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 :(
