With a few hours OM Digital will announce three new products and a new lens roadmap. The announcement will happen at 6am London time and you can expect me to do the usual live blogging.
This is the gear we are getting:
New OM-1II
- Re-branded as OM SYSTEMS (as you know the OM-1 still has the Olympus name on it).
- Double the internal buffer memory
- 8.5 stops IBIS
- 14bit raw for High resolution mode
- human AI recognition
- New added computational nd filters
- better focusing system
- Improved ergonomics
- Price: 2399 Euro
New OM 150-600mm 5.0-6.3:
- MFT version of the original Sigma 150-600mm Full Frame lens.
- Supports Sync-IS (Correction effects of wide 6.0 / tele 5.0steps on the lens alone, and wide 7.0 / tele 6.0 steps for Sync IS) ,
- 9 aperture blades
- Minimum focus: 56 cm
- Filter size: 95 mm
- 25 elements in 15 groups (4 Super ED lenses, 2 ED lenses, 6 HR lenses, 1 HD lens)
- fluorine coating
- 1200mm* on its own, or 2400mm* max. when used with a teleconverter
- IPX1 weather sealing,
- Length: 264.4 mm
- Diameter: 109.9 mm
- Weight: 2065 g
- Comes with LH-103 lens hood, LC-95 lens cap, LR-2 back cap, lens strap, instruction manual, warranty card
- Price: 2699 Euro
New OM 9-18mm lens (same construction and only small aesthetic changes).
