New Olympus patent describes the Olympus 100mm F2.8 Macro IS PRO
New patent JP2019-164276 describes the design of the 100mm F2.8 Macro IS PRO. This lens is yet not mentioned on the official Olympus lens roadmap:
New Olympus patent describes a technique to reduce distortion with the on sensor stabilization
I found a patent that describes a way to use Olympus on sensor stabilization to correct for Distortions. Olympus writes: According to the present invention, there can be provided a camera system…
This is the patented Olympus 400mm f/4.0 MFT lens design
Olympus has patented a new 400mm f/4.0 MFT lens design. S far we don't know if and when Olympus will launch such a lens...would you like to get it?
New Olympus patent discloses two layer sensor
Click on image to enlarge Olympus has patented a multi-layer sensor design which should help improve the color reproduction. Usually infrared light deteriorates the color performance of a sensor. And…
New Olympus patent discloses the 10mm, 12mm, 14mm and 16mm f/1.4 primes design
A newly published patent describes the optical design and specifics for four new Olympus MFT primes: 10mm f/1.4 12mm f/1.4 14mm f/1.4 16mm f/1.4 For now it's only a patent,…
New patent discloses the 500mm f/5.6 lens for Micro Four Thirds
A newly published Tamron patent discloses the design of this 500mm f/5.6 Micro Four Thirds lens. Here are the specs: Focal length: 485 mm F number: 5.8 Angle of view:…
New Panasonic patent discloses a 18mm f/4.0 APS-C lens…for L-mount or MFT?
Hi-lows-note spotted a new patent from Panasonic. It describes the optical construction of a new 18mm f/4.0 lens. This is designed to cover the APS-C area. It's unclear if this…
Tamron published a new 100-400mm f/5.6-8.3 MFT lens patent
There is a new Tamron patent describing a 100-400mm f/5.6-8.3 lens designed for Four Thirds sensors. This would be their second MFT lens after the Tamron 14-150mm Di III. via…
New Olympus 400mm f/4.0 MFT lens patent
Thre is a newly published patent application describing the specs of a new Olympus 400mm f/4.0 lens. It's unclear if this lens will be produced at all. I don't knwo…
The seven Full Frame lenses patented so far by Olympus
I went through all the most recent Olympus patents. Here I recap the seven Full Frame lens designs patented by Olympus in 2016-2017. 17mm f/1.4 20mm f/1.4 24mm f/1.4 28mm…