OK, now I am sure that Olympus will soon announce one more thing along the already coming 17mm f/1.8 prime lens! I am working on the specs…but need some help from sources: Can you confirm me the specs and price and announcement date of that “thing”? So that I won’t make any mistakes. You can contact me anonymously by just dropping a message via contact form you see here on the right. Thanks!!!
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Better not be an E-PL6 because my E-PL5 just shipped and FFFFF if it’s obsolete before I even get it!
it’s the new Art Filter available via firmware download, first sample image here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/youdidntdidyou/8178369167/
Let me guess ..a “speshul” limited SILVER body cap lens!
Only 50 percent more expensive than the black one..
Speaking of the fabled Body Cap Lens… where the hell is mine?!?!?!!?
I ordered one just after it was announced and am still waiting…
Please let it be…
* PDAF adapter for mFT
* 35-100/2 for mFT.. (AND within my budget……) 🙂
You can see what the release will be here:
http://www.pen
island.com
E-P5 with viewfinder?
+1
+1
A Fuji X-E1 and NEX-7 killer please. Corner EVF !
Hopefully!!!
Ever heard of E-M5?
+11111
+111111!
Plus One One One One One One One One exclamation mark.
16-35 F2, haha just daydraming…
12-60 f2.8
+100! … HIGH quality, please, unlike the 12-50mm.
The 12-60mm range is much more appealing than the 12-35mm. hell, if you’re gonna use a zoom, why such a short range? If it’s as good as some of the better 4/3 zooms, then maybe I’ll even ditch my rarely used 14-140mm.
the answer is easy
because a 12-35mm would be easier to design than a 12-60 , will be better at long end of the zoom, smaller , lighter brighter… just to name a few
I will sell Pana X 12-35 in a heartbeat if it is 12-60 F2.8 even it it cost U$1799 and build like SHG lens ;0)
Comes in S, M, L, XL and XXL. But best of all it’s only available in Black! It’s the Olympus T-Shirt with the slogan Your Vision, our Future. Pre order yours today for a limited time only.
heck, this comment was obsolete before i posted it!
2013 = Olympus YEAR !!!!!
=)
sure, as 2010, 2011, 2012…. etc.
i hope it’s 12-60 f2.8-4.0
Is it a lens hood for the 17mm f1.8?
LOL 🙂
Come on Mr. Admin, spill it already willya. Just a clue please, please and pretty please. Or would you rather play 21 questions?
it’s a lens.
But really, not that I want to fool you but I have to write posts like this to get some more info!
Does it zoom? Have a zoom range between 35 to 100 and aperture F2.8 or smaller?
Man, I have a blister on my index finger already for hitting refresh every 5 seconds!!!
I swear that I will post all I have as soon as I can… It’s a nice lens yes 🙂
would be good if Olympus releases a long tele like 150mm or longer
I’m not sure about 150mm. Olympus and Panasonic seem to coordinate their lens releases so I don’t think Olympus would release a 150mm so soon considering Panasonic has a 150mm f2.8 coming out.
that is true,in that case i suggest a 100mm f/2 and/or a 200 f/2.8
a black one? 😉
Prime?
Real new lens. I got some specs but I want to be sure before to post them. Just wait a few hours. Should get some more info soon…
Ok, I’ll wait. But pray tell, doth it Zoometh or be it Primus? Pray tell kind benefactor while I bandage my index finger…
zoom. But that was the last info I can share!!! No more questions 🙂
Yessir! Thanks for that. No more questions from the floor.
Oh ! don’t tell me they finally made a m43 version of the 12-60 f2.8-3.5 with the same IQ as 43 one…I bought the panny 12-35 f2.8 because I was thinking the 12-60 would never come ! the 12-35 is good but I think the 43 12-60 is sharper at 12 mm and the focal range 12-60 is just what I need for 75 % of my shots ! Another 24 % for the 9-12 mm range…
I’m guessing a weather sealed tele zoom 😛
Maybe 50-200mm ca 😛
Hell yes, the m43 version of the 12-60mm F2.8-4 right, right ?
