A brand new Olympus patent discloses a small surprise. Olympus designed a 12-150mm f/4-6.3 Micro Four Thirds lens with in lens stabilization! It’s likely that Olympus plans to release this as a perfect Powerzoom lens dedicated for video that could work fine on both Olympus and Panasonic cameras.
Source: Egami.
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stabilized??
A lens similiar with Pana one .
Oly like playing catch up game with Pana when come out to new lenses recently .
F4 ? too slow .
No way I’m going to get it .
Luckily nobody is forced to buy every lens Panasonic and Olympus brings out, you can just make a selection what to buy and what not.
It doesn’t interest me, but 12mm on the wide end is very appealing.
There are too many 14-xxx zooms already.
Maybe the 12-32mm started a kit zoom trend?
It’s just one of the many Olympus patents that may never be developed. I also don’t see any reasons for Oly to pay catch up with Pana, both manufacturers put out nice lens and they complement each other really well. Not sure why you go all frenzy about this.
Oops! That’s an 24-300mm f/8-12.6 lens equivalent with a huge price tag, huge size and a huge amount of noise with your blotchy, tiny sensors (yup that f number equivalent is entirely correct, with your cellphone like depths of field all you mini 4 3rds fans crave so much, and with your wonderful tiny sensor giving up 2 stops of light which means 2 stops of ISO performance down the drain – with you money).
How pathetic is it to come to a site dedicated to that ‘tiny’ sensor and complain about how small the sensor is. Feeling insecure?
There are a lot of used Canon 5D Mk3 on listed on eBay at this time, many in pristine condition (very low shutter count), some are selling all their Canon glass! Seems like something is driving that, perhaps the GH4 but looks like hard times for Full Frame.
The reason that the entire camera industry is contracting is that most people have decided they can live with smaller sensor cameras for convenience sake.
You got it pal, Canon is shitzing themselves and I have just put up my FF gear to run and buy micro four turds. Sadly, nobody wants to buy my cameras because they are so bad by micro four turds standards. You guys seem to like your micro four turds a lot.
Idiot times two.
Admin please get these impolite trolls’ IP banned. My eyes hurt and my brain can’t comprehend their rudeness and stupidity.
Your brain can’t comprehend LOL this is the first step.
I reply to JacktheCliker, may be you miss read my comment.
I miss read. Is your brain still hurting?
You are like what, 10 years old?
Your life must be equally shallow.
(I apologize for feeding this troll)
Same thing can be said comparing your full frame camera with a medium format camera. Image quality is pathetic. There’s just compromise in everything: smaller sensor size gives you less weight, more compact camera’s and lenses, you loose a little low light performance. Different depth of field can be a plus or a minus depending on your needs. The good thing is that we can all decide what is important to us and where we want to compromise.
You are wrong on so many levels. M43 is perfect for you. Enjoy.
I don’t understand why you are here writing this. It’s sad that you have nothing better to do than this.
Sincerly. i sold my FF camera to switch to a m43 camera. No regrets! Image quality is better than a FF camera! Shallow depth of field isn’t photography. A story behind a photo, is photography. And I have lost just one stop. My 3200iso photo is like 6400iso on Canon 6D. Considering that i have lighter and faster lens… i don’t need to go to 6400iso. Now i use only prime fast lenses. In 800gr i have 5 prime lens with superb IQ. With a FF in 800gr i have only 1 prime lens wit super IQ. So i have to have a zoom that is slower.. (f2.8) comparing f1.8 lens that i have on m43. So… think less and shoot more.
Luca, if you really sold a FF camera for a M43 toy, which I doubt, either
1) you are a fool
2) or you never needed a proper camera, so a compact will probably cover it as well.
We all appreciate your story as a mildly amusing example of ignorance.
Dude, go troll somewhere else. There are a lot of PRO’s using m43’s gear.
Does m43 have the best IQ available in the camera world? No..
But you’ll can take great pictures with it. And the good thing is, you’ll don’t have to carry a gigantic bag that feels like it’s filled with bricks with you all the time.
LOL the pros (who don’t touch M43 with a bargepole unless paid for it). LOL the gigantic size (of non equivalent optics). LOL you are a sad boy.
You are too ignorant to be making comments in public. Your parents should supervise your internet access more closely. Shame on them.
His parents should have used “the pill” and double condoms.
It hurts right? Tiny sensor, tiny brain and probably tiny willie so you shout out LOL.
There doesn’t seem to be any real brain activity yet so It’s not too late for an abortion.
