Images via DC.watch.
During the GH4 presentation in Tokyo Panasonic showed again their MFT lens roadmap which includes the 15mm f/1.7 Leica and 35-100mm compact zoom. Still no news about the exact release date and pricing. But you can see two more pictures of preproduction version here:
Source: DC.watch.
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The 35-100 is butt ugly.
15mm looks fantastic
Just hope the 15 focuses a lot faster than the 20
That cheesy silver color looks pretty tacky. It’ll look better in black.
IT’s just a plastic silver cylinder, you can repaint it in pink or gold if you don’t like silver 😉
There are only 2 new lenses in the road map with one of them being a slow zoom. Since the fall of 2012 (18 months ago) Panasonic new lenses only include a couple slow zooms, a cosmetic change to the 20mm and the 42.5mm (still not shipping)
I hope Panasonic has a few lens surprises for Photokina this fall. Their recent lens development has been lacking.
It would be nice to see some missing lenses: tilt shift, ultra wide prime, fast super telephoto.
Yes, I’d say their recent lens designs have been quite the disappointment to enthusiasts. If you discount the overpriced Leica-designed primes, all Panasonic has developed in the past year and a half have been slow, boring kit zooms. Take out the f/2.8 X zooms and there’s an even longer drought of any kind of lens that excites. Where is the continuation of fast, constant-aperture X zooms? Where are the additional weather-sealed lenses to use with the GH3/4? Nothing on the horizon at all. I suppose it is a change in strategy that is the true culprit. There is a sea change at Panasonic that is catering toward the new entrant looking for cheap upgrades from their smartphone. Investing in affordable and compact lenses is their current attempt of baiting the new user and hopefully enticing them to higher-end gear down the line. I suppose it’s a reasonable idea to change up their gameplan since the prior strategy didn’t really translate to huge profits in the past. But it doesn’t quite align with catering to the prospective professionals they want with the new GH4. That part I don’t get. There should have been at least one new high-end lens offering for the video-centric market. I don’t consider the 42.5 Leica to be one of them. Will their strategy work in the end? I’m not so sure, but it is a current disappointment to enthusiasts in the present.
is this a replacement for the 35-100 2.8 or a smaller, lighter, slower, new lens?
It is another slow zoom, this time for the GM1.
That’s good to see. I’m personally more interested in the faster aperture model, but like that they’re committed to building out the ultra portable GM1. Hopefully, they’ll expand the line to include a GM2 with a tilt LCD and room for a hotshot and port.
And weather seal it 🙂
Smaller lighter slower
I hope the aperture ring works on oly bodies!
Admin – any news on when the PL15/1.7 is going to be coming out???
Let’s also hope that Panasonic refreshes the 100-300 like they updated the 14-140 … a little smaller/lighter/faster/cheaper. And throw in Power OIS.
Agree it would be great if 100-300 could be updated . i dont want a vast f2.8 monster, just sharper optics in a similar size/ weight. This then plays to mft strengths. NB 100-300 already has power OIS.
The 100-300 has the older “Mega OIS”, FWIW.
I really wish that Panasonic would both update the 100-300 AND release a “pro” 100-300 constant zoom (that would necessarily be heavier/pricier/bigger/expensive), giving people options…
+1
The 35-100 does not have an aperture range listed in the roadmap or on it’s face. It looks kinda chunky for the GM. Maybe it’s not as slow as people expect.
Very interested in the Leica if it is an upgrade for the excellent 14 f/2.5.
I’d pretty much decided to replace my Panasonic 20mm with the new Oly 25, but was then thinking about keeping it for the day I pocket myself a GM1 (waiting for the inevitable price falls). But, I think the promise of this new PL 15mm has me deciding it can replace both Panny Pancakes.
I just hope Olympus cameras will be able to use he aperture ring. It’s kind of a shame that Olympus and Panny didn’t do more to make the system modular (same accessory ports for EVFs etc)
@Doug My sentiments exactly: tilt screen, hot shoe and weather sealing. I’ll bet we’ll see the first two in the GM2, unlikely to get the third wish, though…
No more lens in next roadmap? What happens?
At least they should consider to upgrade the existing lineup. Maybe 25/f1.4mkII, 25/f1.0, or 14/2.0
So they plan a 15 mm and a slow tele zoom? How *exciting*.
Fine!
No more roadmap = No buy body
Not very exciting for most, I agree BUT I have been waiting for a COMPACT zoom to complement the new super small Oly 14-42. Perfect for multiday bushwalks where every gram counts and small size is crucial. If only they were weather sealed though…what happened with that anyway? Not many WS lenses around 🙁
But yeah, I’m excited about this one 🙂
I for one am glad to see Panasonic producing lenses to compliment the ultra small GM. In places like Japan where the Pentax Q sells well, Panasonic will be able to increase their market share.
The GM1 is definitely poised to crush the Pentax Q with a much larger sensor and only slightly bigger body and lens size.
Americans think bigger is better so its not really a market for the US but I find it easy to see why Panasonic is doing this.
It would be nice to see more unique lenses but just about all the major
I replace my Q with the GM1 as my always me camera. But i miss the bright prime Q lens, so this 15mm f1.7 will be a perfect match. I hope price won’t go stellar because of the Leica name. The small tele is interesting too, i hope the same IQ than the 12-32.
