Image on top: The new Blackmagic m43 video camera.
Let’s start this new day with a long list of Micro Four Thirds news:
1) Egami spotted a patent with a surprising content! Konica Minolta patented the design of a 43mm f/1.4 Micro Four Thirds lens
2) Blackmagic issued a new statement saying that they will soon release a “second model of the Blackmagic Cinema Camera that features passive Micro Four Thirds lens (MFT) mount“.
3) ePhotozine posted a cryptic message saying:
4) Shirota (Olympus): “development of unique lenses with ever greater focus on high image quality” (43rumors).
5) First picture of the new Olympus 15mm f/8.0 lens! (43rumors).
6) E-PL5 will be priced at around 599 Euro/Dollars with kit lens (and there will be a “large kit”) (43rumors).
It’s going to busy news and rumors time here. Sony will have a massive announcement next week while Olympus/Panasonic will have their announcements 1-2 days before the official Photokina start (Sept. 18th).
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Konica Minolta. That’s really a surprise. How is that related (or not) to Sony?
NO more related. They sold the camera business to SOny. But the rest (lens design for example) is in their hands.
Not all of it either – Sony took the engineers responsible for SLR lenses, so all they got right now are folks making lenses for JVC cameras and alike.
Though honestly – I think for them it’d be better to release E-mount lens first. Simply because many E-mount users would buy modern KM lens for sentimental reasons, while in m4/3 it’ll be just “yet another” lens maker hardly capable to introducing anything new. That’s certainly not the case with E-mount (which also is fully open for lens makers) – out there people would welcome with open hands whatever KM would develop
What is K-M’s main businesses today?
I haven’t heard a sound about them since they sold their camera section to Sony.
But I wonder if there isn’t a small lettertype sentence somewhere on a signed piece of paper, saying something like ‘..do hereby declare that KM will never even try to produce anything that would compete with any of that stuff KM is handing over to Sony’.
Anyway, I like it. Now go make that mirrorless CLE.