According to a new source the “Olympus 150-400mm Pro will arrive just before Tokyo Olympics next July”. Which means it will start to ship in late Q2.

12mm f/1.8

I  have been notified that the development of the Laowa 12mm f/1.8 MFT has been “suspended”. I guess we will not get  this lens after all :(

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Thanks G.

Olympus is death so long live Olympus folks :)

Tomorrow at 14:00 London time Olympus will release the new MFT lens roadmap! It incudes:

• 150-400mm PRO lens
• 12-45 f/4.0 PRO without sync IS and no Fn buttons
• And a couple of teles in the 50-200mm range

Spread the news folks and be sure to be here on 43rumors tomorrow!

Personal View reports:

It is total instability now in camera division, in various countries people are running and looking for new positions.
Lot of rumors and talks that we can hear sudden closure press release within January-March time.
Some talks are that development team and some equipment can be picked either by Sony or Samsung.

Just to be 100% clear on my side:

This is 100% NOT TRUE: Every single Olympus source I have (from EU to US to Japan) laughed at this “news”.

UPDATE: This isn’t the first time those rumors go around the web. Back in March we had the same rumor which was directly debunked by Olympus. So dear readers, get used to it. It’s simply very “attractive” for sites to make such news over and over again :)

Weeks ago Olympus launched the E-PL10 on the Asian markets. According to our sources this camera will now be launched in Europe too on  November 20.

And an interesting news: Apparently they plan to sell it exclusively online through Olympus webshop in 2 kits : body only 599€ and 14-42EZ kit 699€!

Tomorrow Panasonic will announce these two  new L-mount lenses (more info on L-rumors.com). And there is a very good chance we will also get  the new GH5 / GH5S / G9 firmware update. Stay tuned!