In an interesting interview with DPReview published early this morning, Olympus VP of Global Strategy Setsuya Kataoka tried to shed more light on what the sale of the Imaging Division means for users of Olympus cameras and lenses moving forward.
As you might imagine, the interview’s primary focus was the future of Olympus camera gear […]. petapixel.com
Olympus has entered talks to sell its imaging camera business to investment fund Japan Industrial Partners by the end of 2020. photographyblog.com »
2020-06-25 18:00
Olympus Corporation (“Olympus”) and Japan Industrial Partners, Inc. (“JIP”) hereby announce that today, the parties signed a memorandum of understanding to carveout Olympus’s Imaging business Read more... canonrumors.com »
2020-06-24 17:50
Olympus has announced it's agreed in principle to divest itself of its imaging business by transferring it to a new company that will continue to run it. The company that will run the new business is Japan Industrial Partners, and Olympus hopes that the final agreement will be made in September and the deal closed by the end of the calendar year. dpreview.com »
2020-06-24 17:44
To celebrate its 100th anniversary, Olympus has shared a trio of short documentary videos showing the history and subsequent evolution of its three primary business divisions: medical, scientific solutions and imaging. dpreview.com »
2019-05-13 05:00
It's that season! If you're thinking about heading outside to go photograph in the snow, then OM SYSTEM has a bunch of cameras and lenses that are perfect for you. And if you are looking to take your photography even further, then they've got features that pretty much no other camera system has.
OM SYSTEM users are pretty lucky. Not only do they have one of the most unique and innovative cameras on the market in the form of the OM1, but they've also got access to fantastic lenses. Formerly Olympus, OM SYSTEM lenses cover a very broad range.
OM Digital Solutions has announced the Olympus M. Zuiko Digital ED 8-25mm f/4 Pro Lens for Micro Four Thirds (MFT). This 35mm equivalent 16-50mm lens promises to cover a wide range of shooting scenarios with its versatile wide-angle up to “normal” focal range.
Since the completed transfer of Olympus’s imaging division to Japan Industrial Partners (JIP), the company has not announced or even hinted at any concrete examples of new products. But the company has continued to put significant press efforts behind promising that it will… eventually.
I had a chance to test a very rare lens: the Zuiko Auto-T 180mm f/2 ED-IF, an Olympus super-telephoto lens from the early 80s. Back then, the OM-system bodies that Olympus had were OM-3 and OM-4. Olympus had a very nice line up of Zuiko lenses for those cameras and other OM-system bodies. The one […]