Finally some feedback from trusted sources! One of them just told me that one brand new Olympus MFT lens will be announced in September. He didn’t unveil the specs yet. I hope other sources reading this may share some bits more about it. Anyway, I remember there were rumors about a fast zoom floating around the web. So maybe this one is what is coming now!
I know it’s little info, but this should be just the start of a wave of new FT5 rumors…
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FT4=61-80% chance the rumor is correct
FT5=81-99% chance the rumor is correct
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Hope the camera will have NFC, also the new iPhone.
Hope the camera will have NFC, also the new iPhone.
Not if it comes at the expense of core functionality, like the grip on the ep5 (which is glued on and tiny to allow for wifi)
Did he talk about a camera?
Had to read it again, but it appears he’s talking about a lens. 😀
NFC is Shit, and it’s only for authorization, then data exchange is through bluetooth
On Sammy phones, using NFC you can also initiate an ad-hoc Wi-Fi connection. I have not even seen mentions of Bluetooth in context of NFC in Galaxy manual. It sucks if iPhones can only Bluetooth.
It removes all the hassle with authenticating and setting up the connection. It’s pretty helpful for that – better than having to click multiple buttons or scanning a qr code.
Gonna be an expensive summer (or winter for those of you in the north)
🙁 considering that I need new furnitures for living room and bedroom, I’ll have to plan carefully my outgoings..
Simple answer Marco. Buy a new camera and spend all the time outside. You will not need new furniture then. Come home when its dark and don’t switch the light on. Then you can get a 23.14mm f 0.25 lens with attached 40mm filter and ND20 stop with the money you save on power.
Nothing about the 4/3 camera?
Nothing about the 4/3 camera? or Hybrid system (FT and MFT)?
I hope it’s 12-60 2.8-4.0 or at leat 12-40 2.8
if it is the quality of the 75 f1.8, I would buy it! … and I haven’t even mentioned the focal length! It is just that the 75f1.8 is just about the best lens I have ever had! (that includes the ZD 7-14, 35-100 & the 300 f2.8)
Would appreciate a fast zoom if it is longer than the Panny. 35mm is too short for my use but I would not need the 12mm at the short end 14 or even 17mm would be fine (for me)
Please admin give us some more details on the lens(es?)…
Why don’t u write olympus and ask them to make a lens on purpose for ur own needs?
The rumors seem to agree on 12-40, don’t know why admin didn’t mention it.
But, i’ve made too many demands already… You think they would still listen to me? I really want a long prime, 300/4 or something. I know a fast zoom is overdue, but I really want a long prime. Please? Pretty please? I promise I’ll buy it… Well, if my partner lets me. I’ll try to talk her into it really hard. OK?
Or, how about an 9/2.8? Hmmm? Please?
Me, too!! With a nice mft Teleconverter 1,4x!!!!
I am also only interested in a 300mm f4. But I expect Olympus will come out with their versions of the Panasonic 12-35 and 35-100 with slightly different focal lengths. My only hope is that maybe Panasonic and Olympus can now focus on longer primes for next year as there will be many options now for the short to mid prime and zooms.
Yes yes yes to a 9/2.8.
Would be nice if they brought out a top notch 17/1.8 mark 2.
Thats all the system needs now….
12/2
17/1.8 MARK 2
25/1.4 panalovely
45/1.8
75/1.8
Sorted!
Hummmm, 17mm F1.8 MARK II B-)
Already in need of a 17mm f1.8 Mark II?
My hope is that it is some glorious equivalent of the 4/3 f2 zooms olympus has made in the past. Never used one but the bokeh produced by those is some of the best I’ve seen on the web.
LOL to big by an F2 zoom.
the bokeh of the ZD 35-100 is extra ordinary for an FT lens, but i dont think this is possible in a compact mft format zoom.
They could just change the AF mechanism and add a permanent rear adapter.
Why by 25mm F1.8 for MFT, but i see we need a fast zoom from Olympus too. 😉
I’d bet for sure it’s the 25mm 1.8
It will in fact be a 25 F1.8 PANCAKE. It will also be a WS lens. That means a weather sealed lens. Which is good.
