GH4 Another "Sexy Beast" Lens : Olympus 40-150 f/2.8 to Ship in November for $1499

Better yet it would be nice to see Panasonic move to a sensor based stabilization for the GH5 and other future cameras instead of always trying to shoe horn it into the lens design. This wouldn't just benefit Olympus m43 lenses but the thousands of users that use adapted lenses with the m43 cameras. Imagine having stabilization on any Canon FD or Nikon mount lens you adapt to the camera. Even m43 3rd party lenses like Rokinon would really benefit from this.

Olympus made the better choice for stabilization with its cameras because this way the cost is kept lower and they can focus on really good glass. Heck not even all Panasonic lenses have stabilization. Many of the primes do not including the Leica 25mm f1.4 and the 20mm f1,7 pancake. By moving to sensor based stabilization for the GH5 even those two lenses would finally have stabilization.
 
All very nice, but I keep hoping for more and more and more lenses at the wide end. There are plenty of longer lenses that are made for or can be adapted to m4/3. It's really weak on the wide end. Fast wide open and stabilized - not many compared to longer lenses. How many 14mm primes for the m4/3 are there - there's the one by Panny and that's about it (and it's not exactly blazing fast at f/2.5 nor is it stabilized), the rest are zooms and not too many of those (that are fast); there's the Sigma 18-35 f/1.8 with SB I guess, but it's slim pickings.
 
I want a broadcast style zoom in the native MFT format. I dont care how big it is it would be amazing to go from 12-200 (MFT format) at f2.8. Maybe it's just me but that lens would never come off the GH4
 
There isn't even a 24-400/2.8 on FX as it is! The Olympus 40-150/2.8 is already coming close to a kilogram, what you want is going to be quadruple the weight at least.
 
I was reading that the hood slides out. It's part of the lens. Thats pretty cool. Also the front doesn't protrude out when shooting telephoto.
 
Jim Simon said:
God, I hope not. Optical is the way to go. It's the lens makers who need to get on the ball here.
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Nonsense. Optical may be superior, but what is best is to have both, and then it should be user selectable as to which to use in a given situation. That way, when the lens has stabilization, you could go with that, and if it does not - as tons, and tons and tons and tons of lenses don't, you could switch to sensor-stabilization and have that option, because however better the optical is, sensor is still better than nothing. This way you have the best of both worlds. And there is nothing technically impossible about this, except adding a bit of cost. In fact, I predict, one day that's how all cams will be.
 
When the 7-14 is out, the 12-40 and this one will be a great large range setup. There's something about using native glass over even top quality adapters.
 
So when you click the link to B&H the lens shown looks considerably different than what was posted. Was the OP's image like an early mockup?
 
Besides Olympus which other manufacturers have adopted sensor-block stabalization?!?

So far it seems lens-based stabalization has been superior but I too would love to have both options available.
 
Jim Simon said:
God, I hope not. Optical is the way to go. It's the lens makers who need to get on the ball here.
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And how are they going to "get on the ball" with adapted lenses or all the lenses people already own? Sure perhaps optical stabilization is better but clearly it is a very limited choice considering the amount of adapted lenses that are used on the GH cameras. While maybe not as good of a form of stabilization it would open up a whole new world in terms of stabilized shooting for hundreds of lenses out there. We are also moving further into an age of people taking 3rd party lenses seriously and an increasing market of using lenses not native to the camera. Even some Nikon or EF lenses that have stabilization built in will never work in these situations. This is where having in body stabilization would be a huge feature. Having a form of stabilization is better then not having one at all.
 
Thomas Smet said:
Better yet it would be nice to see Panasonic move to a sensor based stabilization for the GH5 and other future cameras instead of always trying to shoe horn it into the lens design. This wouldn't just benefit Olympus m43 lenses but the thousands of users that use adapted lenses with the m43 cameras. Imagine having stabilization on any Canon FD or Nikon mount lens you adapt to the camera. Even m43 3rd party lenses like Rokinon would really benefit from this.
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+1000
No more discarding loads of lenses and looking for a compromise to get a specific shot.
This is a one thing that I truly hate to bits: getting those micro shakes.
 
Is "optical stabilization is better" a video thing as opposed to still photos? I ask cause the 5-axis in- camera stabilization of the Olympus OM-D EM-1 is superb for photos. And the EM-1 allows use of in-camera or lens optical stabilization if it is present - user selectable. I've never tried the em-1 video so not sure it would stabilize well or not. Too bad it's video isn't better.

Bob
 
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