Over one year ago we conducted a POLL to see what kind of lens would be needed for the new Micro Four Thirds system (Click here to see the results from the December 2010 poll). During that time (December 2010 until today) Panasonic and Olympus announced many new lenses:
The [shoplink 23110]Panasonic 25mm f/1.4[/shoplink]
The [shoplink 25104]Panasonic 14-42mm X lens[/shoplink]
The [shoplink 25103]Panasonic 45-175mm X lens[/shoplink]
The upcoming new Panasonic 12-35mm f/2.8 X lens
The upcoming new Panasonic 35-100mm f/2.8 X lens
The [shoplink 23576]Olympus 12mm f/2.0[/shoplink]
The [shoplink 23577]Olympus 45mm f/1.8[/shoplink]
The upcoming new Olympus 75mm f/1.8 lens
The upcoming new Olympus 60mm f/2.8 macro lens.
Time has come to prepare a new poll. Please comment this post with your Micro Four Thirds lens suggestions! To facilitate my job I kindly ask you to use a uniformed format that will allow me to easily copy and paste your lens description:
XXmm f/X.X -> price info (can be “low price”or don’t write anything if it doesn’t matter for you), size info (can be “pancake”, “collapsible”, “compact” or don’t write anything if it doesn’t matter for you), features (“high optical quality, “power zoom”, “smooth aperture ring”, “weather sealed”, “macro”, “manual focusing” or anything else you want to write.). I make you an example by writing my own wish-list:
10.5mm f/3.5 -> low priced,pancake.
12mm f/1.2 -> high optical quality, weather sealed.
12-50mm f/2.0 -> powerzoom, smooth aperture ring.
17mm f/1.4 -> pancake, high optical quality.
25mm f/3.5 -> low priced,pancake, macro
42mm f/1.4 -> high optical quality.
You got it? Than start with your list!!!
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I’d like to see Olympus make a new pancake lens for OM-D.
17-20mm, f/1.6-2.0, metallic body + weather sealed
+10000000000
Not necessarily weather-sealed, but +1 for the rest … 😉
… oh, and make it cost around 250 bucks.
150mm f/2.8 weather sealed
Not directly lenses
– tele converter
– CDAF FT -> mFT adapter
25mm f1.8 – low priced, autofocus.
I would love the mFT version of either the 12-60mm or the 14-54mm (2.8-3.5) or both. Also what is still missing is fast tele prime lenses (something like a 200-250mm/3.5-4) and/or an autofocusing mirror lens 250-400mm.
200-400mm f/4 -> high optical quality, weather sealed
+1
17mm f/2.0 -> weathersealed
100mm f/2.0 -> weathersealed
300mm f/4.0 -> weathersealed
+1
You read my mind! Plus weather sealed black re-issue of 45mm f/1.8
+1 for 17mm f/2.0 weather sealed. Reasonably small, not necessarily a pancake.
a 360 degree full frame lens like this http://www.kogeto.com/dot.php
135mm f/2.8 -> macro, high optical quality, weather sealed
High Grade Olympus 17mm 1.4… ideally weathersealed, don’t compromise IQ to make it a pancake – I’ll take the 17mm f2.8 if I need that.
Fingers crossed, it will be coming soon.
Brian
12-60 F2.8-4.0 (as it’s MFT, it would be smaller than existing 4/3 version)
+1 I take it with same size as 43 version, same optical quality and fast contrast autofocus. That would be a size gain over the 43 version because no need of MMF-3.
here is my take:
40mm f/1.4 -> from Panasonic and if possible with OIS
60mm f/1.8 -> cheap
and a
2X teleconverter (between the lens and the camera, not in the front of the lens)
a improved m5 kitlens
12-50mm f/2.0 -> powerzoom, smooth aperture ring, weather sealed
12-50 f2 !!!! that’s unreallistic, the olympus 12-35 f2 is allready huge and very expensive…
14-60 mm f / 2-2,8 high quality
25-100 mm f / 2-2,8 high quality
high quality for optics and mechanical parts; IF and internal zoom
Olympus 12mm f/2
Lumix 20mm f/1.7
Lumix X 35-100mm f/2.8
I like your style. + 45mm f/1.8
12-60mm f2.8-f4 – OIS, compact, good (not excellent) quality, not weather sealed
Only 1 desire: small, good but no excellent quality standard zoom, not weather sealed: 12-60mm f2.8-f4 !!!!
This is what many people (including myself) are looking for: the ideal lens for travel and general purpose walk-around compact lens.
+1
3 Olympus zoom lenses from 12 to 400 mm (per example 12-60, 50-200, 200-400, 2.8-4.0, high optical quality, weather sealed). Even if I think these lenses would be very expensive 😉
I’d even be happy with a constant f4, as long as they make it not too expensive.
There are rumors of a 12-35 f2.8, which is weather sealed, but it would cost 1.000-1.500 USD. Sorry, but for me this is too expensive (I already have a canon 5D + 24-70).
I’m though looking for a compact travel combination. This would be perfect being GX1 + 12-60mm range, being compact, not weather sealed to decrease costs, and the aperture can be what is possible looking at the lens desing, but at least f4, better would be f2.8 to f4 across the zoom range.
Oh and also definitely NO power zoom!
You want a less than excellent 12-60? Count me out of that proposition.
+1 just make the 12-60 m43 version, I don’t care about size as far as it is not bigger than 43 version and has the same optical performances: tack sharp from 12 to 50. The macro ability is a good point as it makes this lens even more versatil…
Agree, either of 14-54 or 12-60 would make great upgrades on the kit zoom. I’m not sure whether the coming 12-35 will be just a little too short as an all-purpose lens. And if made by Oly, with no OIS, should also be a bit cheaper and smaller.
10,5mm f/1.4 Summilux
17mm f/1.4 Summilux
50mm f/1.4 Summilux
12-60mm f/4 with OS, X, small (f4) but high quality, weather sealed
6mm f/2.8 ultra wide angle (no fisheye)
100-300 f/4, OS, X, high quality, weather sealed, built in 1.4x converter
Olympus
25mm f1.4 or 1.8 weather sealed – very high quality (to match Panasonic / Leica that doest chatter) metal
Sharp, high quality zoom fast – similar quality to 12-60 (prefer weather sealed)
300 f 2 weather sealed metal
17mm f2.0 weather sealed metal
45mm f 1.8 in a weather sealed metal body, same optics as current lens
Voitlander
40, 45 or 50 mm f0.95 portrait lens
I think these are very much needed:
10mm f/3.5 (pancake)
12-60mm f/2.8-4.0 (e-m5 pro kit lens)
40-150mm f/3.5-4.5 (this should have been the tele kit lens)
12-25mm F2.0 constant, OIS, power zoom, manual ovveride, macro capability and weather sealed.
🙂
and silent motor, I forget that 🙂
Well, it depends. Should my FT lenses be brought to full functionality in the not too far future, a faster sealed 17 and sealed versions of my Summilux 25 1.4 and my 45 1.8 plus the new 75 1.7 would be enough for me.
If not, I want a 12-60 2.8-3.5, a 50-200 2.8-3.5 and a 150 2.0. All sealed, of course.
12-35mm f/2.0 -> High optical quality / Weather sealed
35-100mm f/2.0 -> High optical quality / Weather sealed
100-200mm f/4 -> High optical quality / Weather sealed
100 f/2.8 -> Macro / High optical quality
Wow !!! this is a 8000 euro 5 kg set !!!
12-35mm f/2.8 -> High optical quality / Weather sealed
35-100mm f/2.8 -> High optical quality / Weather sealed
100-300mm f/4 -> High optical quality / Weather sealed
100 f/2.8 -> Macro / High optical quality
🙂
10mm f/2.8 pancake
12mm f/2.8 pancake
25mm f/1.8 or f/2.0 pancake
All AF, of course.
2X sensor should offer an advantage for tele, but Olympus/Panasonic did not used this advantage. Fix tele lenses at affordable price (maximum 1500$) are missing from the offert.
Will be more than welcome lenses like this :
-300 mm F/4.0 (at 1200-1500$, same price as Canon/Nikon);
-400 mm F/5.6 (at 1300$, same price as Canon);
-200 mm F/4.0 or F/5.6(at maximum 1000$);
-some teleconvertors.
Some long macro lenses will be welcomed again :
-100 F/2.8;
-150 F/4.0.
Size of the fix-tele-lens does not matter too much. Everybody understands that for quality there are compromises.
Who wants small size, can use 75-300 as tele.
Who wants quality, should have the possibilitty to use something better (like 400 F/5.6).
4/3 was a nice promise because of the 2x crop factor, but the end it did not offert any advantage because of the lack of fix tele lenses at decent price.
I hope m4/3 will have a different future, and Panasonic/Olympus will understand that many of the clients needs fix tele lenses (like 300 F/4.0 or 400 F/5.6).
My choices:
-9mm f/2.8 to f/3.5 -> high optical quality (good distotion & chromatic aberration correction), high build quality (12mm f/2.0 type, with clutch mechanism to allow manual focusing w/distance and depth of field scales), NO bulb w/built-in petal hood construction, it has to allow filter thread.
-17mm f/1.4 -> high optical quality (good bokeh), high build quality (45mm f/1.8 type).
Greetings.
75mm f/2,8, fast and silent AF, as small as possible (pancake or near-pancake, collapsible if necessary)
10mm f/2,8, fast and silent AF , as small as possible (pancake or near-pancake, collapsible if necessary)
12-60mm f/2.8-4 (high quality)
Others have stated, but let me emphasize that for this one, I would want image quality to be top priority. A larger than other m43 lenses directive is fine. If it’s just as large as the original 43’s classic, so be it. We have plenty of mediocre zoom lenses where size is more important image quality; now let’s have something bright with corner-to-corner sharpness, one that will be a classic that all will remember. A lens that everybody will be in awe of (like the old 43’s 12-60)!!!!
+1
12-60 F2.8-4.0 Weather sealed
17mm F2.8 Weather sealed, fast focus, compact
More lens like the 45mm f1.8 (image quality and low price) like a:
7or9mm f2.5 (400$, linear for architecture)
25mm f1.8 (400$, not pancake)
45mm f1.8v2 (with closest minimum focusing distance ~ 1foot)
This type of poll is kind of “a child in a candyshop” approach.
Asking your childen what kind of candies they would like to have, would give you similarly irational answers, as asking Olympus fanboys about lenses.
Especially if you use vague terms like “low price”, “high optical quality”, “smooth aperture” and like.
OK, so I would like “low price, high optical quality, very fast focusing, fast aperture, fast mounting, lightweight lens with optimal focal length, running on Android firmware, optimised for 43 lenses, with possibility to load additional apps.
Oh, and don’t forget a lens cap, optimised for fast mounting/dismounting, with OLED display, and autodetection which lens it is mounted on, so it can flash OLYMPUS or PANASONIC logo accordingly.
For the EM-5 I am waiting for:
17.5/2 Weather Sealed, not Pancake.
I want an equivalent to my old 35/2 for use
with new OM.
After I get the Oly 75mm f/1.8…I gotta say…I AM HAPPY WITH THE LENSES THAT ARE CURRENTLY OFFERED and listed as coming down the pike.( I own 9 of them!). Damn we have a lot of great lenses to choose from.
What would be nice is a very thin automatic extension tube, to get a little closer with some of the lenses. Other than that ….I am sitting in the grand stands for a while….(or out taking pics!).
Yep – I’m more than happy too with the existing µ43 range and the announced Oly’s! Using the 17, 12, 45 and all Panas except 45-200 and X-Lenses, I do not see any occasion where I could/would miss a shot but if I do – it is due to my own shortcomings and not related to the lenses 😉
I shoot still only..and have the 45-175mm X Lens…I personally think it is great for what it is. Its really pretty sharp with good contrast (IMO MUCH better than the 75-200mm I sold that to buy the X), and after the firmware update the IS is really good.
The lens has slow aperture…but that is more than compensated for by the tiny size of the lens with the reach it gives you. I was skeptical when I bought it…and I am not a fan of the power zoom..but it is the IQ and reach in that small, light-weight package where it shines. It’s quite amazing.
Panasonic Leica F0.95 with AF
Panasonic 35-100 mm F2.0
Zuiko Digital 100mm F1.8
That’s all .
10mm f2
17mm f1,4 sealed
7-14mm/f2.8 by Tokina. USD700. Good optical quality is all I need. Weather sealing would be a plus.
+1 with filters thread (contrary to the pana 7-14)
17mm f/1.8 or faster, pancake with fast AF
No lens.
A real T/S adapter that is very well made to use SLR lenses from Nikon, etc.
(I would most likely use them on NEX and Fuji X Pro but adapters from those mounts to m4/3rds are possible and even available already)
90mm f/2 -> macro, weathersealed, tripod mount ring, high quality, ~800 Euro
Olympus pancake collapsible power zoom,
minimum equivalent to Pana 14-42X f/3,5-f/5,6, but with better zoom range (ex: 12-42mm or 14-56mm), and/or quality, and no OIS
7mm f4
14mm f2
35mm f2
400mm f5.6
All high quality weather sealed.
I would like:
a 9-10mm f1.8 or something around that, Low price and acceptable quality
a cheaper, smaller 7-14 from oly, or even a 6-12 if thats possible.
50-200mm f2.8 f3.5 –> the same as 4/3 … but smaller 🙂
12-50mm – f2.8 f3.5–> the same as 4/3 … but smaller & brighter !
A very small 25mm 1.4 Pancake with same optical quality as pana leica 25mm or Olympus 45mm 1.8.
