Olympus (Click here) issued a new firmware update for the 45mm f/1.8 lens. It fix an issue occurring with the GF6/G6 and GH3 cameras.
Olympus (Click here) issued a new firmware update for the 45mm f/1.8 lens. It fix an issue occurring with the GF6/G6 and GH3 cameras.
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See, Olympus and Panasonic are trying to get along with each other! Their fans should, too.
Unless all that rivalry here is just garden-variety trolling disguised as fanpersonism.
…gee…that’s a nice story……
yeah they should… but lumix jpeg it look just too horrible to be like =[
I feel a lot of love in this forum. Everyone join hands and stop bashing Oly and Pany.
Well, they did co-found the FT and mFT standards after all 🙂 Competition can continue along with co-operation. Olympus has been leading the way with IBIS and Panasonic has been leading the way with video quality and features.
I guess this is probably the reason why Olympus intentionally cripple the video quality in their own cameras…
Wonder there is a need for my GX to do the same firmware upgrade .
If they can do this than both Oly and panny can brush their egos aside and work on a solution for ca and distortion removal that corrects for both Oly and Panny lenses in either brand of body.
Limitations like this make some potential buyers stay with one brand even though they’d like to use another.
I never had these silly issues with the classic fourthirds format because lenses were built to be corrected as possibly could be, albeit at a considerably heavier weight. I still have the leica lumix 14-150 and there is no equal to this lens in it’s category for micro contrast and sharpness.
Despite all this I’m seriously considering the panny 42.5 f1.2 depending on price, performance, weight etc….
If some Panasonic or Olympus senior staff in imaging reads this please pass it on a legitimate isssue which if resolved will show something truly unique this m43 platform has none other can dream of.
Has anyone updated their Oly 45mm on a GH3?
I remembered that I tried updating the Olympus 4/3 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 II lens on a GH2 and it bricked the lens! I had to send it it to Olympus at a cost of $75 to have them do a low-level format/update.
It was a pain and I lost the use of that lens for 1 1/2-2 weeks.
@Joe, just updated my 45mm with GH3 without any problem. 🙂
Just did the update on my GH3 Joe and no problems…very easy.
Wow… I’m surprised they’re still supporting the lens.
BTW, Albert, I know it’s a small consolation, but I’ve been using the E-PL1 for video close-ups; the mjpeg codec they’re using gets about 36.5Mbps, and with a lens like the 45 1.8 the quality is very good.
I have a Panasonic DMC-G1 with the Olympus 45mm 1.8. I also noticed strange behavior when photographing bright objects. Did somebody with an older Pana body upgrade a Olympus lens?
I dont’t know they are in good relationship or not.
Hopefully both companies keep to support all m4/3 lenses.
Let’s not get too excited by this action, don’t forget the 20mm striping issue, Panasonic only redesigned the lens doing nothing about that issue as they went about it.
A good point, maybe only Olympus are interested in correcting issues that occur with their partners lenses, the problem with the Lumix 20mm lens is the most obvious example of which Panasonic has done nothing to correct.
Maybe it’s because of a problem in the lens’ design that can only be corrected in camera? Panasonic can’t change Olympus’ firmwares…
Strange then that no other lens produces this problem.
Pretty sure it is a hardware problem (electromagnetic noise generated by lens electronics or motors). And the same problem manifests in Panasonic GH3 – if it would be firmware, they would fix it. Panasonic has the chance to fix it (as well as lsow AF) with 20mm II, but instead blew it and just used the release to raise the price.
I dont kniw how so many people here are using the 45mm on pana bodies, according to this site its impossible without ibis
🙂
I use the 45mm with gh3, no problem
I don’t understand how to update this lens with a panasonic gh 3?
Put that file onto your card
http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/support/imsg/digicamera/download/software/pana/m_45.cfm
charge the mf battery!!!
put card into your GH3
Press Play button
i use this 45/1.8 on my GF1, i will update the lens.
Would be great if Panasonic fixed their problems with 20mm and 25mm too. But alas.