While the E-PL9 are regularly available in Asia and Europe the camera has still not been listed on the GetOlympus site in the USA. Nor is a preorder option available at BHphoto. This is the first time in many years I see this. Strange…

Reminder:
$300 off on the E-M1II and additional up to $500 discount on lens bundles at GetOlympus, Bhphoto (click “build bundle”), Adorama (click “Create bundle…”) and Amazon (click “get a discount…”).
For the very first time there is a price drop on the 25mm f/1.2 PRO lens. You save a nice $200 at Bhphoto, Adorama and Amazon.
10% discount on Capture One 11 (Click here) when using the coupon code “AMB43R“.
Current Olympus deals list at GetOlympus.
$300 off and $300 gift card for free with the Panasonic 12-60mm MFT lens sold by Adorama (Click here).
The Olympus FL-900R flash got a $100 discount at BHphoto, Adorama and Amazon.
The Flashpoint R2 Pro 2.4GHz Transmitter for Panasonic & Olympus is available for preorder at Adorama.More info at Godox Website . Thanks Kevin!

Today Olympus released the full financial reports (see them here). The company as a whole and the imaging business sector reported both increase in revenue and profit for the last 9 months:

Sales growth of 7% for mirrorless cameras centered on OM-D series introduced in the 2H of last fiscal year contributed to overall higher revenue in the Imaging Business.

The only bad note is that in Q3 Olympus had to report this:

Overall Imaging Business revenue down in third-quarter due to lower sales of mirrorless cameras

But that’s understandable as the majority of camera revenues were generated by the E-m1II during the first half of the year. Still Olympus had to revise the forecast for 2018:

Any thoughts on this?

image on the page on Meike

The chinese company Meike released three new MFT lenses:

50mm f/1.7
25mm f/2.0
25mm t/2.2 CINE

We have yet not full specs about them. Only ePhotozine has some bits if info on the 50mm f/.17 lens:

The lens is comprised of 12 diaphragm blades and has a 0.11x magnification ratio.  The lens is set to be available in mid-March. 

Meike lenses are usually sold via Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon DE.

Thanks Mistral!