What a surprise. Olympus has taken the Pentax approach and created the colored [shoplink 18844]E-PL2[/shoplink] cameras. The website civic.alum.hk published those pictures (Click on them to enlarge).
What a surprise. Olympus has taken the Pentax approach and created the colored [shoplink 18844]E-PL2[/shoplink] cameras. The website civic.alum.hk published those pictures (Click on them to enlarge).
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I find the colour scheme makes them look like toys opposed to serious cameras :/
The E-PLX serie was never a serious camera.
WOT?
The E-PL2 beats or equals the E-P1/2 in every spec with the possible exception of build material, so do you consider that Olympus hasn’t made a single m43 serious camera yet?
Oh wait… You’re probably right! 🙁
eh… those are a year old cameras. what would you expect?
What was does the L word stand for again? Light my friend, light version of the E-PX serie.
That’s one of the reasons I like it…it doesn’t cry “My owner is a poser”, but inside it’s a quite capable tool.
yeah, but if attractive women buy these color schemed cameras, then we have a solid ice breaker for talking to these attractive women.
the more girls i see shooting with olympus, the better.
Yes, let’s add insult to the injury 🙁
Micro Four Third gone crazy.
http://www.bythom.com/2010%20Nikon%20News.htm (look for Nov 29 updated, Thom’s blog is a little hard to navigate)
Seriously and seriously thinking about NX100: http://www.bythom.com/compactmirrorless.htm and http://www.x-rumors.com/2011/01/07/samsung-unveils-the-exact-lens-release-roadmap-at-ces/
I think the colors are mock-up only which will never release to the market.
Hm, are you sure this is not just something like Colorware?
I admit, my Traditional Han is a bit rusty, but still…
I like the looks of the black E-PL2 and even the way it almost looks like an oversized P&S in silver (could be useful in a no professional camera zone), but I don’t quite get any other colours – not on the E-PLx nor on the G2 (or the GFx for that matter)
hmm they seem to look like skins… not really color variants
They are specially designed by designers and artists. They are just personalized versions. Not for sale.
boring camera 🙁 tire to see this type of the announcement.
Please try to put your energy to support Panasonic’s marketing and design capabilities rather than bashing Olympus & Admin, which seem to do a better efforts.
Not going to support any of the marketing 🙂 ‘they’ already know what user need they not really to bring those things in. In this round, oly knows what ladies need lol
I feel that majority of the manufacturers doesn’t like to dominate the market by introduced soso concept camera. In the past i felt d90 did the great job and it stand so long. its sell like a hotcake all the time. It took so long for Nikon to release another camera which is good approach since the built are alr few spec advanced than the other competitors that keep ‘you’ always appeared in the user mind when they want to purchase a camera.
Continue in this way just like a short term rally game, today O released 2 models, few month later you C released few models, another few months, S released few models, the game keep going. boring & tired…
btw, admin alr did good job as promptly keep fresh news to the readers 😀
If you are bored and tired, try using Olympus. The outstanding JPEG quality will make your photo’s shine and maybe your life in the end.
Just ‘outstanding jpeg quality’ feature is not enough ‘for me’ 😀 wish to grab one mature camera before death 😛
aint that girl on the right the one from the (asian) Nikon ad?
“yeah, but if attractive women buy these color schemed cameras, then we have a solid ice breaker for talking to these attractive women.
the more girls i see shooting with olympus, the better.”
Damn right!
“The E-PLX serie was never a serious camera.”
I would add a “meant”…Some are using it as a serious camera, because the image quality is good enough to beat other bigger cameras
I agree!
Well. I noticed that the middle white one (with red and blue) is a Bandai Anime Gundam Theme based design. I noticed the symbol of the Earth Federation Space Force there. 😀 So, I am guessing that these might be just sticker. Otherwise, Olympus must have partnership and copyright to make Bandai theme based Camera.
To me, it looks like they have been inspired by the recent limited edition Pentax cameras.
