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The Best Portrait Lens For Micro Four Thirds?
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Travel and Landscape Photography with the OM-3! (Explora)
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Feathering Light: What Does it Mean? (42West)
TTArtisan 17mm f/1.4 for Video (Grant Robert).
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OM System says Computational Features are more important than Megapixels
Petapixel had a chat with OM System managers. One of the criticisms levelled at MFT sensors is the fact that there is no high-resolution sensor camera. Speaking to PetaPixel during the CP+ show in Yokohama, Japan in February, OM System says that it uses the 20-megapixel sensor found in the OM-1 and OM-3 because it offers the most balance between speed and resolution:
“We believe that our sensor leads in high-speed performance, minimizing rolling shutter effects when using the electronic shutter and enabling seamless application of computational photography functions in real time. While this balance of speed and functionality meets today’s needs, we remain committed to exploring new sensor technology including higher pixel counts. Computational photography features are not intended to compensate for pixel count, but together they serve complementary roles, empowering users to truly realize their creative vision using the camera.
In the current situation, if we increase the megapixels, we need our engine to be much stronger and much quicker to keep up with the computational photography functions. If our speed of processing is too slow, it won’t satisfy users expectations. So we would have to develop a new engine along with a new sensor. It’s hard, but it’s a good challenge.
Lately we saw some new 40+MP FT sensors made by Sony, Samsung and others. Maybe the next OM flagship cameras will feature a high resolution sensor?
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Should Panasonic & OM System Abandon Entry Level Cameras? Let’s Talk!
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This Is The Main Reason You DON’T Shoot In Manual Mode (Robert Grant).
TTArtisan 35mm f1.4 For Micro Four Thirds Review – More Bokeh at Less Price? (Gary W).
Why Every Landscape Photographer Needs a Telephoto Lens (Explora)
Must-Follow Content Writers in 2025 & Their Game-Changing Tools (42West)
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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 :(