New m4/3 gear released in last 33 months

Can anyone help with my question ? Thanks !

http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2015/08/06/olympus-quarterly-numbers-show-profits-boosted-by-e-m5-ii-and-high-end-comp

Olympus’ numbers for this quarter have been released, and after a few years of red, the Japanese company is finally seeing green.

Olympus’ camera devision amassed an operating profit of 1.1 billion yen (approximately US$8.8 million) this past quarter, a massive improvement considering a year ago the numbers showed a 1.9 billion yen (approximately US$15.2 million) loss.

This impressive profit is helped thanks to a 26% increase in mirrorless camera sales year-over-year. Compact camera sales have dropped 11%, but sales revenue has remained the same thanks to consumers opting for the company’s more high-end compact camera models.

It looks like Olympus is not dead yet.

Henry Richardson wrote:

In July 2012 it was predicted that by July 2014 Canon would have squished Olympus:

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/42118702

Well, July 2014 came and went. Maybe it will be July 2015?

Well, here we are in August 2015, 3 years and 1 month since this famous prediction:

Canon will probably have squished Oly in 2 years

So I'm betting that in less than 2 years Canon will have squished Oly in mirrorless just as they did in DSLRs. The more so because they'll likely will have released some nice lenses, and at least one enthusiast body.

Today's news:

Olympus camera business returns to profit

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/56271760

Henry Richardson wrote:

More Samyang lenses that I overlooked:

Samyang 10mm t3.1 cine
Samyang 12mm t2.2 cine
Samyang 16mm t2.2 cine
Samyang 24mm t1.5 cine
Samyang 35mm t1.5 cine
Samyang 50mm t1.5 cine
Samyang 85mm t1.5 cine
Samyang 8mm t3.8 fisheye cine
Samyang 300mm f6.3 mirror

I'm not sure I would count these, as they are all APS-C or FF DSLR lenses with built in adapters essentially. I guess technically they do have a native mount.

http://www.ducloslenses.com/collections/veydra-primes - these on the other hand are designed for the 43rds sensor format.

Anyway, fun thread! It's sort of astonishing to see how much gear has been released in the last few years.

Well, it is hard to find signs of imminent m4/3 death.

Some more recent m4/3 stuff:

Olympus E-M10II
Olympus Air A01
Panasonic 42.5mm f1.7
Panasonic 25mm f1.7
DJI X5 drone

Have I forgotten anything else?

Richard, is this fine list available complete somewhere?

Henry Richardson wrote:

Some more recent m4/3 stuff:

Olympus E-M10II
Olympus Air A01
Panasonic 42.5mm f1.7
Panasonic 25mm f1.7
DJI X5 drone

Have I forgotten anything else?

The venerable Voigtlander 10.5mm f0.95

oh and the 25mm f0.95 mitakon.

lattesweden wrote:

Richard, is this fine list available complete somewhere?

I think that if you go through all the posts in this thread you can make a pretty complete list of the m4/3 stuff that has been released since May 2012.

I started this thread in February 2015 which was almost 33 months after I started using m4/3 in April 2012. The list of m4/3 gear in my OP was what had come out after I had started using m4/3. I have made updates below for what has come out since my OP 11 months ago. As you can see, m4/3 is a dynamic mount with the great advantage of 2 companies supporting it with bodies and lenses. Then on top of that lots of 3rd parties make stuff for it too. And, of course, there was already tons of m4/3 gear before April 2012.

Henry Richardson wrote:

I know that 3 years ago when I bought my Olympus E-M5 and a bunch of lenses there were some who expected that Olympus would be gone by now, m4/3 would be pretty much dead. It may still happen, but so far things for us customers are looking pretty good. Here is a list of m4/3 bodies that have come out since I bought my E-M5:

Olympus PEN E-PM2
Olympus PEN E-PL5
Olympus PEN E-PL6
Olympus PEN E-PL7
Olympus PEN E-P5
Olympus OM-D E-M1
Olympus OM-D E-M10
Olympus OM-D E-M5 II

Olympus OM-D E-M10 II

Olympus PEN-F

Olympus Air A01

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF5
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G5
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH3
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G6
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF6
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G6
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GM1
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GM5
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF7

Panasonic Lumix DMC-G7

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX8

Kodak Pixpro S-1

And the lenses that have come out since then:

Olympus 12-40mm f2.8
Olympus 40-150mm f2.8
Olympus 17mm f1.8
Olympus 25mm f1.8
Olympus 75mm f1.8
Olympus 60mm f2.8 macro
Olympus 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 EZ power zoom pancake
Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 II
Olympus 9mm f8 fisheye bodycap
Olympus 15mm f8 bodycap

