Mark the date: The new Olympus 300mm PRO lens will be announced on January 6 at 6am London time.
A source also sent me this 300mm hands-on report:
I have been able to try the upcoming 300 f4 from Olympus and the stabilization performance is absolutely amazing. I was able to take sharp shots at 1/50 with an EM1 in a very poor lights conditions
Sounds good! Now let’s hope Olympus will price the lens as low as it gets!
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This info should fire up the Pany/Oly factless/priceless debate nicely to bring in the New Year!!! 🙂
Given it’s been “coming”· since February 2014, surely there’s not much more to be said
…but surely there will be! 🙂
It’s kind of like the US Presidential race…been going on for years without any real useful information.
@admin, you can hope what you want. The price is fix. For Germany it will be 2.599 €. This is what i have seen in price List for january 2016. Delivery starts at mid of march 2016. Lens will work with the 5 axis stab. at 6 steps with EM5 II & EM 1.
greets
Simon
sure?
That would be too expensive for me. Should have gone with the Four Thirds 300mm I saw a few weeks ago ;(
Let’t wait for the Panasonic 100-400 (the Fuji 100-400 is said to go for 1800€, hopefully that goes for the Pana too!)
Tha Pana should be around 1.899 €.
that sounds much better! Guess this round my money goes to Panasonic
Consider adapting a Canon 300mm f/4 L-series. You can probably find one second hand for around 1000 euros, then spend some money on a smart adapter of your choice.
This is the price I thought would make the only sense from marketing POV.
My comment at:
http://www.43rumors.com/ft5-more-confirmations-leica-100-400mm-announcement-in-february-at-cp-first-small-hands-on-report/
> Lens will work with the 5 axis stab. at 6 steps with EM5 II & EM 1.
Clarification please?
6 EV steps?
You initially said Olympus planned to release some f1 primes. Admin has had some rumours mentioning f1.2 primes. Have Olympus scaled back on these to f1.2?
they builded both, f1 und f1.2. Why ? The production Cost for the f1.0 were double as for the f1.2. And the size was 43 % bigger and the wight 230g more. So f1.2
What is the weight of 25mm/f1.2??
what weight/price are we talking there vaguely?
Because I was expecting the f/1.0 versions to be sub 400g. 230g less would put the f/1.2 at 170g?! That’s not very likely
The f1.0 is around 620g. Dort folget with two very quick & silent autofocus Engine. But we will see no f 1.0. it is the same Story like FT E-7 vs. MFT EM-1. and here it is a question of invest in more glas, what means more expensive + more wight. The diameter was 68mm. so to big and to haevy for mft . The autofocus of the New f1.2 is outstanding und works perfect together with the pEN F. 30 % quicker as EM-1 with the Same les. End of January PEN-F will be officially announced. But PEN-F is the components “tester” for EM-1 II. You will See 3 very New Featues in Pen F.
Rumors were, that the sensor of the Pen F was the new Sony senor (same as GX8). Did they improve autofocus only by better cpu and algorithms or did they (hopefully) implement pdaf and make the Pen FT compatible? That would be awesome!
More important will be:
a) no shutter shock
b) much improved AF-C + tracking
This is all I am interested in.
And those three things are…?
what about the Focal legth of F1.2 prime? You mention it should be 12 25 and 50… any change for the plan? A 17mm F1.2 and 67mm are still missing
Thank you very much for your info and hints. This year will be definitely exciting for Oly and m4/3.
Is the new penF coming w hand-held High Res, or global shutter by any (remote) chance? In the prototype used for global shutter, the Oly research paper shows a 16mb BSI sensor w slightly larger pitch (3.8um vs. the current 3.7um), Even w/o global shutter, will the BSI sensor be adopted? Your insight would be much appreciated. TIA!
Very wise decision. Oly really knows how to build a well-balanced system; even these superfast HG primes were designed with “reasonable” dimensions in mind. Which is great. A rational solution (F1.2) is better than extrem (F1.0). Oly taught their lesson with 4/3 SHG it seems. I am so glad I chose this m4/3 two years ago.
Yes, the primes are going to be f1.2.
Six stops would be insanely good. I was leaning towards the Panny 100-400mm zoom but for AF f/4 is decidedly better than f/5.6. Maybe not with Defocus but I have Oly bodies and I’m loathe to screw up the kit (aka the accessories) by moving to a Panny body. For general wildlife the zoom would be better for for birds this is likely the better choice.
Cool, Get that monster of a lens out of the way so we can get the hyperprimes next.
3 stinking years of this lens being in the way. Move aside for farks sake.
Well, Olympus did need to get out the 8mm fisheye before this lens. I never understood that decision.
I do. The 8mm 1.8 Fisheye is an awesome lens, I use it a lot 🙂
Why all the smooth focus/zoom rings now? It’s OK for small lenses, but how about some rubber with ribs or something. Try using this in cold weather with gloves or with hot sweaty fingers – come on guys.
The focus ring looks ribbed to me.
Grooved perhaps, but it’s still low profile (‘smoothish’) metal – really needs some grippy rubber material like was common on lenses in the past. Olympus used to have nice conical textured rings – how much does that cost? Even their four third lenses were better in that respect. Someone needs to make accessory rubber rings.
Rubber rings are a mixed bag, though. They inevitably get loose with time, or become gummy or greasy.
My favourite, realistically, is metal with large knurls, like on old Super Takumar lenses.
It’s going to be a big one (no pun intended).
1/50? IMHO this is no reason to get to excited. It’s only 3.5 stops and for DUAL IS on 16MP not really a surprise. Let’s see how it works on the E-M5II with the Hi-Res Mod.
1/50th would traditionally be considered 4 stops, as the traditional standard was 1/35mm_equiv_focal_length.
300mm –> 600mm FOV
1/600 rule of thumb
1/300 –> 1 stop
1/150 –> 2 stops
1/75 –> 3 stops
1/50 –>3.5 stops
There is no information about OIS in that lens anywhere!
The 1/50 is just with the IBIS, and that is only with that person.
Many photographer gets with 150mm shutter speeds of 1/2-1/6 and that is multiple stops more.
1/75 –> 1 stop
1/45 –> 2 stop
1/20 –> 3 stop
1/10 –> 4 stop
1/5 –> 5 stop
And it is just a half the focal length compared 300mm so it would be just a one stop less, but Olympus IBIS manages to offer 7-7.5 stops effectiveness for 300mm for those!
The 1/50th is from a hands-on report, not as technical spec. Someone mentioned below, combining OIS w IS (Oly’s dual IS?) gets 6 stops. So do the math, one can shoot at 1/8.
1/50 at 600mm really is nothing remarkable. I take useable pics at 1/25 on 810mm with the 1-nikkor 70-300mm (5 stops). Just fire away with high speed mode and one out of 10 turns out just fine, while probably 5 are ok and the remaining 4 are for the bin.