[Imaging Resource] Olympus patents six seriously bright lenses, including 12mm and 14

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It looks like Olympus is about to set a new benchmark in bright, wide-angle prime lenses, if a patent application uncovered by Japanese engineering blog Egami (http://egami.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2014-02-21) is anything to go by. And when we say bright, boy do we ever mean it! All six of the optics described in the patent filings have a maximum aperture in the neighborhood of f/1.0. Of the six lens designs, four look to be aimed at Micro Four Thirds bodies. According to Egami, their designs are conducive to autofocus, unlike Voigtländer's...
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