Why do these cameras with 14-42 lenses have the 17mm view finder on them?
as stated above, they look like a “design the E-PL2” thing more than anything. dressing up your PEN is highly promoted here in Asia, not sure for the rest of the world.
Maybe this could also be a very exclusive limited edition in Japan only.
Whats the viewfinder on red/blue/white camera?
It really looks sick!!! I want one 🙂
It’s so cute. 🙂
These girls are looking really, really nice….
uh.. must be a great small camera the E-PL2…
I agree..although they would look better wearing green :).
It is definitely inspired by Pentax K-x. In Japan, K-x is sold in more than 100 customizable color. It’s not limited edition, but regular choice. It actually proved to be one of the most contributing factors to the successful sales of K-x in Japan. But like Pentax, I don’t think Olympus will release E-PL2 with customizable color in the western hemisphere. Well… if you read above comments, you can tell why.
yeah there’s a gundam version and the one beside it has a bear on the lens cap. yep must be a new variant *sarcasm*
some of you guys are funny 😀
looks damn ugly 🙂 where is the better sensor and evf ? i wait to see what’s going on with panasonic mft cameras in the future. maybe we have more luck and they’ll release an really pro-sumer camera, no colors or other marketing bullshit 🙂
In the second pic with the epl2 with red/white/blue colors, the black camera at the bottom: Is that a soft shutter button I see?
I will take the one on the right (and oh and a camera too)
the girl on the left is hotter, the one on the right looks about 14
Hey now…both these ladies are Beautiful…if I were single then…cheating thought!! :0 Anyhow those are nice sets of camera…Still waiting for the E-P3ish in Feb/Maar??
To an experienced Hong Kong eye, they look perfectly 18-24.
Where is!, OnePeice style E-PL2?
Lets wait and see the sales figure at year end 2011. It will speak out whether it can continue leading among dc segment or remain as a challenger to lx5 🙂
I saw them in person at HK’s downtown CausewayBay …. these cameras are just commercial items and looks like they are from decoration contest…. definitely not for production … at least at present time …
BTW, the cameras are in stock and on sale now in Hong Kong !!
It pretty obvious that these Pens are just rehashed EPL-1, targeted at Japanese Gen Y who care more about pretty colours than camera performance or image quality.
I just spent six months living/working in Japan. I was so dissapointed at how ignorant many Japanese are about photography. Considering their electronic industry designs and manufacturers about 80% of the world cameras.
I ecountered people of both genders, all ages, different educational and vocational backgrounds. Even the sales staff in some of the big camera retailers, including reps, knew very little.
This ingorance makes me nervous, since the marketing executives will be pitching their future products to such ignorance.
So when is Olympus going to get serious about m4/3rds or 4/3rds for that matter if it still exists as a format?
Why don’t they build a new and improved camera with some real innovation.
For example, why not drop in an oversized Sigma Foeveon 1.5x image sensor into a new Pro level m4/3rds camera?
They already offer multi aspect ratio as a scale down from a native 4/3rds image sensor.
Why not also offer a native scale up via the sensor without cropping?
They can use it for existing m4/3rds and 4/3rds lenses with a scaled down 4/3 image ratio and also offer an interface (with full AF support) for existing Sigma lenses that fit the APS-C mount via an adpator or through some other modular design.
After all the new Sigma SD-1 sports the same 11 point bi-axial AF system as the Olympus E-5. Possibly Sigma purchased it from the same third party vendor as Olympus. Or it may very well be that it was purchased by Sigma from Olympus.
Olympus need to stick with Phase Detection AF. Why don’t they try a fixed, pellicle-type semi-translucent mirror system, ala Sony STL-55?
And implement a dual or hybrid system with a vastly improved Contrast AF system.
Then include a flip out / articulating screen in a environmentally sealed body.
They already have the detectable high res EVF from the EP-L1.
Looks horrible IMO.