The more it hurts, the louder you losers shout, it must be bad to be tied to that tiny sensor…
Idiot.
Love to see all the nerds getting excited: some scream what they think can insult me, some bring out “scientific” arguments like camera size (LOL)…
The question is always the same: stupid and in good faith or stupid and in bad faith? LOL
Do they? well golly gosh and fancy that! scientific arguments and it doesn’t even stop you! What a little hero you are.
Now toddle of there’s a good little tard.
Well, in Raw I see almost 2 stops advantage for the Canon 6D and in jpeg – oh… maybe 3-4 stops? Compared to the Oly OMD EM10. But actually I don´t need that ultra thin dof of FF cameras and prefer the shooting experience with mft – somehow it´s more enjoyable and I love live view and light weight – oh, and the lenses are fantastic. Dynamic range is a little better too.
But for low light, I prefer the 6D.
You may see that with your 6D, but the EM-10 has better noise response than a Canon 5D1 and 5D2 which professionals are still happily shooting today. Sorry a $700 m43 camera with a 1/4 of the size sensor can’t compete on ISO yet with the top of the line FF, but it sure as hell can compete with FF cameras only a few years old that are still in service today.
Maybe you are the one that make me come headache when i see video with super shallow DOF, where one second the subject is in focus, and the other one isn’t.. well. Let’s see hollywood movies.. they don’t do this 🙂 they have much DOF (They use a smaller sensor too., s35 is smaller than 135 format.) And they don’t make me come headache.
“That’s an 24-300mm f/8-12.6 lens equivalent with a huge price tag, huge size and a huge amount of noise with your blotchy, tiny sensors”
It will give just as much noise as a 24-300mm f/8-12,6 mounted on a full frame camera..
You’ll be right on the price tag, though. The bang-for-buck ratio of m4/3 equipment is unfortunately rather dismal.
Are you a rectangle? Hum… I guest that explains why you have no place to store a brain… Too bad…
Mmmh clever AND stinging. Are you a virus or an actual person?
Not sure how you’ve worked out how it gives up two stops of light. F4.0 is F4.0, doesn’t matter the sensor size. But, to get the same shutter speed and DoF on FF you’d have to increase the ISO by 2 stops, so there goes your ISO advantage. But we appreciate you dropping by and giving us the benefit of your wisdom (which always makes us chuckle).
Is this tacit admission by Olympus that IBIS performs poorly at longer focal lengths with smaller apertures? Since every Olympus body has IBIS built-in, why is this the first lens they will choose to stabilize? Just doesn’t seem to make much sense.
No, it’s a tacit admission that they might potentially double their sales of such a lens by including IS so it would work with Panasonic bodies.
A possibility, but they could have done this with all their lenses from the start. Why would Olympus suddenly implement a strategy like this now? Perhaps a tit-for-tat response to the GX7 being the first Panasonic camera to include IBIS for itself?
Or more likely they see potential growth in m43 from the GH4 and would like to capitalize on it in a timelier fashion than pushing out the EM-1 mk II before its ready?
Many people ask for better video for Olympus cameras. Better video should mean higher bit rates. Higher bit rates leads to higher heat dispersion from the sensor. Very hard or impossible to handle the heat coming from higher bit rates and still use a floating IBIS-sensor construction (you can not use IBIS in GX7 for video).
I guess Olympus have started to look into producing a camera with better video specification and they realize that they can not use IBIS in all modes (like the GX7). If this camera will show up they need to sell it with a kit-lens that support OIS so that the customers get IS also for the video.
Haha, better video from Olympus? I will believe it when I see it. Currently, they are reluctant to even offer a 24 fps option. Instead, users are stuck with the same video specs for years on end. No, if Olympus were to ever get into video, they should capitalize on their one true competitive advantage, which is their 5-axis IBIS. That is the one thing that they should not compromise on through the use of a tiny aperture super zoom.
I would be very surprised if we see this lens developed anytime soon. Why?
1 – Unfortunately Olympus has never been focused on video.
2 – All Olympus cameras have excellent IBIS, why bother making a lens bigger, heavier and more expensive than necessary.
3 – While Olympus have some good zoom lenses, most are on the wide end. (12-40,12-50mm)
4 – Olympus strength in lens design are fast primes which are small, light and sharp.
Perhaps they will license it to Panasonic
Maybe they want a share from the Pana video bodies through video lenses?
