(FT4) Olympus E-7 planed for second half 2013
A trusted source that gave me (always) correct info in the past confirmed that Olympus has scheduled the release for the new E-7 for the second half of 2013. That’s a long way to go! Of course such long term rumors are subject to change but it’s also a confirmation that you should not expect any E-5 replacement any time soon!
The real question is, how should the E-7 be in order to be competitive with the other APS-C DSLR cameras? You have some ideas? 
P.S.: Search(!) Links o the current E-5 camera: Amazon.cn, Digitalrev, eBay.
OlyDude
6 months ago |How to make E7 competitive?
Make it full frame, of course, duh!
Look around boys. Do you see full frame camera choices diminishing or growing?
Mike S Auckland NZ
4 months ago |Most people do not need fullframe cameras with their huge file sizes, hardware requirements, backup space, lack of speed in processing and the real need to have high-grade lenses to leverage the sensor size. All of this is a significant investment that the average Joe/Jane would have very poor ROI unless they sell their work for $$,$$$ of dollars.
If Olympus were going bring out a fullframe camera existing customers would loose their investment in High-grade and Super high-grade lenses – Olympus once annoyed their customer base before when they abandoned OM lens owners. If there would be yet another full frame offering why should annoyed Oly users once again trust Olympus and not go with Nikon, Canon or Sony.
Most people do not need extremely low ISO capability plus have the fast and superb Oly lenses. It is sad that market trends get set by marketers and not customers i.e. higher and higher pixel count that most people do not need as they do not produce wallpaper-sized images (6MP for one A4 sized image), full-frame (huge files) and ever decreasing camera body size (while our hands do not get smaller), features that most people do not need (8-10 frames per second, unless you are a sports photographer),….instead how about producing better quality lenses for all brands, specialized cameras for various purposes, customers should force open standards,ah well, one can but dream.