Preorders: Olympus 150-400mm lens at BHphoto, GetOlympus, Adorama.

Mirrorlesscomparison tested the Olympus 150-400mm PRO lens:

The Olympus 150-400mm Pro is an impressive lens, of that I have no doubt, but it comes with a price that doesn’t go unnoticed, so let me try to answer the question I wrote in the introduction: is it worth it, or has Olympus gone too far?
From a micro four thirds user perspective, a lens tagged at $7500 (or £6500 / €7150) is quite the jump from anything else that has been released before. For those who have invested in the system not only for the portability but also for the possibility of buying quality gear without breaking the bank, it can come as quite the shock.
From a Canon or Nikon user perspective, the high price might not come as a surprise. The 800mm lens I compared it to can be found for $13,000. The Nikon version is 3K more expensive. The 200-400mm f4 and 180-400mm f4 with the built-in teleconverter are also priced above 10k. So suddenly, the cost of the Olympus lens doesn’t look all that bad.

Camera Conspiracies:

Does micro four thirds still have a place for video? Now that Canon and Sony full frame has 10 bit and IBIS, way better autofocus, what is Panasonic and Olympus’ advantage? It’s mostly disadvantages, but I found 7 m4/3 advantages over the full frame overlords. Micro four thirds is not dead, just teetering on the brink of irrelevance. We’ll be testing a new lens today, we’ll be battling the Olympus em1 iii vs the Panasonic G9 with the same lens! Olympus 12mm f2 vlog test and review.

DpreviewTV:

A new Olympus firmware update adds bird detection AF to the E-M1X and it really works! The E-M1X and E-M1 Mark III also get ProRes Raw video recording, but does it meet Jordan’s standards?

Mark:

Having updated one of our studios E-M1 ii bodies we were testing the “improved image stabiliser in video” and saw a marked deterioration in stability. This held true in all modes. We checked against the non-updated units (The second M1.2, the M1X and the M1.3) and the difference is stark. Fiddling with the yaw axis “stickiness” (which is what I gather was done to “improve” panning) seems to have made the whole thing more skittish and when walking at a slow pace the whole thing wobbles about. For video users this is not an “improvement” at all! And now there is no way to “undo” the downgrade on that one body. Holding off on updating the X and mark iii bodies until this is remedied. If you do a lot of video and rely on the stabiliser, be cautious.

Preorders: Olympus 150-400mm lens at BHphoto, GetOlympus, Adorama.

Daniel J. Cox tested the new Olympus 150-400mm PRO lens:

You can preorder the new Laowa 10mm f/2 ZERO-D MFT lens at Venuslens worldwide store (full specs and info here).

Here are two new reviews of the lens:

Preorders: Olympus 150-400mm lens at BHphoto, GetOlympus, Adorama.

Olympus Ambassador André Boss was lucky enough to review one of the very few copies yet available: