Image on top shows the very first Olympus MFT prototype camera 🙂
Well, year 2014 is over and I hope 2015 will bring us even more new cameras than 2014! We already know the E-M5II is coming in early february and also two new Panasonic MFT cameras (one with and one without 4K). There is also a high end fixed lens Olympus camera to come too. But now let’s see what 43rumors readers dreamcamera for 2015 is:
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I want a MTF camera without bayer sensor. Foveon like sensor!!! And square sensor.
Yes please to a foveon sensor. A square/oversize one for added awesome. In a E-M5 or GX form factor.
+1
Apart from the E-M5 II, the camera most poised for an update is the GX7. Hopefully, the current deep discounts on it suggest that the GX8 is on its way and will be the remedy to all of the GX7’s shortcomings.
Not even an OPTION for a 4/3 SLR… Just sayin’…
a mirrorless E-1
With the EM1, Olympus basically said “this is your 4/3 update.” No use waiting for something that isn’t going to happen.
I would like Olympus to make a GX7 style camera with IBIS, a good corner EVF like EM1, especially a global shutter, AF like Sony A6000, blazing fast AF, of course tiltable touchscreen, as small and light as possible.
I afraid it might take years time from now on or it just not going to happen .
I suspect you’ll get what you want from Panasonic first.
Square sensor E-P6 please [ and E-M1 II obviously – perfect market segmentation ]. And a full frame Olympus XA II. That would be an awesome and highly practical combo for everyday photography.
IQ wise i have no real wish, just love the E-1 because of its design and use
Just an OMD EM1 with a shift sensor and NO movie capacity with price lowered accordingly.
i smell a snob here
Just someone who doesn’t give a damn for paying for movies capacity which he has and will never use. In french there are two quite different terms for a stil and a movie camera, if I buy a still camera it is because I don’t need the movie camera. 🙂
+1
Drdeo and some others seem to second my wish !
When you enter a Porsche dealership you don’t want to drive away with a Brake.
weird comparison, but i wish you good luck.
well its part of the sensor and chips , so if you dont wnt it, they have to cripple it, which means it wont get any cheaper, so i must grin about your reasons…..just dont use it….I dont use high isos or caf etc…should i ask to remove them because i want something cheaper or they are not good for me? nonsense imo.
I think you should.
Hybrids are the reality. The integration of these two (stills and motion) are becoming an economic necessity. The days of just stills has gone into the soft good-night.
Rangefinder style with:
-EVF,
-4K (good codec, video options as well),
-WIFI,
-tethering via USB, USB3
-weather sealing,
-new sensor (DR, ISO, don’t need more than 16mp),
-improved IBIS,
-additional grip,
-electronic global shutter 1/32000s
Anything else is not that important for me. But also nice to have would be
-sensor shift high resolution stills,
-APS-C multi aspect sensor.
-good C-AF maybe with phase detection
-2 SD slots
-improved features like auto panorama, time lapse, 4K pic extraction like the Pana cams all have…
E-M5 II would also be okay, but I like LX7 style better.
*GX7
What about a Digital Olympus XA? Small, fullframe, great lens!
Hope to see the AF100-successor in 2015!
I would like to see a new mirrorless medium format system from Olympus, based on a 36X36mm chip. The square format might enable smaller lenses. Three primes, 28, 58 and 105mm should do.
sounds good, though i prefer them to use a bigger square sensor like 48×48 as a 36er gives about the same looks in rendering as a 24×36 and if goin MF then better also go for a similar looks. If not I could still dig a 36, but then they should focus on a compact design if possible.
A GX8 with better IBIS, one that stabilises in viewfinder as you manually focus.
A first curtain and quiet leaf shutter. fast read sensor for non-jello silent shutter.
Longer battery life.
Flip out screen like G and GH.
Or all of the above but in a G7 body that brings back the manual dials and levers of G1 and G2
Plus the AF-MF switch of the GF1 in some form and a quality front+reverse adjustment wheel like GX7/EM5 not the rubbish thing on the G6 G5
Not that I really need a new m43 body….