Pleeeease. Come on sources give him the specs and product image already 😉
A high grade standard zoom is the most obvious hole in Oly’s lens line-up. However, it has to be compact enough to match the size of the MFT camera bodies. IMO, a high quality 12-50mm f2.8-4 would make a lot of sense.
Admin, look at the last used lens in this video(position 1.29). What do you think?
@ Ken
Well bleeder sir!
Jolly predictive text
=bleeded
Is it a prime lens which can zoom also?
No, it’s not that but a Zoom that has set screws that permanently fixes the lens to the focal length required, this you have to specify to Olympus so that they can fix the required length before delivering directly to the customer. You will not be able to change it yourself, it will have to be returned to Olympus where it will be reset under in lab conditions. I believe it will come with a lens hood to suit the preset FL, which you will have to return with the lens when you want the FL changed, no return of hood no reset.
Len $50.00 return adjustment $300.00
Special DIY spanner and fix glue package $1201.99
Nice response Jim D, I was not aware of the reset kit Oly were working on, though I have since heard that the lens will also have a retro fit bayonet, which will include an adjustment of the rear elements to allow for the differing back focus of a new mount.
That’s wouldn’t be the pancake with the built in extension tube would it?
With the choice of syrup or lemon and sugar.
Use lens hood for 12mm F2 if you will, anyway is same size on lens front. 🙂
Ok, this just in. To be launched in conjunction with Olympus 17mm F1.8 is the long awaited Olympus 17mm F1.8 LENSHOOD for 50 Euros. Available in black for 50% more.
:))
E-M3 with 2 axis IBIS and no weather sealing for $849
Admin says it’s not a new body. It’s a “nice” lens. I’m putting a hold on purchasing the Panasonic 35-100 till I hear more. The year of Olympus no doubt!
25mm f2 pancake. yumm
No pancake. Admin says it’s a “Nice Zoom”.
I’m thinking maybe a m43 version of the 12-60 SWD
or
a 35-100/2.8
personally I’d prefer a 50-150/2.5 and I don’t care if it’s huge.
but a 35-100 and m43 Teleconver would work too.
I really hope Olympus gets their management act together and makes good use of the 645 Million Sony dollars to bring us more goodies. I ditched Nikon for Olympus and I hope I did the right thing. Don’t let us down Olympus!
My money is on a new lens hood, but wait it is for an as yet unkown lens, it will be black metal and will cost no more than £25.00 Sterling.
I’d love to see a weathersealed telephoto that doesn’t cost a fortune.
Even an F4, nice and small.
I imagine nothing longer than 60mm considering the Olympus bodies lately. But again, just my bet. Could be anything!
I do hope it’s the new generation EVF!!!!!
Please for christsakes, whatever it is… IN BLACK ALREADY.
A big, massive, silver telephoto zoom ! lol…
Wow! Silver on silver with silver trim.
+10000!!
12-35mm/f:2 🙂
20-60mm 2.0
+1
pink version od 12/2?
IMO there is necessary to release:
– new firmware for OM-D (to give the same possibilities as in EPL-5 – Wi-Fi with Toshiba Air)
– new version of PENPAL with GPS
– new App for Eye-Fi and Toshiba Air for Android, Windows Phone, Symbian and Bada
– focus peaking and good HDR mode for micro43 (firmware)
– teleconventer x2
Yes, a nice zoom lens! great! I’m hoiping for 2.x-3.x 12-50 black. < 1000
Size doesn't matter so much. (there are enough small lenses out there) Give us quality and "fastness" 🙂
You “Hoiping” you say? Gotta love that New York accent? You hoiping for coaif-fee in Manhattan?
I would love a 9mm prime …
I think, if the will announce a lens, it will be M.Zuiko Digital 25/1,8.
