I have been told via a highly trusted source that these two Olympus PRO lenses listed at BHphoto will ship in early 2015 only! Price and exact shipment start will be announced within 2014 for sure.
Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 7-14mm f/2.8 PRO Lens (here at BHphoto).
Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 300mm f/4 PRO Lens (here at BHphoto).
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Darn! How can I take pro shots until then?
My guess you can´t, with them or without them. Aren´t you fully occupied beeing an idiot on the Internet?
Keep it cool, Rtard…
Can you teach me something master gecko?
Nope,
“New Olympus PRO 300 and 7-14mm lenses will ship early 2015 only!”
That’s pretty much what Olympus has been telling us when they first announced them!
Yes, that’s what i remember. BUT the 40-150 was promised for 2014, but no rumors on that lens 🙁
They might release it during the photokina – maybe.
It is still due later this year. This is an email reply I received from Olympus Promotions Australia today, “We look forward to the arrival in store of the new Pro lens later this year.” We don’t need a rumour to tell us the 40-150 f/2.8 will be coming later this year because Olympus said it will come in the latter half of 2014 when they announced it & the other two for next year & I believe the email I received was in reference to this lens.
Fingers crossed 🙂
That´s good, so we have enough time to consider alternative options and/or to save up.
HEY! Check it out!…It’s a MFT camera rumor…not Panasonic point& shoot info!
You better pat yourself on the back for being so observant.
And then you better tell someone who cares. 😉
I just did. You!
Any update on the 40-150 2.8?
Mr. ALLCAPS knows it…..
WHERE IS HE?
Mr. ALLCAPS
What do you prefer small caps, mid caps or large caps?
Why are they so slow now? There is a camera for the lenses for almost a year now.
There does appear to be long lead times for these lenses, and the number of camera bodies being produced seems to have been cut way back as well. Maybe there’s something new brewing that has not yet appeared in rumors…
They could have been planned at the time of the E-M5, so they might be longer in the works than that.
It took a while for the Four-Thirds versions of the lenses to arrive. The 14-35mm f/2.0 didn’t even arrive when expected in 2005, but two years later.
Not slow, just impatient people like you that haven’t read their announcements in the first place.
“PRESSRELEASE
SYDNEY – 10 SEPTEMBER 2013
Development Announcement: M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 40-150mm F2.8 PRO
lens will be a telephoto zoom lens that conforms to the Micro Four Thirds System
standard, with a bright constant aperture f2.8, featuring a dust and splash proof
construction rugged enough for professional use.
This lens will be the high-performance version of the M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 40-150mm
F4.0-5.6; with professional-grade optics, compact size and lightweight for portability.
Scheduled to be available in 2nd half of 2014.”
“12/02/2014
Announcing the development of the two new professional-class lenses for the micro Four Thirds system – the ultra-wide angle M.Zuiko Digital ED 7-14mm f2.8 PRO zoom and the super-telephoto M.Zuiko Digital ED 300mm f4 prime lenses. Scheduled to be available in 2015.”
Well they are really slow. Just look at Fujifilm how they push it forward. They have cleared all Olympus advantages except IBIS …. quite sad.
There are certainly advantages and the system is coming along really nice, but if we’re talking lenses(among other things) m43 is way ahead of Fuji, not even including the lenses for the FT system.
I mean, there is already a hight quality 7-14 wide angle zoom for m43(although F4), there is also a F2.8 weather sealed 34-100mm zoom(Panasonic) where there isn’t yet on the Fuji system and long primes for Fuji are totally absent.
These newly announced lenses are some icing on the cake for some who are willing to pay the price for better performance/more zoomrange.
Hoping that both Fuji and m43(Pana/Oly) will increase camera market share, because these are the company’s doing the most innovating things in the camera business right now.
Hey, don’t confuse things with facts – this is a rumors only site
Ha ha ha. I like that! 😀
The fact that they mention the dates in press release does not make them NOT slow. In the last 18 months they have released just 3 lenses – long overdue 12-40/2.8 and 25/1.8 and yet another kit zoom, and looks like it might be 24 months before they release another one. 1 lens per year is slow for the system still not complete!
For all we know, they just want to generate sales because they know that people will see this and go to their site and perhaps, they will buy something else while they’re browsing.
These lenses will be sharp- I’ll give you that. They’ll be moderately light as well- another plus. I think the price will exceed the performance for the vast majority of M43 users. If I want to spend that kind of cash I’ll purchase a FF equivalent- especially for the tele. Interesting times for Olympus as Fuji is seriously stepping its game up, and Sony’s FF offerings get cheaper and within reach on the used market. Doesn’t make them better, but it does increase their attractiveness to those new to mirrorless.
There have been 300 F4 lenses for many years. They are rather simple designs and they can be sold at reasonable prices. I wonder if this is going to cost 1500 USD, like other 300 F4 lenses, or way more, because there is serpent oil inside.
They are going to write “pro” on it and price it at 7000 bux, if they don’t go out of business first.
Simple designs? Please elaborate on that. An AOV equivalent FF 600mm is certainly very large and heavy. Prices are very high, too, unless you go with the Tamron 150-600.
A 300 mm F4 lens is a 300 mm F4 lens. A rose is a rose is a rose. These things have been around for ages and never cost a fortune. See, equivalences don’t come into play when talking lens design, only when shooting.
Of course. However if I choose m43 then because of the 2x crop and the smaller lenses for the same AOV. I know that I loose shallow DOF and have more noise for most instances, but gain a much smaller lens which is, with large probability, very good and sharp. It should be very usable wide open. Nevertheless, why should the design of a 300 f4 be simple?
Because they have been around for ages. The newer ones will be super pricey though, I fear so too.
300/4 is 300/4, that’s right. And canikons versions are 1 to 1.5 k. But how good are they on 64 MP FF sensors? Because that’s the pixel pitch of a current m43 sensor.
To get to that kind of resolution you’ll have to go to more complex designs than the current crop of 300/4 lenses. In fact, you can just scale down a FF 600/4.
Todays 300/4s are all quite old. I bet the next round of canikons will be quite a bit more expensive and complex, even though FF sensors are not at 64 MP yet.
I’m all in favor of being proven wrong, though.
They work okay, not great, on the current 24MP APS-C models, though, and most people can’t tell the difference between one of those and the more expensive f/2.8 models anyway.
Customers will expect the thus far only extreme telephoto prime to be tack sharp from f/4 on, like the 400+ telephotos from CaNikon. I cannot see how that will be accomplished with a simple optical formula.
Anything below 2k would be a (very positive) surprise to me. m43 has the smaller elements going for it, but pixel density and small production volumes against it.
They will price it similar to how Canon and Nikon would price an updated 300mm F4. ie. a lot more than the $1500 you mention.
Yeah, I think you are right. And I don’t care for those new high prices, really.
It is the price we will need to pay if we want to resolve the higher density sensors.
Serpent oil is used in Nikon shutters, I hear, to good effect.
What a loss for our artists! Entire handfuls of dumb amateurs will be crying their eyes out.
This is good news. After the delayed release for the 40-150mm I was concerned the 300mm F4 would get pushed out to later in 2015.
Why bother releasing these lenses, if they aren’t intended for full frame cameras? We all know full frame is the future, the only possible future of photography. Surely all real photographers are interested in equipment that can actually be used for photography?
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Please show some respect! These people are working their asses off trolling this site 24/7, while you enjoy all the benefits of having a real job, a social life and mental health. If you have nothing nice to say to them, then you shouldn’t say anything at all!
says who?
Good, that will give me some time to save up some $,$$$.$$