Original Panasonic GH2 Footage – 720p50 (part 2) from Uwe Lansing on Vimeo.
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8 Responses
One more E-P2 color… New model must be coming soon, but when?
Why no silver EP2? Silver would be much better than white.
Basically I want an EP2 that looks like an EP1.
^ Loves his silver/black E-P1.
Yeah Olympus doesn’t put a whole lot of logic behind their color schemes.
Like “Let’s release a groundbreaking instantly recognizable flagship product in two standard colors, make a lot of waves, then upgrade it a scant six months later in a color shared by almost all other DSLRs on the planet. We’ll make a silver one but put it out in Japan only, because people in other countries don’t want these cameras, do they? THEN a year later we’ll announce…. a black lens and cap with a PEN F logo on it and the body color people favored the least! BRILLIANT!!” [cash rolls in]
Silver E-P2 was announced in May: http://www.43rumors.com/olympus-e-p2-now-in-silver/ . This is its third color and it covers E-P1 color range completely now.
You are absolutely correct!
I love being proven wrong. No one seems to stock it as much, which is probably why I hadn’t seen it up until now.
Thanks.
Ah yes, you are correct, released mid-May of this year, a full six months after it had been available in Japan.
To be fair a lot of Japanese electronics companies do this with color variations, it happens all the time with videogame consoles. I think it has to do with distribution, it’s much easier to supply limited stocks across a single country than to estimate demand across three continents.
they should have released the 1st E-PEN with a leather dressed body. i hated the supersmooth/shiny metal part & ordered the korean JnK leather upgrade to add it myself.
The video doesn’t look too bad either… dynamic range seems somewhat better than previous models, focus is reasonably fast, no banding as far as I can see.
Most importantly – clean pans with no rolling shutter artifacts! the 7D, according to a friend, suffers from a lot of problems in this respect.