The Shenzhen Mingjiang Optical Technology Group, which develops lenses under the TTArtisan brand, has officially joined the Micro Four Thirds Standard Group, paving the way for more budget-friendly third-party lenses for Micro Four Thirds camera systems. The Micro Four Thirds System standard was jointly announced by then-Olympus and Panasonic back in 2008 and has since brought on board 57 companies.

TTArtisan was established in June of 2019 and has obtained more than 10 patents for the development of camera lens technology. It currently sells its products in more than 30 countries and will now work with the Micro Four Thirds Standard Group, currently led by OM Digital Solutions, to further build and develop for cameras in the system. TTArtisan has been producing manual-focus lenses for a variety of lens mounts for the last several years, including Canon RF, Nikon Z, Sony E, Leica L, Fujifilm GFX, and Hasselblad X1D in addition to select lenses made for Micro Four Thirds.

While all seven of TTArtisan’s APS-C lenses are already available in Micro Four Thirds mounts, this partnership could see these lenses get internal microchips that are capable of transferring lens information, such as focal length and the current aperture.

More info on Micro Four Thirds website.