Actually its a 24mm f1.2
I hazard a guess it’s a weather sealed 50-150/200 lens that compliments the 12-50 weather sealed lens
Yes f4.3-7.2
Makes more sense to me than the other speculations.
That would be my guess too. I quite like the results from the 12-50, especially at the wide end, but I wish it was a bit brighter at the long end & if they produce a complimentary longer zoom that’s weather sealed, then I might wait for it too.
+100
Great! My 12-50 has been really self-conscious lately, it could use a sincere compliment.
BIIG thing is coming, watch for the news!!
2 hours later: Oly relased a pink colored FL14…
Okay, +hopes for a decent, fast zoom+a 2.8/7 like prime anyway!
so is admin really the hoster of this site or can anybody name himself admin like i tried to?
LOL!
(BTW; I’d like a fast and weather-sealed telezoom – 50-200 f/2.8-3.5 “SWD” for mft? )
well, i’m serious on this!
i don’t think it is sure, that a lens will be announced just because a fag posted this calling himself admin…
i hope for a nex 6 like camera *fingers crossed*
It’s a new zoom lens that when you turn on the camera says “Sorry, no new four thirds body ever, sorry, sorry…”. The zoom control operates the volume of the announcement in case you want to let other four thirds users know.
let’s just hope this zoom will repeat the 45mm/1.8 case. that it came out of nowhere and be a great lens
What ? 1 more lens to announce ?
A fast long tele prime lens for wildlifes would be beautiful .
A 150mm F2.0 would be my dream lens .
Maybe better version of 17mm 1.8……….
It’s the EP5 with IBIS.
its so onwards and upwards for Olympus then :-] glad Sony and Panasonic will be at the party too *anyone remember canikon from back in the days*
thinking about it, Panny have hinted at this too…..
Of course it’s a joke, releasing a lens a year before releasing a cam???
Not if it’s compatible with their current system.
I can’t see Olympus releasing a FF mirrorless, but SONY can for sure!!
sony already released FF mirrorless…a99
A translucent mirror is still a mirror.
It still has a flange distance as long as most DSLRs. DSLRs have a translucent mirror anyway, it’s just an optical view finder (where the SLT lacks).
It still means a FF is possible in the future, making lenses of the same quality, smaller.
Nice try! It’s a joke isn’t it?
There is no Olympus MFT fish-eye yet…
No need for it, the Samyang fisheye does a wonderful job… Focus on a tack sharp(!), fast zoom, like 2.8-4/14-54 and a fast UW prime.
Hi, I’m Admin Van Buuren but you guys can call me Admin for short. Yes, there is a new lens coming and it will zoom. It will also be “nice”. It will also have a colour which is either silver or perhaps black. But not silver and black. The lens hood will be sold separately. Lens caps front and back will be included. There will also be a box for this lens. There will be no lens pouch. This is all I can say right now. Please be patient and hit the refresh or the F5 key till your fingers bleed. Also, get a life while you’re at it.
p/s: just kidding about the “get a life” statement. but the rest is as true as truth can be. 😉
Is it possible this is just going to be a proper over-sized sensor in all planes, so you can shoot in all planes in each format like the GH series but the sensor cover a landscape and portrait planes without having to rotate the camera
I think this is an admin imposter. With previous posters realising that you can use admin as name, they may have gone ahead and made the false rumour under the name admin.
Breaking news like this will usually be accompanied by (Updated) in the original post.
Youdidntdidyou has already gone and posted this “rumour” on flickr… hope it is legit for your sake!
Yup, I’ve seen the lens. It’s 35-100, max aperture f2.0. That thing is huuuuuuge, I kid you not!
Oh wait!! Crikey!!! Wrong time machine settings. Went back to 2009 and saw the old 4thirds 35-100 instead. My baddd.
Ok, fast forward 2013… I’ll be right back guys, er, I mean right ahead and back to you from the future and then back to the past when I wrote this… Arrrrgh, hate that paradox thingy!!!
