OM Digital registered a new battery charger named “BCX-1”. This is likely going to be used by the future “wow” camera which I expect to be teased some times in autumn.

You can get the new lens at Amazon US (Click here).

LEICA DG VARIO-SUMMILUX 20-50mm / F1.7 ASPH. H-X2550 lens is built for mirrorless Micro Four Thirds (MFT) mount cameras, enabling F1.7 aperture brightness throughout the entire 50-100mm (35mm camera equivalent) zoom range. Its exceptionally high optical performance is suitable for both professional photographers and videographers. Comprising 17 elements in 12 groups, the lens system features three aspherical lenses and four ED (Extra-low Dispersion) lenses that effectively suppress the axial chromatic aberration and chromatic aberration of magnification. Spherical aberration and distortion are also corrected by the aspherical lenses for stunningly high resolution. The use of aspherical lenses and the optimum design of the lens system results in a compact size and light weight. Compatibility with a maximum 240-fps high-speed sensor drive realizes high-speed, high-precision auto focusing. In addition to the silent operation achieved by the inner focus drive system, the stepless aperture ring and micro-step drive system in the aperture control section help the camera to smoothly catch up to brightness changes when zooming or panning. The optical design achieves exceptional barycentric stability to minimize image shifts during zooming. A focus ring is equipped for intuitive, precise focusing and linear/ non-linear setting can also be switched with this ring.

via Nokishita

Here are the leaked specs:

Panasonic “LEICA DG VARIO-SUMMILUX 25-50mm / F1.7 ASPH.” Has a lens configuration of 16 elements in 11 groups (1 aspherical lens, 3 ED lenses, 1 UHR lens), and the shortest shooting distance is 0.28m (25mm). Hour) /0.31m (at 50mm), maximum shooting magnification 0.21x (35mm format equivalent 0.42x), filter diameter 77mm, size φ87.6×127.6mm, weight 654g

via Nokishita

Nokishita reports that the Panasonic 25-50mm f/1.7 lens will be officially released next week.

You can find the registration here. Still, don’t expect the GH6 to be on market any time soon. The only rumor I got so far is that this camera will use  new phase detection sensor to finally get rid of all those annoying autofocus issues.

via Nokishita

a mockup of a possible Olympus-Samsung phone

OM Digital Manager Nils Häussler dropped quite a teaser. At the very end of this interview he said we should:

“Expect new products but also new “projects” to be announced in autumn.”

The new project might or might not has to do with the “WOW” camera. There are also rumor about a possible Olympus-Samsung partnership around smartphone. Anyway, don’t expect too much for now…

Some more tidbits from the interview:

– There is no info about the release date of the 100mm macro lens
– We have some more lenses in development
– Every year you can expect a minimum of 1 new camera and 2 new lenses to be released.

So, what to you hope those new “projects” will be about???

GH6 specs at BHphoto

I keep receiving hints that the new GH6 sensor might feature phase detection autofocus. Apparently I am not the only one receiving those rumors: