Last week our old server crashed two times. We had to make some space and we checked our database and old posts. And we noticed something we havn’t noticed before. I want to list you three rumors:
1) According to Mr. Watanabe (which has been interviewed by amateurphotographer) Olympus is working on camera above and below the E-P1. Source: http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk
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2)One (or both) camera will have an electronic viewfinder and faster AF and not get any bigger in size than E-P1
http://www.lemondedelaphoto.com/Entre-chat-a-propos-de-l-Olympus,2341.html
and
3) Zone-10 wrote a very long article over the E-P1. It is a very interesting text and they included following prediction:
“I fully expect to see Olympus introduce a “pocket-camera” Digital Pen that does not take interchangeable lenses. It will have an extending zoom lens, or another model may have a fixed 35mm equivalent lens which will close up flush. The Infinity Stylus Zoom film cameras would be good cameras to model this after. Â The clamshell or sliding cover design is still viable and I have one which goes most everywhere with me. But pocketability is not in the design specification for the E-P1 and nor should it be–let that be a feature for another model based on the same sensor design.”
http://zone-10.com/cmsm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=438&Itemid=1
In summary if Olympus is working on a model belove the E-P1 and that model will probably not be bigger in size…Zone-10 may be right and Olympus is working on a “compact E-P1” with non interchangeable lenses! A cheaper Leica X1
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Maybe a good idea for people who want the quality of a mFT camera but not the interchangeable lenses. Clamshell rules.
I’m more interested in the advanced version though 😉 Weather sealed and top performance please. Not that that is going to happen.
Just use some glue and stick your 14-42mm to EP-1 so you can’t change it ever! 😉
A camera with lower specs than the E-P1? That is hard to imagine.
It makes sense. We can all think of features to add to a camera positioned above the E-P1, but what would you take away to make something lower than the E-P1? There isn’t much stuff to remove other than the interchangeable lens. I would be happy if they make a clamshell pocket camera that actually does fit in a pocket.
A non-interchangle m3/4rds would probably bring us back to the time when we had our typical film P&Ss.
olympus is running out of ideas to think about fixed lenses after doing interchange. apparently that will make solving the AF speed problem easier, but who wants a dp1 pathetic type of camera. no thanks olympus will eventually go bankrupt and be taken overnight by panasonic, no Pen nor Hen just a Cock, Leica will also be liquidated and sold on ebay, panasonic will be the only bidder then we’ll have panolyica cameras.