I am sure that an Olympus zoom less will be great. However, I need image stabilization for videos with my Panasonic camera.
No shortage of great zooms with OIS for you from Panasonic no? 12-35, 35-100.
Well, if its a zoom lens as admin says, then a high-quality 12-60 would really make the most sense. Probably more like 3.5-4.5 in order to keep the size small (and I would be happy with that if the optic is good wide open). Sealed, high-quality plastic, black. Thats my guess.
If you want the original 12-60 aperture for mft – well then just get the original! (and wait another year until fast PD AF is supported by a new body or adapter – oly is too slow on that!!).
And I hope that the next lens to come will be a 300/4 (+ 1.4x converter) or a 100-400/4-5.6 (sealed, “affordable” HG, not SHG). I want to get rid of the heavy Canon telephoto stuff.
only thing overdue, is a fullframe OM-5 (maybe the E-M5-OM-E-5-pseudo OM naming had a reason after all…)
/oracle mode on/
My bet is on a weather sealed tele zoom to complement the 12-50 thing. In line with the 12-50, it will be small, dark, pretty soft and expensive and will come in two colours because it will also go in some kits in the future, and AFAIK all kit lenses from Olympus are dual colour. It will also feature power zoom.
Perhaps a 50-200mm f/4-f/8, maybe a tad longer or brighter.
/oracle mode off/
Agree, but lite more size and 52mm filter size.
So now next to self-confessed trolls we have a cluster of ‘admin’ – LOL. The last one was clever enough to link his nick to the site.
The last hope is another announcement, or can hackers do that too? 🙂
This site has appalling security, so anything goes 🙂
You can always skip the comments, although I doubt you want to do that. The zoo we have here can be rather amusing on a good day. Nothing like a mysterious imminent announcement to bring this blog to life. I think I can psychoanalytically diagnose some of the more avid participants.
Hmmm, it’s pretty amazing to see that I am trying to get some mor einfo from anonymous sources and people thinks I am doing that to fool you. What else should I do to ask them for more info?
Can you block comments for a specific entry? I would try that next time (and perhaps refrain from using ‘FT5’).
jeez, even the real admin can’t login or have his cookies counted.
Fire the web site deesigner.
… Mr. Reeee 😉
There’s no reason a m/43 lens can’t fit on a full frame mirrorless camera. Just like the DX lenses on a FX body is cropped.
However, I can’t see Olympus releasing a FF mirrorless body. I hope it were true but SONY can? A SONY mirrorless body with Olympus glass? Don’t say it can’t be done…
“Ok, I got more info from sources now. Its a ft5 and its shocking! Olympus will release a full frame lens with a large image circle for m4/3 cameras. Its also hybrid in the sense, the lens can be utililized on a full frame camera which Olympus plans to release in 2014. That leaves the 4/3 out in the cold for the moment. Sources please comment. Send me your gmail ID to my yahoo ID. For new sources I also now have a bling email ID.”
That English is too fluent to be admin.
Yes. I too think it will be weather sealed tele.
We had some special offer from Olympus on their – 50-150 R zooms here. Guy in a shop told us that this lens was ending. It must mean there is something new around the corner.
I guess the lens will be slow, soft and over priced (as almost all m43 lenses).
I’m really not interested ! I want some 8 or 9mm ultra wide prime or 12-60 zoom !
I think admin just moderated for the first time!
Hey Admin, it was meant to be a good natured leg pulling…! 🙂
I blocked the comment because it was quite offensive against my work. And sometimes this is really makeing me nervous. Trying to give my best, if you don’t like what I write just visit serious and better websites. Really!
If FF Troll jump and jumping 🙁 i only look to side 😛
Is it a pony? I want a pony!!!
Shouldn’t you be hoping for a pretty moose to come along? 😉
Hey – we all want something fancy and exotic once in a while. Don’t judge me, bro.