I’d buy either of these two in a heartbeat:
150 f/3.5 macro -> high optical quality, weather sealed, tripod ring, ~$1,250 USD
100 f/2.8 macro -> high optical quality, weather sealed, tripod ring, ~$1,000 USD
Then fill in these ones as funds permit:
1.4x teleconverter -> high optical quality, weather sealed, tripod ring, ~$350 USD
12–60 f/2.8–4.0 -> high optical quality, weather sealed, ~$1,250 USD
50–200 f/2.8–3.5 > high optical quality, weather sealed, tripod ring, ~$1,500 USD
7 f/2.8 -> high optical quality, weather sealed, ~$750 USD
+1
We’re pretty much on the same wavelength. The 7mm sounds interesting. I use my 7-14mm mostly at 7mm.
For long macros I’m “getting by” with Nikons. Their 105mm f2.8 AI-S is great.
I’d add…
2x Teleconverter, High Optical Quality, Tripod Ring, Weather Sealed, ±$400
10mm f2.8, High Optical Quality
300mm f4, High Optical Quality, Tripod Ring, Weather Sealed
400mm f4, High Optical Quality, Tripod Ring, Weather Sealed
MORE lenses from Voigtländer!
10mm or 12mm f2.8 (or faster) pancake.
17mm f/1.4 -> high optical quality.
Olympus 150/2.8
I am not happy with the narrow depth of field choices in m43.
So a new f0.95 lens at 25mm or 30mm so that the one that exists will have some competition.
Or maybe autoficus on such a lens.
+1 (damn..that will be pricey!!!!!!!!)
9 or 10 mm 1:2.8
10-40 mm 1:2.8
90 mm 1:2.0
m.Zuiko
17mm f2
25mm F1.7
both in the quality, size and Style of the 12mm/45mm
maybe likewise the 12mm/45mm release both at the same time: one Highclass/Metal & one lowpriced
10-50 mm f/2.5-3.5
In order of preference:
Zuiko 25mm f1.2 Weather sealed, high optical quality.
Zuiko 17mm f1.4/f1.8 Weather sealed, high optical quality.
Zuiko 12-60mm f2.8-f3.5 Weather sealed, high optical quality.
Zuiko 50-200mm f2.8-f3.5 Weather sealed, high optical quality.
Version 2 of Panasonic 7-14mm f4 with weather sealing.
Version 2 of Zuiko 12mm f2 and 45mm f1.8 in BLACK and with weather sealing.
8mm/3.5 -Low priced compact UWA
Zuiko 17mm f1.4/f1.8 Weather sealed, high optical quality, all metal, black, manual focusing (mecanical), aperture ring, distance scale
Oly 12mm f/2 weather sealed, same quality and price
Oly 45mm f1.8 weather sealed, same quality, willing to pay more
Lumix 20mm f/1.7 updated to focus quicker, same optical quality, and weather sealing would be nice too
Oly 14-140mm, weather sealed, brighter than f4-5.6 if possible please, will to pay more.
Oh and in a choice of colours considering we’ve all got different bodies, black for me please
12mm f2.0, Tilt-shift, manual focus.
150mm f2.8 Macro.
150mm f2.8 the lens for low light sports/wildlife work giving the equivalent of a 300 f2.8
8-14mm f4 fish eye zoom
12-45 f2.8 zoom weather sealed
30mm f2.8 1:1 or 1:2 Macro
300mm f4.0 a bright long telephoto that is affordable
Olympus:
17mm & 25mm f2.8 or wider pancake high quality, weather sealed
17mm & 25mm f2 or wider non-pancake weather sealed metal
the key points are wide + weather sealed in the 35mm-equivalent 35mm and 50mm
Panasonic:
Any Leica prime WITHOUT O.I.S.
35mm f1.4 compact lens, high optical quality
75mm f2.8 macro, high optical quality, good working distance at 1:1 magnification ratio
100mm f2, fast AF, high optical quality
200mm f2.8, fast AF, high optical quality
300mm f4, fast AF, high optical quality
12-50mm f/2.0 -> powerzoom, smooth aperture ring, weather sealed.
17mm f/1.4 -> pancake, high optical quality, weather sealed.
Extension tubes -> weather sealed
Teleconverters -> weather sealed
400mm f/4 weather sealed,
300mm f/2.8 hight quality, weather sealed.
150mm f/2.8 high quality, weather sealed, macro.
there are so many suggestions , I will say only this:
I want more fast weathersealed primes (f1.2/ f1.4) both pancakes or bigger lenses
And I want a cheaper and pricier choice for every lens.. so user can decide ( like canon 50mm f1.8/f1.4/f1.2L)
25mm f1.8 – sharp, cheap
25mm f1.2 – supersharp, not cheap
and I want alternative to lumix 14-140mm
a 12-50 or 12-70 high grade, weathersealed, little bit macro kit lens (doesn´t need to be fast.. but must be sharp)
how about something made out of metal. I’m really tired of overpriced chinese plastic and something that will hold its value over the long haul. I feel like a hamster with this system…….
Why? Metal is heavier, and the plastic lenses have fine durability. I don’t want to add weight for no reason.
Yes, and once you happen to drop a lense, you will appreciate the high-grade plastics even more. It didn’t happen to me with lenses yet, but a colleague and me happened to drop our laptops from the same desk. Mine a Lenovo, his a MacBook. The Lenovo flexed heavily when hitting the concrete ground, but returned to its original shape. The MacBook flexed considerably less, but -needless to say- kept its dents.
I would like one of the two following lenses with whole frame sharp and chromatic aberrations free, build quality like 12mm f2:
7mm f/2.8 or f/4 -> high optical quality. (not fisheye)
8mm f/2.8 or f/4 -> high optical quality. (not fisheye)
Well it really doesnt matter anyway because within six months or a year they will come up with something new and everything before it will be worth a whole lot less or it is made to appear that the latest and greatest product is a must have but in actuality is no different than the previous product. Personally I’m pretty pissed about the whole GH2 pricing recently. I made the investment and now they totally cut my legs out beneath me.
ALSO I wonder how many plastic lenses will be around say in twenty years?
Take Leica for example, No matter what your intial investment is or how expensive it maybe at least over the long haul you will still have value in pricing and I only have to buy it once. Novel concept but it works.
Why not get it right the first time because at the end of the day the m4/3rd system is just an overpriced hobbist camera system. I thought it would be something more but as I go along I am really starting to see that the image quality doesn’t stack up. I love my GH2 and I have some really incredible shots with it but when you really start comparing images …….well there is better out there.
17mm f1.4 !! same style as 12mm f2.0!
The Olympus 12mm f/2.0 IN BLACK
The Olympus 45mm f/1.8 IN BLACK
-1 because I didn’t wait and bought the silver 45 mm despite I don’t like the color 😀
I’d like to see Olympus add weather seals to the 12mm f/2 and the upcoming 75mm. Also, I’d love the following:
8mm f/2.8 metal weather sealed ultrawide prime
18mm f/2 weather sealed pancake
45mm f/1.2 metal weather sealed prime
12-40mm constant f/2.8 weather sealed zoom
Oly should make two new primes:
14mm f/1.8
25mm f/1.8
both of them high optical quality, weather sealed, and black!
PLS PLS PLS!
LUMIX 8mm /10mm -> ? mm,
a) not fish-eye
b) WITH FILTER THREAD !!!! (for Lee’s grads, etc)
All high optical quality:
10mm f/4 weather-sealed (replaces Panny 7-14mm for me), max. € 400
12-60mm f/2.8-3.5 with OIS, weather-sealed (replaces 14-45mm), max € 600
28mm f/1.4 weather-sealed (replaces legacy glass, don’t like 25mm), max € 500
50-150mm f/2.8-3.5 with OIS, weather-sealed (replaces X 45-175mm), max. € 1000
90mm f/4 macro, excellent bokeh, weather-sealed, no AF/OIS needed (replaces legacy macro lenses), max. € 750
Edit:how could I forget?! A 14mm SHIFT LENS! If it’s good, meaning very little distortion, very little CA, little peripheral colour shift and sharp, sharp, sharp, I’ll spend up to € 2500 on it.
8mm f/3.5, pancake, high optical quality
– Longer primes/macro (100-200mm)
– A cheaper wide prime (12mm or wider)
8mm f/4 or less, linear (not fish eye), weather sealed
17.5mm f1.8 -> affordable
90mm f2.8 -> telephoto prime, OIS
12-70mm, f/3.5-4.5 -> max 500$, max 300g, compact, no power zoom, optical stabilization. Basically a more compact alternative for the existing 14-140/150 travel lenses; these are too big for m43.
I agree. Eduardo
Flickr.com/jeduardox
I could get behind this. Seems unlikely in the wake of the 12-50, though. 🙁
12-35mm Constant aperture F2.8 with Power O.I.S
35-100mm Constant aperture F2.8 with Power O.I.S
Shouldn’t be too hard to get those out this year, right?
85mm F1.8 with Power O.I.S for video.
A compact 6x travel zoom is reasonable to ask for, but keeping it f4.5 at the tele would surprize me.
6mm f/3.5 -> rectilinear ultrawide
12mm f/4 P/C lens-> with both shift and tilt
300mm f/4 with O.I.S. Should give high quality at f4 lens yet be priced at less than £1000. Should have removable tripod mount. 300mm f2.8 would be too big and expensive for my liking.
An affordable wide-angle prime with focal length well below the kit zooms, i.e. somewhere in the 10mm-12mm range, is missing. It need not be fast, as such wide angles allow for long hand-held exposure times anyhow, and as DOF control is out of question. f3.5 or even f4 would perfectly do. The focus should be on price, size, and weight.
+1 if it has weather sealing (this should not add much weight/cost to a prime lens due to the lack of moving parts).
+1 with Martin. A lightweight and affordable wide angle prime would be excellent! Perhaps slightly wider than 12mm so to not overlap the 12mm f2.0 in marketing. Not sure of the technical challenges of making it rectilinear with controlled vignetting, but hopefully making it a smaller aperture would help.
Because honestly, very few can afford the 12mm f2.0, despite how desirable it is.
+1. A wide-angle 8mm prime lens. It would immediately be the best friend of every realtor for architectural shots and result in many new micro-four-third system purchases.
Here’s my idea to make it INEXPENSIVE… use heavy post-processing distortion and vignettin correction. As far as I’m concerned it could even have a fixed aperture. If it can be sold for $300 or less I’m in.
Unlike others, my needs are simple:
Reworked 20mm f/1.7 pancake with AF like the 14mm.
Black version of the 45mm f/1.8.
You can make them weatherproof if you like but not too fussed about it.
+1 (the focus on the 20mm is slow now with all of the new lenses).
+1
I haven’t gotten the 20/1.7 yet because I was really put off by the slow autofocus when I tried it out. It’s actually kind of shocking.
Its noisy too!!!! LOL. Its just as slow on the newer cameras too. Still a great little lens though if you pick one up used or something…So small!!!!
+1 for the 20mm mkii
12-40mm f/2.0-3.5 -> collapsible, fast AF
15-200mm f/4.0-6.0 -> collapsible, fast AF
2x teleconverter -> high optical quality
0.75x wide converter -> high optical quality
0.5x reversed teleconverter for legacy lenses -> high optical quality
Everything else I wanted has already been mentioned.
… all in black please.
12mm f/2 -> black
That first lens sounds like it would be disturbingly bulky at f2.0, otherwise I’d be all for it!
12-120mm f/4, video-optimized (continuously variable aperture, silent operation, constant-torque zoom ring and/or variable-speed power zoom.)
150 2.8
17.5mm f/2 – olympus £250 max, pancake, quality of 45/1.8
12-45mm f4 – very sharp, pro quality zoom but f4 to make it small. Basically a Hightower quality version of the 14-45.
I would like every lens with scale indicator of DOF (either in lens or in the screen like the FUJI-Xpro)
Around 250€-300€ could be a nice price tag for every prime 😉
High optical quality and compact (not pancake) size and weather sealed? maybe I’m asking for too much…
My wishlist:
7mm or 9mm f/2.8
17.5mm f/2
25mm f/2
300mm f2.8 (with tripod collar)around 600€
And some nice superb pro zooms, weather sealed and constant aperture around 1000€:
8-12mm f/3.5
12-50mm f/2.8
50-150mm f/2.8
150-300mm f/3.5 (with tripod collar)
And why not an Olympus designed tripod? Made for match the size of PEN’s and OM-D’s
I like the like but you head’s in the clouds if you think 300 f2.8 for 600 is remotely plausible.
Even old manual lenses cost more. Sigma’s goes for what? 5k?
Yeahh… You’re right…
Let’s say 300mm f4 for 600€? But it would be a minor improvement over the zoom in terms of speed and so close to diffraction limits…
Anyway Sigma, Canon, Nikkor…etc are designed for full frame. In 4/3 Olympus already managed to make zoom lenses at f/2, that’s a stop faster in the same terms of size, weight and costs.
A 300mm slow prime is relatively easy to design and without exotic glasses can’t be that expensive… don’t you think?
Ahh!, I forgot to include:
12mm f/3.5 tilt shift
150mm f/2
I think I’ll only need one lens for my E-m5, in addition to the new 45mm and my old ZD 12-60mm
17mm f/1.4 -> weather sealed, high optical quality
… and a fast indoor sports / birding prime lens. This could really put m43 on a new level, with extreme weight and size savings compared to larger format lenses.
Something around 200-300mm f/2.8-3,5 -> weatherproof, fast and accurate AF, good optical quality
I think Olympus should release a weathersealed 30 mm f/1.2.
This lens would not compete directly with the Panasonic 25/1.4 and it would complement the 20/1.7, for all of us who already own that lens. Also, making it slightly longer than 25 mm will probably make it a little easier (=cheaper) to produce.
Also it would complement Olympus’ own 17/2.8 and a possible new and faster/better 17 mm lens.
Absolute agree.
+1
14-70 f2 – f2.8 standard zoom, weather sealed (size doesn’t really matter, e.g. at weddings etc.) not too expensive (fast and cheap & big)
150-400 super tele longer than 100-300 or 70-300 less overlapping range
500 with autozoom
teleconverter 1.x 2
Bring on the ultra wide zooms… 🙂
7-45mm f/1.2-2.8 with filter capacity..
