Image courtesy: Megapixel
At a presentation in Israel Olympus disclosed some nice graphs. First of all they did show the graph above with the worldwide Mirrorless shares (Olympus calls them “Pen-type”). And as you can see on Megapixel (Click here) Mirrorless cameras are very popular in Asia.
Olympus clear message is that Mirrorless is THE future and classic DSLR will be a niche within 5-10 years. One more thing, a PRO pen camera will hit the market in 2-3 years only!
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2-3 years until a pro Oly Pen? If they’re going to take that long, they better come out with something amazing, because I can only imagine what Samsung, Panasonic, Sony and Fuji are going to be releasing as their top-tier camera next year, yet alone in 2-3 years!
Oly is way off in timing. It will not take 10 years to replace DSLRs, and their “pro type” needs to come sooner. Their E5 will not carry. It’s likely they’ve shipped all the E5s they can already (to people with such an investment in glass, and enough money that they don’t care about putting more money in a dead system — how many of those folks are actually out there?)
If this is true, then Oly is even more lost than I thought.