Price of new Leica 15mm small prime will undoubtedly be determined by R&D and production costs and demand.
Judging from comments on this forum, demand will be great. Also, experience shows that people will pay more for Leica branded products, (probably because of Leica’s stellar reputation for quality).
I also have the GM1 and am thinking that the new Olympus 25mm f1.8 would be a great carry-around lens for the GM1. At $399 it will somewhat more affordable than the Leica 15mm. (For reference the Oly 12mm f2 is priced at $800.)
My guess is that the Leica 15mm lens will be priced below $1000, but not much.
Just wondering, have you tried the Panasonic 20mm on the GM-1?
The slow auto-focus on Oly bodies makes me want to replace it with teh new Oly 25mm, just wondering if the auto-focus is noticeably better on the GM1, as the a pancake seems ideal match for it (and the only thing stopping me putting on the market now)
> My guess is that the Leica 15mm lens will be priced below $1000, but not much.
now now, no reason to expect such a high price tag.
15mm is much less wide than 12mm, the 14/2.5 is one of the least expensive lenses and the other panyleicas are all well below 1000$ (except the 42.5).
Should be more like 699 I’d say.
Look at all that dust!
What happened to the 150 mm f2.8 from the roadmap last year…
Also Panasonic should cover the enitere range from 7 to 300 mm with f2.8 quality optics for the pros.
At leat we have the 7-14 olympus f2.8 comming next year.
They smart enough to cancel the plan about that lens, since olympus will have 45-150mm/2.8. Who will buy 150mm/2.8, right?
so, i think we might see 100-300mm/2.8 or 100-300mm/2.8-3.5 from panasonic in the near future.
Seems to me that I have to start buying oly lenses…
Looks like Panasonic is opting out of mft^^ Strange that they just announced the 42.5 1.2 and the GH4…
These new models come with dust pre-installed for your shooting convenience, that way you won’t feel so bad when you get them dirty.
Why all the complaints about the 35-100 when it has both zoom and focus rings and we don’t know the lens speed yet? A 3X promises to have better IQ than a longer or wider reach one and Pany already has a couple 45-150 lenses and the 14-140. I hope it is F4 and Pany seems to be keeping the speed a surprise but then a very fast lens is not necessary when the GM1 has such good high ISO performance and the effective 200mm range will provide out of focus background for closeup portraits. I would like to see this lens when mounted on a GM1 for comparison.
Assuming the outer diameter of the 35-100 lens uses 46mm filter can anyone calculate the speed of this lens based on the shown size of the 100mm lens front element?
I know many want to see a black version but what I see in this picture is clearly metal parts not plastic hence the silver color? It may be made of aluminum body?
All exciting stuff … except that both Olympus and Panasonic have no primes around 35mm. The only one who have seized the oportunity is Sigma, sadly with a relative slow lens. So please Olympus and Panasonic, come up with an nice 35mm lens instead of coming with one more “slightly different” lens!
Why 35mm? That gives a 70mm fov which is unusual, too long for a standard lens and too short for the classic portrait lens. Don’t give Sigma any credit for coming up with this focal length. This lens was designed for the larger APC-S sensort to provide a 50mm fov.
Pana & Oly need to develop 9mm/f2.8, 100mm/f2.8 macro & 1.4x. All should be weather-proofed and include a hood when applicable.
The 35-100mm will make a nice addition to the GM-1. However, this camera needs a serious redesign to improve handling. Micheal’s review at Luminous Landscape got it exacting right.
looks like not only has the wheel fallen off the Panasonic wagon
the horse has died as well
i have the 35-100mm f2.8 its a good lens was hopeing for more
from Panasonic
they look to be makeing some interesting cameras at the moment
but with out more lens they seems a bit pointless
looks like its a map to no where that ends in 2014
i hope i am wrong
A slpwer and cheaper 35-100mm… Yes please!
I hope Panny will consider to make Leica 17.5mm/1.2 , Leica 25mm/1.2 and new 7-14mm/4 with nano coating and more solid body
Pleaseeeeeeee
Something like 2.8-4/45-200 or 4/100-300 would be sweet
The 17.5mm sounds good, but there is already a 25mm 1,4. How about a 7-9mm prime rather than a new 7-14mm zoom?.
There needs to be a Lumix 14-140mm f2.8 or faster zoom lens. That would definitely be a major seller!
That would be massive, no?
Oof…no. When you go from 3x to 10x, you automatically get a lot more barrel distortion. Anyone ponying up for a constant aperture f2.8 zoom is going to be finicky about things like that anyway. Plus, the SIZE! These should be two separate lenses.
How about f4 constant for a reasonable price? That still buys me 1 stop over f5.6 at the tele end of my current Olympus 40-150mm. Handy for sports action and wildlife! Expanding the hybrid phase detect autofocus to the Pen cameras would be good too or Panasonic using their DFD in more cameras besides the GH4. If the Nikon 1 J1 can use PDAF at a reasonable price, why not Micro 4/3?
I see a lot of complaining, but both of these seem like interesting and even exciting lenses. The PL lenses are the best for animate objects like people and pets — Olympus lenses may have other strengths – and this may be another. “people” lens.