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Olympus Said to be Working on f1.2 Lenses

Chris Gampat
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02/17/2016
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Last Updated on 02/17/2016 by Chris Gampat

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For a while, Panasonic was the only Micro Four Thirds camera manufacturer to offer f1.2 lenses. But the word on the street is that Olympus will be releasing some of their own pretty soon–like the middle of the year.

According to a report on 43rumors, the admin is very positive that the company will be doing this. The report has a bit of credibility considering that Olympus has never released a lens with a faster aperture than f1.8 since starting the Four Thirds lineup of cameras. If someone wanted faster aperture lenses then they needed to use Panasonic, SLRMagic, Mitakon or Voigtlander lenses. Lots of those aren’t autofocusing and though they won’t offer the light gathering abilities and super shallow depth of field that f0.95 glass will, it’s still very welcome.

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If Olympus is indeed working on f1.2 lenses, then we’re sure that they’re going to be offered in the PRO lineup of glass and have some absolutely incredible performance. Their lenses are already top notch, but as part of the PRO lineup we should expect to see weather sealing, all metal builds, and other features like the manual focus push/pull ring, and more. Considering all this, we most likely can’t expect the lenses to be cheap–and they shouldn’t be when you factor in Zuiko quality.

These lenses will instead really target the higher end professional photographer or the higher end enthusiast.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.