43rumors reports two news about future Olympus products:
- Olympus will launch a completely new kind of PEN line in Spring 2016
- Olympus will launch the new 300mm f/4.0 PRO IS lens soon (probably in 2 months or so).
What else can we expect from Olympus in 2016? Well, Olympus managers said fast prime lenses are high on the priority list. And it’s also easy to guess the new E-M1markII will be launched at Photokina in September!
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How big and heavy is this? Being equivalent to 600mm f/8 on FF and 400mm f/5,6 on APS-C it should be notably smaller, cheaper and lighter then the 150-600mm f/5-6,3 zooms from Sigma and Tamron.
Why do they put the PRO label on this f/4 lens when the old 300mm PRO lens for FT is f/2? Two stops slower makes a big difference.
Olympus never had a 300mm F2, only F2.8.
Long tele zooms (in their parked position) tend to be shorter than primes (with the upper end focal length) but once zoomed to their maximum focal length that isn’t true anymore. If somebody where to make a collapsable long tele that advantage would disappear. My 180 and 400 mm (D)SLR primes have about 5 cm of empty space before the first element on their camera mount end. The same lens on a mirrorless mount would have another centimetre or two of empty space. And if you look at the lens diagrams, the end of the lens isn’t the only empty part.
I guess that nobody makes collapsible long tele primes because it wouldn’t save any weight (might rather add some), rather adds cost and would result in something more prone to misalignment.
And a collapsible zoom will suck in dust as well.
It looks kind of ugly in this pic
OK – how much? I’m just afraid it’ll be priced too high.
And what are the focus limiter sets?
Is that a focus limiter? The picture is too small to determine the distance ranges.
I’ve been told that we will have 300/4 in January. But not sure if this is for shipping or annoucement.