A 25mm F1.8 would be todally youseless. I bought the 25mm F1.4 Summilux but for a shallow death of field, you really need an aparture below 1.4.
lol…
Maybe you are not supposed to be a photographer. If you really don’t know how to use the 25mm f1.4.
More FT5 rumors,
right now, Olympus is developing some amazing technology and new exciting cameras (all of them with a sensor inside) 🙂
I can see a 25mm f/1.8 but I dont know how well it will measure up to a panny 25mm. That lens is already awesome. All I hope to see is a EM5 successor! NFC would be nice but highly unlikely more like built in wifi. I hear things about the successor having a built in battery grip.
OK there rumors stop me from considering buying an E-P5
Then what are you going to put the lens on ? 😀
His current camera, what else?
Well, my current camera is E-5, so what’s the problem? I have a MMF-3 bought but no MFT body——-> I am waiting for one.
1 Global shutter
2 video bitrate
3 raw video or cinemaDNG
4 flash
a winner camera
Can you read?
Hard to read something that was added later though. Mr nice guy.
Probably same 16MP sensor. Hard to believe that Sony gives Oly sensors before they appear in their own cameras.
They’re putting sensors in lenses now? :op
Just now I realize that this post is about a lens and not a camera. Ho-Lee-Fak
Ho Lee Fuk is the name, thanks.
http://jalopnik.com/san-jose-news-mistakes-racist-joke-for-asiana-flight-21-759160087
If sigma can do that fast 1.8 zoom for APS-C , Im sure Olympus can ( and hopefully will) . And weather sealed please!
What a great news! Oh wait, it is non. It is nothing. It even less then nothing.
Olympus is announcing every year a new lense … at least for 81 to 99%
I can say for sure that we have a brand new lense from Olympus next year and the year after …
If I’m not wrong last year we had 60mm macro, and 75mm. I would add also the kit lens 12-50mm macro. This year we had 17mm f1.8. Obviously I don’t consider the black versions as new lenses.
UWA prime would be welcome.
I would prefer a fast 12-40 over 25 1.8. No, actually it would be nice if Olympus released both. Those two lenses would really round out Olympus offerings.
Honestly, we don’t need another prime lens at this point. A 25 1.8 would be nice, but what the system really needs is the 12-40 zoom. What made the E-x series really stand out optically was the combination of the 14-54 and 50-200. Oly has patents for two variants of the 12-40 and a 40 – 200 f/4. I’m betting that the 12-40 lens will be released in September, prior to the next E-Mx body. Recall, they released the 12-50 two months before the E-M5.
But, does F5 mean this ????
Not that F5 means something almost clear and visible with certain data and evidence ?
Olympus makes lenses sometime or anytime that is always F5 , but which lens it is…. it is not even F2 as rumored above.
The new lens will be a weathersealed 12-150 F2.8-5.6. What a super lens!
Sh** up and take my money! 😉
That would be too nice, but with good quality also kind of too big and heavy…. -.-
Damn you physics!
We already have that: The FT Pana Leica 14-150. Superb lens although heavy
We already have a 14-150. And it´s unusable at 150mm. My lens is good at 135mm and really really bad at 150. So I´d like more to get a high end 12-48mm 2.8, maybe a minimized 12-60 2.8-4.0
I have the 14-150mm its not a bad lens. If yours is unusable at 150 send it back. Mine seems perfectly acceptable, but I bought it as a factory refub so it may have been tweeked.
Right, it´s not bad – between 14 and 135mm. But 400 or 500 euros are very much for a lens that just isn´t bad.
Now, it´s time to get a zoom lens that is “very good”. Just try the old 14-54 and you see the difference!
that the 14-54 is less compromised shouldn’t be much of a surprise – it’s a 3,85x zoom.
the 14-150 is a 10,7x zoom… obviously this comes with a compromised quality at the long end (and throughout the whole range even). I would love for it to be a stellar performer – but when I go walking, it’s versatile range allows for more possibilities, and that’s why it’s my no.1 go-to lens.
