Thanks :D. I had forgotten about that one. The three zooms they have listed
for 2004 seem to be really shipping in 2005. The 2004 fast telephoto is the
150mm.
The three zooms they show in 2005 don't really make sense unless they
thought they would have image stabilization. Otherwise they would have
three overlaping set of zooms. Perhaps the original zooms are going to be
discontinued quite soon. Perhaps they will have image stabilization in 2006
with the three 2005 zooms they show.
All of the primes they show for 2005 are labeled "fast". I would bet at
least one of the new lenses is another macro, probably the fast telephoto
macro. The fast wide (15mm f2 ?) would make sense from a marketing
perspective but it should have been wider and faster. It would prove the
system can truely eventually cover everything. The delay on the ultra wide
zoom suggests the wide end might be harder than they planned ... perhaps in
part because the very short focal lengths run into diffraction limitations,
forcing fast designs. Hopefully the fifth lens will be a fast wide that does
something significantly different from the zooms.
-jeff
(the other big thing from the article was the Olympus concern that a small
chrome camera wouldn't be accepted as professional - the OM philosophy seems
to have died - glad the interviewers said they liked the competing small
cameras)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dorothée Rapp" <om@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] Re: Interview with Olympus R&D managers
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>
> the roadmap is here (but shows more than 5 lenses)
>
> http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/cpg_files/zuiko_sched0405.pdf
>
> :D
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