A GM with 4K is missing on the list. I hope the Panasonic entry level 4K camera is a new GM.
Back then, when I saw that Picture of the Olympus MFT Prototype I was instandly convinced that I would buy into this system sooner or later. At that time, I was looking for a small camera in addition to the big heavy Nikon I had to carry arround. I had a high quality Contax T2 in the analog age and there was nothing comparable in digital.
On trade shows and other occasions, I asked people from Leica and Nikon why they are not putting a larger sensor into a compact camera. Then Sigma had something but the autofocus was terrible.
With the anouncement of Olympus and Panasonic everything changed. When I had a first hands on the Panasonic GF1 and saw the handling and the fast autofocus, it was a “shut up and take my money” situation. The GF1 was bought as second cam but it didn’t take long to convinced me to switch completely to MFT.
So thank you for the picture and reactivation old memorys.
Your story is same as mine .
When I first meet GF1 , I fall in love with it’s photos & the camera design so lovely that make me have no doubt to go for it .
It was a beautiful romance….. 🙂
How about an E-M1 without 4K? I don’t want to pay more money for something I do not use, give me a photographers camera, not a videographers camera!
+100 (not realistic…but I like the sentiment!),
That is exactly what a true camera manufacturers should focus on ,
STILL IMAGING .
i think you should realise that the video stage is in faster development than the stills, because its easier to make progress there. Thats why it seems the companies come up with lesser progress on the stills section.
Wow , GX8 top of the list .
I vote for GX8 , EPM3 & something else .. That is another very highend RF camera above GX called GL .
I would like to see a full-blown Olympus OMD E-M2…not an E-M1 II w/4K. First..I don’t care about the video….I LIKE the fact that Olympus has focused on good still cameras. I don’t want to see a half-baked upgrade. I want a whole new Sony sensor with significant noise and DR improvement. I want the 40mp sensor-shift tech. I want greatly improved CAF to go with that new 300mm Prime…. F Yeah!
You are not afraid once the camera you wish turn to reality means end of your C**** fairy tale ?
I like my current fairy tale….been shooting a lot, received 40-150mm f/2.8 & have Nocticron on the way as receive VERY good deal from Tokyo.
I there is a great new E-M2 it will be icing on my fairy tale!!!! 🙂
you are making me drool lol
A new Panasonic like L1 with the possibility to use 4/3 lens e micro 4/3 (the same system of Olympus E-M1)
I don’t understand the need for a FF Olympus. Sony is currently producing great mirrorless FF cameras, with good IBIS on their most recent iteration. Native lenses are coming to market too (still more bodies than lenses but hey… It’s Sony). The only caveat is the size of the lenses, which is completely normal considering FF size sensor. I can’t think of a way Olympus would catch up with Sony FE at this point.
Olympus lenses for that system would be great.
Only when Oly also makes the bodies because the Sony bodies suck.
i think so too though i dont mind a bigger sensor if they can do something close to MF camera, not because of the more MP, but the MF style in looks of the photos possible
Olympus is simply better that Sony: far better lenses, better designed bodies that can be used professionally, better support and unlike Sony they stay dedicated to their customers.
So of course everybody wants a FF from a good camera company like Olympus instead of a company like Sony who thinks cameras are a fashion accessory. The A7 had horrible ergonomics and the A7II is not much better. I tried to use the A7 for a shoot but it was just no fun to use and I want to concentrate on the model and the composition and not fiddle with the camera or be annoyed by it.
An Olympus FF would beat the pants of any Sony FF because you can actually work with it.
And oh yeah, Sony ibis is crap. Tried it and it sucks for stills and is a joke for video. No thanks!
FF is not what I want. I love my tiny M43 kit. And new bodies without a quantum leap in sensor tech will happen regardless. So the camera I want is an affordable medium format rangefinder style fixed lens camera. Like a Fuji X100. If it catches on, an interchangeable system could follow. That AND my M43 would be the perfect combo.
