11-15-2014, 11:41 PM
Thanks for the review Klaus.
I'm not too surprised about the f/1.8 lenses serie. It made some kind of sense as sweetspot to showcase small cameras with high abilities and they have fully succeeded with Panasonic. Just look at the competition entering the market. Now the other boys have all caught up and my bet is that Olympus will come up with close to f/1.0 lenses soon to keep its system alive. It's just incremental updates, iterating cow milking. There are already rumours of a 12mm f/1.0 apparently... Time will tell :-)
Voigtlander & slr magic have proven something within f/0.95 f/1.2 would still yield good results. Add some software correction, a fast AF drives, a moderate size increase over the f/1.8, and olympus can go on for another 2-3 years before eventually moving to some other innovations.
I'm not too surprised about the f/1.8 lenses serie. It made some kind of sense as sweetspot to showcase small cameras with high abilities and they have fully succeeded with Panasonic. Just look at the competition entering the market. Now the other boys have all caught up and my bet is that Olympus will come up with close to f/1.0 lenses soon to keep its system alive. It's just incremental updates, iterating cow milking. There are already rumours of a 12mm f/1.0 apparently... Time will tell :-)
Voigtlander & slr magic have proven something within f/0.95 f/1.2 would still yield good results. Add some software correction, a fast AF drives, a moderate size increase over the f/1.8, and olympus can go on for another 2-3 years before eventually moving to some other innovations.