Digicameinfo managed to get a new Silver E-m1 and 1.4 teleconverter image. There are also a couple of new info:
– Silver E-m1 with BCL-1580 costs 150.000 Yen (converted: 1400 Dollars or 1100 Euro).
– 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO lens costs 160.000 Yen (converted: 1500 dollars or 1200 Euro)
– 40-150mm + 1.4x converter is 180,000 Yen (converted: 1600 Dollars or 1300 Euro).
– Lens Hood for the new zoom costs 6000 Yen (converted: 57 Dollars or 44 Euro).
– The new 1.4x MC-14 teleconverter costs 30,000 Yen (converted: 285 Dollars or 220 Euro).
Here is the image of the teleconverter:
That stuff along the new firmware will be announced enxt Monday (September 15). The same day we will have a big Panasonic announcement too! As usual you can follow the event live here on 43rumors!
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The silver Fuji looks much better! I’m very curious to what Pana will be presenting. Seems that Olympus is losing the its gas…
Doesn’t look that bad! I wonder how it will look in-person. The only letdown for me are the glossy-silver dials/ top buttons.
The silver dials do look rather chintzy, but maybe the real thing will look better.
I don’t mind the dials being silver, but I prefer if they are not glossy. I can’t wait now to the see the final thing 🙂
Umm, are they seriously not including a hood for a lens that costs 1200 euro…?
EVERY Olympus Pro line product gets hood. That is already confirmed by Olympus itself.
True, but the money I gave to JJC for their replacement hoods for M.Zuiko lenses could have been Olympuses 🙂
And when I suggested Oly Australia stock the LH55C petal hood for the 12-50 lens (instead of the one for the 9-18) they didn’t & so JJC got my money for that too.
That’s what I thought as well. So why is the price of the lens hood listed separately? Hopefully I’m just reading too much into that 🙂
Lens hoods get damaged, sometimes you need to buy a replacement (I’m on my 2nd 12-40mm hood).
You can buy a third party hood. I did it with the 60mm one and I’m really happy of its quality and price.
The converter image shows why it can only be used with selected lenses: it protrudes right into the rear end of the lens, where there has to be enough space for that part if the converter.
I wonder, though, whether it could replace the EC-14 converter for adapted FT lenses. The FT adapter should offer enough space for the adapter’s protrusion.
Hoping it works with my Olly 75-300 MKII. Looks to be a close fit!
Boooooooooooooring!
To me it is quite exciting, what Olympus comes up with. A new high performance telezoom, first m4/3 teleconverter, and new firmware! Tell me any other manufacturer for now, which provides new products of more significance!
If the new announcements of Olympus bore you, what would have been needed not to bore you? Don’t tell me about video, which not really that many need, the usual whiners apart.
I agree that video is a lot of hype + whine, but the other manufacturers have stocked similar lenses for ages, at better prices. So it is a little boring, after all.
Just looks like an Olympus camera. What’s all the fuss about? Buy it or don’t 🙂
That protruding element on the tele converter: what lenses can be mount on it?
40-150mm f/2.8 only.
Mmm I guess a 1.4x tele converter for the 75mm would be too expensive to produce.. Such a pity, it would be a great combo.
Or for every other lens in the M4/3 stable of lenses.
Especially with the m43 Panasonic 100-300mm that would be fabulous to get an equivalent 840mm!
Also the 300mm f/4
1.4x Teleconverter!
That’s great! SOLD!
I assume it does AF…
So long as you’re only using it with the Pro 40-150 lens & I think it will go with the coming 300mm f/4 lens too (I think I read that anyhow).
You’re kidding. What’s the point of that?
Olympus could sell zillions of these thing if they worked with ANY M4/3 mount lens, not to mention adapted lenses.
If it’s true, it’s a really dumb-ass move!
You could consider using it with the existing 40-150 or the 75-300, though speed would be greatly compromised with either of those. The only other Olympus lens worth considering for use with this converter would be the 75mm prime (that would be nice), any other lens is covered by another lens with longer focal length. Yes there are the Panasonic lenses and other third party objectives, but Olympus is hardly going to provide something to match someone elses lens.
Just scaling off the image, looks like enough of a recess on the 75-300 to accomodate the tele-converter. Sure, slows an already slow lens down further, but should be fine for good daylight. I usually stop down to F8 for wildlife if I can anyway.
I don’t own any Olympus lenses at this point, other than the 15mm BCL, so that’s a wash.
Did you actually look at the picture? The TC elements protrude out of it, lenses to be used with it have to be designed with the TC in mind.
To be more clear, had the protruding elements been flush with the mount, you could use ANY M4/3 you own. Get it now?
It’s a missed opportunity for Olympus. I’d buy one in a heartbeat and I bet I’m not alone. A native M4/3 teleconverter is LONG overdue!
