Olympus registered the 300mm f/4.0 ZUIKO PRO lens at Novacert in Russia. This means the announcement will happen within the next 2-3 months.
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Olympus registered the 300mm f/4.0 ZUIKO PRO lens at Novacert in Russia. This means the announcement will happen within the next 2-3 months.
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Why going for just 300mm if you can go further than that ?
Yes , better hurry up before the Leica DG 100-400mm steal the show .
I think 300mm is a valid and useful length in its own right. The more so if it can be extended with a dedicated teleconverter to become 420mm – with f/5.6, whereas the 100-400mm Panasonic/Leica zoom is f/6.3 at 400mm. My concerns are more about the price…
Me too (regarding price concerns …), and in fact the zoom is practical more for subject aquisition than taking pictures at shorter focal length, at least that’s the way I use my 100 300 most of the time.
For some applications (like birds), the longer the better – you will crop anyway even from 600mm efl. And cropping from f/4 is much better than from f/6.3 when ISO is high (at the same shutter speed needed to freeze a bird or other similar subjects it will be about 3 times lower). Plus diffraction is already at play at 6.3 or 6.7 like in Oly 75-300, not to mention that the prime will probably be sharper wide open than these 2.
Yes price will be an issue… At the resolution required to feed the 4/3 sensor, and the small production run… Both pana and oly will be expensive.
Because going 400 f4 would mean more size and weight and 4x more expensive. The Panaleica is too slow for many uses and will have inferior optical performance. The Zuiko is faster even with a teleconverter. The only advantage the 100-400 has is the ability to zoom which some prefer.
Too slow? F/5.6 vs f/6.3 is 0.3EV difference, other words, NOTHING! a f/4 is minimum unless in bright African safari at middle day!
I agree, that’s exactly why I said the Zuiko is better with f4.
How can the zoom steal the show at f/6.3 and released second???
I bet the prime is sharper too!
They are both going to be very expensive….we can bet on that.
Wait…300 X 1.4 = 420mm @f/5.6! Please check your math? Whoopsie.
Agreed, the threat of a Panasonic zoom coming up first probably accelerated oly’s development.
But come on, even a fanboy like you should realize that in long telephoto lenses primes are king. Zooms are more flexible and better for some situations, like a safari, but when I go out on wildlife trips nearly everybody has Canon 400+ primes, despite the fact that nice long zooms are also available.
Both prime and zoom are needed in the system. It would be better if the oly were 400/5.6 and the pana 100-300/4, but oh well.
Great news! But the admin could have elaborated:
1. What is Novacert
2. Why does the registering mean 2-3 months to announcement
1. It’s a service for OEMs to register and maintain different documents. It’s unofficial and optional, but previously Olympus certificates were correct.
2. I guess, it doesn’t. Certificate is valid for 5 years. But, looking at previous certificates, they were given to
E-M10-II on July 16th, 40 days before announcement
http://novocert.ru/Documents/Document.aspx?Id=4739958
E-M1 on Oct 30th 2013, 10 days before announcement
http://novocert.ru/Documents/Document.aspx?Id=2169897
I wish hear any news about the next pro lens at the end of this year….
Cant wait for this lens
Please be less than $1800 USD…$1500 would be even better.
So I guess this is the confirmation that it will have optical stabilization. Unless IS in the name means “Is Not” 🙂
Of course it is. For a limited lens like that, some extra market from non-Olympus users would be essential to clear fixed costs, plus at longer FLs OIS has wider range of stabilization of angular shake compared to IBIS.
The question is will Olympus cameras be able to use dual stabilization? And if yes, in what cameras, will they release firmware updates for E-M1, E-M5 II, E-M10 II, E-M5?
Interesting fact: Sigma Corporation is listed as first subsidiary of product maker. Two other subsidiaries are Olympus Vietnam and Olympus China.
If Sigma is the designer we probably can expect performance on a level of 75mm F1.8 – stellar.
PanaLeica 100-400mm, on the other hand is already limited by diffraction at F6.3. And, judging by previous tele-zooms, it will have to be stopped down by at least one stop for decent, but still not superb performance.
I really feel for you guys. It’s a shame you’ll have to wait so long to take pictures of blurry subjects with sharp backgrounds.
Yes…like a long-handled 8-lb sledge hammer would be just the tool to take care of you. Could someone put some plastic down please, it will help with the clean-up. 🙂
did you preorder?
IS PRO. ____IS_ PRO. As I said, it has image stabilization and that is why it has been delayed.