(UPDATED) Lens poll reloaded!
UPDATE: You have a few hours left to add your lens selection. After that I will start the poll. Thanks!
A year ago we made a lens poll. We asked you what kind of Micro Four Thirds lenses Panasonic and Olympus should develop. The most requested lens was the 25mm f/1.4 and that lens is now coming from Panasonic.
We thought it would be good to create a new lens poll because we now have a much larger reader base that can participate the voting. We also know companies are constantly looking for new ideas and we may can give them a little help 
Comment this post to suggest your lenses (primes and zooms). It would be very useful if you could describe the characteristic of the lens you want…like price, wide open performance, size, video optimized lens, in-lens stabilization etc. Please try to give a realistic description. For example: if you want a 12mm f/1.4 lens you can expect a high price and a huge size. We will take into account all your suggestions and start the poll in a few days.
Reminder: The website Four-Thirds.org shows the complete Lens selection and a has nice matching simulation!
Thanks!
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P.S.: The new 100-300mm lens is in Stock at Amazon Deutschland
The 14mm lens is almost in Stock at Amazon Deutschland
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Comment from Professzore: Yep, you're right... Thanks for the idea...
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Lars
2 years ago |I forgot:
4-5,6/14-140mm with the IQ of the 4/3 Leica 14-150mm
Voldenuit
2 years ago |14-35/2
35-100/2 (actually, I think a 35-75/2 would be good enough for m43)
67/1.8
150/3.5
Angry Olympus Owner
2 years ago |First-
25mm f1.2
12-75?/f2.8-3.5
Second
14-35/f2
35-100/f2
any prime lens below 60mm with IQ of zuiko 50mm
I think thats a fair request
price is not a problem any more, affordable lens are covered from 7mm to 300mm, its time for quality lenses.
Cost savings should no longer be a priority, Quality should be the focus.
Fast $1000+ lenses with great IQ is what is needed right now. People will pay for the good stuff
They can come from oly or panny, fine with me.
Lekguan
2 years ago |a telephoto starting from 50-60mm ending at least 200mm with 1x magnification or higher (35mm equiv), with a reasonable price and good IQ (like the 70-300 4/3 lens). Size is not of utmost importance. f/4-5.6 or better.
frosti7
2 years ago |30mm f0.95 AF, (no IS) 1400$
a_lesss
2 years ago |12mm F2 AF prime pancake, no IS
50mm F1.4 prime, IS
a_lesss
2 years ago |50mm f1.4 prime, IS, with AF of course
frosti7
2 years ago |+1 (OIS must have please) 450$
(canon’s 1.4 sells for 349, although no IS)
Jules
2 years ago |IS on such fast prime would be a première on the market, let alone at f1.4, it is borderline irrelevant.
frosti7
2 years ago |On second thought, i think your right
Eye
2 years ago |+50mm f1.4 prime, IS, with AF of course
Eye
2 years ago |30mm f0.95 AF, (WITH IS) 1400$
darrask
2 years ago |12-50mm, F2.2, IS, HD-branded, 1000$
and, maybe more importantly:
What about FAST FULL MANUAL BUDGET primes or zooms? On mirrorless cameras, manual focus is so pleasurable and aperture ring lenses work very well. I’d like to see lenses featuring aperture ring and direct focus ring:
7mm F3.5, 400$
150mm F2.2, 500$
300mm F2.8, 600$
14-45mm F2.8, 500$
Because I often wonder how much IS, AF and all the electronic stuff add to the price and bulk of Panasonic lenses, which are so expensive.
frosti7
2 years ago |darrask, you can have any manual lens on the MFT format, and you have companies like Voigtlander and Noktor
Jules
2 years ago |“7mm F3.5, 400$”
If I have to bet, such lens would sell at about the price of the fisheye. If at all, even more.
Other suggested price are also quite unfortunately ….very optimistic.
Kokoro Kimochi
2 years ago |How about rather than new lenses, make current ones in a range of colours and materials. Plastic being cheaper version and tungsten-carbide for someone with lots of money.
I just want a fast, and if possible pink, lens.
Ulli
2 years ago |“I just want a fast, and if possible pink, lens.”
awesome!!
Miroslav
2 years ago |Why not? There is a market:
.
My girlfriend wants a red Pentax K-x, so I hope Panasonic and/or Olympus are going to make red DSLR-like body and kit lens and save me from having two systems in our home
compositor20
2 years ago |12-75 f2.5-3.3 lens with HD and OIS
12-35-f2.2 (to balance the 0,6 EV in HIGH iso compared with APS
and a 35-90 f2.2
fast portrait and macro 50mm f1.8 or f1.4 (no bigger than a 50mm FD f1.4 Lens)
frosti7
2 years ago |Consumer Zoom:
+1 for 12-75, but to cut costs/size i’d prefer to see “f2.8-3.5″ – 750$
Pro Zoom:
Weather sealed PRO 14-50 f2 HD OIS – 900$
grmlfz
2 years ago |+1 12-75 f2.5-3.3, no OIS needed reduce size instead, SWD
frosti7
2 years ago |grmlfz, it is better to reduce the lens to f2.8-f3.5 and keep OIS, otherwise you render the lens useless for handheld video
Max
2 years ago |12-35mm F2.0 fixed aperture, metal body.