9 or 10mm f/2.8 pancake
17mm f/2 pancake
12mm f/x.x -> SHIFT LENS.
35mm F2.0 ,Macro, weather sealed
17mm F2.0 ,Pancake, weather sealed
12-45 F4 ,collapsible
2,0/12 HD OIS
1,7/20 HD OIS
1,7/45 HD OIS (incl. Macro 1:4 or better?)
1,7/90 HD OIS (Macro 1:4 or better?)
14 – 200/ 2,3 – 2,3 HD OIS cinema quality cine zoom
HD = autofocus optimised for video also
OIS = optical image stabilastion
1. high quality travel zooms with 12 mm wide end:
12-60 f2.8-?
12-50 f2.8-?
2. something sharper for tele: I am very disappointed by my 45-200 at the long end (maybe just have a bad copy).
3. bright wide prime, cheap
12-50mm f/2.0 -> sealed, 0.5x macro
150mm f/2.8 -> 2x (?) macro, sealed
100-400mm f/2.8-4.0 -> sealed
please seal the existing 12, 25, 45, 70mm
Cheers
100-200mm f4 OIS powerzoom.
100mm f2.8 Macro with OIS
35mm F2
Why stop at f/2? 35mm f/1.4!
Because 1 step means a lot in terms of complexity of the lens meaning more expensive… And the future promises high ISO goodness 😉
I’d be happy with a re-do of the SHG 14-35/2 (maybe 12-30/2) and the 35-100/2 (maybe 30-85/2), of course weather sealed.
And next a tilt/shift 12/2 weather sealed.The quality is already there, we just better CD AF.
Olympus 12-35mm f/2.8 weather sealed and kick ass quality
Olympus 25mm f/1.4 weather sealed and kick ass quality
In order of importance
1. 100mm f/2.8 HD POIS macro, Leica, can be $$$, can be big&fat
2. 10mm f/2.8 pancake, $350, 20/1.7 size, if Olympus must be MSC
3. 17mm f/1.4 Leica, can be $$$, must have good rez at edges @1.8.
4. Olympus 12-60mm f/2.8-4 MSC, can be PZ, must be big, $800
5. 12-36mm f/4 HD POIS, $500, moderate size
6. 36-100mm f/4 HD POIS, $600, moderate size
6. 100-300mm f/4 HD POIS, can be big & fat, $700
7. 10mm f/1.4, Leica, can be big & fat, $850
8. Olympus 14-42mm f/2.0, everything is not important if optics delievers
Reworked Pancake:
– 20mm 1,7
New Pancake:
– 17.5mm f/2
—> Price can be high, but best quality and smallest size is a must!
8 or 9mm f2,8 – pancake
17mm f1,4
12 – 50mm f2,8 – f4
Looking at my lovely -compact- OM 200mm f4
I think this could be done even smaller in m43?
Or can we break the 300mm barrier?
400mm f4 or f5.6
Or 200-400mm?
Or a 200mm that would stand up to a 1.4x and 2.0x TC
Whatever it is, it needs to be smaller than the 50-200mm
Wide to normal primes looking good… maybe a couple weather sealed ones
12-50 may be w/s, but sound optically disappointing, howabout a high quality w/s normal zoom say 14-54mm f2.8 or maybe f3.5 to keep it small?
On the other hand… since fast AF on the old HG/SHG lenses seems so difficult, what about a redesign of some 4/3 lenses to make them CD-AF compatible… they did it w the 14-54, can they do it w a 50-200 MkIII? (this would confirm a commitment to 4/3 while providing the ‘one beautiful system’ they promised)
Would a 45 or 50mm pancake be feasible? Because I would love to have something like that for my “pocket system” (GF3).
Yes, but not realy fast ca. F2.8/F3.5.
I vill like it lens also.
The lens I use most on my E520 is the 25/2.8, and I can’t even use that camera above ISO400. So 2.8 wouldn’t bother me AT ALL.
Reworked Pancake:
20mm f/1.7
New Pancake:
17.5mm f/2
—> Price can be hight but best possible quality in smallest possible body is a must!
100-200mm f4 -> high optical quality, small close focal distance (macro)
or
200-300mm f4
or
200mm f4 -> macro
or
200mm f5.6 -> compact, macro
300mm f4 -> (collapsible), high optical quality
In short: Any high quality telephoto options with close focal distance and if possible not too big, e.g. collapsible when not in use.
Ok I will play as well,
for me the addition of an UWA prime that is weather-sealed would be really great for hiking.
So a 7mm, 9mm or even 10.5mm f3.5 with rather low price and weather-sealing.
Thank you Olympus or Panasonic for developing such lens 😉
Ultra wide prime (90° vertical angle of view, which is just below 7mm). Can be quite slow, as long as it is sharp and affordable!
Buy the Samyang and take one step back 🙂
samyang is fisheye…
I need only one lens, but I want it bad!
17mm f/2.0 AF lens,high optical quality, top buid quality, weather sealed, focus distand scale on barrel. I’m willing to pay 500-600 euros for such a lens.
Basically you want a 17mm version of the 12/2. What’s the price on that?
How about something like these?
between 30 and 50mm f/1.2 –> high optical quality prime lens for “shoulder” portraits, etc, autofocus (AF)
70mm f/2.0 –> “close-up face portraits” & sports; AF, image stabilization (IS)
between 300 and 500mm f/5.6 –> compact reflex (catadioptric) lens with AF and IS
Hi,
I would love to see a 20mm – 60mm F2. Price, weight, size don’t matter to me.
regards
Olympus 150mm f4 Macro
Olympus 300mm F4
Olympus 9mm f4 wide angle
Olympus 1.4x teleconverter
Tilt and shift lens 20mm or adapter
All glass to be SHG quality and weather sealed, I think that F2.8 tele lenses may be to large and heavy.
12mm f4.0 macro
17.5mm f2.0
300mm f4
I want a Oly 12-30 2.8 with excellent image quality.
85mm f/2.8 pancake
7mm f/4 high optical quiality
50mm f/1.8 pancake
12mm weathersealed pancake
17mm weathersealed pancake
50mm weathersealed pancake
200mm f/4 compact/collapsible
300mm f/4 compact/collapsible
400mm f/4 compact /collapsible
12-35 f/4 collapsible high quality optics
35-100 f/4 collapsible high quality optics
Just convert most 43 lens to m43 especially the excellent 12-60mm f2.8-4.
+1
35mm f1.0 – high optical quality, similar size and design to olympus upcoming 75mm f1.8
similar focus mechanism to olympus 12mm f2.0(focus ring can be shifted forward and backwards with physical markings on the lens)
oh… and weather sealing would be a plus!
perhaps a bit unrealistic but would be really nice 🙂
Olympus is still a little shy with extra large apperture on m43. 😀
+1 on that.
a fast 35mm to sit between the 20mm F1.7 and the Olympus 45mm.
many people also have fast manual 50mm, so make a fast lens between 20mm and 50mm.
35mm 1.4 would be enough for me though.
any kind of fast very sharp lens please.
and unlike most people here NO MORE CHEAP lenses please.
Make it expensive, make it worth.
we don’t have any high quality, fast and very sharp lens
Well, it’s just a wishlist so lets run wild. I probably wouldn’t be able to afford everything I want though. Everything is aproximately, I’m not fuzzy about details like a few mm to either side in focal length.
Supertelezoom perfect for birding. Big and heavy for sure but as long as you can carry it in a bag for a few 100 meters it is ok. Lets call it:
300-500 f4 weathersealed with tripod ring. Probably not affordable.
Fast medium telephoto zoom for indoor sports. The upcoming new Panasonic 35-100mm f/2.8 X lens might do but I would really like something even faster. Size and weight not so important. Lets go with a m43 version of Olys 43 lens
35-100mm f2 fast focusing.
A superfast portrait lens with autofocus and full manual overdrive. I really don’t know if this is realistic.
45mm f1 macro
Besides these I think everything I might want is covered. They seem to have the compact lenses covered quite good. I just wish for more weathersealed versions but they might be coming. Looks like both oly and pana is going that way.
Still missing fast zooms. Panasonic’s are probably finished and ready for production, but I’d be interested in what Olympus has to offer, particularly if they managed to fit an f/2.0 zoom into a smaller package.
Olympus:
135/150mm weather sealed prime.
Priorities:
1 – Compact size/weight
2 – Reasonable image quality
3 – Low cost.
Should not need to be darker than f4: something like a modernised Pentax-M 135 f3.5 with the benefits that m43 optimisation can bring.
250mm weather sealed prime.
Priorities:
1 – High Image quality
2 – Compact size
3 – Low cost.
Aperture around 5.6-6.3 will be fine if necessary to meet these goals.
Overall my preferences trend towards miniaturisation and weight reduction, followed by image quality, then low cost. I don’t want to have to pay over the odds for wide apertures that aren’t necessarily needed. I would have preferred their 12-50mm to be smaller, though, or a little larger and brighter. The current compromise is awkward.
Can we be somewhat realistic? I.e. a 17.5mm f/1.4 “pancake” is basically impossible under the laws of physics. That said, my votes are:
+1 Reworked 20mm f/1.7 pancake with AF like the 14mm
+1 Black version of the 45mm f/1.8
+1 17.5mm f/2 (pancake if possible)
m.Zuiko version of 12-60mm f/2.8-4.0 as close to $500 as reasonably possible
MSC R version of 14-140mm f/4.0-5.8 (the newer “R” lenses just look better)
A “compact” 14-80 or 100mm f/3.5-5.6 (basically a compact alternative to the all-in-one 14-140mm)
35mm f/1.7 – f/0.95
50mm f/1.4
7mm f/2.8 -> low priced
100-200mm f/4.0 -> high optical quality
100mm f2.8 macro and small
Aside from that my setup is complete baby!
9-18, 14-42, 40-150
17mm f2.8, 25mm f1.4, 45mm f1.8 and I will be buying the 75mm f1.8
17.5/f1.8 weather sealed
12-60mm f/2.0 M43 — high optical quality, weather sealed, auto and manual manual focusing; size is NOT important, but the high quality, zoom range, fast aperture and weather sealing are needed. Not merely f/2.8 — need to go to f/2.0.
Black versions of Oly’s silver lenses.
1) Extension tubes. A 12mm and 25mm set would be good
2) 200-500/5.6. There are no wildlife lenses for M43. This one should be a very high quality optic. I’d expect a $2000+ price tag.
3) 14-35/2. f/2.8 on M43 doesn’t cut it for portraits in this focal range. We need f/2, and even that is barely enough.
With this gear and macro flash I’d be able to sell my Canon kit full frame and APS-C kit.
M43 is a pretty mature system right now for most people. The only lenses we’re really missing right now are special purpose lenses, chief among them long, high-quality telephotos. A lack of telephoto primes and teleconverters has made people like me lean on the current 300mm telephoto zooms, and while they’re nice they are a big step down from what I’m used to in the Canon system (100-400, 300/2.8IS, and 1.4x and 2x TCs).
I know large special-purpose lenses aren’t the focus of M43, but people once thought 35mm film was worthless for landscape too. Today we’ve got people shooting landscape with APS-C and tilt-shift lenses. How about world-beating long telephotos, Olympus and Panasonic? 600mm-e f/5.6 inexpensive zooms aren’t enough.
Its criminal that m43 is so perfect for street shooting yet there is no decent 35mm equiv. with AF.
– 17mm f1.4 or f1.8 Summilux ~$600-700
– BLACK VERSIONS of 12mm, 45mm (and just black options for all current and future lenses)
– Ultra wide 8mm f3.5 or f4
There are already many quality lenses, but not enough economic ones for an amateur system:
ex.: 8mm f2.8 -> ECONOMIC FISH-EYE
ex.: 60mm f2.8 MACRO -> ECONOMIC MACRO/PORTRAIT (Leica is too expensive. Olympus?)
ex.: 25mm f1.8 for LESS THAN $150 (the cheap fifty that Canon and Nikon have, and m4/3 lacks)
And Panasonic could stabilize some of its fast prime lenses for indoors video
1- No more variable F-stop zooms. Constant F-stop only
2- Full range of fast prime lenses, especially wide angles
3- Video optimized lenses with OIS, manual F-stop, manual focus
Every second post is about Black version of primes. Let Olympus is still “waiting for market feedback” on this?
A BLACK version of existing 12mm f/2, and 45 f1.8. All BLACK OF THE FOLLOWING:
-17mm f/2 pancake (high quality build/optics like the 12mm)
-25mm f/1.8 (high quality build/optics)
Thanks!
12mm f/0.95 manual
I have the SLR Magic, which is f/1.4. I’d rather have a uw prime like 7mm f/4, for a lot less than the 7-14.
Small size and weathersealing is the most important thing to me right now. Let’s get more prime (and zoom) lenses that are pocketable – like my fantastic GX1 x14-42 and x45-175 combos. Both easily go in a large coat jacket. Absolutely fantastic – bring s so much fun into photography. I would love to see a 150mm or 200mm (no slower than f/4) no longer than 70mm in length. Would be great for sneaking into concerts.
This weekend I photographed at a concert with the 45-175 and it worked really well. Just a tad more speed and it would have been perfect.
I am content with what already exists on wide angle.
Tele: 60mm macro, 75mm, 35-100 are coming, HQ or not remains to be seen.
Any of below, with HQ and OIS:
100mm
150mm
100-200mm
I own a 300/4 Zeiss at 1000g: On tripod nature/animals a m43 version at maybe 400-500g would be something…..
As you understand I use Pana cameras and need OIS. Aperture? 2.8-4 is enough: High ISO performance and OIS helps and the DOF is shallow enough on longer tele.