“Who wouldn’t like a pony?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RDLqb3umsw
You can see what the release will be here:
http://www.pen
island.com
12-24-48mm/2.8 fixed tri-focal lens.
This lens with internal zooming would be cool on a E-R5.
Unfortunately both do not exist yet. Oly are you listening?
I’ve been asking for a bi-focal lens for ages. A 12/45 f/2.8 would be nice. My old 35 mm Leica compact camera had a 40/85 mm lens.
I am also in favor of an internal zoom mechanism at the cost of increased lens size.
It will be a prime 10/2.0 😀 Dreams my dreams
My dream as well! Although I’d be fine with a 2.8 as well, just as long as it had good corners.
I’m really liking the jolly chaos of this comments section — crazy stuff, but all upbeat for a change!
Another lens? WTF…
A 4/3 Camera, please!!!
25 mm pinhole lens cap for $75.
🙁 You mean hole distance is 25mm from sensor ???
Exactly. There could even be a recessed body cap that is designed as a 5 mm pinhole lens. 😛
As others have stated, I’d give anything for an M43 version of the 12-60 with the goal being corner-to-corner sharpness like the original vs. the obsession with miniaturization.
I know admin said this will be a zoom, but a 9mm or 10mm prime with corner-to-corner sharpness would also get me all hot and bothered. Or even an update to the 9-18mm that has corner-to-corner sharpness.
Anything new? I can’t stay tuned much longer:DDD
The announcement will be the OoM-p4 LOOm-pa.
The new kit consists of a small, angry dwarf who follows you around with a camera taking photos for you.
Key features;
– Superb battery life (dwarf powered by jaffa cakes and bourbon)
– Wide range of focal lengths using foot-zoom
– New “snack” mode, where by a simple instruction (and threat of violence), the dwarf can be sent for pizza (1)
– GPS (dwarf comes equipped with a map and notebook)
– Low centre of gravity aids stable blur-free shots
(1) Due to a firmware bug, dwarf may return slightly fatter with an empty pizza box. Olympus are working on rectifiying this.
A $600 per year membership to a club that allows “no charge” black special edition lens purchases for the silver price. Olympus has lost me on any future slaes with this black lens BS premium.
YES!!
The $49.95, matching silver leather lens pouch is finally coming!
A 100-400/4 black, weather sealed lens of decent quality — for bird photos, etc.
A 12-54 or 12-60 of good quality is interesting, but having purchased the 12-50 kit lens, that will not be first priority.
Hopefully it’ll be a m43 version of the Zuiko 14-54/f2.8-4 (second version) or something similar. I have one on the EM5 and even with the goofy 43/m43 adapter its fantastic, much better than any m43 zoom in that range IMHO, including the Panasonic 12-35 as it requires less optical correction in post and it was sharper in my tests.
agree. I would be very happy with a mFT version of the 14-54 f2.8-3.5 with all the excellent optical corrections. I have almost bought the FT/adapted version a couple times, but keep waiting for a native mFT. Maybe we will get a new focal length 12-54 f2.8-3.5…maybe. Another high quality zoom in this range would be a good thing.
Hmmm…. Well there are three key lenses missing in the m4/3 Lenses
1) m4/3 12-60 F2,8-4
2) m4/3 50-200 F2.8-3.5
3) m4/3 300mm F4 (plus EC14)
As it is a Zoom I’m hoping for the 12-60..
B
I’m surprised no one has suggested another 14-42 kit lens, you know, it’s that time of the year Olympus re-re-re-releases another one of those. I’ll be interested in anything starting at 12 and being longer than 35 and faster than 3.5, doesn’t need to be constant aperture, could be a 12-45 f2.8-4 at %499 and I’d be happy
HOW ABOUT A DANG 25mm f2 for $299!?
Does nto need to be a pancake, just compact enough and affordable so lot’s of people can enjoy it.
