Olympus is going all out for 100th anniversary
Dec 27, 2018 22:55:45 #
wdross
Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado
It looks like Olympus will be going all out for their 100th anniversary. They are producing the E- M1X (basically a miniaturized Canon EOS-1D X Mark II) along with new lenses. The one new lense will be the five-axis stabilized 150-400 f4 Pro lens. It is said to have a built-in 1.25X teleconverter (makes it ~188-500 f5) with a matched 2X teleconverter to be released sometime later (possibly making it a 375-1000 f10 ?!?). That would be something to have a reach of 300-800 f4, 375-1000 f5, 600-1600 f8, and 750-2000 f10, in 35mm angle of view terms, from physically just one lens and one teleconverter. Somehow I think it is going to be expensive. And supposedly the combination will wring out one more stop of IS - 7.5 stops of IS!
Dec 28, 2018 05:59:02 #
Dec 28, 2018 13:23:09 #
wdross
Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado
astacus wrote:
for me, all without merit unless there are several stops of improvement in ISO noise..
Supposedly the ISO goes past 6400 for quality. The sensor is still 20mp, but totally different from the E-M1 mrII. It will be interesting to see it once it is in the stores in Feburary. It has to be to be able to shoot as fast or faster than the EOS-1D X mrII. Remember that E-M1 mrII is capable of 60fps while the EOS-1D X isn't. The E-M1X will have to be faster.
Dec 30, 2018 18:50:36 #
Get ready to take out a 2nd mortgage. You’re gonna need about $8-10k for the camera ($3000 plus money for any accessories) and telephoto (guessing that it’ll be the most expensive m4/3 lens produced around $5000+).
Dec 30, 2018 20:23:37 #
wdross
Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado
Cdouthitt wrote:
Get ready to take out a 2nd mortgage. You’re gonna need about $8-10k for the camera ($3000 plus money for any accessories) and telephoto (guessing that it’ll be the most expensive m4/3 lens produced around $5000+).
Luckly the estimate is around $3000 for the body (still cheaper than Canon's EOS-1D X while supposedly focusing as fast or faster and with A.I.). But the lens is still a guess. Based off the 2 axis 300mm f4, the 5 axis 150-400 f4 should be somewhere between $4k and $5K if not higher. If they spent the computer power to make it close to being as sharp as a prime throughout the zoom range, it is going to make every 4/3rds owner drool and make a few other format users wonder if they should change formats.
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