Albert Siegel from Dpreview spotted this new image of the the new Olympus 150-400mm lens in the field on bbs.kakaku.com! On kakaku you read:
‘The photographer who posted this image says in the comments in the above link that it was taken during an official Fuji SUPER TEC 24 Hours Race Test. He says four men and women were shooting with OM-D E-M1X and M.ZUIKO 150-400mm.’
The lens is rumored to be on market this summer.
A bit unusual for Panasonic is the fact that they did not announce any new product at the start of this new year. N new MFT or L mount camera or lens at all has been unveiled. SonyAlphaRumors made this list of products announce in January-February:
Nikon (6 products announced):
Nikon Coolpix P950
Nikon D780
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 120-300mm F2.8E FL ED SR VR
Nikon Nikkor Z 70-200 F2.8 VR S
Nikon Nikkor Z 24-200mm F4-6.3 VR
Nikon Nikkor Z 20mm F1.8 SFuji (5 products announced):
Fujifilm X-T200
Fujifilm X100V
Fujifilm X-T4
Fujifilm XC 35mm F2
Fujifilm GF 45-100mm F4 R LM OIS WRCanon (4 products announced):
Canon EOS-1D X Mark III
Canon EOS R5 (granted just development announcement)
Canon EOS Rebel T8i
Canon RF 24-105mm F4.0-7.1 IS STMOlympus (2 products announced):
Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-45mm F4 ProRicoh-Pentax: (2 products announced):
Ricoh WG-70
HD Pentax-D FA 70-210mm F4 ED SDM WRSony (1 product announced):
Sony 20mm F1.8GLeica (1 product announced):
Leica M10 MonochromPanasonic (0 products announced):
no product announced (a part of a new L-mount lens roadmap).
Maybe Panasonic (and Olympus) decided to shift the product launch focus at Photokina in May. But the coronavirus outbreak may will mess with their plans as I expect productiion shortages accross the industry :(
Olympus E-M5 Mark III Tutorial: Shooting Menu 1 Walk Through for Beginners
My Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III menu settings booklet (Flightlevel24).
Why I Don’t Format SD Cards & Some Useful SD Card Tricks (Robin Wong).
Transformer Tripods: More than Meets the Leg (Explora).
PROFOTO with LUMIX Featuring James Shmelzer (L-rumors.com).
Plenty of news on the facebook OMD group, Panasonic FF and the GH5 group.
This runs today only: Big savings on Sandisk SD cards and WD storage at Amazon US (Click here the super long list). UPDATE: A similar deals runs at BHphoto too!
And there is also a 1 day long super deal day at Adorama (Click here). You can find the deals on Panasonic gear here and Olympus gear here.
And last but not least: Today only you save up to 71% on many Vello MFT adapters sold by BHphoto.
New Olympus gear:
E-M1III at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, GetOlympus. Olympus DE. Olympus UK, Olympus FR, Olympus ES, Olympus IT, Olympus NL.
Olympus 12-45mm at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, GetOlympus.
Olympus E-PL10 at BHphoto.
The Japanese website Newswitch published a detailed report about the effect of the Coronavirus induced production stop in China. Olympus and Nikon are reported to have no issues yet as their production facilities are outside Japan. Still “New products are being released on the same schedule as announced, but as many logistics have stopped in China, the company is closely watching the effects of the future.”
Lats year Olympus had to report a financial loss because of the move of their camera factory from China to Vietnam. Well, they had a luck with the timing!
via Digicameinfo
DpreviewTV writes:
Between 1978 and 1985 Pentax sold the Pentax Auto 110 (and later, the Auto 110 Super), a miniature SLR system built around Kodak’s small-format 110 film cartridges. The 110 system is no longer with us, but thanks to an almost identical frame size, its lenses are a perfect match for the Micro Four Thirds system. Join us as we discover the joy of using vintage Pentax 110 lenses on a modern digital camera.
