A source told me that OM Digital had a deep discussion about what to do to succeed on the Chinese market. And the one major reason for weak sales has been identified: OM Digital doesn’t offer any high megapixel camera. If they want to succeed on the Chinese market future cameras like the E-M1XII need to have a higher resolution sensor.
Let’s see if OM Digital will really make such a camera!
OM Digital is teasing the launch of two tele zoom lenses. According to two anonymous sources one of the lenses should be the 50-200mm f/2.8 PRO. This lens will be announced in late summer/autumn!
One source hinted that both telephoto lenses that are on OM Digital’s roadmap will be unveiled in 2023. No clue if they will also be available by late 2023 or if one of those lenses might be on market in early 2024 only.
As you might have heard the latest Xiaomi 13 smartphone uses a large 1 inch sensor. I now got a wild rumor from a source, saying that Xiaomi is trying to fit a full Four Thirds sensor inside their next flagship. Basically this would double the size of the 1 inch sensor which to me sounds like a super challenging task. But if they pull it off it would be simply stunning to have a smartphone with something like a OM-1 sensor inside!
Digitalcameraworld summed up what we can expect to get from OM Digital:
Let’s hope most of this turns out to be true!
Someone just sent me the specs of the newly listed SOny MFT sensor:
80 million pixels, MFT (M4/3) Type 4/3, double-layer stacked, full-pixel 2x2OCL phase focusing.
Adjacent Pixel Binning, 12bit 121fps, 10bit 151fps; high speed.
2×2 OCL means quadbayer. 4 pixels share same microlens .
UPDATE: This looks like the OM-1 sensor. If indeed that’s the case than this might means that Sony will sells that very same sensor to all third party companies.
A source told me that OM Digital might launch an update of the current Olympus 75-300mm lens. He said there would be no optical changes, so I am not sure if this is exactly the same lens with a new “OM” Logo on it or if there will be some improvements with the autofocus hardware.
