like to check it out. Thanks and God Bless Corey Brown