As we all noticed Olympus didn’t launch any FourThirds camera since a very long time. Maybe that’s why Kirk Tuck and Bill Beebe tought it would be nice to help Olympus a little bit by expressing their own wishlist 🙂
Read the wishlist from Kirk Tuck and the wishlist from Bill Beebe!
Thanks noisycamera !
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I’ve never been impressed with Kirk Tuck’s work. It’s nice and clean, but corporate feeling, with little art in it. I realize he’s a patron saint of Olympus digital users lately, but never found him engaging in his writing (I have a couple of his books), and his work never seemed better than standard commercial portraits.
Bill Beebe has been reading my mind with the first path. Too bad there must be too little people thinking like us. 🙁
WT21, what is the point of your post? No response needed.
I found both articles interesting and agree with most of Kirk’s points for his “mainstream” next E-x, though the stripped down version would also be intriguing, much like a Caterham Super 7 is when compared to mainstream cars. But, then, Leica has the “boutique” premium camera market nailed down already, so don’t waste the resources.
For myself, it boils down to a few features:
1) improved DR
2) improved low-light noise free imaging
3) smaller body/lighter weight – the essence of Olympus; why does the E-1 always spring back to mind?
Compared to the above, video is way back there in my priorities but likely needed for the market. Same goes for MP’s; fine, if the new Panasonic 14 MP sensor offers true improvement in the first two points above, use it (may be needed to play to the market). And frame rate not a big deal for me; provide industry standard for advanced enthusiast cameras (which is what the E-x’s price point indicates it is) and be done with it.
The most controversial item is Kirk’s suggestion of using an EVF in a future generation; I agree, only go there when EVF truly matches the quality of the current OVF in all regards. The additional features would be great (histogram, white balance check, etc.) but not worth taking a step back in quality of the VF as a natural feeling picture taking tool.
The baked in E-x features of IS, dust removal, weather sealing, bullet proof build and tilt LCD should continue of course. And the E-P series can also continue as the technology leader/test bed, but it’s no substitute for 4/3’s given the quality lenses available at this time.
The article by Tuck resonates particularly well when thinking about the ideal
4/3 sensor professional or pro-sumer camera, and the comments are
particularly interesting while we wait for clarification of the Panasonic G2/G10
rumor specifications – see http://www.eoshd.com/entry.php?36-Panasonic-G2-and-G10-The-Affordable-HDSLRs
TrineCCD and full manual controls. I’m talking knobs here, like an old OM-1 or AE-1 or even the Canon G-series.
Steve — really, what’s the point to ANY post? Most of these posts on any of these forums are pointless. What’s the point of your post? Most of the time, it’s time killing.
But more specifically, my point is that I’m tired of the appeal to authority around m43 forums, especially to Mr. Tuck, who’s work is uninspiring except for it being clean and technically good. But, because he is so supportive of 43 and m43 and has a blog, people keep referencing him. I’d like to see less of him and more of others.
That’s the point of my post and, again, it’s as pointless as all the posts here. Just killin’ time while bored at work, and it’s all just as valuable as your post (which is to say, not valuable at all in either case).
btw — any camera wish list that includes “better DR and lower noise/higher ISO” as with Bill Beebe’s and others is pretty much stating the obvious. Who’s camera wish list DOESN’T include that exactly? How about something a bit more ground-breaking, please.
WT21 — I assume that you are referring to yourself as “bored at work”. Your two posts contribute little to the point of the discussion other than as put-downs because you appear to either not like who they are or their point of view. If you want to offer commentary relative to the wishlists theme then that’s great. Otherwise, I share Steve’s sentiments.
That Tuck guy might be a mediocre photographer but he’s made a good living from it with clients ranging from Elle to Dell and IBM to Time Warner. Perhaps the bored poster should look to some of Kirk’s work on Kirk’s site instead of the few photos that get posted in tiny sizes on fora or used in books to illustrate commercial photography techniques.
As far as his writing goes, it must be a miracle that he’s convinced someone to publish four books of mostly writing, had them languish in the top 2% of Amazon’s sellers for months and months, and even had to turn down multi book contracts. Surely the mark of a poor writer.
I would say Tuck would be better off working in a cube somewhere. Better let his blog subscribers know that they have been duped.
Hi Kirk!
I am glad you visited us! Don’t worry about bad comments. Everybody recieves them and usually people don’y care about them when they are nonsense 🙂