Actually, I was thinking that Oly might release a weathersealed 12-60(or 100) lens for the kit with E-M5 MkII, because the current 12-50 does not have a high reputation and is slow on the long end. But I wasn’t expecting something like that.
Let’s wait for the E-M5 MkII. 😉
Wow, Olympus gives us exactly what we want 😉
If it has powerzoom it would be a great video lens, a necessity for smooth zooming. Panasonic has the 14-140mm but lacks the powerzoom. Never understood why panasonic didn’t release a version with powerzoom, since video is their strength.
Hmmm what does that make on my cameras? Oh yes, that would be 24-300 F8-12.6. LOL any price above 30 EUR would be a ripoff.
They are going to write “pro” on it, stupid.
LOL sorry.
Anything above the number 30 is too much for you to calculate anyways, so you wouldn’t even notice.
LOL you are funny, and you can nearly spell.
On a full frame, it’s similar to a 24-300mm f4.0-6.3, but with twice the DoF, which is cool. On my FF I’d have to stop down to f8 (or f12.6) to get a similar DoF.
But you can fourfold the ISO, on your FF, and get the same noise. And you still have the magnification advantage. And this is only the worst case (light starved, you want big DOF): otherwise, FF will play its cards even better.
Not sure that FF has a four stop advantage over m43. Certainly a couple of stops between my E-M5 and my 1Dx up to ISO 6400. I’ve no idea what the magnification advantage is that FF has over m43.
I agree that it is the possible the worst case. Though the number of times that I’ve had photo’s where I could’ve done with more DoF rather than less is a lot higher. I understand that this isn’t the case for everyone, but for me, the DoF advantage, linked with the low noise and fast lenses and small size of m43 makes it a very good system. For me.
Horses for courses, which is why I also have FF cameras. I just don’t understand why people have to troll (not accusing you!) on the site. I don’t go to FF forums and troll on about the benefits of m43 over FF.
Nice chatting to you btw,
Colin
Come on, Olympus! Better sell a very well built 12-70 3.5-5.6 than a poor 12-150 4-6.3
12-70/2.0-4.0 please.
For video that is a very usefull range. Wonder about the IQ though..
Wow, another slow, low iq superzoom. What a surprise.
IS in an Olympus lens? Interesting… Hasn’t Tamron said that “future Panasonic cameras will have in body stabilization” http://www.43rumors.com/tamron-withdraws-plan-to-release-the-14-150mm-mft-lens/ ? OTOH, maybe this is the reason Tamron superzoom was not released – they’ve reworked it and sold design to Oly?
Whatever’s the case, here’s one interested buyer. That’s a nice outdoor travel lens.
Olympus discloses way more patents than they releases lenses. I’m not holding my breath over that one…
All I have to say is, HUH?
Give me some active moderation, please. Or a Youtube-style moron-filter, where a post will be hidden if enough people down-vote it.
F6.3….. When are camera brands going to stop with such apertures… Makes just no sense at all…
It used to be in SLR days you needed a very fast lens in order for auto focus to work and anything slower than F4 was slow and slower than F5.6 would not focus period. However the auto focus capabilities of new cameras like the GH4 are incredibly fast even in very low light conditions so no reason they would work equally well and fast using slower lenses in most conditions. Also the high ISO performance of all recent m4/3 cameras has been noticeably increased. Note the lastest test on PP on GM1 gave it a low noise rating all the way thru ISO 3200 and extremely high picture picture quality thru ISO 1600 while in SLR days we were talking of using film of only 100 ISO in comparison!
I think such a super tele travel lens starting from 24mm and going all the way to 300mm would be very attractive to many if affordable and it needs to work with both Oly and Pany cameras to make it a commercial success in sales. You should note than Pany zoom lens have for a long time outsold their Oly counterparts for this very reason except for fire sales to reduce inventories. Given the much better high ISO performance of recent cameras (just look at the recent PP test on GM1 giving extremely high resolution thru ISO 1600 and moderate noise to ISO 6300!)
The aperture values are absolutely ridiculous. It’s a lens good for a very sunny day, when the sun is high up in the sky.
So, if you ever wanted to shoot on June 22nd, between 14:00 and 16:00 – you’re in luck! A lens is coming!
f/6.3… golly, I haven’t seen such a dark aperture in my life! Not even IS can save us now. f/0.95 or I break out the tripod.
I love my Olympus 14-150 for outdoor photography. I can’t see getting this for an additional 2mm, but if I didn’t have mine, I could be tempted.
It might be for a fixed-lens camera with 4/3″ sensor.