OM talk at the CP+ show: New telephoto zoom is in final stage of development
DClife wrote down this text derived from the presentation:
OM System developer Keitaro Yokoyama talks about the telephoto zoom lens he is currently developing as follows.
We have updated our lens roadmap to February 20, 2025. We have updated it a little and posted the image below. We have been told not to mention any specs at this stage. The prototype for this product has moved to the final stage, and there are some articles online saying that it may be delayed again, but we think that we will be able to announce it without making you wait too long. Please look forward to it.
In response to a question about what cameras will be like in the future and what kind of camera he would like to make, Kei Hamada, developer of the OM-3, said the following. *The text has been proofread for ease of reading.
Our system has computational photography, and we want everyone to use it to express themselves. We believe that everyone can experience various expressions with just the camera, so we want to cherish that. Among them, there are still areas that we have not been able to express or provide, such as high-resolution shots and live GND, so we would like to incorporate them into our products and have everyone use them. The world is constantly seeing the emergence of new technologies such as image processing and AI, so we think it is our job to always catch up and connect them to photographic expression.
He talks about how there is still room for further evolution and improvement in the software field, and also talks about the possibility of live GND using filter shapes as an example. OM Digital’s “computational photography” is likely to continue to evolve.
OM Digital has also published some interesting images, revealing early sketches of the “OM-3”.
A cross-section of the “OM-3” was also released, and it can be seen that the inside is packed tightly while maintaining rigidity and durability. The “OM-3” inherits some of the specifications of the “OM-1II”, but the layout has been reviewed from scratch in order to fit it into a smaller body, so it feels like a redesign.