7-12mm F2.5 ” ” ” ”
45mm F1.2 metal body
17.5mm F2.0 metal body
Timo Savilepo
2 years ago |10-30 f2.0
20-60 f2.0
GM
2 years ago |10mm F2 prime pancake, no IS. At a reasonable price of course, no matter the size. We lack fast ultrawides!
GM
2 years ago |Or maybe a 9mm, i want something that could replace the great 18,5 (in 35mm)
Jules
2 years ago |1.4/55 AF
If anyone is planing to introduce a weathersealed body, this lens is a good candidate to being sealed. Its not going to be miniature anyways.
Carl
2 years ago |fast zoom starting at 12mm, prerferably quicker than f/2.8 (HD * IS). 50mm 1.4 with IS
MP Burke
2 years ago |Yes a 7mm F4 would be nice.
Also a 12 mm f4 tilt/shift
Unusual suggestion: A 25mm f2.0 with a leaf shutter to give flash synchronisation to 1/500 or 1/1000 sec.
Miklos Rabi
2 years ago |Voigtlander 50/1.4 1:1 macro (full manual, tripod collar) 1000USD
Maciek
2 years ago |I need some thing like the 70-300 4/3 lens with tripod mount! and beter or same IQ, same size. or 100-400 f/5,6 with beter IQ then the 70-300 4/3 and price 1500-2000$
Eye
2 years ago |1.4/70mm, IS, AF
Erwin
2 years ago |I would purchase immediately the following professional lens in order:
14-45 2.8
10 wide tilt shift
45 -100 2.8
85 2.8 macro
mpgxsvcd
2 years ago |One lens is all I need 18-60mm F2.5 with IS. That would be perfect and they could charge whatever they wanted to charge for it.
Rawelon
2 years ago |Bright wider zoom 13(14)mm-40mm (it doesnt matter how long will be the longer end). f/2.8
best performance on wide end, IS.
Best possible price
jacob
2 years ago |compact 40/2
a little portrait lens would be great, and I have the Rokkor 45/2 in mind as far as making it small is concerned
marilyn
2 years ago |i rather ask for a 14-85… f2.8-3.5 thats a good lens for me
TempTag
2 years ago |I have read through the pages and have seen so many great lens suggestions. The sheer number of comments suggests there is an awful lot of interest in lenses for m43!
I would like to see Panasonic AF/OIS lenses with an aperture ring for m43. I would gladly pay more for this feature. Also, I would love to see a step up line of m43 lenses with an aperture ring, better build construction, and faster/better glass.
BFD
2 years ago |12mm f2.0 or f1.4 with close focusing capabilities
17mm f2.0 or f1.4
25mm f1.2 for portraits/street photography
42mm f1.2 or 1.4 or f2.0 for portraits
These lenses are most likely to come from Panasonic since Oly is making only slow lenses so far and only one prime.
I would love Olympus to remake a digital version of their OM Zuiko 90mm f2 macro lens
Ryo81
2 years ago |My choice of 4 “interesing m43 lens ideas”
Reason for the choices:
For me, the essence of m43 standard should be to enhance portability to the max yet leaving as little a loss in quality as possible. As I only own a GF-1, I would hope those lenses offered to be “tiny” compared to APS-C lenses! Of course, as Pana has also got the GH line, I believe they would have potential buyers for bulkier lenses (and HD lenses). But in my perspective, I would never choose those bulky pieces (e.g. 14-140 HD) for my GF-1 however good the lenses are, so priority has been given accordingly.
1) Top in the list: Mid-tele range prime lens in pancake form, something like “40mm f/2 or brighter”
While I won’t mind having a choice of 25mm f/1.4 from Pana, I would be most happy to see something like 40mm f/2 or brighter for portrait use. If you look at the lenses offered by Pentax, I would like the new m43 lens to be similar to the “FA 43mm F1.9 Limited” which is so compact!
2) Brighter zoom which is still kept small enough to carry around by most people e.g. 12-35mm f/2.8-3.5
There are now only “kit zooms” but no “premier zooms” in the m43 line. (All are with f/3.5-5.6…) I wonder if there could be chance for a slightly brighter zoom without putting up too much weight or length. A slight upgrade to e.g. f/2.8-3.5 is good enough, and I won’t mind the lens to have less reach, so a range from 12-35mm or even 14-35mm is fine.
