OM System says that they still have not decided the new PEN concept…and TG is only fixed lens camera they will make
OM System’s Director of Product Planning, Hiroki Koyama and VP for Brand Strategy and Product Planning, Kazuhiro Togashi, at CP+ 2025 (Image by Dpreview)
OM System managers had a chat with Dpreview. And there are a couple of interesting notes:
1) The PEN lineup will continue, but they have not yet decided how:
We think the camera’s design must realize the concept of the product, so we don’t start to decide the camera design before deciding the camera’s concept: the product concept must come first.
Therefore, we haven’t yet decided if the product design for a new Pen will look like the Pen-F or similar to the E-P7 because we haven’t decided on the product concept.
2) There is no plan to make an enthusiast fixed lens compact camera:
We are continuing to study the development of a successor to the TG series, but currently we don’t have any plans to introduce other compact camera concepts.”
3) New fast primes coming:
We are also trying to develop small and light and bright lenses or something like that. We have space to make new lenses in the future. I can’t disclose [the details].
Summary:
So it sounds like we will have to wait quite some time before we get a new PEN model :(