As for “comfort” zooms I think there are a lot at quite good quality to chose from. To me the Pana 12-35 sounds interesting, just hopes it is HQ
12-50mm f/2.8 – 800euro > servo-zoom by ring amplitude, HD Video
50-300mm f/2.8-4 > servo-zoom by ring amplitude, HD Video
42mm f/0.75 -> low priced pancake. Otherwise I’m selling all my gear and switching to Canon!
105 f2.8 macro
12-60 0r at least 14-60 f2.8 HG
40-150 f2.8 HG
re-work of the 12-60 f2.8-4 is fine, weather sealed OR 12-50 f2.8-3.5 fast AF
Since the 12-35mm f2.8 that we’re getting in April seems to be a pancake powerzoom..
I’d like to see a 12-35mm f2.0, made by Leica! I.e. no distortion or chromatic crap that gets “fixed automatically by software”
It’ll be hella expensive, but very worth it.
Better make it weather sealed as well!
I want to see Olympus support Panasonic’s OIS in camera. Other than that, a couple of reasonably compact tele’s, on the order of the old OM 200/4 and 200/5.
A PC lens would be interesting, but so specialized that I don’t expect to see one.
🙂 Good idea: Oly support for Panny OIS. Could be tricky, but it would be great if Oly could do it. Nice idea!
everything sealed, everything black
7-11mm f3.5-4 compact
9mm f2.8 compact
17mm f1.4 compact
12-60 f2.8-4 SHG
12-60 f2.8-4 compact, cheap
matched 2x teleconverter for 75MM f1.8 / equiv. to 300 f3.5
and as long as we’re dreaming…
10, 15, 25, 40, 70mm f2-3.5 stepped “zoom” vari-focal lens; with each lens individually factory calibrated for digital correction at each setting.
My wish for Oly and Pana is to make a FAST Glass,.I don’t mind it would be bigger if compare to the existence lens. so be it:
10 mm F1.4-AF
14mm F1.2-AF
17mm F1.2-AF
25mm F.95 -AF
35mm F.95-AF
42mm F.95-AF
50mm F.95-AF
70mm F1.2-AF
85mm F1.2-AF
100mm F1.8-AF
150mm F2-AF
and some HQ or SHG Zoom
8-17mm F2.8 + 17-60mm F2.5 + 60-200mm F2.5 or
reworked
7-14mm F2.8 + 14-50mm F2. + 50-200mm F2.5
reworked
12-60mm F2.5-4
14-150mm F2.8-4
as I said this only my wish list ,despite of the size and weight ,i believe it will be great addition to the Pro level consumer,.as M43 would go pro someday
you’re gonna buy all those glasses???
I would like some more pancake lens, more like 20mm 1.7 and 14mm 2.5.. I don’t care about the mm too much. I want something very compact and very bright.
100mm f/2.8 -> macro, at least 1:1, very high optical quality (have to be better than old MF lenses)
17mm 1.4
I think the biggest MIA lens gear missing from u43 is:
0. 43 glass compatibility. I “know” the E-7 is coming, but we need it for u43. This solution solves large number of fast glass, HG zoom problems. Otherwise, Oly needs to repurpose a lot of glass specifically for u43 (and abandon its early adopters — ouch). I’m assuming we’ll see a decent u43 solution to this problem within a year, so I’m skipping 43 glass equivalents.
1. tilt/shift adapters for various full-frame lens systems.
That would be huge (for people into t/s). “Legacy” full-frame glass has the larger image circle, so any legacy glass could be decent t/s. Such an adapter would make t/s out of ANY lens — not just specific focal lengths the companies think are useful. Plus, if you take a crazy sharp lens, it’ll be crazy sharp across all the whole t/s range. Obviously, neither Oly nor Panny need to make this adapter — but it would help the system. Any manufacturer could make these t/s adapter for u43.
These t/s adapters would instantly solve the missing t/s problem for u43. Since u43 would suddenly be able to use any CaNikon (et al.) full-frame lens as t/s for u43, u43 would have a mind-blowing selection of t/s lenses that even CaNikon could not beat. I think some photographers would find creative ways to use legacy glass as t/s.
I think the t/s adapters are a no-brainer, and I am surprised no 3P has come out with these for u43 system (though Oly and Panny, themselves, are less likely to create adapters for other companies’ “legacy” glass).
2. I’m also keen on macro extension tubes (weather-sealed) and 1.4x & 2x teleconverters (weather-sealed).
3. Lenses x 2 (black, no OIS (really: optional), all weather-sealed, great colors please).
*** 17mm f/1.4-1.8 → pancake, high optical quality + weather-sealed, fast AF. Oly manual focus ring (a la 12mm) would be plus. (This lens needs to be instant classic caliber — walk-around, street photography et al. lens.) Also: not value-priced, but affordable (should be first “must-have” system lens a la updated Panny 20mm but with classic focal length).
Long macro zoom, e.g., 80-160mm f4 Macro → large but hand-holdable, superb optical quality, weather-sealed, fast AF (a la new Oly 60mm macro?). Oly manual focus ring (a la 12mm) would be a plus.
That’s all for now. 🙂
Concerning you first point, tilt/shift adapters don’t solve anything for people who want to shoot architecture : with the focal multiplier we are always over 30mm equivalent.
We need a native mft shift lens of 10 or 12mm. It desn’t need to be fast : f3.5 or F4 is fine. It doesn’t need to allow tilt either, it doesn’t need AF, it doesn’t need to be compact, but it needs to be sharp in the corners too and to allow 6-8mm shift. Sharpness has to be uniform.
Aka :
10 or 12mm F4 shift lens please.
Note to Occam : Kipon is already making a shift adapter for Nikon -> mft and there are already tilt adapters. But you need both a manual focusing lens and a very wide lens which is almost impossible to find a,ong legacy lenses.
A 14mm FF is pretty wide and could be used on a shift adapter. I can’t say for sure how much shift you could get out of the Sigma 8-16mm APS-C lens, but I bet enough to be useful. Haven’t heard of anyone trying it yet.
rrr_hhh, good point on the effective focal length issue. The wide end would still need native glass.
As for Kipon, I have a LensBaby already, but I think the best would be all-in-one’s: tilt/shift adapters for each legacy glass system. It would be nice if a 3P/anyone made one(s) with high quality too.
The tilt option makes the lens much more complicated, let’s keep thing simple for short focals, I’m not even sure how shift would work on mft : neither of the wide options are sharp in the corners, so may be shift would add to that problem even more ?
As for ultra wide legacy lenses which you can manual focus, they are difficult to find and usually huge and heavy. I don’t want a zoom either, which would be even bigger. And are you sure this zoom is rectilinear ? Because the few legacy lenses at these focals are fisheyes, not rectilinear lenses.
Also 14mm, aka 28mm is not terribly wide and won’t allow interiors photography.
“0. 43 glass compatibility. I “know” the E-7 is coming, but we need it for u43. This solution solves large number of fast glass, HG zoom problems.”
That’s almost all for me.
Then I’d like a 400mm f/5.6 of superb optical quality. I think about a prime, because I’m afraid that a superb 200-400 zoom would cost too much.
mFT is my secondary system after Nikon, for situations where size really matters. Therefore, #1 priority for me is compactnes; I have the 7.5mm Samyang Fisheye, 14/2.5 Pana pancake, 20/1.7 Pana pancake, and 45/1.8 Oly. I’m not interested in zooms at all. The most interesting lens for me would be:
9mm/3.5 pancake (or similar specifications)
Micro-Four Thirds NEEDS one extremely good bird and wildlife telephoto lens (right now there are none at all). I’d suggest:
200-400mm, f/4.5-5.6, superb optical quality, weather sealed
yep, that sound good! That will cost 1500+ Euro, though!
Based on three decades of photography with an OM-1 and its derivatives, the most important M43 lenses for me would be:
12 f2.8 – pancake
17 f2 – pancake
25 f3.5 – flat-field macro 1:1
50 f2.8
150 f4 with matched 1.4 multiplier
14-70 f2.8-4.5 collapsing compact
These are modest lenses, which should keep the price down. With image stabilization and good high E.I (up to 3200) sensor, ultra-fast lenses are unnecessary.
An additional thought. There’s quite an obsession lately with bokkeh as a result of smaller sensor sizes. However, for those of us who lean toward the f64 school of photography, one of the great advantages of fourthirds is its greater inherent depth of field, which is closer to the way our eyes see the world.
How is the 100-300 f4-5.6 not a good birding lens?
Agreed. It’s the bodies and AF tracking that are the issue.
17mm f/1.4 -> high optical quality, high build quality.
300mm f5.6 -> high optical quality, high build quality, compact/moderate price super tele birding lens
and from my never gonna happen wish list:
12mm f3.5 -> Tilt/shift, High optical quality, High build quality
100mm f4 -> 1:1 macro, High optical quality, High build quality
would love to see it announced within the next 3 months:
Zuiko 17mm f/1.4 -> high optical quality, build like 12 f/2.0
and maybe
Zuiko 100mm f/2.0 -> high optical quality
Zuiko 17mm F2.0 features like 12 F2.0 weathersealed
Zuiko rectilinear ultra wide-angle
Zuiko 12mm – 14mm Shift/tilt lens
Zuiko 400mm f5.6 weathersealed
🙂
Since you absolutely want Zuiko, here is my counterpart wishlist:
Panasonic Leica APO ASPH AF 67.5mm f/2.0
Panasonic Leica Summilux ASPH AF 17mm f/1.4
Panasonic Leica Summilux ASPH AF 10mm f/1.4
and for the day dreamer without the budget to back it up:
Pansonic Leica Noctilux ASPH AF 25mm/f0.95
@jalo 400 would be great!!!!!
Yes, I have tried the 70-300 and it is a nice lens. But for same price, I would peter 400mm, if such lens exists.
Leica lenses would be acceptable, also 🙂
From my list the 17mm F2.0, and 400mm are top in the list. 17mm max. 500€ and 400mm f5.6 max.1000€.
The UWA and TS: I’m open for suggestions, dear Olympus.
From your list, anything with Leica and/or Summicron/Summilux will do!
🙂
Then we have more points we agree on than the other way around.
Summilux 17mm is my top choice. For all I care, it could be Zuiko
I second the vote for Zuikos. Oly has a long history of producing compact high grade lenses. The OM primes were fantastic and always smaller than similar spec lenses from competitors.
+1 reworked 20 1.7
+ a small Alternative to the oly 40-150… e.g. 35-100 f/3.5-5.6… size should be max that of the oly m.zuiko 9-18, weight Not more than 150g
That would give a Perfect compact quality setup of 9-18, 20, 35-100… playing all the strenghts of the m4/3-system – nothing Else needed for travels or everyday carrying around
12-50 fixed F2.8 zoom <$500 US and make it smaller than current model
17mm F1.8 high quality
17mm f/1.4 Leica
17mm f1.2 pancake high optical quality, weather sealed would be a bonus.
250mm f2.8
100-400/F5,6 perhaps from Sigma a smaller version of the 120-400EX ~ 1000$
300mm/F4 high quality
70-200mm/F2,8 high quality
1,4x and 2x TC (Could also come from KENKO!?)
12-60mm/f4 HQ
small travel lens f4-6,3/14-200mm (Tamron??) collapsable
12-50mm/f2.8 for less than 500??? Dream on! but would be nice!!! ;-))
10-1000mm f/1,4 for 200 euros.
Okay, would be happy to get a supercompact 12-60mm f/4,0
yes, this! Though to be realistic, it would probably be about $1000. Don’t forget the Zuiko 14-35 f/2 4/3rds lens was $2000
I want my old 43 50-200 f2.8-3.5 back to my m43
12-70mm f/1.8 -> powerzoom, smooth aperture ring.
all fix focus lenses needed are already available
17mm f/1.4 -> pancake
50mm f/1.2
17mm 2.0 built like 12mm 2.0
Revised 20mm 1.7
12-60mm f/2.8 (to f/4 on long end if needed for reasonable size)
50-200mm f/2.8
105mm f/2.8 macro
Making them all weather sealed would be a nice bonus.
12-50mm f2(.x)-4 -> medium price (aprox $500?), good optics
25mm f2 -> pancake, low price
90mm f1.8 or f2 -> high optical quality, price in scale with 45mm Olympus
150mm f2.8 or f4 -> high optical quality, price in scale with 45mm Olympus
Zuiko, Panasonic, Normende or AEG, does not matter.
I do want a 7.5 and a 10 mm f2 or 2.8. and maybe a 6mm cropped circular fisheye.
12-50mm f/2.0 – manual focus like 12mm f/2.0
With fantastic sharp Image quality I’d pay 1000€ for that and 200€ more for every .1 larger than f/2.0 aperture.
Never going to happen. Panasonic’s monster X is F/2.8 and will probably cost that or more.
Enough with the slow, poor resolution lenses!
I won’t buy a lens that’s f4 or slower.
f2.8 for most is slowest I’ll consider.
Cheap doesn’t enhance a lens’ usefulness. You keep lenses a long time – spend a little more for quality.
That said:
All primes
12mm f3.5
40mm f1.8 macro
180mm f2.8
300mm f3.5 or 2.8 (preferred.)
“Cheap doesn’t enhance a lens’ usefulness”
-yes!
12-20mm f4 and remains very sharp at f11-f16. $500…
Here we go: 7-300mm f/1.4 -> high optical quality, weather sealed, small sized, low priced.
That’s the only lens I need 😉
worn out joke
your forgot : powerzoom, tilt-shift lense 😉
you forgot Panini Press and Coffee Maker
10mm tilt shift
45mm tilt shift
200mm 2.8 OIS lens
Otherwise I think between them they have it covered.
17mm F/1.8, High quality
300-400mm F4.0-F/5.6. Weather sealed
The 17mm seems to be coming up over and over, if they could make it like the current 45mm F/1.8 (relatively inexpensive) so much the better, but quality before value.
