On May 7, Olympus Corporation announced that it would shut down its Chinese production subsidiary of the company’s video business and consolidate the production of digital camera business related products in Vietnam. To date, its digital camera business related products are produced at Olympus (Shenzhen) Industrial Ltd. (OSZ) in Shenzhen, China and Olympus Vietnam Co., […]
Imaging-resource interviewed Shigemi Sugimoto, Head of Imaging Business Unit, Olympus Corp. below you can find excerpts from the lengthy interview. Olympus’ top business area is medical, but their imaging technology is used in that division as well. Operating income improved 77% Mirrorless is growing because as the market declines mirrorless is remaining the same size. Camera […]
We missed a few of the Olympus magazines that were released, but you can catch up. Issues 54, Issue 55 and Issue 56 are all available online.
DPReview interviewed Olympus at CP+ and below are some excerpts worth mentioning System mobility is their top priority, which is helped by the 2x crop. Olympus primarily markets their cameras for photographers, but they have good video. They don’t have a “strong line of communication with the video audience” but they are still interested in growing […]
B&H Photo still has a variety of Panasonic and Olympus bodies and lenses on sale. Panasonic/Olympus Body Savings m43 Lens Savings
Olympus released firmware 2.1 for the OM-D E-M1 Mark II and it addresses issues with the Leica 200mm Corrected issue of C-AF not operating correctly when using the “LEICA DG ELMARIT 200mm F2.8 / POWER O.I.S. (H-ES200)” interchangeable lens produced by Panasonic. You can download the update here.
LensRentals compared their 40mm range of m43 lenses and came up with some surprising results. The Voigtlander 42.5mm f/0.95 was a great performer that sharpened up very quickly as it was stopped down, while the Panasonic Leica DG Macro Elmarit 45mm f/2.8 showed some worrisome sample variation, which led to disappointing results. I was surprised to see […]