Image of a Kowa f/1.0 lens on a MFT camera.
Fotosidan had a small talk with Olympus manager Setsuya Kataoka. And he confirmed that they plan to launch super fast Micro Four Thirds lenses in the near future.
Olympus lately filed patents for a couple of f/1.0 and f/1.2 fast primes. Like the 12mm, 13mm and 14mm f/1.0 you see on their official patent description table below:
Sony will keep a rather low profile at CP+ this year and not announce any new camera…at least if they don’t surprise us :)
On Friday February 13 at 11.30 Tokyo time they will “only” introduce the new four FE lenses.
The image on top has been posted by Fujirumors and shows the new XF 35mm f/2.0 R weather resistant lens. And there is also a new updated lens roadmap:
The camera is now listed at BHphoto (Click here) and has the following key specs:
29MP Foveon X3 Quattro CMOS Image Sensor
TRUE III Image Processing Engine
14mm f/4 Lens (35mm Equivalent: 21mm)
3.0″ 920k-dot TFT LCD Screen
ISO Range: 100-6400 in 1/3 Steps
RAW Image Capture
Max RAW Resolution of 5424 x 3616
Contrast Detection Autofocus
Manual Focus Ring
P/S/A/M Exposure Control
Sigma (Click here) now shows the next DP3 Quattro with a 50mm f/2.8 lens. There is yet no other info on the site.
Mayflower posted a completely different theory that explains why the digital compact camera and the system camera sales are falling dramatically.
They blame the poor usability and lack of customer oriented camera development. In short it’s time for the camera manufacturers to develop a sort of iPhone alike friendly camera. Ok that was veeeery simplified from me :)
Fujirumors got very reliable info about a new lens roadmap that Fuji will announce next week. The future new XF lenses will be:
– 120mmF2.8 1:1 Macro
– 35mm f/2
– New 1.4x Teleconverter.
– 100-400mm
And according to 43rumors also Panasonic has some lens surprise:
– 30mm f/2.8 macro lens
– a second (fast?) prime lens prototype
And of course we still have Sony left with their new FE lenses…
