Olympus/Leica/Panansonic 4/3 system

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 11:10 pm

New DSLR from Panasonic (similar to Olympus E330), new Leica and Olympus lenses for the 4/3 system. Looks like this system has a 2x crop.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0602/06022607olympuspanas.asp

Sigma announces 5 lenses now available for the 4/3 system...

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0602/06022611sigma43rds.asp

Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 211 Location: California

Thanks for the update Supercell. This has stirred up quite some excitement over at the 4/3's forum. I just hope Leica will produce top quality lenses for this system. I'm not impressed with their current fixed lenses for much of the panasonic product line.

I don't think this link is up on this forum yet but it seems to be pretty interesting:

http://www.pma-show.com/2006/digital_camera/panasonic_review/014_panasonic_lumix_dmc_l1.html

4/3's Panasonic DSLR and 4/3's Leica lens ...finally more are jumping into the 4/3's boat.

Cheers

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:21 pm

reads to me as if the lens mounts will be compatible between Oly and Panasonic. This can only be a good thing.

Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 211 Location: California

They interviewed a Panasonic official and found out that it will be interchangeable between systems. The only thing that won't work with the leica lens is OIS mode 2. Mode 1 will work. The difference is that mode 1 is compensating all the time, where mode 2 waits for the shutter button to be depressed. I also believe the aperture ring will only work in mode A on Olympus bodies. That means you can only change the aperture using the body aperture controls. Makes sense...