Well this is one of the very few times a Patent can be really exciting! This new patent published oon February 20 (yesterday) describes a 12mm f/1.0 and a 14mm f/1.0 lens! These would be the world fastest ultra-wide angle autofocus lens for any interchangeable camera system! The current [shoplink 36581 ebay]Nokton 17,5mm f/0.95 MFT lens (here on eBay)[/shoplink] isn’t as wide as the Olympus patented lenses and nor does it have AF.

These are the lens specs (Google translated screenshot from Japanese):

There are also lenses for 1 inch and 1/1.7 inch sensors on that patent.

These fast Oly lenses have storng chrome issues that will be fixed in camera. And here are the single lens performance graphs. I know the size isn’t big and I am trying to find larger images now:

As usual with patents the lens may be made in a different way when it hits the market (for example f/1.2). That said, would you buy such a lens?

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found via Egami.

The GH4 is priced at 2,000 pounds at Parkcameras.

If you want to touch the GH4 you can visit the NEC in Birmingham from 1st-4th March (Source Techradar). Meantime another European stores is accepting preorders on the camera: Parkcameras UK. Still no preorders accepted in USA at Amazon or BHphoto.

Blunty had the pleasure to meet Olympus manager Terada. And there are quite many interesting info in that video like:

-at 2:20 Terada explains why the OMD-10 uses a 3 axis stabilization (very interesting answer!).
– at 7:20 he explains that rangefinder similar EVF design is not optimal. EVF in the middle is better because your eye is in line with the sensor-lens axis. Doesn’t sound like Olympus is interested in a sort of GX7 alike PEN camera.

So be sure to watch it!