Two lenses on the OM Digital Micro Four Thirds lens roadmap haven’t yet been announced. Both lenses appear to be zooms, and they both also appear to be competitors with each other. Both lenses offer zoom ranges that start at about 50mm. One goes up to around 200mm and the other to around 250mm. What’s odd, though, is that both lenses appear to be in the “Pro” lens lineup section.
Producing two similar range zoom lenses might make sense if they’re targeted towards different markets. A fast f/2.8 version with the Pro moniker and a f/slow-slower version for those on a low budget. Whatever they are, they’re on the roadmap and will be coming at some point.
The two lenses look to offer focal length ranges of around 50-200mm and 50-250mm. Both are sitting in the “Pro” line of lenses, so we can assume that these are constant aperture zooms. Perhaps we’ll see the same pattern as with the 40-150mm. Two Pro lenses with constant apertures – one at f/2.8 (buy here) and one at f/4 (buy here). Of course, the 40-150mm also comes in a f/slow-slower variety (buy here), and the two new lenses don’t appear to have a consumer counterpart on the roadmap. Maybe once these two come out, we’ll see a variable aperture version coming to the roadmap. For now, we have to let these ones come first.
The two zooms were actually added to the roadmap in September 2022, but it’s recently been amended since the release of the ED 90mm f/3.5 Macro IS Pro lens (buy here). The two “Telephoto Zoom” listings still don’t have specific focal lengths, but maybe we’ll hear something soon.
[via Photo Rumors]
