Digitalcameraworld: If OM System reboots the Olympus Trip 35, it could conquer the camera market

Digitalcameraworld thinks that:

there’s another camera that OM could bring back – and if it does, it could do absolutely monster business this year in the same way that the Fujifilm X100VI, the Ricoh GR III and the Leica Q3 have done.

A digital Trip 35 not just a better prospect (than the PEN series), but arguably the best prospect for OM System. In case you don’t remember it, the Olympus Trip 35 was one of the best compact cameras of its era, with a slim and stylish body and a fixed 40mm f/2.8 lens.

Sound familiar? Because that is exactly the kind of camera that is in white-hot demand right now – and the reason why compacts like the X100VI, GR III and Q3 are on perpetual backorder.

What are your thought on this?

This is the future of OM Digital: new PEN, new High Res sensor, and why not a new L-mount FF camera?

As you know OM Managers did release a couple of interviews that give us a hint about the future roadmap. In my video on top I made a quick summary and added one “teaser” for you ;)

What we will get in 2025&2026:

  • New 50-150mm telephoto zoom lens (f/2.0?)
  • new fast primes
  • New PEN cameras
  • a surprise ….this is a teaser for a future rumor post ;)

What is very unlikely to happen:

  • OM Digital joining L-mount with a Full Frame OMD
  • New High Resolution OM-1III

What do you think should be OM Digitals roadmap?

TheNarrowBandChannel: PEN F Mark II and OM1 x Could be Coming Soon

The Narrow Band Channel shared a small insight about the PEN-FII and OM1x. He has been told by OM managers that the naming of the PEN-FII and OM1x have been “setup”. Don’t know what exactly that means but while I see a chance of a new PEN-FII happening and I am really not sure we will ever see a new OM1x body.

OM System says that they still have not decided the new PEN concept…and TG is only fixed lens camera they will make

OM System’s Director of Product Planning, Hiroki Koyama and VP for Brand Strategy and Product Planning, Kazuhiro Togashi, at CP+ 2025 (Image by Dpreview)

OM System managers had a chat with Dpreview. And there are a couple of interesting notes:

1) The PEN lineup will continue, but they have not yet decided how:

We think the camera’s design must realize the concept of the product, so we don’t start to decide the camera design before deciding the camera’s concept: the product concept must come first.
Therefore, we haven’t yet decided if the product design for a new Pen will look like the Pen-F or similar to the E-P7 because we haven’t decided on the product concept.

2) There is no plan to make an enthusiast fixed lens compact camera:

We are continuing to study the development of a successor to the TG series, but currently we don’t have any plans to introduce other compact camera concepts.”

3) New fast primes coming:

We are also trying to develop small and light and bright lenses or something like that. We have space to make new lenses in the future. I can’t disclose [the details].

Summary:
So it sounds like we will have to wait quite some time before we get a new PEN model :(

ThePhoBlographer believes that “We May Get 40-150mm F2 from OM System Very Soon”

ThePhoBlographer writes this about the teased telephoto zoom from OM Digital:t

While a mid-range zoom like this getting an update is significant, it would be even more great if we could get one with a bright aperture like the f2 or f1.8. Why so? Because that is what photographers need with such a small sensor. Many years ago during the regular Four Thirds DSLR days, Olympus had f2 zooms. With a zoom range of 40-150mm, it is ideal for travel, portraits, weddings, wildlife, and even events. However, f4 and f2.8 can be really limiting in certain situations, such as low-light photography. You also can’t stop it down too much due to diffraction. But, if you switch this up with f1.8 or f2, photographers will get more pronounced and bold bokeh, which will be really ideal to separate the background from the subject, as well as to make the picture more appealing.

What do you think about this?

Panasonic did register another camera overseas: Now a total of three cameras should be announced soon!

On 28 February, Panasonic registered another new camera in China. We have now registered a total of three cameras in Asia that have not yet been announced. The next camera will be announced in April, and it’s a ‘niche’ L-mount camera that is NOT the S1HII. I don’t know yet what the other two cameras might be. Yesterday Panasonic said they are working on new fixed lens cameras, maybe one of them is some kind of LX100II successor. What would you like to see?

Note: The table above shows four camera codes for ‘unknown’ cameras. One of the codes is certainly for the Lumix S1rII, leaving three cameras that have yet to be announced.

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