3) Cheaper macro lens
Macro shooters can now have 3 choices:
a) The Leica DG but with a deadly price tag
b) Use an adapter with 43 lenses, but utterly slow and bulkier
c) Find a decent old macro lens and use MF
So a cheaper macro lens can fill the gap quite nicely. AFAIK this kind of lens is under development by Oly already.
4) Tele prime
For wildlife/concert/sports use. Maybe something like 200mm f/2.8?? But first, please make huge improvements on CDAF first!!
e_dawg
2 years ago |Ryo81, totally agree with your philosophy: “the essence of m43 standard should be to enhance portability to the max yet leaving as little a loss in quality as possible”
Big, heavy lenses don’t make sense for m4/3
I
2 years ago |Bright pancakes, including some of the type of a 40mm F1.2
An equivalent of the Zuiko 12-60mm, perhaps more compact and if possible a bit brighter
Paulus
2 years ago |“Big heavy” very fast lenses make good sense for the high end professional m.zuiko lens line (not for the consumer market).
Ultimate performance in a lightweight design! (relatively to the competitors …)
Paulus
2 years ago |Olympus lens wish list:
- a high end professional M.Zuiko 12-75 mm/F2.5-3,3 or faster
(EUR 1.000,00 – EUR 1.500,00)
- a high end professional M.Zuiko 75-300 mm /F2.8-4.0
(EUR 1.000,00 – EUR 1.500,00)
- a high end professional M.Zuiko 200-600 mm, very fast
sports and wildlife superzoom (EUR 3.500,00 – EUR 4.500,00)
- a high quality 2x tele-converter
(EUR 500,00)
all with
- motor zoom for video –
- dynamic autofocus for Full-HD-Video and
- additional zoom-controller on the
* new high end professional micro four thirds camera Olympus EM-1
(for all zooms: manual focus like the Zuiko 12-60mm /F2.8-4.0 too)
- the announced professional M.Zuiko 50 mm /F 2.0 Makro (same quality as 4/3)
- the announced professional M.Zuiko 8 mm/F 3.5 fisheye
- a high end professional M.Zuiko 17 mm/F 1.2 (super fast) pancake
- a high end professional M.Zuiko 11 mm/F 2.8 (prime)
- a high end professional M.Zuiko 90 or 100 mm/F 2.5 Macro (prime)
also optimized for hd-video (silent autofocus) and weather sealed!
kevin
2 years ago |super fast pancake lens
wide angle
lineageart
2 years ago |12-60 f2.0 ~Perhaps this is only a dream
Robert
2 years ago |10-25mm 1.4 or f2 zoom
17mm 1.4
frosti7
2 years ago |Because of the OIS/IBIS difference of oly/pana i have an idea that everyone would benefit from:
Olympus > To manufacture Prime’s!
Panasonic > To manufacture Zoom lens!
That way panasonic users would get more lens selection with OIS and Olympus users would enjoy IS for Video
juavel
2 years ago |Just what we had available in the OM line, fast, very compact and mechanically and optically excelent primes with aperture ring in front, being able to control aperture from lens and shutter from dial. The size, the minimum to be comfortable, the OM 50 f1.8 is an excellent balance of all qualities.
Paulus
2 years ago |Dear Juavel!
“… primes with aperture ring in front, being able to control aperture from lens and shutter from dial….”
Top idea – not only for primes!
Congratulations Juavel!
Best regards
Paulus
Inge - M.
2 years ago |Pancake M.Zuiko 14mm F2.8
Pancake M.Zuiko 20mm F2.8
pancake M.Zuiko 30mm F2.8
Zoom M.Zuiko 10-20mm F2.8(Pro Lens)
Zoom M.Zuiko 20-60mm F2.8(Pro Lens)
Macro M.Zuiko 50mm F2(Pro Lens)
Macro M.Zuiko 90mm F2.8(Pro Lens)
434343
2 years ago |sameprice class as 20mm 1.7 pancake lens:
17mm 1.7 (better 1.4 or faster ) pancake
super wide prime:
9mm f 4 arround 300-400€
e_dawg
2 years ago |- 45/1.8 portrait lens with SWD and MSC
- 17/2 “wide normal” with SWD and MSC to replace the crappy 17/2.8 (horribly slow and noisy AF, too slow max aperture)
- compact and moderately fast 14-35/2.8-3.5 zoom with SWD and MSC (+OIS for Panasonic version!)
- a m4/3 version of the 11-22/2.8-3.5 with SWD and MSC (+OIS for Panasonic version)… might have to be 11-22/3.2-4 to make it compact enough
Not sure if SWD is compatible with CDAF, but the point is to have fast and quiet focusing preferably using an ultrasonic motor that is suitable for both movies and stills
e_dawg
2 years ago |I’d also prefer a 30/1.7 pancake instead of a 25/1.4, as it would be a lot easier to make it smaller, lighter, and cheaper than a 25/1.4, which would undoubtedly be bigger, heavier, and much more expensive than the 20/1.7.