So folks it’s Olympus time! At 6am London time (Jan 27) Olympus will announce the new PEN-F. Everything about the camera got leaked (specs and images). So there will be not much to surprise you. But MFT folks will be happy to know that both Olympus and Panasonic will have new product announcements in exactly one month from now:
Panasonic will announce the GF8. And Olympus the new f/1.2 lenses.
And than we have the Sony A61000, maybe a new Canon mirrorless and maybe even a Nikon surprise. Plenty to look forward too!
13 Responses
“And than we have the Sony A61000, maybe a new Canon mirrorless and maybe even a Nikon surprise. Plenty to look forward too! ”
OK Sony goes fast but A 61 000 , wow lol
Considering how many times the a6100 has been rumored to appear, it probably became 10x!
Yes so true, beginning to think more that it will be disappointing, just like the lenses, disappointing, Mr Sony, not at all at Minolta level, we are waiting for a serious lens road-map.
I remember my OM 1, I adored and hatted for some things, bad spool winding of the film, x and pf socket stupid switch, but what a view finder the biggest at the time, bright and clear, the zuiko lenses, and completely manual, would love to have that back in a mirrorless full-frame .
Why can’t you make the OM 1, just modern tech in it, and only manual!!!!! How bad can that be. who would want one?
“Why can’t you make the OM 1, just modern tech in it, and only manual!!!!!”
You pretty much answered your own question. 🙂 How many people would buy a manual-only camera? A fair number of enthusiasts, perhaps, but I very much doubt anywhere near enough to justify the R&D/marketing costs.
How much R&D, if the the E-M10 mark II gets close, I think the costs would be not as high as you claim, with some electronic niceties build in with a real old school look I am sure it would be a great success, and a real school camera for many to learn the and understand what they are doing.
you said something very profound in the last sentence! i myself would need a good learning tool. what im using now is a joke 🙂
I am just thinking about the time, when I was 16 and learning with my first camera it was, all manual, to get the understanding of then the two variables because film was fixed ISO, today we use three variables because of the digital chip, even that in an all manual camera would help for many who want to learn about how to control of what you want to create, and not relay on the automatic camera, take control and make it do what you want .
wow
Olympus. Drop it and then drop the Full Frame. Do it…we eagerly await.
there are plenty of Full Frame choices, why Olympus?
Because they know how to build a camera and overall execution of their feature set.
Preparations for the forum whine are being prepared for the launch