Do you think Olympus specifically made it protruding to spite you and sell fewer of these?
Wow the Oly apologists are really in a lather today, eh?
It would just make sense if Olympus made a teleconverter that could be used with ALL M4/3 lenses, not just an accessory for their two premium lenses. A teleconverter like that would be welcome addition to the system.
Don’t you think that if they could, they would have done that?
I completely agree! Woukd love one for the 75mm or even the 12-40.
So why doesn´t Panasonic make one and “sell zillions of these thing”? I would buy one.
That’s a very good question! I guess both Olympus and Panasonic have been preoccupied churning out 14-42mm lenses ad nauseum.
The teleconverter seems to be designed for specific lenses to get optimal IQ. So the teleconverter is part of the lens design of the 2.8/40-150mm and the upcoming 4/300mm. As such it can’t work with other lenses or one would need to accept to many compromises in IQ. You have no idea, if it could work well enough with lenses from other manufacturers.
And it is a NATIVE m4/3 teleconverter.
did YOU say….. AF? hehe
Yes, even I stoop to such pedestrian lows. 😉
It would be great to use with the 100-300mm or even shorter lenses to cut down on lugging a bunch of different lenses.
I bet it would work with dumb-tube lens adaptors for Nikon or Pentax, etc.. Although that seems a bit of a pointless exercise.
CDAF focusing just can’t be affected by teleconverters.
The E-M1 looks good in silver. More personal and less of a “machine”.
I would agree with that too.
Yeah, take away one more stop…
Martin Wagner posted this photo of the new 40-150 pro and the 1.4x teleconverter on the Olympus OM-D Worldwide Shooters group on FB. It’s a sample lens he got. We can actually see the lens hood on (slide over the barrel) and the size comparison with the 12-40 2.8 and the 60 2.8. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152368516549646&set=o.154271467964575&type=1&theater
The 40-150 looks BIG as we could expect…No comparison with the pany 35-100 but you also get 50 mm more, those lens cannot relly be compared…
Martin Wanger mentioned on his post that the hood is on thus the size… Still it fits his back, which supposed to be made for Leica rangefinders + primes.
Definitely a revolutionary, not evolutionary, upgrade to the EM1. I can’t begin to list all of the functional advances this has over older BLACK EM1.
It’s cosmetic. This is not a new camera and never was rumored to be.
I can’t find any rumor about a hardware update in EM1 silver. However, we could have an EM1s (Apple did it before with 4s) as an upgraded version of the standard black EM1. I’m about to buy the black EM1, but I would prefer to be sure the silver EM1 is really a cosmetic release.
Is AF usable on the teleconverter?
Pardon my ignorance
should be i think?
I can’t see why it wouldn’t.
When will this silver version be available in stores?
TOO BAD, that 1.4x will definitely not work with the panny 35-100 f2.8 ! Bye bye my nice 40-150 f4, olympus say bye bye to my money…
Hmm why? Could you explain?
What lenses will work with the converter and which wont?
Scroll on down to older comments — the converter will only work with the new Oly 40-150mm and 300mm pro lenses.
They will survive. I’ll buy it instead.
I hope the lens hood is included. I think Olympus was finally starting to learn when the 12-40 and 25mm came with hoods. lets hope they haven’t forgotten.
Honestly I’m happy that they chose to make the teleconverter so small, even though its functionality is now limited to only a few lenses. As long as it works with the 300mm f/4 then there isn’t really any issue since I’d rather that Panasonic make their own teleconverter for the 35-100mm f/2.8 and let the Olympus one be smaller and better optimized for their own lenses.
For all those whingeing about the TC not fitting all lenses – Olympus did exactly the same with their OM 35mm film system. They made a 1.4X TC specifically matched to their top lenses and it had a protruding element also. It would fit the 350/2.8, 250/2, 180/2 and the 300/4.5 and 400/6.3
They also made a 2X TC that would fit all the regular lenses.
It would only be whingeing if they also have a TC that works with most lenses instead of just having this specialized thing. As it stands it’s a valid complaint. “They did it before” doesn’t make it ok.
In both cases they they have done it so the TC is matched to specific lenses that were designed with it in mind so as to achieve the best possible result. I think that is ok.
That’s certainly true. I just hope to see general purpose TCs too. They’re long overdue IMO.
Sounds like marketing bull to me.
It’s much more difficult to design TC for m43 than 43 because m43 lenses have much shorter backfocus, and you can’t have TC of zero thickness.
Teleconverters are the legacy of film. What TC wishers should rather ask Olympus, is camera with higher MP count. Sensor with 2x MP count will work with all lenses and will not add aberrations like TC does.
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How Olympus could create TC working with all lenses: some wishful thinking.
Nice. Fully modular cameras would be cool, too.