Sony was rumored to show such a product, let’s see.
Trip Digital: A small pocket camera with a fixed low light lens that takes fantastic photos and sells at a decent price. A camera where taking a bad photo takes work.
If it has a 2 x crop factor and a 18 / 19 / 20mm prime somewhere around f/1.7 or faster: yes!
Voted for G7 (maybe with 4K). G-series always promises a good value for money. But only interesting if the tiltable touchscreen is not economized and it has a new sensor + better EVF.
One option is missing: “I don’t care, I’ve got a camera already, and I just need to use it more” 🙂
What!? You dare to second guess GAS as a universal truth!?
there no life without GAS
G.A.S. is the very sustenance of life!! hee…hee….
+1 here 🙂
That’s actually the best option.
It would be nice to add in improved focusing performance to that hypothetical EM1 II. I’m assuming the bitrate would also be improved for such an EM1 II
I really want someone to hack the GH3, GH4 and more importantly to me, the G6. I remember when I was looking into getting a m43 camera for filming, one of the big plus’ for me was the hacking scene on the GH2 and G3. I got my G6 for many reasons but one was the hope that it would be hacked. This unfortunately hasn’t happened yet and the scene looks like it’s moved on…
I want to see a gm5 competitor…an E-m100 (with 3 axis stabilization).
I wish for a Panasonic GH5 with the new organic sensor, 38 MP (in 4/3 format), a very good 4K from 4 to 1 pixel binning and if it’s possible I wouldn’t mind an 8K 24p option also :). I would gladly pay 2000$ for it.
38 MP in 4/3 sensor ?
Someone even ambitious than me .
Go ahead , count me in .
Another book for beginners, and keep the change. You will thank me one day.
Viezuvure, has Canon sent you payment this week to troll on the internet? A book for beginners is indeed recommended, “the book of how to get rid of internet Trolls, simple and easy.” ;).
i bid with a wish for a 80 MP sensor, who offers more? lol
You are not ambituous, just overambituous.
In Panasonic/Fuji paper, the new organic sensor is described to be 1,2 times better at handling noise. I think a 38 MP sensor (equal in size to the multi-aspect sensor in GH2) with this technology can have a similar pixel per pixel noise to GH4.
Yes it may sound ambitions, but I think is doable.
A 1,8 crop factor is close enough to the cinema super 35mm field of view and I bet may video enthusiasts and professionals will be very interested in such a camera.
Buy a photo schoolbook for 20$ and keep the change.
I see that Canon feels very threatened by GH4 and all Panasonic 4K cameras, that needs to pay trolls like you to pollute the internet with nonsense!
You see nothing, that tiny vf is too dark. Have you started your course yet?
Way such am unfriendly tone, did Canon cut your payment for today? I think is hard these days to both pay trolls to pollute the internet and make decent cameras. That’s the reason Canon has fallen from nr. 1 on video front to the bottom. LOL
My dream camera:
– GX7 body
– 4K
– 120fps @ 1080
– Improvement RD
– HDMI output active
– Longer battery life than actual GX7
– Better dynamic range 13.2/14.2 EV
– Better light sensitivity
– Aspect ratio with anamorphic mode included 1.33/1.5/2.
Let me awake. 🙁
My dream camera:
– GX7 body
– 4K
– 120fps @ 1080
– HDMI output active
– Longer battery life than actual GX7
– Better dynamic range 13.2/14.2 EV
– Better light sensitivity
– Aspect ratio with anamorphic mode included 1.33/1.5/2.
Let me awake. 🙁
Tweak the body and grip a bit, too!
Beef up and extend the grip to the top plate.
Shift the shutter button on top of the grip… like the A6000.
In the space where the shutter button was, add a dual-mode drive dial like the GH2, which incorporates single, multi and timer functions with a focus mode selector switch.
Add a beefier thumb rest, like the EM1
Don’t see the need for that drive dial. Do you really change that that often? It is already only 1 button push away in the current GX7….
I’m not a fan of menu diving and any extra button pushes are too many!
