First Olympus Micro Four Thirds Camera

swintonphoto

In addition to the announcement of the new Olympus DSLR (see), Olympus also announced their first micro four thirds camera. This looks vastly different to the Panasonic micro four thirds camera. The panasonic resembles a DSLR while the Olympus resembles a high-end consumer compact camera (but also has a retro look to it). I am interested to see which will be more popular:

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0809/08092208olympus_micro_four_thirds.asp

ziggy53

Now that camera, the Olympus version, looks more like what I envisioned. No pretense, just competence and function. I might be interested in one of those.

swintonphoto

ziggy53 wrote:

Now that camera, the Olympus version, looks more like what I envisioned. No pretense, just competence and function. I might be interested in one of those.

I agree. This is much more what I thought would be coming.

Grainbelt

This could be my first DSLR.

MarkR

I wish this had been around when I was first looking at getting into a higher end camera. :bluduh

Tee Why

Needs to come in a black colored leather wrapping.
Throw in a little EVF or a viewfinder on the left corner like a range finder and Hmmm, looks tasty.

If it's relatively cheap, I may have to consider selling my Minox Leica for one of these.

I suspect that it'll come in various colors for the leather wraping. Kinda cool, you can get tan, brown, black, red, pink, blue.......

swintonphoto

Tee Why wrote:

I suspect that it'll come in various colors for the leather wraping. Kinda cool, you can get tan, brown, black, red, pink, blue.......

I think you are right. Olympus is known for offering virtually all their point and shoot cameras in various colors. Would be nice to see that here as well.

NikonsandVstroms

swintonphoto wrote:

I think you are right. Olympus is known for offering virtually all their point and shoot cameras in various colors. Would be nice to see that here as well.

Im thinking black leather with a 12 or 14mm pancake...

Internaut

Now this looks nice. If it inherits the AF (and *other*) performance characteristics of the Panasonic (bearing in mind the number of patentable breakthroughs Panasonic seems to have made) then it is very exciting. Imagine getting past security goons at an event or exhibit with something that looks like a toy but can produce DSLR standard results and higher sensitivity performance that only Fuji can can dream of (oops).

gtc

rangefinderish?
Yes-nice and pocketable which means lots of uses.

I wonder whether its too much to ask if old rangefinder lenses could be made to fit-lots of them out there just asking to be resurrected and prices are getting better all the time.

One of these with a fast Voigtlander/Nikon/Leica could be a winning combination.

Also a clip on viewfinder with framelines could also be a useful attachment.