I echo the calls for black versions of the 12mm, 45mm and upcoming 75mm
The other big gap is a long wildlife zoom
Zooms with wide ranges aren’t much use at the short end, on the 75-300 who uses the 75 end, most photos are at the long end. A ‘wildlife’ zoom with the range concentrated at the long end would be a useful addition. Agree with wmlayman, M43 is missing a really good wild life lens.
+1 on a 300-400mm F4-5.6, weather sealed and high optical quality, even if a bit expensive.
Why not a 300mm F4 lens and 1.4x converter.
Yes I like a 300mm F4 lens and 1.4x converter.
Panny 20mm f/1.7 Mark II with faster focus (a little increase in size would be ok if they could get it to focus as fast and silently as my kit 14-45 or better).
Panny ultra wide non-fisheye 7mm f/4 with excellent image quality and reasonable price.
Oly 12mm f/2 in black
Oly 45mm f/1.8 in black with the same focusing system as the 12mm
Oly 17mm f/2 with nice image quality. Olympus should be ashamed of offering their cameras with the current 17mm…
I currently own a GF1 body, panny 20mm and 14-45mm, and a contax zeiss 50mm 1.4 from my film days. I’m planning on buying the oly 45 and 12mm and only then upgrading the body.
Keep up the awesome job with the blog. Cheers from Brazil!
+1
Just to tweak it a bit
A 350 to 500 mm, (I would prefer a gap from the 100 -300mm lens for a longer reach, and a limited zoom range for better image quality)
weather sealed,
4.5 to 6 f with
super duper magna terrific tripod like image stabilization
The only things I really want are the Panasonic F2.8 zooms and:
17mm f/1.4, quality similar to the Panasonic Leica 25mm f/1.4
I also like 17mm f/1.4, with 25mm f/1.4 quality
I think the majority of m4/3rd owners would agree with me in saying that we need the Zuiko super high grade and high grade choices from the 4/3rd line to migrate to the m4/3rd line. I know there is an adapter, but they don’t really work…too slow. (Own and use the 35-100 f/2 and 14-35 f/2).
Panasonic also needs to get on board with an “L series” or high performance line. The MFT standard is big enough that the market can bear a higher priced, higher quality stabilized lens.
Lastly, Sigma needs to jump right in and start offering kit lenses and cheaper primes that, if not great quality, are at least less expensive.
Panasonic is working on higher priced higher quality lenses; the ones people have been talking about forever now.
I like the lenses currently available, but I would like
12mm and upcoming 75mm available weather sealed and in black finish
7-14mm weather sealed
20mm weather sealed
9-18mm weather sealed and built of higher quality plastics and/or metal
38 mm 1.8 weather sealed.
I need tilt shift (wide angle + portrait) !!!
8-16 MM / F4, optics like canon 10-22, compact
(1)
17mm f1.4-f1.8, weather sealed, fast/silent AF.
Ideally pancake size, but regular size would be fine too.
I’d buy this one instantly.
(2)
Waiting on the Panasonic f2.8 zooms.
(3)
A version of the 12-60mm f2.8-f4 would be great… but ONLY it it can be made smaller than the 4/3 version. Otherwise a 14-54mm lens would make more sense.
I don’t own a 4/3 camera, but I would probably jump in with an EM-5 if the following lens existed:
17mm f/1.4 -> pancake or very compact, high optical quality, great AF, weather-sealed.
25mm f1.8/f2.0 preferably pancake and inexpensive
I would LOVE to see 20mm f/1.7 Mk II pancake lens, with many of its weaknesses addressed.
12-45mm f/2.0 weather sealed SHG
35-100mm f/2.0 weather sealed SHG
7-14mm f/4.0 weather sealed SHG
12-60mm f/4.0 weather sealed HG
17mm f/1.4 weather sealed HG
25mm f/1.4 weather sealed HG
And I want lens hoods included with every lens!!!!!
At all events this need we for weather sealed lens.
10mm f/4 -> low priced,pancake.
12mm f/3.5 -> low priced,pancake.
20mm f/1.9 -> pancake, fast focus, available in kit instead of the crappy zooms.
8mm f4 -> Tilt/shift, High optical quality, High build quality
12mm f3.5 -> Tilt/shift, High optical quality, High build quality
7mm f/3.5 -> weather sealed, manual focussing ring as 12mm, NOT FISHEYE
17mm f/1.2 -> weather sealed, high quality, manual focussing ring as 12mm
12-35 f/2.8 -> weather sealed as small as possible
9-20mm f/2.8 -> high optical quality, good build quality, small
9 mm f/2.8 -> high optical quality, small, 300-400€
Thinking again about 400mm… F4 or even 5.6 could well be too big… F6.3 worked before, why not again? http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/hardwares/classics/olympusom1n2/shared/zuiko/htmls/400mm.htm
Could perhaps be made collapsible too, but it might be unrealistic to ask for collapsible AND weather sealed.
Yes, 400mm f6.3 could be enough, if the E-M5 really is usable at 3200. But preferably weathersealed.
agree, if they arrive to make it acceptably compact. f6.3 would be fine
+1 for 400mm/F4
Let’s see… Lenses now cover about everything from 7mm to 300 mm,most focal lenghts with multiple choises. Well-prised (low) for FOW from 9 to 300 mm, including kit-lenses. Well covered focal lenghts, reasonable prised, for “normal” photographers, good enough IQ for most.
The problem is slowish f-number for most zooms.
The strenght in mFT-format is size: compactness. Fast and compact zooms are not easy to make: They are fast or compact. That means primes are important.
Now it’s time for high IQ versions (compact size, not necessarely pancaces):
50-200 f4 zoom,
10mm f2.8
17mm f2
25mm f2
100mm f2 (macro?)
200mm f2.8
300mm f4
400mm f4
and a 1.4 TC + extension tubes (tubes coming from Kenko?)
+1 for the 100 macro.
To Admin and 43 comunity;;
I have to admit it is the most crucial poll , and i’ m glad a lot of people giving their opinion and thought , just hope Olympus & Panasonic R&D would make our best dreams come true. Coz We are Micro Four Third ,.and we proud of it
More lenses like the Zuiko 45mm f1.8 – that is reasonable cost high quality primes without too many special features that make them very expensive (like water sealing, macro or the zone focussing of the 12mm f2) – ideally a basic set of primes:
12mm f2.8
17mm f1.8 pancake
25mm f1.8
75mm f2.8 affordable short-tele
I would also prefer them in black and with plastic construction if this keeps the cost down. This would reproduce the set I used to have on my OM – i.e. the smaller aperture light/small/cheap primes.
+ 1
and I would add a 9mm f2.8 (as small as possible).
Revised 20mm 1.7 (or 1.4 🙂 ) with fast autofocus with a price of 45mm f1.8.
What would have interested me, if I were a m43 owner:
– 17mm f/2.0 (or as bright as it gets as long as it stays) pancake, close-up capable (~20cm or less). And obviously fast AF. Purpose: social lens for streets, pubs, etc. (*)
– 12-60mm f/2.8-4.0. high IQ, close-up capable like its 43 brother. Fast AF. Proper mechanical zoom ring. Purpose: all-in-one versatile walk-around zoom. If Panasonic: must have OIS.
– 135mm or 150mm f/4.0 macro, high IQ. Proper mechanical focusing ring. As small and as light as possible, if that is possible (I like to have macro lens on me). If Panasonic: must have OIS.
Overall: better the IQ is, less problems I have with potentially higher lens price.
(*) Though probably would have been able to live with 1.7/20 mk2 – with fast AF. Slow AF spoils candid shots.
NOTHING BUT A LENS WISH LIST:
• M.ZD ED 9mm/F2.8/F3.5
• M.ZD ED 14mm/F1.4/F2.0
• M.ZD ED 17.5mm/F1.4/F2.0
• M.ZD ED 20mm/F1.4/F2.0
• M.ZD ED 45mm/F1.4/F2.0
• M.ZD ED 75mm/F1.4/F2.0
• 200mm/F2.0 Super High Grade
• 300mm/F4.0 High Grade
• 400mm/F4.5 High Grade
• 500mm/F5.6 High Grade
• Catadioptric 300mm or 600mm
• M.EC-14 Tele Extender
• M.EC-20 Tele Extender
• M.EX-9 Macro Extension Tube
• M.EX-16 Macro Extension Tube
I would love to have a really compact moderate tele-zoom starting around 30-50mm and reaching between 90-150mm with constant 1:4 aperture, e.g. a 40-120mm f/4 or 30-90 f/4 or 35-120 f/4
The whole thing as small and light as possible!
And more pancakes! I actually don’t know what is technically possible, but i would love something like the Oly 45 1.8 in a pancake-style lens. f/2.2 would be sufficient as well!
Exactely, what I am missing – a tele Lens to Carry arround everyday!
these would really tempt me to enter the mft system:
zuiko 12mm 2.8 – cheap wide-angle for the masses (<350€)
zuiko 17mm 2.8 II - this time with decent optical and build quality, same price
zuiko 25mm 1.8 - not a pancake, but relatively small, low price (<250€)
zuiko 150mm 2.8 - superb optical quality, price ~800-1000€ (like sigma macro, but smaller and without macro capability)
zuiko 300mm 4.0 - superb optical quality, price ~1000-1500€ (like canon/nikon counterparts)
zuiko 75-200mm 4.0 - good optical performance, price ~600-800€ (like canon 70-200mm f4)
overall: rely less on internal image correction (distortion, ca) and make better lenses from the start. i don't care if it makes them bigger 😉
17mm f 1.4 – reasonable quality, reasonable price (like the 45mm 1.8, but the 17mm would be a little more expensive i guess.. ;))
25mm f2- low price
14-45mm f2.0-4.0 – no powerzoom, but smooth manual zooming.. just a higher quality version of a kit lens with reasonable image quality, but not as expensive as e.g. the 12-35..
25mm f/1 -> weather sealed, high quality (like the Olympus 12mm), weight ~250g, 600€
50mm F/1 -> weather sealed, high quality (like the Olympus 12mm), weight ~300g, 700€
I insist on the fast aperture. 25/1.4 is nice but not that much in regard of the depth of field we have with 4/3 sensors.
These two lenses + an E-M6 with 1/8000th and ISO 100 would make me VERY happy 😛
10mm 3.5 small high quality
12-50 3.5/4.5 high quality mechanical zoom ring
High quality is more important than price. I don’t want huge 2.8 zooms and I really don’t like power zoom.
Otherwise current list is enough for me.
Wildlife lens: 300mm f4.5 or 5.6 OIS $400
1.6 or 2.0 teleconverter
Small and light 12mm f4.0 $300
12mm, f3.5 or f4, shift lens, good optical IQ, can be manually focused.
(I don’t need tilt, you can keep it simple, but please, we need that for architecture)
10 mm, f2 or f2.8, but extremely high IQ especially in the corners.
200-400 f/4.0-5.6 DiffractiveOptics OIS
After rethinking.
200mm f5.6 -> macro, high grade
the slow aperature is necessary to make it compact
35mm f1.4 or f1.2, not a macro, not a zoom, not a pancake. Just a simple 35mm (70mm equiv.) short tele that’s sharp across the frame. 35mm is one of my favorite focal lengths and I’m always sad that it never receives much love.
Another idea: 200-400mm Pancake 😉
12mm f/1.2 -> high optical quality, weather sealed.
8mm or 9mm wide-angle prime lens* -> inexpensive**
*this lens on a compact E-PM1 would be the new camera\lens combination for all real estate agents.
**does not need to be fast and I don’t mind heavy distortion correction if needed. The lens could even have a fixed aperture (between f4.0 – f5.6) to reduce on the amount of moving parts. Less than $300 seems reasonable given the concessions I’d be willing to make.
Look forward to one day buying this lens.
*If* the Panasonic 12-35/2.8 is of good quality and weather sealed, I would say that a standard set could include this lens + the Oly 45/1.8 + the Oly 75/1.8 (a 100/2 might have been preferred).
In addition:
* the weather sealed Oly 60/2.8 macro for macro shooters; they might want to skip the 45/1.8 and the 75/1.8
* a weather sealed 300mm f/2.8-3.5 of top optical quality for bird shooters, considerably cheaper than the Zuiko 300/2.0, relatively compact/light. If f/2.8, it might be possible to use an x2 teleconverter, with an f/3.5 an x1.4-1.7 teleconverter.
* a 10-12 mm w/ shift possibilities for those into shooting buildings.
* if the Pana 12-35/2.8 turns out to be disappointing, there is room for a 17 or 20 mm f/1.4-1.8 weather sealed pancake type of top quality.
Ok — and various special lenses with wide apertures, etc.
As you see — I am basically only suggesting 2 new lenses!
20mm f/2.8 compact , high quality , weather sealed from olympus in silver and black finishes WITH distance markings on the lens barrel and hopefully built in lens hood
The Panasonic 1/.7/20mm has very high IQ in the center but not in the corners , is not weathersealed
12-21 mm f3.5 . compact to medium compact , high quality , weather sealed lens from Olympus
150mm f3.5 compact , high quality, weather sealed from Olympus
Harold
10 mm; f2.8 or better
17 mm sealed f2.8 or better
25 mm sealed f2 or better
50-200 mm sealed, f4 auto focus.
Waiting for the the 75 and/or 60 to be released. They can release one or two of the above a year, and I will be happy. I am sure I will want others in addition, but these especially the 10 mm and 60 or 75 will cover what I am shooting now. A not to expensive shift lens sounds tempting for me.
Not sure, why everyone wants pancake lens, one at about 20mm is enough IMHO; to much of a optical compromise. But I want sealed lens as I frequent dusty and gritty environments; and I am sure most could care less about that.
Olympus recently has come up with some great offers (12mm, 45mm, new lenses planned). This is what Santa could bring for me.
9-10mm wide angle, like 12mm/2
Wide angle shift lenses, e.g. 12mm, 8mm
14mm/2 (I like the 28mm perspective more than the 24mm)
100mm macro
Compact 400mm/4 ED, even if it is a little heavy. Would be great for birding (compare the 500mm Kowa).
