According to 43rumors sources Olympus will announce two new MicroFourThirds lenses:
1) The new M.Zuiko ED 75-300mm f/4.8-6.7 (equivalent of 150-600mm in 35mm)
It is the world smallest 600mm zoom lens. It weighs 430 grams and has a diameter of 7cm and 11.6cm length.
It allows nearly silent HD movie recording.
The new lenses are made with ED (extra-low dispersion)
It will be available in December 2010 for $899.99
2) the new M.Zuiko ED 40-150mm f/4.0-5.6 equivalent of 80-300mm in 35mm)
It weighs 190 grams.
It will be available in November 2010 for $299.99
The current Olympus m43 lenses are the:
– [shoplink 14818]9-18mm f/4.0-5.6[/shoplink]
– [shoplink 14816]14-42mm f/3.5-5.6[/shoplink]
– [shoplink 14800]14-150mm lens f/4.0-5.6[/shoplink]
– [shoplink 14798]17mm f/2.8[/shoplink]
According to our sources prime lenses will be announced in the months after Photokina.
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not too excited with the 40-150mm as the 4/3 version works fine on m4/3 using the MMF adapter. i’d rather they have a micro version of 14-54mm or 12-60mm
Not v exciting unless you must have the lightest 600mm lens. I would prefer more speed. We will have to wait to see if their are other benefits.
I agree, who needs the lightest 600mm if it’s to slow to shoot holding the camera in the hand?
300/6.7??? And 899$?
WTF? Its no interesting fo all((
What? A f6.7 at 300mm they have to be kidding – only ultrazoom users will buy this.
Silly lens, Olympus. Silly lens. There are ALREADY Pana 45-200mm and Pana 100-300mm WHY ON EARTH you release redundant lens AGAIN AGAIN and AGAIN!!! Just release a portrait prime lens and people will buy crapload of it!!!
I totally agree with you…
What the hell? An outdated E-5 and two slow freaky dreadful zoom lenses?
What a wonderful day we’ll have tomorrow… Fortunately, Panasonic is here to support µ4/3…
Not interested at all. The pricing of these MFT lenses is ridiculous IMO.
There was a campaign a while ago (at least here in Europe) where Oly offered MMF-1 adapter for free when you bought any PEN camera. Take that adapter and buy a used Zuiko 40-150 for less than 100€ and you have similarily performing setup with third the cost.
The new 75-300mm zoom is way too dark for anything other than bright daylight shooting. And at almost the price of Zuiko 50-200mm I really see no point in this.
I agree with napalm: what MFT really needs is a good standard zoom. 14-54 or 12-60 with slightly reduced aperture to keep the size down. The current M.Zuiko zoom is usable but the construction is not good enough with the wobbly lens elements and all.
Pffff…. completely disappointed…
WE…. WANT… FAST… PRIMES!!!!!!!!!!
(and yeah, AF would be fine)
300/6.7??? And 899$?
Are you sure US$899? not $399??
olympus and panasonic are too busy competing with each other (actually, it looks to be the fault mainly of olympus, as pana has a clear and decent roadmap for its lenses and is pushing them quite hard), and they are doing so a lot more than people seem to realize.
from our (customers) point of view there is no real gain behind all these duplicate lenses from oly, however, to them it does matter whether you buy the same thing from panasonic or them.
unfortunately. 🙁
75-300 at f5-f6.7 at 11 cm (not that small!) for 900 usd? what are they thinking?! the 40-150 looks fine, but hardly too interesting. (and one advantage of the current double kits is that you get to mft-ft converter, which will surely be missing from new kits… and actually costs about as much as the new lens… :DDD)
When will we see the 14-45/2.8 or 12-55/4.0 or something that will let some more ligtht in?
isnt the panny 5.6 at 300? what is the point oly? … oh wait it’s in silver…
That’s pathetic, the only way you will be able to use the 300 is with a tripod, why have a Pen in that case unless you’re able to shoot at 1600 ISO.
I sure hope this kind of a blunder does not mean the rumour is true about the E5!
Completely agree with all posts. I have the 45-200mm panny and it does ok for what it is. The longer end would be cool, but really completely unnecessary. A decently fast wide angle prime would have been so much better.
Does anybody know which primes we should expect in the months after Photokina?
75-300mm f/4.8-6.7 for $900!!! This is a joke. Look at 4/3 70-300mm f4-5.6 for $300.
I was so hoping for a m4/3 version of the 50mm F2 macro.
Not very exciting, but I see why Olympus would produce these lenses from a marketing perspective.
The smallest 600mm-equivalent with interchangeable lenses (compact superzooms reach this all the time) is nice selling point. Also, the superzooms typically end up around f/5 with a 1/2.3″ sensor, which is approximately equivalent to f/14 on 4/3. In that sense, f/6.7 get you two more stops of real world usage compared to the compact competition.
The 40-150mm will more or less duplicate Panasonic’s offering, and Olympus’ own 4/3 lens + adapter, but they need this lens for selling 2-lens kits that appear ‘made for the system’.
I do hope/think that more interesting lenses (photographically speaking) will come later, but I suspect that they are keen to place the E-5 in the spotlight tomorrow as the ‘professional’ camera.
