The German OM Digital manager Olaf Kreuter gave this interview. Activate the youtube auto translation caption if you do not understand German. A couple of highlights:
- OM Digital has a long term plan with forecasts for products and revenue goals
- Many Olympus managers and technicians moved from Olympus to OM Digital. An example is AKi Murata.
- We will focus on macro and wildlife
- They confirms there will be many products this year
- they confirm there is a camera with “WOW” potential coming in 12 months.
- The minimum commitment is to release at least 1 new camera and 2 new lenses per year
- we will design our own sensors and than Sony builds them for us
- for now we will continue all camera lines (Tough-PEN-OMD)
- 8-25mm f/4.0 lens is coming soon
- We are developing new telephoto lenses (but none with Fresnel tech)