These lenses together with new EM-D type cameras would allow Olympus to finally get its moyo back and m4/3 would become a serious contender for professional digital photography.
very conservative lens suggestions!
17mm f 2,4
(pancake, weathersealed, reasonable price)
25mm f 2
(small, reasonable priced, high optical quality)
12-35mm f 4
(same built, sealing and optical perfomance as oly 12-50mm f 3,5-6,3 but smaller)
11-22mm f 2,8
(pro grade lens, weathersealed, like 4/3 oly 11-22mm f 2, but smaller)
17mm / F2 or better. pancake, silent and fast focus.
Full 4/3 compatibility is most important. Make a phase-Detection-Adapter, Olympus! This is just like issuing 20+ new lenses for m4/3. The optical quality of those 4/3 zuikos is just too good to leave them alone in the 4/3 desert.
Then: A 17mm f1.8. Size and quality like the 12mm or 45mm. Wheather sealed, please. That existing pancake just doesnt do it.
Then: 300 f4 and 1.4 converter or 150-400 f4-5.6 sealed, high quality, like the 4/3 50-200! This bloody lens is missing in m4/3 AND is/was sorely missed in 4/3 as well. This “Missing Link” is the only reason, why I still lug Canon gear around with me! (I know, there used to be the 135-400 and 50-500 for 4/3 from Sigma, but their quality is not particularly good…)
And finally: A 9 or 10mm lens. f2 or 2.8. Size and quality like the 12 and 45.
I just want all lenses to have the same focus mechanism as the existing oly 12mm has. I find the focus by wire stuff to be really frustrating.
17mm f/1.4 -> high optical quality, autofocus
or
17mm f/2 -> high optical quality, autofocus, compact
If Panasonic could just adapt the 20mm to be 17, that would be great for me ! The 20mm isn’t wide enough.
Yes and yes! A high quality 17mm is one of the biggest holes left in the m4/3 lineup for me. Maybe split the difference and make a 17mm f/1.8 to match the 45mm f/1.8 and 75mm f/1.8? A bit OCD perhaps 🙂 Regardless, a large aperture 17mm is sorely needed; manual focus lenses need not apply.
17 mm f/1.8 -> pancake, silent focusing/MSC
12-60 mm f/2.8-4 -> high quality
40-150 mm f/4 -> high quality
25mm macro, at least f2.8.
9mm f/2.8 Compact or
10mm f/2.8 Compact
17mm f/1.4 Compact/pancake, weather sealed
20mm f/1.7 pancake revised for faster af, maybe weather sealed
35mm f/1.4 compact weather sealed
50mm f/1.5 compact weather sealed
30mm f/4 macro, collapsible or pancake
10-50mm f/anything zoom, collapsible or pancake, silent focus & zoom
12-60mm f2.8-4, weather sealed
8 or 9mm f2.8, weather sealed, high quality (for climbing, to take great landscape photos!)
My favorite m43s lens is the Olympus 45mm f/1.8. I would definately buy a bigger and heavier version though, for instance a 55mm f/1.2.
Would love to see the following and let’s keep the price reasonable, charging the same price as the equivalent in FF DSLR because these are smaller and use less glass:
150mm f/2 -> high optical quality, weather sealed
200mm f/2.8 -> high optical quality, weather sealed
300mm f/4 -> high optical quality, weather sealed
100-300mm f/4 -> high optical quality, weather sealed
150-400mm f/5.6 -> high optical quality, weather sealed (let’s get an awesome super telephoto zoom)
12-60mm f/2.8 -> high optical quality, weather sealed (basically to match the Nikon and Canon f/4 zoom)
1.4x TC -> high optical quality, weather sealed
2.0x TC -> high optical quality, weather sealed
I’d also like to see Oly make a way for the existing 4/3 lenses to work on MFT with decent AF, then some of the lenses above would not be necessary.
12-50 mm f/2.8 high quality, weather sealed.
I’m with BillM on his thoughts, although for size and cost considerations, perhaps the 150mm will be f/2.8 – even at f/2.8 it would be a fantastic lens if it had fast CD AF and weatherproofing.
The ZD Four Thirds 150mm f/2.0 is a lovely lens but too expensive for most of us.
Personally, I think a 150mm f/2.8 should be their next lens and have matching 1.4x and 2x TC.
I would love a 25mm f/1.4 like the Panasonic but the Panasonic aperture is very “chatty” (noisy) on Olympus cameras, so either Olympus makes one or preferably, updates their firmware to address this.
Likewise, the Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 pancake – we need the aberrations corrected in-camera or Olympus make a similar lens, perhaps a 17mm or 20mm f/1.4 🙂
A high end 50mm f/1.2 portrait lens would not go astray either!
Just 2 more would satisfy me:
300mm f/4, weather-sealed.
A micro version of the 12-60mm f/2.8-4, preferably weather-sealed.
I really don’t care about the size.
10mm f/2.8 or better
or
10.5mm f/2.8 or better
100mm f/2.0
150mm f/2.8
A 300mm f4, weather sealed lens together with a high quality 1.4x converter for wildlife. A set of extension tubes would be good as would a longer macro lens to give working distance, say 150mm f3.5.
300mm f4 + 1.4x high quality converter would be great. In my list I had 400mm f5.6 weathersealed, but 300mm + converter would be more versatile.
I’d like a really good zoom to exploit the 2x crop factor. So far the options seem to just be kind of ok, and a hair slow, though I would not expect much lighter due to not wanting a heavy lens.
I think lenses are VERY well covered in the wide-85mm range and not much more needs to be done there. For “shift”, I’m currently using a Lensbaby Tilt Transformer when I want that, which is not very often, but a lighter native shift lens would be interesting and I would probably buy it.
Panasonic 7-14mm is just an incredible lens that nobody talks about. Very little reviews on the net. I have used many ultra-wide from Canon & Nikon they all have to be stopped down past f8 to get the same corner sharpness as this little baby. My point is Panasonic needs to maintain this level of performance with their future lenses if they want to maintain that ever going market share. The time is right now:
A fast medium telephoto 70-85mm f2.0, if possible f1.4. This will translate in u43 terms a 40mm or 45mm prime lens for portraiture.
A telephoto prime in the range of 200 to 400mm f4.0 or f5.6 to maintain compact form. This will translate in u43 term, a 100mm or 200mm prime lens for birding & wildlife. Maybe even a 100mm f2.0 (u43 equiv.) for sports people, but they have to up their AF tracking technology.
I will probably purchase the 12-35mm f2.8 lens. Superb construction, they say
???? What is wrong with the existing Olympus 45/2.8?? Seems to me ou wish for something that exists. Or is it that you need OIS?
I don’t undertand what you are getting at here, you speak of 70-85mm, I take it you are not suggesting a Zoom, rather a Prime somewhere in that range, in which case the u4/3rd range would be 140-170mm, not 40 or 45mm as suggested.
Zooms:
12-60 f/2.8–4 –> weather-sealed, high quality, mechanical zoom
60–250 f/2.8–4 –> weather-sealed, high quality, mechanical zoom
Primes:
6mm f/4 –> high quality, rectilinear
10mm f/2.8 –> high quality
12mm f/2.8 –> compact, inexpensive
10 or 12mm f/4 T/S — high quality
17mm f/1.8 –> high quality, compact
150mm f/2.8 –> weather-sealed, high quality
300mm f/4 –> weather-sealed, high quality
1.4x TC –> weather-sealed, high quality
All available in BLACK and WITH LENS HOODS!
6mm or 7mm f/4 –> high quality, rectilinear
Something I haven’t seen people talk about, but think would be a reasonable idea (and the best street-shooting lens EVER):
Have a partially variable focal length camera lens, a single lens with only two focal lengths, 12 and 17mm. In this way, we could cram two very popular focal lengths into a single lens, and can still keep them fast without bloating their size. Think of it as smashing two pancakes into a single lens.
If we could have a 12 and 17mm f1.4 in a single lens, I would pay ANY amount of money for it. Weathersealing would be icing on the cake. I wouldn’t mind the size of the lens itself if this could be done.
And then I’d love to have another lens in a similar configuration, but covering the focal lengths 25-35-50, or thereabouts…
My wishes:
1) lower the current price of oly 12mm f2 to $600
2) zuiko 9mm f2.8; compact size & focus like the 12mm f2; weather sealed & sub $800
3) make all quality lenses from oly & pana weather sealed even if they charge additional $30 maybe for the sealing like: oly 45mm, pana 25mm, 7-14mm, etc
4) telescopic belows similar to the OM belows.
5) release any kind of focal length of liquid lens tech. Even low optical quality just for experimentation available to us public users.
6) 12-60mm f2.8-4 good optical quality; sub $1000; smaller size than regular 4/3
Something like tamrom 200 500, faster af better IQ and if posible a little smaler.
25mm f1.8 or f2. cheaper than the panny 1.4
10mm f/1.0 -> high quality, AF
60mm f/2.0 -> OIS, AF, macro
12-48mm, f/2.0 -> OIS, AF, x zoom, high quality
200-400mm f/3.5 -> OIS, AF, video optimized, high quality
high quality 1.4x tele-converter
I’d really like something around 10mm f2.0 and weatherproof. Also a wide t/s would be handy too.
Zuiko 14-140 f/4 Very High Optical Quality, Mechanical Zoom, Constant aperture, Weather sealed. AAMOF, I don’t care who produces the zoom as long as it is constant f/4 but I stated Zuiko to especially not have OIS, because that adds bulk, makes it more expensive and degrades optical quality. With very high optical quality I mean at least as good as or preferably higher than PL 14-150 for 4/3’s.
300mm F4, weather sealed, high quality
12-60mm F2.8-4 weather sealed
75mm F2 macro weather sealed, high quality
50-200mm F2.8-3.5 weather sealed
10-20mm F4 weather sealed
12mm. f/1.0, 1.2 or 1.4 high optical quality, full time manual focus, mechanical manual focus.
17.5mm f/1.0, 1.2 or 1.4 high optical quality, full time manual focus, mechanical manual focus.
25 f/1.0, 1.2 or 1.4 high optical quality, full time manual focus, mechanical manual focus.
12-60mm f2.0 –> high optical quality, full time manual focus, mechanical manual focus, internal zoom.
7-14 f2.8 –> high optical quality, full time manual focus, mechanical manual focus, internal zoom.
42.5mm f1.4 –> high optical quality, full time manual focus, mechanical manual focus.
17mm f/1.0, 1.2 or 1.4 high optical quality, full time manual focus, mechanical manual focus, all metal, black, aperture ring, distance scale, weather sealed
300mm f4.0 -> High quality
400mm f5.6 -> High quality
I new line of premium primes f1.2 or faster. Price does not matter. Zukio or Leica.
a 50mm that’s is faster then 1.4 from zuiko would be nice though
primes:
17mm f/1.8 – high quality
25mm f/2.2 – weather sealed, pancake
125mm f/2.8 – weather sealed
300mm f/4 – weather sealed
zooms:
12-35mm f/2.8 budget, collapsible
14-50mm f/2.8-3.5 high quality (but no OIS)
17-150mm f/3.5-4 OIS
around 30mm f/1.4 – f/1.8. Price can be high if quality is not worse than Lumix 20mm and Oly 45mm, but it should be pancake!
I’d still like to see a 25 mm pancake, that focuses fast. I like the 1.4 version, but it’s not as pocketable as the 14 and the 20, so it tends to get left behind a lot, when I’m walking around.
Would LOVE to see a weather sealed, high quality 35-100mm f/2 that is about the size (or a little bigger) than the new 75mm f/1.8 that is coming out.
Actually, any high quality, weather sealed, fast lenses, f/2 or faster would be greatly welcomed!
Panasonic updates:
– Panasonic 14mm f2.5 with same optical quality as Panasonic 20mm F1.7.
– Panasonic 20mm f1.7 with fast AF (like Panasonic 14mm f2.5)
New lenses:
12mm F2.8, pancake (possible?), optical quality like Panasonic 20mm F1.7
Panasonic (OIS) 90mm f2.8 macro, high optical quality
Panasonic (OIS) 300mm f4 or 400mm F5.6, high optical quality
Something like a set of 8mm, 10mm, 12mm and 14mm f2.8 or better primes, weather sealed. TBH just some consistency would be nice, recently it seems a case of no 2 lenses the same, some compact, some power xoom, some weather sealed, some with proper focussing, some fly by wire… it’s ridiculous
Because I’m almost sure I’m going to get the E-M5 I’d like a:
25mm f/1.4 -> Zuiko, weather-sealed, manual focus ring like on the 12mm, high optical quality, lens size does not matter
17mm f/2.8 -> Zuiko, improved optical quality but still a pancake
This one question brings the most amazing results. Needless to say the majority seem to want the exact replicas of the traditional 35mm range, the one that catches my eye here and in other posts is the 17.5 mm, I’d say anything between 16-19mm would be close enough. As for myself I would go with the oft mentioned manual focus Shift again focal length most suitable for purpose. For thos who keep asking for a long tele’, look out for the Zuiko 200 4.0 a superb lens which is often seen in the evil place for a reasonable price, focus is not to difficult and gives stunning results. Returning to the question of a shift adapter, I received this reply from a query made to Kipon.
Dear Geoff,
Thank you for your interest about our KIPON adapters.
Indeed we have shift NIKON-m4/3 adapters, for we got many requirement from the customers in Japan CP+ photo show, we will design a whole shift lineup adapters, including OM lens you have, will keep informed, before the end of Apr, we will begin to sell.
Many thanks.
Shanghai Transvision
Might I suggest the more people who make a request for this item the more likely it will become. Fotodiox also produce a small range of adapters for m4/3 and suggest using the EOS-m4/3 in conjunction with an OM-EOS adapter, the theory is fine but I hear in practice the result is poor with quite loose fittings beteen interfaces.
