For those of you waiting for new MicroFourThirds primes skip Photokina! According to 43rumors sources Olympus will announce two new MicroFourThirds zooms:
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
Nice lenses but is that what we were looking for???
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Why have oly brought an 75-300mm at f4.8-f6.7, just to keep the size down and charge you $900 for the privelige, thats one that wont be in my camera bag.
The 40-150 f4/5.6 is a more sensible and useful lens, providing the optics are high quality, a smaller version of the 4/3 lens.
Will anyone ever bring out a 120mm F4 macro lens, the fabled 100mm macro for 4/3 never appeared. I hear they are bringing out 50mm, we already have a panasonic 45mm and they are bringing out a 100/300mm f4-f5.6.
how they think is a mystery to me.
Actually there are no decent lenses for MTF at all.
They trying to sell us millions of useless lenses and they are not coming out with a good zoom that can “do it all”
Who need a 14-140 if it is dark as hell, no stabilizer…. ?
It look to me that with this MTF instead of opening a new era we went back to the “vivitar serie 1 era”.
looooong dark pipes that we used to take pictures with our old film camera.
they sell for nothing on ebay and they have better specs.
It’s ridiculous!
And the prices? to have a decent camera set you need to spend 2500$ with those money i can buy a canon 5d mark 2 kit, and i probably will fùç& pana and oli