Olympus 17mm f1.8 was launched in June 2012. Is it still worth getting?

OM-1 store links:
OM-1 at BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon. GetOlympus.
OM-1 in EU at Calumet DE. Fotokoch DE. Wex UK. Olympus DE, Olympus UK, Olympus FR, Olympus IT, Olympus ES. Olympus NL. Olympus BE. Olympus AT. Olympus CH.

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ePhotozine reviewed the OM-1 and concluded:

Beautifully made, the Olympus OM-1, the last OM System camera to bear that name, is compact, efficient and performs admirably; a suitably impressive way to say farewell to the Olympus name and to greet OM System. This is no retro design though, it is a significant step upwards in terms of technological achievement and performance and makes the MFT format able to seriously challenge the results from much larger formats. 20MP can deliver excellent results and the small format does mean that the system as a whole is compact, especially valuable when using lenses that in other formats would be much larger and heavier. This could well seriously tempt the travel, landscape, street, wildlife and sports photographers and all those who prefer to travel light, without significant compromise on quality.

This is quite an unusual comparison made by AVP Studios. Watch it to see results…

Robin Wong:

One popular question I get asked – which lens should I get for my Micro Four Thirds camera? I want a wide angle prime, should I get Olympus 12mm F2 or Panasonic 14mm F2.5? How about 15mm F1.7? So I made this video to answer these questions!

Robin Wong writes:

The Olympus M.Zuiko 12-50mm F3.5-6.3 was released together with the first OM-D camera, the E-M5. It personally think it is quite a fantastic lens, with weather-sealing, dedicated macro function, L-Fn button and more. In this video I explore the 12-50mm lens and I think OM System should update this lens!

No camera is perfect, and that’s why also the OM-1 and the GH6 made it into this list :)

At Weebly.com you can read the Android Yongnuo YN455 micro four-thirds camera. The conclusion is:

Yongnuo is brave and innovative, and they are certainly going in the right direction. However, they did not deliver what a photographer would have expected from such a camera. Even people who do not need computational photography would be disappointed with the current feature set of the camera. Then again, such potential customers would have few reasons to buy such a camera…
We can only hope that Yongnuo fixes as many shortcomings as possible with a new firmware (indeed, quite a few could be fixed) to get a product that is not only unique but also much more usable.