I suggest people emailKipon with a request for OM-m4/3 shift adapter.
100-400mm f/5.6
Agree, something up to at least 400mm would be great. F5.6 is fine as it would keep, size, weight and price down. Add a mFT-version of 12-60 and I’d get a OM-D as soon as it’s available.
500mm/f5.6 or f8; compact, high quality would be great for nature photography.
150 mm f/2.8 high optical quality
300 mm f/4 high optical quality
1,4* Konverter, high optical Quality
The Panasonic f/2.8 x lenses look great and I’ll probably buy the 35-100mm. If olympus ever releases the 35-100 f2 for micro four thirds I’d drop the Panasonic in a second in favor of the Oly! I wouldn’t even care how big it would have to be.
We have the 12mm f2 and 45mm f1.8, now give us a 25mm f1.7 or even f1.4.
two primes to complete the existing range:
9mm/f2.8
400mm/f4.0
price around 400€ for each.
I’m in! That is, the post above, about the 25 mm!
+1
But I like them cheaper.
12mm-25mm [24mm-50mm] f/1.4 — high quality optics, optimized for wide open shooting, close minimum focus distance, focus ring like olympus 12mm f/2.0, possibly with image stabilization.
I shoot mostly video and this is my low-light dream lens. Would be a great lens for weddings, indoor events, club shooting, street photography, indie filmmaking, indoor general photography without flash.
17.5mm 0.95 optical quality, autofocus, manual focus
Size and price I could care less about
17.5mm 1.2 optical quality, autofocus, price
Size I could care less about
12-35mm f/2.8 budget, collapsible, less than 900$, but I think that’s impossible 🙁
+1
So many comments!
It again proves that man just can’t quite mast*bation…
Hmmm, this request actually needs a 2-part response. One on glass, one on body to hold the glass. Plus background.
BODIES: I have e-510 and GH2 bodies. My wife and I use both bodies for differing reasons (she dislikes EVIL – and we can partly compensate for sensor noise in both bodies with HDR). My all-time favorite camera was my first purchase – a Minoltina al-s rangefinder with great 40mm f1.8 lens. A perfect walkaround lens for architecture, scenics, and street candids in almost any light. (I gave the camera to a friend after using it for 6 years – but later bought two [one for parts] on eBay because I liked that camera so much.) Second was a Rollei 35s with 40mm Sonnar lens.
I do HDR and IR photography of architecture, scenics, and street shots, plus the occasional individual or group portrait of people-animals-plants-objects – static or in action. I emphasize camera work, my wife emphasizes digital editing.
If I get another m43 or 43 body my wishlist includes: A photographer’s camera with dials and hybrid viewfinder best exhibited [even better than in the Leica M8/M9] by the Fujifilm FinePix X100. True 16-bit color depth – supporting HDR without exposure bracketing(not easy to achieve for moving subjects). Better IQ, of course. In-body IR filter easily swappable with a placebo for IR photography. Improved manual operations plus current automated fallbacks. In-body stabilization as in Oly. Three [or more?] programmable custom settings as on the GH2. For me now, C1 is set for legacy glass (e.g. no lens coupling), C2 is for manual focus with adapted lenses permitting auto exposure, C3 is for auto-focus – all with custom settings supporting HDR, low ISO settings, etc. Not needed – more megapixels. I can use video on occasion, but it’s not a driver.
Would that new body purchase be a e-640, GH4, GX3, P5/PL5, OMD3 [skipping a generation for some of the innovations noted above to evolve]? Maybe. But I can live with the e-510 & GH2 absent enough of the improvements noted above until a reasonable value option appears. Another platform may achieve these goals if the 43/m43 crowd doesn’t move forward – particularly because I like my legacy glass more than I like my current, and current marketplace options in, 43/m43 lenses.
GLASS: I have the 14-42 kit zooms for the e-510 and GH2 – plus the Sigma 10-20mm & Olympus 18-180mm 4/3 zooms which I use on both the 510 and GH2. The last is my “point-n-shoot” mode lens. I also have legacy glass from Rollei and Contax SLRs – including Zeiss primes (Rollei 50mm plus 16mm fisheye, Contax 50mm plus 45mm pancake) plus Tamron Adaptall II primes and zooms, which I enjoy using on the GH2.
1. I would prefer to have a 40mm [35mm equivalent] fast prime – with autofocus plus convenient manual focus. The PannaLeica DG 25mm is close, but manual focus is hampered by lack of focus and depth-of-field scales (as is partly available on the Sigma 10-20mm and the PannaLeica D 25mm 43 lenses). A redo of the PannaLeica DG adding focus and DoF scales would be a reasonable substitute for my preferred 40mm prime.
Until then, the Tamron Adaptall II 24mm and 28mm f2.5 lenses are not quite so fast, and are certainly not Leica or even PannaLeica glass, but have the manual focusing panache lacking in the current crop of 43 and m43 (outside the Summilux D 25mm) lenses. Or I might get a used Distagon or Leica lens in the ~21-28mm range. I might do that with a $550-1200 budget – rather than accept the compromises imposed by either of the current PannaLeicas or the Nokton.
2. On the wide angle side of things, I’ll keep using the Sigma 10-20mm 43 lens on both bodies unless a faster version appears to improve usability indoors. That faster version might be a revised MKII 9-18mm or 7-14mm Oly or Panny lens, with focus and DoF markings to assist MF. Better integration of such lenses (as Panny does between its lenses and bodies) would demonstrate to me that 43 and m43 really are a coordinated system – rather than minimally integrated marketing hype.
3. On the tele side of things, I’ll keep using the Oly 18-180 lens on both bodies, plus my Tamron Adaptall II 35-80 f2.8-3.8 and 70-210 f3.8-4 lenses on the GH2. I might get an Adaptall II SP 80-200 f2.8 before any other lens, at this point.
I also have Rollei/Contax Planar 50mm f1.8/f1.4 lenses, and the Contax Planar 45mm f2.8 pancake lens, available for the GH2.
What might attract a tele purchase? Perhaps a fast m43 tele zoom. Say 50-200mm f2.8-f3.5 as was on your previous wish list [though I don’t care about video] with good optics and manual focus character [good build quality, and focus if not also DoF markings]. Would this be a PannaLeica, an Oly, a Cosina or other? Up to them – and to the consortium – as I would not buy unless the cross-platform integration improved (to fulfill the as yet only hyped marketing promise).
12mm f1.8 (or faster), pancake, high optical quality
17mm f1.8 (or faster), pancake, high optical quality
+1 on the fast 12mm (or 10mm) pancake
2.0/100mm high quality
2.0/8mm high quality
2.8/12-60mm high quality
no more pancakes !!!!!!
I’m finding the greatest limitations on the telephoto end, as someone who’d like to take fairly close-up pictures of animals that tend not to sit still, like birds.
200mm f2.8 high quality weather sealed
300mm f4 high quality weather sealed
400mm f5.6 high quality weather sealed
If they could do a high quality, fast zoom to cover the 200-300 range or greater, that would be fine, but they tend not get to the same level of quality out of a zoom across the entire range as a prime lens.
I’m planning to get either the EM-5 or GH3 once it’s available (someday soon, please?), and the weather sealing is a key feature for me, so I’d like to see more weather sealed lenses to go along with that.
17.5 f2.0 –> as compact and high quality as possible. Dont care for the price! Mft is a compact format
7mm f2.8, pancake or compact, high optical quality, weather sealed or
7-12mm f2.8, compact, high optical quality, weather sealed
200mm f2.8, compact, high optical quality, weather sealed or
100-300mm f4.0, high optical quality, weather sealed
42mm f1.4(or faster), pancake, high optical quality
Zuiko 14-50 f/2.8 weather sealed
Zuiko 50-200 f/4-5.6 weather sealed, high quality
Standardized look/feel to Olympus m43 lenses, like the om zuikos were.
1.4x TC, high optical quality, weather sealed
2.0x TC, high optical quality, weather sealed
17,5mm F1.4 autofocus (maximum size like the 25mm F1.4)
25mm F1.2 autofocus (size can be a bit bigger than the 25mm F1.4)
42,5mm F1.4 autofocus (maximum size like the 25mm F1.4)
42,5mm F0.95 manual focus (similar size to 25mm F0.95)
12mm f/2 or faster M.Zuiko -> high optical quality, weather sealed — and black to go with the black OM-D. Pretty simple, eh?
For me
100-300 f4 weather sealed
200-500 f5.6 weather sealed
35mm f1.4 weather sealed. (Because 70mm seems to be my favorite focal length).
Also updating any lens of the old with weather sealing would be nice.
12-50mm f/2.8 -> HG quality,weather-sealed,usd700-ish,silver
50-200mm f/2.8 -> HG quality,weather-sealed,usd900-ish,black
7-14mm f/2.8 or f/4,0 will do -> HG quality,weather-sealed usd700-ish
every 1-stop down will be usd100 cheaper
25mm f/1.4 -> pancake, AF, weather-sealed
25mm f/1.4 -> compact, high optical quality, weather sealed
the most wanted and still missing = long & fast lens m4/3:
300mm /2.8 (or at least f4) -> high optical quality, weather sealed, macro 1:2
37mm f/1.7 -> pancake, high optical quality, autofocus
or
35mm f/1.7 -> pancake, high optical quality, autofocus
or
40mm f/1.7 -> pancake, high optical quality, autofocus
12-60mm f/2.8-4 -> compact, high optical quality, weather sealed
14-140mm f/4 -> collapsible
300 mm/2.8, maybe even longer or faster. Just wish I could afford it. 🙂
Or, of course, just good AF support for existing 4/3 lenses. Like many others I have all the wide and normal lenses I need, but the telephoto lenses are too slow for my liking.
As we have a 2x crop factor a long lens like a 200/3.5 would be great.. I am picturing the Voigtlander 180/3.5 which is a tiny lens that size wise looks right at home on a u4/3 body…
I know people would prefer faster, but really a 200/3.5 is faster than any lens we currently have at that focal length and a prime like the voigtlander is FAR higher quality than anything we have now.. A 2.8 or faster would be nice too but I don’t need the bulk that would include, I already have a 150/2 which I use via adapters and it is a huge pain to carry around..
Also a 7, 8 or 9mm prime lens..
And stop trying to rip us off with overpriced lens hoods, you know most people just buy chinese knock-off hoods when you overcharge for them, I am talking specifically to Olympus here…
17mm f/2.0 – high quality
14-100mm f/4.0 – OIS high quality
I don’t understand why the camera companies make smaller and smaller cameras,
so one can carry them in a pocket, and then make most of the lenses big so they can’t. I would like just one lens, a 12mm. very compact, F2 (or even 2.8) with good image quality, thats all.
Cheers Ken Van Sickle
17.5mm f1.4 with OIS!!
300mm f/4.0 Ultra High IQ, Weather Sealed
150mm f/2.8 Ultra High IQ, WS
25mm f/1.4 Very High IQ, WS, $-Give Away! 17.5mm f/1.8 Ultra High IQ, WS
10mm f/2.0 Ultra High IQ, WS
The 25mm should be priced to be a no brainer, meaning a high quality standard lens sold at a loss if necessary, to insure affordibility.
The designation “Ultra High IQ” means best possible resolution and low or non reliance on software correction for WA lenses.
Please, no more pancakes, there are enough for now.
7-12mm f/3.5-4.5 Fisheye -> High optical quality
For underwater photography. Something similar to the Tokina 10-17mm.
17mm f/1.8 (or faster) — fast AF with Oly 12mm Snap focus mechanism with detail distance scale, preferably weather-sealed, price and size don’t really matter.
10mm f/2.8 (or faster) — fast AF with Oly 12mm Snap Focus mechanism with detail distance scale, preferably weather-sealed, price and size don’t matter.
30mm f/2.8 (or faster) — 1:1 macro, preferably weather-sealed
20mm f/1.7 Mk2 — pancake (same size as Mk1), weather-sealed, fast AF, preferably with snap focus mechanism
10mm f1.4 Weather Proof HG Zuiko, mechanically connected focus ring….please.
UWA prime around 9mm. Smaller than the 9-18mm and around $400 so it is cheaper than both WA zooms. As fast as it can be made, 3.5-4 should be OK. We need something wider than 12mm with less size/$.
A 17mm that fits better with the other primes 12-14-20-25 speed an quality wise. Doesn’t have to be pancake, but small is still good. 1.4 would be wonderful, but I would rather focus on making it affordable. Sealing would be really nice.
150/2.5 or 200/2.8 (or even 3.5) that works well with 1.4x and 2x TC. We need some HQ tele primes but we should also have something that makes such a setup portable and affordable. Sealing very much desired.
Versions of the 12-60 and 50-200 Oly zooms that can focus well. This will give people some choice with the coming Panasonic 2.8 zooms to trade range vs. size for zooms of higher quality than kit lenses.
I am puzzled about the people who specifies something at exactly half the traditional 24×36 FL (like 42.5mm) wanting to have the same experience. The focal lengths in the past were never that accurate and the factor 2 between 43 and 24×36 only applies to the width (1.78 for height and 1.92 for diagonal) because of the different aspect ratio.
Removed
I’m amazed so many others have asked for what I want:
300mm f/4 -> high optical quality, weather sealed
12-150mm f/4-> high optical quality, weather sealed, not bigger than the 14-150mm, I would pay $1000 for it
I shoot mostly landscapes when travelling and such a lens will satisfy 90% of my needs and the other 10% can be covered by a specialized prime (portraits, macro, telephotos)
100mm f/2.0 high IQ
@Bill “charging the same price as the equivalent in FF DSLR because these are smaller and use less glass:”
But lenses designed for a smaller format need to have higher resolution … because they are going to be subject to more magnification
More primes like the 45mm f/1.8 – lightweight, compact, simple design, lower cost:
m.zuiko 17mm f/2.0
m.zuiko 25mm f/2.0
m.zuiko 60mm f/2.8
More primes like the 12mm f/2.0 – solid construction, advanced feature set, higher cost:
m.zuiko 17mm f/1.4
m.zuiko 25mm f1.4
m.zuiko 100mm f/2.8
Finally a suggestion for something new and different. The two most common requested primes seem to be a better 17mm and a better 25mm. Now I wonder, if you made a zoom that was just 17mm-25mm, how small could you make it, and still be relatively fast aperture?