Oh, and the 75-300mm will be a good 3.5cm shorter than the 70-300mm+adapter.
Olympus seems to be panicking and acting irrational now…
Nice. With all the lenses yet to be released in the coming weeks, m4/3 is going to be more rounded system than it was only a couple of months ago. With Cosina on board, there’ll be plenty of primes, I’m sure.
I’d also like to see some native tele converters / extenders for m4/3. Much more convenient for me than these lenses.
The primes on the roadmap would be nicer.
And I agree: The price for the 75-300 does look insane… Just compare it to the FT lens. Size is not compact either. 300mm FT at f6.7 will result in nicely blurred handheld shots.
I hope there is something different to come.
i question the point of near silent recording on a 300mm lens. you’ll probably need a rifle mic to capture what you’re shooting with that puppy, so it seems a bit of a pseudo feature.
+1
This is a complete non event.
I know that tastes are tastes: people want pancakes, people want fast primes, but finally people buy useless zoom like 18-500 or 100-7000…. that’s the life. I am disappointed with this choice of Olympus…
Canon recently presented 4 lenses (not really budget ones…), Sony 4 (+ 3 for NEX), Nikon 4, and Oly…. what about Oly? There is a totally new system (m43), there are very nice lenses planned on the roadmap (12mm and 50mm), but priority goes to budget lenses, while primes are forgotten!
Here is a short message to Olympus: I AM STILL WAITING a 100mm (4/3) and a 12mm (m4/3), and a 25mm (m4/3) would be welcome! I HOPE YOU ARE GOING TO DELIVERED WHAT YOU PROMISED!!!
It seems that Oly is too busy to copy what Panasonic delivers, and eventually make it a little bit cheaper/smaller: it’s nice to have so many options for 300mm, the next time man will land on the moon I could watch it with my camera, but in the while I would like to have some compact, good-speed, and usefull-focal-lenght lenses.
Pana 20mm -> Oly 17mm
Pana 100-300 -> Oly 75-300
Pana 45mm -> Oly (announces) 50mm
Pana 7-14 -> Oly 9-18
Pana 14 (announces) mm -> Oly (announces) 12mm
Pana Fisheye -> Oly (announces) Fisheye
And so on…
In my opinion, it would be better for Olympus to make something new instead of copying product with 6-12 months of delay
Well, I don’t have to call Nostradamus to know what that new E-P2 kit is going to be.
Smart move, because I really loved the flexibility and reach of my E-510 + 14-42 + 40-150 and there was no way to get something like that unless I spended what I considered a lot (300$) for a lens that should never have gone beyond 120mm (Panasonic 45-200) as it’s as useless beyond that focal lenght as digital zoom is.
Now for the 70-300, as long as IQ is delivered, I don’t mind it being slow since it’s so much smaller than the equivalent 4/3. High ISO has grown a lot since then. Now, the price is too steep, with these characteristics Olympus should ask around 500$-600$.
it’s obvious that Olympus doesn’t check this website, and isn’t really interested in what most people want.
Look at what slrmagic issuing on previews m4/3 forum. They’re actually surveying forum members on future lenses!
When was the last time you saw an ply rep do that? Never…
I agree with all the above that thus 75-300mm sucks. You could go out and almost buy 2 fz100s for that price and you’d gave what, 450mm f5.6? Yeah right oly, so much for your smallest ever 300mm = 600mm claim
another bunch of zoomlenses….but i will wait for their primes..
They don’t seem to get it. I don’t want slow zoom lenses. I want fast prime lenses.
Those zoom lenses may be good in their own right, but who really needs them?! Can you actually handle such a small camera without a tripod at 600mm?!
It’s all about marketing it seems. In the past, companies sold more megapixels, because that was better. Now it seems to be more focal length. “My penis is longer than yours!”
Olympus doesn’t seem to realize that REAL photographers with REAL photographic needs have discovered m4/3 for themselves. When do they start acting on this?!
I will wait for the E-5 announcement and probably buy it in the end. m4/3 is not yet for me.
f4.8-6.7? That’s about the slowest zoom lens I’ve ever heard of. What a piece of crap. Clearly, nobody at Olympus even cares what’s going on in the photography world. They have a short register distance AND a small sensor which should lead to them being able to produce small, fast lenses, and they want to take this opportunity to produce a tiny, dim zoom that’s going to be practically useless. Thanks for nothing, Olympus.
With that focal length, it should be f3.5-f6. There’s no excuse for it.
Seriously, was anyone here jonesing for a 300mm at f6.7? Did anyone ask them for a lens like this? I thought the market was perfectly clear.
The day I pay NINE HUNDRED DOLLARS for a lens like that is the day my family will put me in a home for being senile and foolish.
Seriously, they just built a three hundred dollar lens and slapped a nine hundred dollar price tag on it.
They better have something impressive soon or I’m effing done with this.
150 = $300
300 = $900….wow, it must be fast.. oh wait…
at $599 maybe… but $900 (probably more in EU..)
Sometimes I wonder what Oly’s intention … I think I figured out their marketing dep…. but was still hoping for the headquarters…
2 more weeks and we’ll see where are they heading 😉