Here’s hoping for a high quality MFT version of the 12-60.
12-40 is just not enough on the long end.
But I’m afraid Oly considers the mediocre 12-50 as their 12-60 replacement and we won’t see a much higher quality versatile zoom any time soon.
I agree. 12-40 2.8 is too short and too much like the Panny. I hope to see a 12-60 similar to the FT but smaller & lighter.
+1
+1 for the 12-150 F2.8 weathersealed.
Do you really want to carry a poor quality 2kg big lens on a mft camera? I think we definitely have enough so la la quality zoom lenses for mft. Now it´s time for a really good one!
All people cry for better sensors – and then put a bottle bottom in front of it? No, it´s time for the lense quality we had with the ft 14-54 or 12-60.
Forget about the 14-42, 12-50 and 14-150. I´ve used them all. And that´s not the quality I can accept for my OM-D!
That is no problem, we (or they) can make it a 12-135 F2.8-5.6 still weather-sealed. The size of the lens will almost be the same as if you add the Mzuiko 12 F2.0 and the Mzuiko 40-150 F4.0-5.6. You must also add weather sealing. That means it will be slightly bigger than the 14-150 lens.
The specs:
6.35 x 8.38 cm + 5.6 x 4.3 cm = 11.95 x 10.9 cm length and diameter.
280g + 130 g = 410 g weight + weather sealing = 412 g
58 + 46 mm = 104 mm filter thread
Brand new from the oracle and FT5 rated:
Definitely a new Olympus MFT lens to be announced one or two times a year and definitely new Olympus cams to be announced one or two times a year;-)
I hope for 12-25mm F1.8, to rival the new Sigma.
I wander when olympus is gonna make lens with F1.4 or faster on their prime lens,.and implemented of their FT lens zoom with F2 on their mft lens
Never. Olympus said that f1.8 is the sweet spot where you can have decent purple fringing/chromatic aberrations. Of course never say never, but I wouldn’t expect any (M)Zuiko f1.4.
Thats why I am glad that Panasonic is less worried about negative side effects of extreme large aperture lenses and released a 1.4 and soon even 1.2 prime,great for more moodful character/rendering wide open.
Ulli, Panasonic uses in camera correction to solve CA. You can see it shooting raw on OMD. As far as I know, there are no f1.4 not suffering from CA when shooting wide open, not even Leica Summilux. Of course it should be easier to avoid/reduce it on longer focal lenghts .
You should have written “acceptable” instead of “decent.”
Yes, thanks Jane, but it seems you got it right!
Just a wild guess but I am guessing the new lens will be a 12-40 and it will be either the constant f2.8 or the varible 2.8-4.0 version. They have both verisons patented. They might also announce the 40-200/f4.0, which they have patented, to pair up with the normal zoom.
I would love to see a ultra-wide prime like a 9/2.8 I would also like to see a normal prime like a 25/1.8. Yes, I own the Pana 25/1.4 and love the lens but Olympus also needs a normal prime and don’t yet. Also a few high-end long lenses are needed. The “gap” is so large at the long end that I don’t want to list the lenses needed. Then again if the next OMD can autofocus the FT lenses at useable speed them there are a lot of FT choices that can be used.
Panasonic will fill one niche with the 150mm lens, but I think it is 300mm where the biggest demand is. This is where the 2x crop has the most noticable advantage. The Olympus 80-250mm f2.8 is a little short and not as good IQ as a prime such as the 300mm f2.8. But both are too heavy and expensive. m43 really needs a 300mm f4 considering the latest advances in sensor. It should be both lighter and less expensive than the current 43 options. It could also incorporate the latest optics and the ability for faster AF if on sensor AF is also incorporated.
I think there’s a good chance they will release a 2x teleconverter for the 150mm, rendering it a 300mm f4.
Too bid of an IQ drop with a 2x TC. We need a native 300mm f4.
