This is according to Olympus America's DSLR product manager Richard S. Pelkowski:
"I would say that within 24 months the E system will not have a mirror box at all. Up until we launched the Pen cameras all manufacturers were doing was fitting a digital sensor in what is ultimately a film camera body – there was nothing different. But with digital and electronic technology we can make cameras so much smaller. Soon the AF system in the Pen cameras will be as fast as that in the E system DSLRs so there it will be possible to get just as good AF performance without the mirror system. We have a great range of lenses for the Four Thirds system, and they're not going anywhere, but they will be used on smaller and lighter more modern bodies."
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“Soon the AF system in the Pen cameras will be as fast as that in the E system DSLRs”
FTW! if they pull if off.
and don’t forget about noise control Olympus! make it usable@3200
that’s retarded. Optical viewfinders >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> EVFs.
Why?
Agreed, EVF are not practical for anything but landscape and studio work.
I don’t understand how you can make such a broad generalisation with no argument to support it.
As EVF resolutions and refresh rates improve, they will become the best solution for all types of photography. The ability to customise the viewfinder (overlays, zoom, etc.) to suit the type of photography is one of the great developments we’re going to see as EVFs evolve and become more widely adopted.
I’m happy to be proven otherwise. The only theoretical advantage I can currently see that optical viewfinders have over EVFs is battery life. EVFs have so many advantages and modern cameras are already so battery hungry, that this advantage is irrelevant.
Olympus is talking about 2 years from now. Stop thinking about EVFs that you have seen, and this about where this technology will be in a few years time.
Remember that:
1) OVF have endless resolution!
2) EVF can allow you working on night, nearly as if you would use night-vision.
So it’s just a matter of preference. For me now OVF is far better.
As of overlays – it’s possible to add them to OVF too. Even proper technology have been patented (by Canon if I remember well).
Well… that’s today. but OVF arn’t improving much these days but EVF are getting better by the model.
Who knows what EVFs will be like in another 2,3,5, 10 years
but the fact is, we are now going to end up looking at a LCD screen -.-
It remains to be seen what technology Olympus will bring to market in two years, but I would expect some sort of electronic viewfinder in addition to the external LCD type of screen due to the obvious limitations of the external screens (at least the present ones) in bright light and such. The E-P2 and GF-1 add on electronic viewfinders are not that bad (although there is plenty of room for improvement) but they need to be integrated into the body of the camera (and have a separate flash hot shoe) so that they can not get knocked off so easily.
I didn’t know the Wolfman was an Oly user
Looks like Olympus screwed all the DSLR users. Congratulations.
ps. Why the heck olympus thinks that Cameras are always suppose to be smaller? LOL
cause perhaps that’s the only way they can penetrate back into the market? But seriously, I prefer there are 2 markets! one is those small cameras with perhaps small lenses and the other is the current range DSLRs.
becuz oly uses the 4/3 sensor which is much smaller anyway.
if they make a huge slr body with such small sensor..how are they gonna sell that crap? tell people how 4/3 works? how the light strike on the sensor? the advantage?
no one cares, some dont even know sh1t about cameras, but size is an obvious factor to promote their product, while other brand is selling their FF big boy.
one more reason i dislike oly!
I hope one of the big brands atleast stick with optical, i know I would go with that brand, the view finder is such a strong connection to what your shooting, if I could at all tell that it was a screen instead of just glass and a mirror then that would change teh connection i feel with the image, similar to why some like to shoot rangefinders instead of an slr. I dont want an EVF on the top slr’s, ever.
I’m with you and I hope Nikon stays true to it roots (or until as long the market starts to demand EVF
) That will be a sad day for me, if that ever happens, guess my next camera will be a MF or Rangefinder 