I got the exact announcement time for the new Olympus E-Pl7. It will be announced tomorrow (Thursday August 28) at 6am London time. I don’t know if Olympus will announce the 40-150mm PRO and Siler E-M1 too. I guess the answer is yes. And than there is a new firmware update to come for the E-M1 too.
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I would love to purchase the Olympus E-PL7 along with an Olympus 9mm 1.8 and Olympus 75mm 1.8 – I would sell my Sony NEX 6 tomorrow if this were to be available!
Why not EP5 ?
The value of EP5 should be drop a bit & it value for $$$ than this new EPL7 .
goin cheap now Yun? you almost sound like me now lol
Yes .
I’m back to unemployed again .
Hard time ahead .
Even shooting models , have to be picky now .
we in the same boat then
Who cares?
Who cares that you don’t!
The GM2 annoucement would be more interesting than this one .
Absolutely true, the E-PL7 will not be small. I want a really small m43 camera, be it with fixed lens or an improved GM1, I was already considering the RX100III due to the lack of that.
Just to be different, putting a cat amongst the pigeons, you could use a Canon G1X-II that has a sensor the size of 4/3’s with a 5 X zoom lens. You can add an EVF if you wish too. But maybe that isn’t small enough for you as well. http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canon-powershot-g1-x-mark-ii
That G1X 2 is another overprice stuff .
No worth of it .
Forget about Canon , it can’t excel in the category .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG3NlqwKCFI
Thanks. I’ll make sure I’ll advise prospective users away from it then. It certainly isn’t of interest to me, but die-hard Canon users might still like it.
I bought the Stylus 1 that others said was overpriced (although I got it cheaper), but I love it as a carry anywhere camera (instead of my OM’D’s).
I just looked it up & it (G1X II) is bigger. Sorry! 😉
no 4k is the end of Olympus
sure sure
by moviemaker
8/28
E-PL7 and ED12mm Black
9/9or12
E-M1 Silver and 40-150mm Pro
Any rumours about EM10 firmware update?
8K video, 24 frames per second for stills, battery lifetime almost doubled with firmware and pink unicorn for those who are ex-Canikon.
Seems like a good upgrade from my E-PL1.
Let me guess. 16mp.
And if you would want to get noticeable difference to resolution, you would need 64Mpix. Only then you would have 2 pixels instead 1 pixel giving more details.
Are you saying that linear resolution has to be doubled (and hence total pixel count quadrupled) in order to get a visible difference? That sounds strange to me.
The same reasoning leads to the conclusion that there is no visible difference between 16 MP and 12, 10 or 8 MP. You have to go down to 4 MP to see a difference! That is just not true.
Olympus crashed and burned in the DSLR world, and then rationalized it away by saying that DSLRs are stupid.
Now they can’t get beyond the 16mp plateau and they again try to spin it away… 4mp, 16mp, 64mp… what’s the difference?
this is not true.
there is a noticeable difference in resolution between 12MP and 16MP. Earthshattering and lifechanging? No – but it’s there – measurable and noticeable for pixel peepers. A step up from 16MP to say 24MP would be definitely noticeable.
you dont have to think like: in order to get any more detail than 1 pixel, you will need 2 pixels. This is true of course, but that doesn’t mean you always have to keep doubling pixels to see a difference.
Think of it in terms of the number of lines that can be drawn.
Going from 4000×3000 pixels (12MP) to 4600×3450 (16MP) – there is a potential of resolving 300 more vertical lines more, from 2000 to 2300 lines – that’s a 10% increase in resolution for a 33% increase in MP…
So doubling the amount of pixels horizontally and vertically, or going from 16MP to 64MP will give 100% increase in resolution, for a 300% increase in MP.