A German forum seems to know the exact day of the announcement.
http://www.forum-fourthirds.de

In short, the poster is the administrator of the forum. He believes the camera will have body IS. He don’t know WHEN the camera will be avaible…but we know it More soon…

So here we are. One day before expected (from our sources) Olympus announced the E-450. We told you they would announce the camera in April (our sources told us the first April). Olympus choose to anticipate the annoucment because the first april is fools days in some countries. Not the best choice for an announcement…nobody would believe them!

We were completely right on the main features, no video, no body IS, art filter, same resolution as the “old” E-420. In general we told you that this camera will be very similar to the Olympus E-420. You just have to add ART-filter

If you want to read more about the camera:

Olympus Asia

Olympus America

Imaging resourcing

That’s a real good start for us! Only few believed us.

We were right no?

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They anticipated the announcement by ONE day because tomorrow is fools day. Our sources were right or not? Do you believe us now?

Listed price from Panasonic GH1 with LUMIX G VARIO 14-140 mm / F4.0-5.8 Asph. / OIS will be 1.550 Euro.

Source: panasonic germany

Thanks Marc for sendig us the link!!!

We received an email from unknown sources. So please keep in mind that he could be completely wrong (or just joking with us). This sources says he works for Olympus and he knows that for 2009 we are NOT going to see any DSLR camera with video. He told us video is not a primary feature requestet by Olympus user. Plans are to wait the evolution of this tecnology. The digital cameras with video we have seen until now are not really good competitor to traditional camcorders so Olympus has not to be hurry anyway.

That’s what he told us.

I keep his contact in mind.

UPDATE: I asked him if he believes there will be NO video feature even for micro four thirds camera. He answered he is only sure about classic four thirds DSLR. May Olympus has different plans for micro four thirds cameras.

Bye