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 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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