Having used my GH2 for several years, the lack of that dial is one of the things miss most (multi-aspect ratio sensor and articulated screen are the others). I often switch between pinpoint focus and the other modes, as well as different drive modes, though not as often. Direct access with a dial is simple and direct.
+1
Better IBIS would be nice as well.
You play with yourself much too much. Find your mate zeikon, she has the same problems. Have I just created a wedding?
LX200 with
Touch screen.
Articulated LCD.
Using the full m4/3 sensor instead of cropped!
The new Panasonic compact seems OK but it is pricier than the G1X2, which has better IQ and a better UI. So, give it a better UI and cut the price.
Larger sensor would also be interesting, but I am afraid it may be too late, and it would be priced out of the market as usual.
Trip 35 fixed lens full frame camera
Nah, Sony already did that. So it needs to be medium format sensor.
My dream m43 camera is next generation of Lumix GH camera, which is able to shoot 4K 50p, 120 fps, UHS ll SD card support, 4:2:2 color and wish for new lens type especially for cine.
Lots of people think mirrorless Full frame will kill m43, but I hope Panasonic and Olympus will keep it up, and kill APSC, which is in the middle.
why do you wish to see a format be killed? there is a difference between thinking and hoping.
People seek Validation for their brand and format choice. They want to be mr. Right so that they can gloat like the 7 year old school boy that they are #1
Modular body with S35 sensor. Naked “cube” that could be used as a POV camera or could be built up for full cine use. I.e. no built in LCD, EVF, grip, media, battery, controls…. nothing, but with attachments can be configured for anything, street shooter, action cam, EFP, etc… JVC has shown that S35 can be implemented with m43 mount and many people like myself predominantly use adapted lenses.
Take a look at the RED. It has a S35 sensor and a modular body just like in your description.
Great to see the GX8 at the top. The current GX7 is a very powerful camera (best-of-breed AF, fast X-Sync at 1 / 320s, perfectly usable EVF, GPS support / smartphone, amazing lens eco system).
The GX8 should:
– be a bit bigger
– have an on / off switch which is removed from the mode dial
– IBIS for video
Other than that this beauty is quite perfect.
No it just says that there is a majority noobs voting for Panny. But the GX7 doesn’t even touch the OM-D sales.
Back to your Ignorant old man ways, are you Amalric?
Racial spewing from your hands soon to follow?
What, people can’t vote panasonic because they have no camera history?
Get Over it. See Sony.
No camera history. Thanks for the concept 🙂
That EVF is far from usable. Hopefully Panny fixes that in the GX8.
EVF on the GX7 sucks badly. E-M1 one is much much better. I would sell my GX7 just for that and for the clunky shutter noise…
When I see that 22% vote for a FF OMD, I just think that people will never learn. Sad. Elsewhere they have learned. Here it must be a somehow lowly crowd 🙂
For full-frame mirrorless, Sony is doing a pretty good job with the A7-series.
It makes no sense for Olympus, or Panasonic for that matter, to deplete already skimpy resources by introducing a new mount.
It’s not even a matter of resources. Oly & Panny have achieved an original format which gives better results than 24×36 film.
And you won’t see or need the digital equivalent unless you double the resolution. To what purpose? Lack of ideas?
I’m not the one lacking imagination.
I have 135 format lenses, from various systems, from 20mm to 300mm in most of the classic focal lengths. It would be nice to use them at their intended fields of view without factoring in a sensor crop.
135 format is THE crop format… There ain’t a single 135 format lens that doesn’t have a crop factor.
Huh?
Nikon or Pentax lenses designed for 35mm film cameras have a crop factor?
WTF are you smoking?
Can I have some? 😉
LOL now m43 is better than 135? You need a new pusher.
Yes, I have stated the reasons many times, and I know that Olympus, one of the oldest camera makers in the World, chose it deliberately.
If you don’t know them perhaps you should google or check Wikipedia. The IQ is suitable for the best photog., but then of course you should be one, and have talent, instead of technical greed.
