OM Digital released a statement at dc.watch:

Q2: What do you want people to pay special attention to?
On the 25th, our company’s Setsuya Kataoka will deliver a presentation entitled “OM Digital Solutions’ Thoughts on Inheriting Olympus”, which may contain new information on the future development of cameras and lenses, and possibly new products. It’s a talk by the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of the technology division of our camera business, so don’t miss it!

Setsuya Kataoka and Koichiro Saito, CTO of Olympus Corporation (from 10:00 a.m. on the 25th)
Setsuya Kataoka, CTO of Olympus Corporation, will talk passionately about the background of the establishment of the new company “OM Digital Solutions” and the future prospects of cameras and lenses from the standpoint of being in charge of camera development. The “lens roadmap,” which has already been released but has been attracting a lot of attention from many people, should also appear again in this content. Please keep an eye on it to see what kind of comments will be “topped” with it.

Live with Olympus photographer Jay Dickman

Labo – Olympus M.Zuiko 150-400mm F4,5 vs. Sony FE 70-300mm G OSS : que vaut l’optique Micro 4/3 face à un zoom 24×36? (Lesnumeriques).
Live Photo Feedback – [Wide Angle] by Peter Forsgård.
OmniVision’s new 50MP OV50A smartphone sensor promises ‘DSLR level’ phase detection autofocus performance (Dpreview).
Effective Aperture and Macro (Explora).

Plenty of news on the facebook OMD group, Panasonic FF and the GH5 group.

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)

Let’s go WIDE! – [Wide Angle Photography]

Why Raw video might not be the game-changer you expect (Dpreview).
Test Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 150-400mm F4.5 TC1.25x IS PRO : exceptionnel à tous niveaux (Lesnumeriques).
Essential Lenses for Beginners: Weddings (Explora).
DZOFILM Vespid Primes Review: SUPRISINGLY GOOD Full Frame Cine Lenses! (Gerald Undone).

Plenty of news on the facebook OMD group, Panasonic FF and the GH5 group.

Impressive: This Smart Electric Tripod Head raised nearly TWO million dollars(!!!) on Kickstarter (Click here to read what this is all about). The maker is the very serious company BENRO which means there should be really veeeery low risk of scam. Here is how it works:

Olympus published their new financial report. This is also their last ever report including the data of their now sold imaging business. They had a transfer-related costs of 44.7 billion yen. From now on we have to see if JIP will share data about their imaging business…