More little Olympus E-3 successor rumors…
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Comment from Chris: @John: No problem. Sorry for coming off...
Comment from Brandon: BTW, next time we DO receive an 'unlikel...- Comment from Brandon: I'm astounded at the frail perception of...
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I will ask Olympus if they real...
Raj Sarma
2 years ago |Can you please stop posting such rubbish as rumours?? They provided him with a replacement E-3.
Brandon
2 years ago |Far from ‘rubbish’ I’d say this is simply confirming what is already known, in a manner minimal enough to add little. Nice to hear it anyway.
PS: Raj Sarma… don’t be a nonsensical jerk.
John
2 years ago |bullshit
Reality
2 years ago |This is pure speculation based on one side of a conversation. 43rumors, it’s been said many times you fuel your web site with dpreview half-sided conversations full of speculation. That is so true.
And Raj is just saying what most of us probably think.
Russ
2 years ago |No time frame? If it was me, I would ask what “soon” is.
Brandon
2 years ago |Hit up the link. He says they’re lending use (rental use) of an E-3 or E-30 (presumably based on availability) throughout the summer. So it’s post-summer. Recognizing that (A) they realize he can’t afford to be out of a camera for long (which this rental further shows evidence of) (B) they’ve supplied him a camera for presumably the interim (w/o allotting for a post-summer cam)… it’s pretty clear we’re looking at a Fall date, ie. Photokina.
Oly has a good record of cameras being available nearly right from launch, don’t they? (someone inform me–I haven’t checked this out it just seems to be the case from my brief exposure to Oly) and I’d imagine for a project in-the-works this long they’d be ready with inventory.
Raj Sarma
2 years ago |Brandon, I’d recommend you get some lessons in basic manners before you talk to me.
Brandon
2 years ago |Pot to Kettle: Your all black.
John
2 years ago |it’s all bullshit. the guy is lying. plain and simple. that’s what Raj calls “rubbish”, I call it bullshit. I’m not black, BTW, but I worked for a black guy once. does that count?
Chris
2 years ago |@John: Pot calling the kettle black is an age old quip, meaning that one person is accusing another of having a quality that both possess. It’s a saying that’s quite common in the United States.
Unless you’re just playing ignorant just to insert some racial (racist?) humor. Then, you’re just being tacky.
43 shooter
2 years ago |Keep it friendly guys….
No need to be angry or impolite because of a rumor on a camera…
We just wait and see if Olympus will release an e3 successor.
For people who don’t like rumors: you don’t need to read this site…. just stay calm and friendly to each other…
thanks…
newsed1
2 years ago |Impressive gentlemen…..only one reader bothered to read the link properly.
arthur
2 years ago |who call´s this a rumor?? this site get´s boring …
BFD
2 years ago |“However, since we expect a new model soon (!), I asked them if I could rest my case till I have seen the new one. They accepted that. Of course, I would probably have to pay something for that upgrade.”
This statement says nothing except that there is a new camera. For he knows it could be be a FT or MFT camera the Olympus rep was talking about. To assume that this new camera could be a reference to an E-3 replacement is dubious at best.
*Yawn*
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BW
2 years ago |Dont read this site if you dont want to read rumors. If you want clear facts just wait for the camera. Otherwise rumors may not be facts, big surprise there!
achiinto
2 years ago |To Newsed1: Who read it properly then? I like to know….
Someone
2 years ago |Just wonder why you angry people read this site if you don’t like loose rumors and pure speculations?
jt
2 years ago |Get a grip complainers. The site is free and the person behind it does the best he can. Not every rumor is gonna be a home run.
admin
2 years ago |Hi guys! I write 4-5 posts per day and that for over one year now. I can understand that sometimes people can disagree with the value of one of my post. I can only say that I found the rumor worthy enough to be posted. If it is not so for you feel free to express your disappointment but with a little bit more of respect please. To say that we copy our rumors from dpreview is a little bit…let’s say stupid. Do you already forgot that we leaked the E-PL1,E-P1,E-P2,GF1,G2,G10,8mm lens, Noktor and more? People can forget quickly
And remember…we are a still a simple rumors site
John
2 years ago |@Chris- thanks for teaching me the finer points of interpreting that particular idiom, not “quip”. my comment was neither racial nor racist, just poking fun at Brandon for calling “all” posters prior to his comment “black”.
and the “rumor” is still bullshit. Olympus is NOT going to reveal a new model by pacifying one guy due to his busted ass camera, that’s just silly. standards need to be met, even for this type of site.
admin
2 years ago |Hi John! How do you know that this is fake? Olympus already said it in an interview with DSRLmagazine that the E-3 successor is coming soon. So why should that story not be true?
Plamen
2 years ago |It is obvious already – Oly users are losing their nerves in waiting for the E-3 successor. Including myself.