2014-12-19 11:18 GMT+01:00 Disqus :
Good job you are here to teach us. By the way, your pics are ridiculously bad. Is it a humorous blog you had in mind?
I like the prototype PEN. It’s simple, modern and elegant.
It’s too bad they went all retro.
Looks good jeff, but the usability looks sacrificed in the name of a clean prototype design.
Just pop one of those Oly $100 grips on there for proper handling. 😉
It’s a mass market product with its biggest market in Asia. Taste (in the Western/European sense) is not going to sell well.
Either bling in modern parlance, or retro cool is what appeals to their mass market.
It’s why many Japanese and Korean car makers set up foreign design shops.
What we regard as tasteful they regard as boring and bland.
Different outlook.
Nikon aps-c or ff serious mirrosless. Superb EVF and af-adapter to Nikkors. Canon Eos M pro would be equally nice too.
LOL! Sure, nikkor iz da very bestah! Wonna buy one ah!!!
I want to see EM1 at $500
once I’ve broken mine beyond repair, I’ll let you know…
Ahahahah, keep waiting. 🙂
The cheapest C and N cost less than that and beat the crrp out of any m43.
Yeah, right. Very entertaining.
Looks like its gx8 🙂
I’ll vote for an EM1ii , GX8 and EP6
But only so it brings down the price of the former model 😉
Oly:
– E-M5 mk2 without hump.
… and that’s pretty much covers it for me.
Pana:
– Electronic FCS on all new cameras. Full e-shutter is simply unusable indoors with 50Hz mains.
– IBIS on all new cameras. Even if only 2-axis and stills-only.
– DFD on all new cameras.
– G7: a cheaper GH4: less 4K, no yagh and cheaper body.
– GM5 mk2 which is usable indoors with 50Hz mains and the energy-saving, halogen and LED lights. (Electronic FCS might suffice.)
P.S. Why no GX8 vote from me? Because I already own the GX7 😉
Is the because all the Pen users gave up on the Pen, and moved to the GX7? (that’d be my situation) and folks who want performance like the EM series?
I’d actually like to see an E-5 successor
Specs would be:
E-M1 sensor
Articulating 3 inch touchscreen
7fps or higher
5 axis IS
built-in WiFi and NFC
USB 3.0
1080p video
4K you mean?!
Maybe, at least 60p, 4k would probably make it cost near 3 grand
i still don’t get how smartphones can probbaly shoot 32K by next year but we’re still left with 1080p video. Of course it’s shit quality, but damn it, I at least want to be able to produce something in 4K.
I’d like to see a proper camera. Olympus OM was astounding in the 80s, then they stopped improving… They also have cheatish marketing, which I like even less. And cheatish boards, which I like even less. All in all, that puny sensor is witness to a desperate scam. Horrid.
What I want isn’t a listed choice. How about a EM-5II or a EM-1II with 2.7K video, instead of 4K?
they actually have tilty screens. not as flexible as the flippy ones, but also not as fragile.
And Tilt Screens are useless when shooting Portrait. So what’s your point??
BTW the 70D was announced on July 2 2013, and I’ve seen no stories of Fragile Flippy Screens in the Canon forums.
Fully articulated hinges are unusable for any photography! Go back to your cinema cave and stop telling trash!
Let me add that Sony knows how to make display rotate vertically too, but takes space!
http://www.yannickciancanelli.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/DSC08086-Yannick-Ciancanelli-1024×682.jpg
This poll is not about what YOU want in a camera, but what nearly ever mft user wants, even if there is the argument that articulated screens are a compromise to durability, that is assuming that the materials used to connect the display to the body are incredibly flimsy, and when seeing high-end camera bodies like the NX1 and D750, the hinges used are incredibly robust, as there is not worry of the camera being compromised, unless you intentionally try to break it or rip it off to prove your point, which means that you would have voided your warranty to try and make a statement, which is all too much of a hassle.
you do have a point with portrait, although i never shoot in portrai in awkward situations and never really heard of anyone doing it … it seems like a reasonable compromise. don’t get me wrong, i also prefer flippy screens but for those use cases – well, there’s at least an app for that.
