We told you before that Tamron didn’t want to release the planed in lens stabilized 14-150mm lens. This because also Panasonic is going the on sensor stabilization route. Well according to Digicameinfo and to one of our sources (Thank You) Tamron will soon announce the “Modified” non VC (non optical stabilized) 14-150mm f/3.5-5.8 Di III MFT lens.

The current VC version was listed at BHphoto (Click here). UPDATE: Has now been removed from BH.

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A source told me that while the new Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 will be announced late 2014 the lens will be available only in very early 2015. It will cost around $1200-1300.

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Along the new 150mm f/2.8 Panasonic will also market the new compact 35-100mm zoom by end 2014. The lens has been designed especially fo the compact GM camera line. It should provide a high quality, compact (although not fast) 35-100mm X lens alternative. Price and exact aperture are yet not known.

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I have been told via a highly trusted source that these two Olympus PRO lenses listed at BHphoto will ship in early 2015 only! Price and exact shipment start will be announced within 2014 for sure.

Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 7-14mm f/2.8 PRO Lens (here at BHphoto).
Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 300mm f/4 PRO Lens (here at BHphoto).

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Our Japanese friends from Digicameinfo shared the first image of the new Panasonic FZ1000. While this is not a MFT camera it’s certainly a suprirsingly high quality and very interesting camera to talk about! It has some good-looking features like (marked in bold):

– 1.0-inch CMOS sensor 
– Venus engine
– 25-400mm equivalent f/2.8-4.0 Leica DC Vario Elmarit lens.
– Lens configuration is 15 pieces in 11 groups. 5 aspherical lens (8 Side)
– AF linear motor. AF speed is 0.09 seconds
– 0.66 seconds start-up time
– 4K video 
– 4K PHOTO to cut out a still image of 8 million pixels from 4K video
– The space recognition AF by DFD
– EVF is 2.36 million dot-inch organic EL 0.39
– A monitor 920,000 dot 3.0-inch
– Continuous shooting 12 frames / second
– Wi-Fi, NFC
– Focus peaking, ring type manual focus
– Camera RAW development

This new camera will compete straight against the Sony RX10 (specs here at Amazon). But it has a much more useful 25-400mm lens range and records 4K video! Easy to guess the new LX8 will use the same sensor and hopefully also the same EVF. We still don’t know if this is the same 20MP Sony RX100M3 sensor or a brand new Panasonic or Aptina sensor.

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The soon to be announced LX8 will have a built-in evf like the current LF1 you see on the picture above.

This is an info I got via a new source. Hope trusted sources can confirm it soon. meantime thanks to the guy who sent me the info! let’s hope everything he shares here is correct because it would be quite amazing! He says:

– Lens will be a 24 – 90 f2 – f2.8
– Will be 3% larger than the LX7
– Will have a swivel touch screen with touch to focus and capture features
– Updated processing engine enhancing JPEG output
– EVF built in, no hotshoe
– Automatic Lenscap
– built-in 3 stop ND filter

Really sounds great!

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