Olympus better provide something exceptional or lose ground (and by ground I mean clients).
IT IS TIME!!!
John
2 years ago |@admin- I didn’t say it was fake, for worse, bullshit. Do you really believe that Oly’s repair department would divulge this information? Well, I guess you do. No, they would just repair or replace with the same model and tons of stock they have on hand; what they are obliged to do, nothing more, nothing less. Will Olympus make a replacement for the E3, I would say it’s a good bet. Would they tell this guy that he could have a new model and let him skip around with a loaner in the meantime? NFW. Total bullshit. And I wish you would not publish such nonsense without getting some sort of proof. Quality, not quantity of info, admin, quality.
admin
2 years ago |Hi John!
I will ask Olympus if they really told that. Let’s see if they will answer me. What is certain is that Olympus is telling to anyone (dealers, journalist) that a new camera is coming. Anyway, if I am wrong I am sorry, and please try to understand that I can make mistakes. Hope you will not hate me for that
Brandon
2 years ago |I’m astounded at the frail perception of several people here. When I first saw this post I knew it had more credibility than most. Why? Three reasons:
One, rumors often involve something like “The rep said…” and even though ‘Reps’ come in many forms, and some Reps are, in fact informed insiders, most are simply the last to find out anything. After all, it takes very little exposure to a camera to sell it, and absolutely no exposure to prototypes and design concepts that don’t make it into the finished product. The repair department, however, needs to be trained prior on any product about to be released, and the more radical the product the earlier the training. Additionally, at the higher levels of a repairs department there usually exists some overlap with the design department. This story almost certainly involves a manager and/or higher-level repair-engineer having to step-in to try to solve the mystery of a repeatedly failing camera. It is not only reasonable that these people would have access to this knowledge, it is expected.
Two, this Gentlemen was told primarily what has been openly and officially stated by Oly on repeated occasions. It’s bizarre some of you would think he was being given inside info no employee would grant–yet you continue this claim even after the site-master has set you straight on that point. Unreal! …The only new information received was implicit, not explicit, and that is the time-frame. Explicitly they said ‘soon’ but that has been open and official. Implicitly this looks like Fall delivery–and that smidgen more is all that is revealed.
Three, this is done for a repeat, loyal customer in a manner entirely consistent with PR and returns practices. I myself have had similar experiences outside of the photography world. At the end of the day they are simply trying to keep a good customer with promises of redeeming value–no mystery there.
PS: BFD, it’s clear this is meant to replace his E-3 (so ‘E-3 replacement’), it’s implied that he has professional use for it (so ‘pro-grade’) and that he would have to pay for the upgrade (so… ‘upgrade’). “Dubious at best” ….? Don’t you mean “dubious at worst?” There’s every reason to take this at face value–an E-3 replacement. It’s always safe not to assume–shades of the conversation are lost to us and miscommunication is everywhere–but even though not explicit, this surely is implicit.
PPS: John I doubt if anyone didn’t grasp that I was referring to Raj, and not addressing him by name other than ‘Pot’ is not synonymous with addressing the group entire. The most you could say is you thought (sans any specific name mentioned) that you were the intended recipient… also something I doubt anyone else confused. Also: this was a ‘quip’ and an ‘idiom’, so if you want to be exact, then be exact and don’t correct incorrectly.
Brandon
2 years ago |BTW, next time we DO receive an ‘unlikely-to-be-true’ rumor, remember this: the whole reason we receive such info is because somebody did something they shouldn’t have. Maybe it was small, like implicitly revealing a trace more info due to choice of words. Maybe it’s big–an outright leak in the company. But no matter what: This information gets out precisely because people say and do what they’re not supposed to, otherwise there would be no leaks, no rumors to speak of!
Since these are by-nature missteps, goofs and outright intentional breaks in policy and procedure, going on about how such and such ‘would never happen’ because ‘they would never’… is just asinine in very plain terms. It obviously does happen. People do what they are not supposed to. Rumors that turn out to be true don’t come to us from some special exception to this rule. The most we can ever do is judge how big a misstep (or betrayal) a particular incident would be and try to extrapolate the relative likelihood of such, compared with the authenticity of details in the story, and how this new information fits in with what is already known or suspected. It’s called guesswork for a reason.
In short, I wouldn’t so much complain that some people don’t get that this is a rumors-site, but that some apparently don’t grasp the commonalities unavoidable between all rumors, poor and reliable alike.
Chris
2 years ago |@John: No problem. Sorry for coming off so abrasive.
As for the rumor: yes, it is very suspect, but the same thing has happened with Apple products in the past. That means that either Olympus has the same policy, or someone’s been searching the MacRumors forums for ideas on how to stir up controversy.