With a few hours OM Digital will announce three new products and a new lens roadmap. The announcement will happen at 6am London time and you can expect me to do the usual live blogging.

This is the gear we are getting:

New OM-1II

• Re-branded as OM SYSTEMS (as you know the OM-1 still has the Olympus name on it).
• Double the internal buffer memory
• 8.5 stops IBIS
• 14bit raw for High resolution mode
• human AI recognition
• New added computational nd filters
• better focusing system
• Improved ergonomics
• Price: 2399 Euro

New OM 150-600mm 5.0-6.3:

• MFT version of the original Sigma 150-600mm Full Frame lens.
• Supports Sync-IS (Correction effects of wide 6.0 / tele 5.0steps on the lens alone, and wide 7.0 / tele 6.0 steps for Sync IS) ,
• 9 aperture blades
• Minimum focus: 56 cm
• Filter size: 95 mm
• 25 elements in 15 groups (4 Super ED lenses, 2 ED lenses, 6 HR lenses, 1 HD lens)
• fluorine coating
• 1200mm* on its own, or 2400mm* max. when used with a teleconverter
• IPX1 weather sealing,
• Length: 264.4 mm
• Diameter: 109.9 mm
• Weight: 2065 g
• Comes with LH-103 lens hood, LC-95 lens cap, LR-2 back cap, lens strap, instruction manual, warranty card
• Price: 2699 Euro

New OM 9-18mm lens (same construction and only small aesthetic changes).