Olympus 7-14mm f2.8

Olympus 8mm f1.8 fisheye

Olympus 300mm f4

Olympus EC-14 1.4x teleconverter

Olympus 75-300mm f4.8-6.7 II

Panasonic 12-35mm f2.8
Panasonic 35-100mm f2.8
Panasonic 15mm f1.7
Panasonic 42.5 f1.2
Panasonic 12-32mm f3.5-5.6 pancake
Panasonic 14-140mm f3.5-5.6 II
Panasonic 45-150mm f4-5.6
Panasonic 45-175mm f4-5.6 power zoom

Panasonic 14mm f2.5 II pancake

Panasonic 20mm f1.7 II pancake

Panasonic 35-100mm f4-5.6

Panasonic 30mm f2.8 macro

Panasonic 25mm f1.7

Panasonic 42.5mm f1.7

Panasonic 100-400mm f4-6.3

Sigma 19mm f2.8
Sigma 30mm f2.8
Sigma 60mm f2.8
Tamron 14-150mm f3.5-5.8
Kowa 8.5mm f2.8
Kowa 12mm 1.8
Kowa 25mm f1.8
Voigtländer 17.5mm f0.95
Voigtländer 25mm f0.95
Voigtländer 42.5 f0.95
Samsung 7.5mm f3.5 fisheye
Tokina 300mm f6.3 mirror

Kodak 14-42mm f3.5-5.6
Kodak 42.5-160mm f/3.9-5.9
Kodak 400mm f6.7

There are lots more 3rd party lenses from various companies and I am not even going to continue trying to keep track of them.

trog100 wrote:

its a relative kind of slipping.. the competition is maybe improving at a faster rate.. M43 desperately needs a major sensor upgrade to stay in the game..

what was good enough fours year ago maybe isnt good enough now.. at the heart of it all is the sensor.. if that dosnt improve the rest of it becomes irrelevant

sorry i aint adding to the feel good factor .. but that is the way my thinking goes..

trog

maybe you should shoot identical images em5 mk1 and the new d750 at iso 6400 might change your opinion that m43 is still up their with the best to date. af definatly goes to the em5 in low light accuracy and speed.

cheers don

I agree with your thinking. Used it similar circumstances most systems are producing pretty similar or equal results. Nobody has in the last 4 years become suddenly better. For all intents and purposes everything has pretty much stayed still besides video. Even the a7s is only slightly better than the nikon d3 and d4 in lowlight situations. So ff hasnt gone anywhere.

Imho the biggest changes in the last few years have been in usability. Ibis, 4k video, 5 axis video stabilization, live composite, better evf technology, high quality peaking options, faster af in mirrorless  etc. These things are making the difference. Iq isnt changing much and likely never will. But these things can create whole new beasts of cameras

dulynoted wrote:

Imho the biggest changes in the last few years have been in usability. Ibis, 4k video, 5 axis video stabilization, live composite, better evf technology, high quality peaking options, faster af in mirrorless etc. These things are making the difference. Iq isnt changing much and likely never will. But these things can create whole new beasts of cameras

For the types of photos I take I agree with you.

I just saw a thread where people are speculating that Panasonic will abandon m4/3. I sure hope not!

Astrotripper wrote:

Henry Richardson wrote:

I just saw a thread where people are speculating that Panasonic will abandon m4/3. I sure hope not!

Really? What silly speculations. That makes no sense. If so, why would they be releasing expensive niche telephoto lens for their cameras? That's not how you abandon a system. And we know that because we can see how that's done by looking at Samsung and NX, or Sony and E.

You should give them your 2 cents and tell them what is what then!

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/57178498

Henry Richardson wrote:

2.5 years ago the famous prediction was that Olympus would be squished by the summer of 2014:

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/42118702

Olympus, Panasonic, and m4/3 have had lots and lots of activity with new bodies, lenses, 3rd parties coming out with tons of lenses and other gear too. I guess not squished yet.

I just saw this other thread where Canon is still struggling in mirrorless:

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/57185762

Here we are going on 4 years since the famous prediction in 2012 that Canon would have squished Olympus in mirrorless by 2014:

So I'm betting that in less than 2 years Canon will have squished Oly in mirrorless just as they did in DSLRs. The more so because they'll likely will have released some nice lenses, and at least one enthusiast body.

The squishing was supposed to happen no later than by summer 2014 and here we are at the end of January 2016!

http://www.veydra.com/

http://www.slrmagic.co.uk/

All manual focus, but good lenses from what I hear. I know the entire Veydra line-up only came out after the GH4 was released, but SLR Magic has been around for a while. I'm not sure which models came out after the EM-5.