So here’s my weird and wonderful idea… a well built, moderately sized, higher cost zoom:
m.zuiko 17-25mm f/1.8 (constant)
So why not ask for a 15-30mm it’s only a 2x zoom range which should be more than capable of doing. As a user of the Oly 11-22mm which is an awesome piece of kit, every bit as good as the ubiquitous 14-54, which is reaching legendary status. I could go as far as suggesting it be 15-38mm or even 15-45mm equating to a 2.5 & 3 times range, though I would accept this would compromise on speed and or size.
As a matter of point the 11-22mm lives on my E-1 while a Sigma 18-50mm EX DC lives on an E-620 body.
I had thought 15-30mm might be a better spread, so long as aperture could be kept close to 2.0, but I was just going a bit extreme to make the point.
m.zuiko 15-30mm f/2.0
I’d prefer a 12-25/2.0. Pocketable, of course.
I’ve since discovered the Zuiko 14-35mm f/2.0 – for $2500…. ouch.
Whatever the specifics, a relatively small zoom with reasonably large aperture, for close contact.
17mm f1.4 high grade
150mm f2.8
14-100 f2.8-5.6
for wildlife photography:
Tele: 500 or 600mm/F4 or F5.6 high quality. Up to 2kg weight would still be ok (compared to Canon/Nikon telelenses this would still be feather-light)
1.5 Teleconverter
Macro: 90mm/F2.8 high quality
I want a 7mm prime or zoom that doesn’t cost $1000. I’m OK with it being slower than f/4 or having a variable aperture.
Sigma makes a 10-20mm f/4-5.6 zoom for Canon & Nikon APS-C for under $500 (Tamron has a similar one too). We need an m4/3 equivalent to those lenses.
The Sigma 10-20 is an equivalent of 16-32 on Canon APS-C.
Something similar in µ43 is available and comes from Panasonic, it is the 7-14 = 14-28
A prime 8mm is also available from Panasonic (full frame fisheye) which doesn’t cost a $1000
Don’t forget Oly’s 9-18mm a remarkable lens which would grace any u4/3 body.
is it possible to ask replacement for my Nikon 18-200mm & Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 that i sold to move to m43 ??
maybe something like this
9-100mm f/3.5-5.6 –> no powerzoom, weather sealed
5-8mm f/2
Oly 45mm f/1.8 –> black & weather sealed
and everything come with hood…yea…i’m talking to you, Oly !!
@ konikonaku
18-200 mm & 11-16mm is a great lens for APS-C format, which is equivalent on FF will be 28-300 mm & 16-24 mm . So if you are looking for that equivalent they already exist in m43 format ; which is 14-150 OLY or 14-140mm Lumix , and for the replacement of your Tokina 11-16 mm – try the 7-14mm Lumix , is much more wider and farther vocal range equiv FF of 14-28 mm . I know it is more expensive than Tokina , but the quality of the glass is Superb,.. I think is as good as 14-24mm F2.8 Nikon FX
Quote “I think is as good as 14-24mm F2.8 Nikon FX”
I wanted this Nikon very badly but did not want to focus manually on Canon. Also I had enough of carrying “heavy load”. The 7-14 made me move to µ43 and that is the exact reason why I sold all my Canon gear.
thanks for the conversion calculation, Anonymous
i will look into it ones got my E-M5, my friend got one laying around…hehehe
that 7-14mm sure is cost an arm & a leg…hehehe…any comment about Oly 9-18mm ?? it got more reasonable price for me
right now i’m looking into ZD 14-54 mkII for traveling but still hesitate about it performance on m43 body..but starting got some good comment about it with m43 body
@DagBO
have you try Tokina 11-16mm ?
ken rockwell said it event better than Nikon 14-24 on Nikon body…i had D90 & no complain in my part..hehe..Tokina also come with Canon mount
50mm/f1.8->high optical quality, manual focus, similar to pany-leica 25mm/f1.4
I’ve heard many people hope for a 12-50 f/2.8, but I’m unaware of any 35mm or APSC equivalent.
My votes: (sorry is sounds fairly conventional)
– true m4/3 macro lens, say 60mm f/2.8
– 35-100 f/2.8 or f/2 for m4/3 (anyone gave success with the 4/3 version on m4/3?)
– 18-50something consumer zoom
– 12-35 or 14-35 f/2.8 zoom.
I think oly (OM-D) and panna (GH3) would sell even more units of their weather sealed cameras if there we high quality weather sealed 17mm and 25mm lenses. For me that would take a great system and make it a killer system.
In fact I would pre-order on the spot if I knew that one of these lenses was coming.
Even if these lenses were quite expensive the overall package would come in a little under the X1Pro and be weather sealed. That is a win for me!
For my eye the X1Pro has better IQ, but m43 can still win on a better all round system – and a system with weather sealing in smaller and cheaper cameras is a big win for me.
Yes, we have a great range of lenses (with 17mm being an obvious hole), but the weather sealing will be the slam dunk.
Come on M43!
Quote: “with 17mm being an obvious hole”
Oly has an 17mm f2,8 which is not as bad as people tend to say. I personally would say (after pictures compared ages ago which I have taken by myself) that it has at least the quality like the Pana 14 or the 14-45 which are not bad lenses at all…
Point taken. I have seen some nice shots with this lense. However, I still think this is a focal length that could be updated. I’m thinking somethin glike the 12mm.
12mm f/2.8
17mm f/2
50mm f/1.2 (or faster) OIS
150-300mm f/2.8-4.0 OIS
12-60 f/4 macro OIS
lenses with AF and mechanical focus with hard stops
aperture control on the lens
built in ND filter
a hyperfocal or infinity focus button
25mm 1.4 from Olympus, equal in quality to the Pana/Leica, but in the metallic silver color of Olympus cameras.
I like the silver version of the Olympus OM-D E-M5, but I can’t imagine putting a black plastic Panasonic lens on that. The body and the lens need to match.
lol,its not jewelry, its a tool 🙂
for what it is worth,i think a black lens on a silver body looks better then the other way around, isn’t that the classic look of the old om camera?
*grin* that made my day
Leica had/has black body and silver (very old) lenses and I personally think that the 12mm looks not bad on a black E-P2. A matter of personal taste and preferences I would say 😉
I’m really looking forward to Panasonic 12-35mm f/2.8 X. It would be great allround lens and for me all I need, as an supplement to fast primes.
Not really in need of a specific lens that’s not already covered, but rather replacements. We need more manual aperture rings and pump manual focus ability like the 12mm/f2.0 Olympus lens.
Aside from that, I agree with a lot of others that we want… err… we NEED <–yeah, I capped that!– a fast 17mm pancake. And for the love of god, stop making lenses unavailable in black! It took me over two hours to cover my 45/f1.8 with black auto vinyl!
Oh and UWA pancakes are always welcome! If a 45mm+ pancake is possible… make it happen!
So to reiterate:
-Manual aperture rings with pump manual focus thingy
-Fast 17mm pancake
-UWA pancake
-45mm+ pancake (if possible, I'll even take it at f2.5)
12-60/f2.0
I wonder how many unrealistic requests like this one you are going to get when you got all the answers
Such a lens would be an absurdity on a system that markets its size as a main argument and would be cost prohibitive and somewhat flawed
Harold
+1 There are so many completely ridiculous ideas, I like to 18-200mm an incredible range, I dread to think how big it would be to have even a usable aperture.
I also like the silver Oly E-M5 with matching silver lenses. It looks more classic and I believe the chrome plating would last longer than the black paint.
Also, it is easier to read the graduations on the silver lenses especially at night.
10.5mm f/2.8
17mm f/2
23mm f/1.5
Waiting for the Panasonic fast zooms
Fast telephoto lenses for wildlife:
150mm f2 or f2.8
200mm f2 or f2.8
1.4 TC
2.0 TC
Wider low light lens
17mm f1.4
My PL25 is great for indoor low light but a wider equivalent would be useful
Longer working distance macro lens
60mm or 75mm f2.0
Compact zooms, like the Panasonic X but better!
14-210 f3.5 – f5.6
leightweight, cheap, travelzoom
14mm f2.0 weathersealed
20mm f1.7 pancake, weathersealed
50mm f1.4 weathersealed
40-150 f4 weathersealed
Well, basically same or faster versions of existing good lenses with added weathersealing for the E-M5
Something like a 12 – 45 mm constant 2.8 Really high quality.
Quality like 12 mm and 45 mm from Olympus or better .
I could take one lens in to the mountains.
I would pay really for it.
M.Zuiko 25mm F1.4 pancake, high quality, silent (up to $750)
45-200mm F2.0 constant, high quality.
7/2.8 high
25/1.2 high
12-25/2.8 high
300/4 high
Weather sealed lenses:
12-50mm OIS constant aperture, between f/2.8 and f/4.0
10mm or 11mm f/2.8 prime that accepts frontal filters
45mm f/1.4 OIS
100mm f/2.0 OIS
I like what is available right now for creating a prime lens kit. This gives a 24mm, 50mm, 90mm. Then a 120mm macro if you add the last item. I planned the items for use on an Olympus OM-D EM-5.
Olympus 12mm f/2 –> wide angle $800
Panasonic Leica Summilux 25mm f/1.4 –> fast standard $600
Olympus 45mm f/1.8 –> short tele $400
Olympus 60mm f/2.8 Macro –> tele/macro. if I want to play with macro and need a longer lens. $?
12mm f/1.8 with HD feature, compact prime lens
17.5mm f/1.2 ultra fast, beautiful bokeh, excellent picture quality
14-100mm f/2.8-5.6 weather sealed, travel lens
I would like to see a tilt-shift lens for the system. Should be 17 mm or wider and MF.
17mm f/3.5 pancake, weather sealed, highest grade
A pair of complementary pocketable stills-oriented high grade zooms please: 12-25/2.0 and 35-70/2.0. Price capped at $1000 each.
In addition they should release a bug fixed,and enhanced mkII successor to the 100-300.
100-400mmf5.6 (max f#) OIS
400F4.0 OIS
I would like to have these with IS because I use a GH2 at the moment
Niels
10/2 high quality (same size as 12/2)
70/1.2 (or /1 ?) high quality at full aperture
9-18 weather sealed
14-150 weather sealed
GH2 type multi-ratio sensor, to take better advantage of wide angles
25-150 weather sealed, better quality than 14-150
(sorry, I tried to edit my first post, but too late)
Well, I’m a bit late to the rodeo, but here are my suggestions:
1.4x and 2x teleconverters
m. zuiko 100 f/2.8 collapsable (ideally to a pancake size)
and, so I have something to dream about, anything PanaLeica Noctilux…
One of theese, please!
http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/03/16/Carl-Zeiss-Distagon-T-15mm-F2p8-super-wide
7mm f/2.5 high IQ prime *BLACK* weathersealed
17mm f/2.0 pancake *BLACK* weather sealed
12-60mm high IQ f/2.8-4.0 *BLACK* weathersealed
12-150 high IQ *BLACK* weathersealed
12mm f/2.0 prime *BLACK* weathersealed
45mm f/1.8 prime *BLACK* weathersealed
75mm f/1.8 prime *BLACK* weathersealed
8-18 mm f/2 constant, I would totally get that one
300mm 2.8
High quality converter (1.4 or 2.0) would be nice also.
57mm f/1.8
1.4x tele-converter
14-140mm zoom with internal zoom and focusing, one of the favourite features of my old FZ50.
17mm f/1.4 pancake, high optical quality.
20mm f/1.7 pancake, high optical quality, low priced (updated version of the actual Pana pancake with fast autofocus)
12-60/f2.0 low priced
seems to be some unrealistic choices, either size or cost wise.
I love my 9-18mm and 45 but, like others, would like better mid range zoom.
17-35mm f/2.8-f/4 collapsible, quality, close focus
14mm f2.8 -> tilt/shift highest grade
OR
12mm f2.8 -> tilt/ shift highest grade
17mm f1.4 snap focus, highest grade
100mm f2.8 -> 1:1 macro
400mm f5.6 -> high grade
m.zuiko 17mm f/2 -> low priced,pancake (similar to pany20mm f/1.7)
m.zuiko 17mm f/1.4 -> high optical quality (similar to 12mm f/2)
m.zuiko 25mm f/1.4 -> low priced,high optical quality (similar to 45mm f/1.8)
12-50mm f2.8-4->weather seal,with focus distance scale,high quality optic,internal zoom internal focus
25mm f2->affordable bright pancake,can trade off a little optical quality for being half the price of 25mm f1.4
17mm f2 (or f1.8)->high quality optic,weather seal,with fine focus distance scale
For me the most useful lens from Oly would be:
mZuiko 25/1,7 (or 25/1,4) priced similarly to 45/1,8
also would be very nice to have
mZuiko 17/2 mid priced, good IQ (not necessarily a pancake)
17mm f1.4, same build and style as the 12/2.0
and telephotos
100mm f2.0 High Grade weather sealed
150mm f2.8 High Grade weather sealed
200mm f3.5 High Grade weather sealed
300mm f4.0 High Grade weather sealed
60-200mm f/4 IF IS nano coated weather sealed electronic zoom
200-400mm f/4 IF IS nano coated weather sealed electronic zoom
1.4X tel-extender nano
GPS for GH2, GH3
45mm – 150mm f2.8 constant High Grade weather sealed
50mm f1.1 ASPH weather sealed
1.4x tele-converter
2.0x tele-converter