Seems to be the most difficult focal length to make for 4/3 and m4/3!
I agree completely. One of my most used lenses in 4/3 was the 25/2.8, a pancake excellent for the price. I am delaying buying the Sigma 30/2.8 hoping that such a sensible lens can be made by Oly.
Oly is known to have excellent SG stuff, and there is really no point in making a luxury item of the simplest lens, or making it as big as a PL.
Sigma gave a great example, unfortunately 30mm or 19mm is neither foal nor fish for m4/3.
Yeah, not sure why this has been the case.
I have like a hundred 50mm lenses from the film days. Everybody made one or included one with their SLRs. But for 4/3 (and APS-C too until recently) that 50mm focal equivalent has been a rarity in comparison.
4/3 has been around for 10 years, and there’s 2 or three. The Oly 25 2.8 pancake which is slow for a prime and an ok performer. Then there’s the Leica 25 f1.4 which has great performance, but is expensive and really big. And there was the Sigma 24mm f.18, that has been discontinued for a while.
Now for m4/3 there is the Voigtlander 25 f.95 thats expensive and has no autofocus, and the Leica 24 f1.4, which is priced better than it’s 4/3 brother, but still somewhat expensive and large for the format.
Seems like Oly would sell quite a few 25 2.0 or 1.8 for $300-400. No need to make it super fancy with MF rings and stuff. Like the 45 1.8. Good, compact, and decently priced.
I’m gonna guess it is a 50-200 F2.8-5.6, weather sealed, and black. No lens hood, no bag.
My money is on a firmware update ushering in focus peaking.
It is a new weather sealed OM-D-jacket fully compatible with the weather sealed 12-50mm kit lens.
This could probably be one of first images of the OM-D jacket via:
http://www.photopresse.de/images/stories/2012/06/O_Klaus-Bossemeyer.jpg
There will a black limited edition of the OM-D-jacket in a year.
In combination with a classical black peaked cap (available with a universal “super zoom head adapter” [18-25 inches] and some special blue protective rain glasses the price of the limited edition is estimated about EUR/$ 300.00 over the standard silver version (€/$ 699.00 in silver, €/$ 999.00 limited black).
Just kidding…
40-150mm F2.8 constant
I hope it will be a high quality wide angle zoom lens like 8-17mm f2.8, the quality of the old one is no so good and it is so plastic. we certianly need a high quality wide angle lens, esp, olympus also focus on Underwater photography business.
Olympus lens 7-20mm specifications
• Lens Construction : 16 elements in 10groups (2 Aspherical lenses, 4 ED lenses)
• Mount : Micro Four Thirds mount
• Optical Image Stabilizer : No
• Focal Length : f=7mm to 20mm (35mm camera equivalent 14mm to 40mm)
• Aperture Type : 8 diaphragm blades / Circular aperture diaphragm
• Aperture : F2.0
• Minimum Aperture : F22
• Closest Focusing Distance : 0.25m / 0.8ft at all focal lengths
• Maximum magnification : Apporox. 0.08x / 0.15x (35mm camera equivalent)
• Diagonal Angle of View : 114°（W）～67°（T）
• Max. Diameter : φ70mm / 2.76 in
• Overall Length : Approx. 92.7mm (top of the lens hood to the base side of the lens mount)
• Weight : Approx. 300g / 10.58 oz
• Standard Accessory : Lens Cap, Lens Rear Cap
• Optional Hood available
Silver.
Did you say “Wow! Silver on silver with silver trim.” earlier?
Do you like silver?
With all due resepect, Am I the only one slightly annoyed this hasn’t been post hasn’t been updated yet?
Quite, it gets to the point of annoyance , just call this article *advertisement for additional web traffic*
But we’re always in for a good rumor though . still hoping for an Olympus fast standard high grade zoom.
f/2, 7-20mm in 300g is impossible. However, I’d love a 2/7 prime… (given that the optical performance is stellar)
8-20 f/4??