Is Olympus trying to tell us something?

8 Comments

1. Rokkor on!
   Posted May 22, 2009 at 1:32 pm | Permalink

   I think it means that Olympus’ M43 cameras will go retro and use mercury cell batteries and cds metering.

   • PR admin
     Posted May 22, 2009 at 1:44 pm | Permalink

     but the Olympus m4/3 announcement was suppose to be on June 15th:
     http://photorumors.com/2009/05/13/first-olympus-m43-to-be-released-on-june-15/

     maybe they will give give some more details about the m4/3?

     • Rokkor on!
       Posted May 23, 2009 at 4:32 am | Permalink

       Ah. OK.

       It might be smart to get some advance PR with an early official — but tentative and “subject to change” — announcement this week. It would be like having two launches.

2. Ivan
   Posted May 23, 2009 at 3:08 am | Permalink

   Heh, awesome. I love my Olympus Pen FT, I wonder if the m4/3 camera will have the same styling as the Pen series, they are great looking cameras.

3. Human
   Posted May 23, 2009 at 7:44 am | Permalink

   A tough and relatively compact camera with interchangeable lenses would be beautiful. If the Olympus m4/3 camera is modeled after the Pen, then I’ll be keen to get a body and a couple of lenses.

   If Olympus go down the Panasonic route with m4/3, then I’ll be very disappointed. There seems to be demand for something like a digital Pen for all those times when a DSLR is too much. Panasonic’s slightly smaller than a DSLR approach with m4/3 has been disappointing so far.

4. Human
   Posted May 23, 2009 at 7:49 am | Permalink

   Looking at the video, it’s pretty clear that they’re starting a series of videos on different Pen cameras that were produced over the years. I think on 26 May we’ll just can another cute little video on one of the classic Pens.

   I don’t think we’ll see anything official on the m4/3 until 15 June. Hopefully we’ll get some leaks before then, though. If this were a Nikon camera, we’d already have seen heaps of photos and brochure proofs.

5. JohnR
   Posted May 23, 2009 at 9:02 am | Permalink

   I’m hoping at some pont Oly releases an m4/3 with rangefinder and LCD. That would make a great street cam, and maybe lower cost since no EVF.

   Concerning Panasonic, the buzz around the GH1 m4/3 is smokin’ hot among independent videographers. Quality and versatility of video is much better than Canon or Nikon, plus the ability to easily use adapters to mount Zeiss, Nikon, etc. glass to the body.The videos I’ve seen shot with the cam look great, as well as the stills samples over at dpreview.

6. Ivan
   Posted May 25, 2009 at 7:28 am | Permalink

   I wonder if they’ll make an adapter so that I can mount my Pen lenses to this thing, if so, I’m sold. I really need a compact, but high quality camera. My D80 is just annoying to bring around with me all the time. And since it’s my only digital camera, it’s a pain to bring to casual events. Something like this would be perfect.