The fully articulated screen that turns to side is a NO-GO to photography
1) as you lose orientation
2) you can’t get correct grip from left side
3) screen hinge is more fragile.
If you need such, get a smartphone and pair it with your e-m1 and you can have camera as low you want!
The turning screen is one of the most gimmick features there is.
If Olympus wants to improve the current one, just add more degrees to middle hinge so screen can be taken backward little more.
actually id like an em5 with 4k, but since there’s none: gx8, here i come.
Would like Olympus with 4 K and 24 megs,flip screen,time lapse
I’d love to see the Olympus TRIP-D because it would exude retro coolness and be a competitor for the Fuji X-100. However, as far as practical every day cameras go I’d like to see a successor to the GX1 which seems to have disappeared into the gap between the GX7 and GF6.
I’m eagerly anticipating the future of the rx10 and fz1000. The Fz1000 is one of the most enjoyable cameras I’ve used. Unfortunately, the sensor is just shy of cutting it for me. A MFT or APS-C sensor version I think would be phenomenal.
I want the E-7 DSLR! With 10mm, 12mm, & 14mm f/2 FT primes. We need a better sensor with higher ISO sports than the E-5. Give it the OM-D EM-1 16 mp sensor. The E-7 then can be the last DSLR. Just keep making them for the next 5 years.
I would like to to see a X T1 alike camera from Panasonic with a focus is on analog operations.
Specs:
– 5-axis IBIS
– 24 mp organic sensor
– Large EVF
– Weathersealed
– New jpeg engine
– Touch enabled, tilt and rotatable screen
– 4K
– Connectivity / app centric
Envisage camera to sit on the GX line and hoping to see a line of small, weathersealed lenses starting with wide primes. Theses should all have aperture rings and distance scale focus rings
E-7. A real camera. A pro camera.
GX7 successor in an OMD style body (hate the grip, the off-center lens mount and the 16:9 ratio viewfinder) with 24 MP and a very clean ISO 50/100 (don’t care about high iso) and a 4:3 viewfinder!
GH2 body would be great, but not copying an Olympus ergonomic disaster EM5 or EM10. And certainly not the outdated retro, function-follows-form style.
My dream camera would be E-M1 with image quality that could compete with Sony A7s and continuous autofocus that would compete with Canon 7D Mark II.
I do not care about 4k, video features or price.
Please add vastly better sensor and continuous autofocus system..
The continues autofocus in 7DMk2 is a joke. It fails very often and difference is huge when compared to photos when it nails the focus!
Canon 7D Mark II Real World Review: http://youtu.be/UX6gK0bkq3g
Even of you wouldn’t care him (many don’t… I don’t) he really shows how 7D Mk2 autofocus is not good enough for sport photographers.
There is a missing option, a Medium Format from Olympus with few new lenses in MDN like design!
Puny Small Format is not enough to give better quality than E-M1 and only Medium Format can do it!
APS is already way better…
“APS is already way better…”
Not really..
LX-8 Please. My LX-7 just died, and until Panny comes up with a replacement (not stupid lx100 failure), ive switched to Rx100 iii. Wishlist – 20 megapixel, keep flash, awesome macro, lens, 120fps video, same size as lx-7.
Why no four-thirds ? lol
I want Olympus’s answer to the RX100 III, Olympus colors and a zoom that goes to 100mm equivalent at least. No need for an integrated EVF, just make the camera focus quickly and it’ll sell like hotcakes!
As Oly user what I would like to see next year from Olympus it is really fast lenses: around f1.0 fast lens, that is what we need…
Almost finished with Olympus. Sold E-P5s and bought an LX100. Looking forward to the GX7 replacement. I still have my E-PM2 for the Sony sensor and Olympus JPEG. I’ll use Panasonic for video or anything else.
I just would like 2012 1080p quality video on the Olympus cameras. That would be nice.
I forgot to add, i’d like to see XAVC-S as a feature