This is the new E-PL6 and as I told you before it’s meant to be solt in Japane only! I guess you will have to wait next year and the E-PL7 worldwide edition to replace your E-PL5.
This is the new E-PL6 and as I told you before it’s meant to be solt in Japane only! I guess you will have to wait next year and the E-PL7 worldwide edition to replace your E-PL5.
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I’m sure it will be available on e-bay shortly 😉 – The notion of a product for a single country in isolation of the rest of the world is built around the belief that a postal service doesn’t exist :p
Unless the menus are in Japanese only …
For the moment only Panasonic and Sony have this. Let’s hope Olympus doesn’t jump on the wagon.
I would appreciate that. I can’t seem to find a download for Japanese for my Panasonic GH3.
You can’t set it to Japanese or?
And why didn’t you buy the Japanese version in the first place?
but where is the wood? sooooo…disappointed..
Disappointed because you got no wood? Maybe you you are missing a big fat lens?
Will not buy even if its sold outside japan. It’s same as e-pl5. I would go for E-P5 rather.
it needs a wooden grip ;-p
Nah, but the white/silver camera will look great with an ivory grip.
I was trying to visualize this with a nacre grip.. ivory would work as well indeed.
Or zebra, haha.
I was awaiting this comment. Came sooner than expected. Congrats.
I have a feeling Panny boys will rejoice for a long time over the “woody grip”, failing to understand the refined humor.
This is just to rouse the fanbase in an uproar. This will make it everywhere else a month or two later after release.
Or maybe they are restructuring after the Sony investment.
Sony investment is obvious: the orange ring around the mount is clearly taken from Alpha DSLRs/SLTs :).
I still don’t get why they insist on naming it E-PL6, the differences with the PL5 are very few, it should be named E-PL5s like when they re-released the PL1/PL1s. How far are we until the E-PL7 release anyway ?
Also, admin can you please tell us if the E-P5 grip is interchangeable or is it fixed to the camera?
Still more differences between E-PL5 & 6 than between Canon 650D & 700D 😉
Nevertheless I also don’t get this Olympus strategy.
+1
Mind you, it’s not the camera that really bothers me, it’s the naming, now they’re forced to jump from E-PL5 to E-PL7, that just confuses the grand majority of consumers (in case the kept track of Oly cameras, which I doubt). next time we’ll see:
– E-PM3
– E-PL7
– E-P6
I don’t mean to come out as obsessed but why make things unnecessarily complicated, they should’ve stuck with the original sequence.
Also, admin can you confirm the E-P5 grip is interchangeable or is it glued to the body ?
It does seem like it is not interchangeable.
The leaked Japanese press release for the E-P5 is still available in Google’s cache and it seems to state that they are going to sell limited edition premium models of the E-P5 with wooden grips:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:k65jBbncanIJ:test.olympus.co.jp.oly.jp/jp/news/2013a/nr130510ep5spj.jsp&strip=1
To clarify, the E-P5 press release has no mention of optional grip accessories, while the also leaked and still available E-PL6 press release does list one of the MCGs among the optional accessories:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KP9wtWy1WIsJ:test.olympus.co.jp.oly.jp/jp/news/2013a/nr130510epl6j.jsp&strip=1
(Look for the “アクセサリー関連の製品概要” section in the press releases)
and i can’t buy a Hasselblad either . 😉
Well as its only solt in Japane no need to fuss over it.
No built-in flash, no sale. Sony can do it, why not Oly?
Buy an E-P3 or E-P5?