(FT5) Very important EVF update
From one of our best sources: “There will be soon (October) a new external Electronic Viewfinder you can attach on the hotshoe of the PEN. The Hotshoe alone can’t deliver the image. You need a cable to connect the Pen to the EVF.”
IÂ (Alejandro from 43rumors) confess I have one single doubt. Will the EVF work with the E-P1 and the next Olympus MicroFourThirds cameras? Or with the E-P1 only? Or with the next Pen model only? The two BIG source don’t gave me a clear answer…
I have the doubt because no source mentions the E-P1 (they say PEN). May it is just me making problems for nothing.
UPDATE: The sources can’t or won’t tell me more. Personally I can’t imagine how the cable could connect the E-P1 to the EVF on the hotshoe. You want be able to hold the camera.
43rumors is 100% that there will be an attachable external electronic viewfinder. The EVF can be fixed on the hotshoe mount. The cable will connect the EVF to the PEN. And the EVF should be released early October. That means or this thing works with the E-P1 or the EVF will be released together with the next PEN which should be able to use this stuff 
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Comment from Duarte Bruno: @Troy:
That would be useless for two re...
Comment from Just saying...: I personally wouldn't mind if all these ...
Comment from Thyl: Troy: i concur with you, though i believ...
Comment from Troy: Why not an OVF that uses focal length in...
Jane Insane
3 years ago |If it’s for the E-P1, this sounds a bit crazy. A cable would have to be run from the A/V-port or HDMI, which are in the worst possible place if you want to hold the camera…
admin
3 years ago |Hi Jane! That’s exactly why I am beginning to think that the external EVF will not work with the E-P1. And our sources won’t tell us more….
Bu
3 years ago |The whole idea of a compact camera is that it is compact. If we have to keep adding to it, its not longer compact. So why not build it with an EVF in the first place so we don’t have to worry about another ‘thing’ to attach to it.
Paul
3 years ago |This is now another reason for me to hold out for the next model or a Pannie. Not just the early adopters premium!
Troy
3 years ago |Why not an OVF that uses focal length information (via the hot shoe) to zoom as the lens zooms — this is doable, and might satisfy a large portion of those who are upset that there is no VF.
Thyl
3 years ago |Troy: i concur with you, though i believe we will only see such improvements to a camera after launch if olympus has no intention to replace it by an improved follow-up version within a year. The technological pace recently more or less ruled out product improvements or letting a concept mature into something like a camera system.
Just saying...
3 years ago |I personally wouldn’t mind if all these may/maybe typos were corrected.
Duarte Bruno
3 years ago |@Troy:
That would be useless for two reasons:
1 – Parallax errors when close focusing.
2 – You would have no actual DOF clue whatsoever!