43 Rumors

[Tom says:
October 30, 2009 at 6:55 pm
I can see where your coming from, but I’m also hoping that even though the cameras look mostly identical, that this was the Olympus strategy from the beginning. I reference again Watanabe back before the PEN was unveiled and it was the “carrot cam” aka M-1 and M-1000. It has always been his strategy to release two new cameras, one consumer (E-P1) and another on for more professional use (E-P2). If this is still true, it means that they are two parallel systems addressing different segments of the market and not simply a .2 version that fixes flaws in the first. For this to be really true, though, it would have to mean more than simply a couple of bolt on hotshoe accessories, but major performance benefits of the pricier model. For me, that feature would be video, but I’ve already described my hopes for this system and the failings of other Panny/Cannon/Nikon video capable cameras elsewhere. Just a few more days and we will know more… I could be wrong and the E-P2 really is a .2 feature fix for the E-P1, and that the professional camera is another camera that has not been released yet, but I hope this is not the case. I like the form factor of the E-P1 and E-P2 and don’t want to use a larger SLR like body. I want to keep it rangefinderesque.]

I strongly disagrea because the reasonable and the most common thing to do them you are releasing a new camera is to make another one at the same time for customers to chose whitch one they want more. I believe that were will be a lot of unhappy EP-1 users who didn’t had the choice to chose and ended with the slower version of the same camera. I think that in summer Olympus will realse EP-3 and then they will create a new serias of M4/3 with a proper VF

Edgaras Anisimenko says:
October 30, 2009 at 12:07 pm

I think that releasing EP- 2 soooo soon is the worst desigion ever. I am a happy olympus E-510 user but seeing what Olympus is doing (not listening to people) makes me feel very angry. The m4/3 shouldn’t be the highest priority – we need the E-3 II or E-5 because now Olympus look really pore when Nikon and Canon and EVEN Pentax realeased something that their user were waiting for. I really believe that m4/3 that have PEN’is 1 are waiting for the second…

I thought that E-P2 will be a professional model like E-3, but it looks like a GF-1 marketing fix (and that is where it ends). I agree with Edgaras it’s too soon for new top model what E-P1′s successor should be. Don’t get me wrong E-P1 is good camera but I expected something different from E-P2, lets wait for official announcement. Olympus would rather listen to people like was Y. Maintani (original PEN and OM series developer) and less marketing division, that’s how I see it. And let’s not forget about classic E-System.

Edit: I’ve been thinking Yoshihisa Maitani not Maintani. Sorry for mistake.
Edgaras wrote: …Olympus was sitting quite in the corner making its own invention and did great – live view, built in stabilization, flipping LCD… I’ve got your point. Olympus equals visionary. Every new product was a milestone. The PENs, OMs, pure digital E-System, first digital PEN… Nowadays, who’s-the-winner-game costs Olympus lot of money on developing new GF-1 patch called *E-P2 which means less money and time for E-System development. I appreciate Olympus for its own personality and it is not for huge masses like Canon or Nikon is. Olympus must keeps Maitani’s legacy to remained a company with own name.
*if will be produced with the rumored design/specification.

If those are the images of Olympus E-P2, where is the incorpored flash?

that picture by olly is fake too there is no free space for flash, dial is in the way. anyways, just few days left, we will see what and how