I’d like to see a 300 mm + 1.4x teleconverter of good quality — for birds, etc. 150mm + 2x is too little for such use. The current 75-300 is not good enough at 300, and focuses very slowly even wide open (if that expression can be used for f/6.3…)
the ZD 90-250 f/2.8 was highly praised in the FotoMagazin test august 2006 and they mentioned the “comparatively outstanding low open aperture limitations “..too bad they never tested the ZD 300mm f/2.8
I would put my money of a 1.8 25mm, metal bodied as 12mm price around the £500-600 mark.
14 (or 12) – 54, 3.8-4.5, 600 – 700 Swiss Franks… But not prime please, or I will sell my Oly equipment…
I’m surprised neither Oly or Panny have come out with an affordable 7mm F2 or 2.8 prime. I think that would be a big winner for Oly, Panny and BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera users.
You can see the relase of E-5 and E-3 were on the forth half of the year…so you can except that’s at last a camera work for FT.
(FT6) 4-5.6/14-150 II
Second on 300mm/4 and fast wide angle prime in the 7 – 10mm range.
I want a 4mm f1.2 (Sarcasm..)
Ohh yes and pancake,……yawn
The Olympus lens I would like to see is a metal version of the 45mm f/1.8. The cheap plastic finish of this otherwise excellent lens is a disappointment.
It’ll cost you double, at least.
10mm 3.5 gogogo.
80x pancake internal zooming constant f/0.50 fully optically corrected weathersealed black all metal zoom with included metal lens hood, clear protective filter and premium genuine leather case. $399.
You are thinking of the new Panasonic lens and forgot about the stabilisation.
Please 300mm F4 and a TC.
I sold my Canon 7D and use now omd-m5 with 75-300mmII. It works fine but performs bad in low light.
I kept my Canon ef-s 300mm f4 as a backup but don’t like mf.
Since Panasonic is including ISIS in the GX7, those who have Olympus lenses will be more likely to buy Panasonic cameras, and those Panasonic body users who usually buy lenses with built in stabilization may be more tempted to buy Olympus lenses without it or third party lenses like Sigma.
What is going on?
I seem to be able to shoot with un stabilized primes on pana bodies without the camera exploding! Must be the firmware…
I see several people here, and on other sites, argue that the new lens should be a weathersealed pancake 25mm F1.8.
I will do my best to make this dream come true.
An OMD with a new sensor, 1/8000 sec, VF-4 EVF built-in, Focus Peaking, faster processor, a better grip in the body (yeah!), improvements for small Focus Box, …. and a new fast zoom (12-40mm f/2.8?)
Need to find ~$2000 fast.
Try the back of the bank and see if they have thrown out any old notes.
Or even more fanciful, there might be a money tree there. 😉
Super wide prime … PLEASE
I have always preferred WA primes to zooms. However, if Oly ZD 7-14/2.8 PRO has a reasonably short minimum focusing distance (or even an unreasonably short one! 😉 ), then it may be a somewhat suitable compromise for a WA prime. My interest in close up/macro photography demands lenses with short minimum focusing distance.
It seems that the main rumors source for OM-D was even Olympus. Now Olympus did not provide to many informations about the new cameras beacuse they don’t want to kill E-P5 sales.
Its hilarious the things written here…an f1.8 zoom or faster? A 9mm f2.8? A 7mm f2? A 12-150 f2.8-f5.6????
Have you all not been here for the past 5 years? Itll either be a boring expensive f1.8 prime (25mm probably) or a 75-300 f6.3 mk3
What by to put rumors an pice one this new OM-D to ca. 2000$ 😉
It’s the 14-42 mk3.
If it was anything more exciting they’d be leaking vague specs and pictures of a lump under a cloth.
Why are Olympus lenses so expensive? The only sensibly priced M4/3 lenses are 19mm F2.8, 30mm F2.8 and 60mm F2.8, all by Sigma. BTW, the E-mount version of 60mm F2.8 is rated by DXOMark as THE best NEX lense available.