Rumors of a new pancake...

[Mister Big]

I've been reading about a new wide angle pancake for m43. Check it out...

http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/dcw/docs/353/659/html/40.jpg.html

 

[Peter J. DeCrescenzo]

Panasonic has it on its lens road map (see attached chart).

Along with a new zoom & fisheye, will probably been available somewhere in the world by the end of this year.

gh1 lens road map 2010.jpg

See also:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdc.watch.impress.co.jp%2Fdocs%2Fnews%2F20100309_353659.html&sl=ja&tl=en

 

[Mister Big]

The forthcoming lens appears to be a 2.5 instead of a 2.8. The difference is slight, of course.

 

[Peter J. DeCrescenzo]

The forthcoming lens appears to be a 2.5 instead of a 2.8. The difference is slight, of course.

Nice catch. Every extra 3/10 of a f-stop counts! ;-)