Tomorrow (August 28) at 6am London time Olympus will announce the new E-Pl7. I have been told the 40-150mm PRO lens and the Silver E-M1 will be announced right before Photokina and not tomorrow. And here are some more images of the E-Pl7

via Photorumors.

Previsouly leaked images:

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Image of the silver E-M1.

I got some “reasonable” info about the E-M1 firmware update (Thank You source). As suspected there is no 4K coming but more than 20 things got added or fixed. Among them we have:

– new art filters,
– faster EVF refresh rate,
– you don’t lose magnify mode when you focus, same with peaking,
– art filters and peaking get BIG evf refresh rate update.
– tethering.
– Live Composite

And there is a new New O.I. Share app coming as well. Thanks a lot source…also for your patience ;)

And two more info about the 40-150mm PRo lens: The lens hood for the 40-150…it slides back over the lens body! Slick! 1.4 TC will only work with the 40-150 2.8 and the 300mm f/4.

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Announcement at 6am tomorrow (August 28) London time!

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I got the exact announcement time for the new Olympus E-Pl7. It will be announced tomorrow (Thursday August 28) at 6am London time. I don’t know if Olympus will announce the 40-150mm PRO and Siler E-M1 too. I guess the answer is yes. And than there is a new firmware update to come for the E-M1 too.

As usual you can follow the announcement live here at 43rumors!!!

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Image of the 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO lens (Source:Olympus Nordic).

Digicameinfo got the lens price info for Japan: It will cost 160,000 Yen (rough conversion: $1,500 USD).

UPDATE: There will be also a special 1.4 teleconverter + lens kit for $180,000 Yen.

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Henrys reports that Panasonic will show “a brand new Panasonic 4K product” on a special event in Toronto on September 5th and 6th. Finally we know when we will finally see the new 4K Panasonic GM2 :)

Thanks Steve for spotting this!

Weeks ago the Australian store Discountcameras marked the GX7 as “officially discontinued”

According to one source the soon to be announced Panasonic GM2 will actually replace the GX7. And just like the GX7 the GM2 will have a built-in EVF and on sensor stabilization! The GM2 will also likely have 4K recording too (yet not 100% confirmed).

So basically we will only have GH and Gm lines for now. Have no info yet if the GX, G and GF line will be ever updated…

Reminder: $300 off on the Panasonic GX7 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).

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Digicameinfo reports that the official Olympus product announcement date is August 28. Usually this means we can expect press releases to be official at 5-6am London time.

If the rumors we got so far are correct we will get the new E-PL7, Silver E-M1, E-M1 firmware update, 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO zoom and likely two-three more PRO lenses shown as mockup or pre-final version (7-14mm for sure and maybe a 9mm and a superfast prime).

These are some more info about the E-PL7:
– Price ¥ 71,000 (rough conversion: $670).
– There will be a dedicated Waterproof protector PT-EP12. Price of about 65,000 yen.
– 16MP Live MOS sensor. Low-pass-less
– ISO LOW (ISO100 equivalent)
– Image processing engine TruePic VII
– Fine detail II
– Real Color Technology
– 81 points FAST AF
– Continuous shooting 8 frames / sec.
– Monitor 1.04 million dot 3.0-inch. Touch panel
– Self portrait mode
– 3-axis camera shake correction VCM
– Art filter 14 types. Add a “vintage” and “Part Color”
– Wi-Fi Built-in. Possible cooperation with the smartphone. Remote shooting function
– 114.9mm x 67.0mm x 38.4mm size
– (Including memory card and battery) 357g Weight
– Media SDHC / SDXC (UHS-I)
– Battery BLS-50
– The color of the body is silver, white, black
– Kit, EZ double zoom kit lens and EZ Kit

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