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I find the colour scheme makes them look like toys opposed to serious cameras :/

I think the colors are mock-up only which will never release to the market.

hmm they seem to look like skins… not really color variants

“yeah, but if attractive women buy these color schemed cameras, then we have a solid ice breaker for talking to these attractive women.
the more girls i see shooting with olympus, the better.”

Damn right!

“The E-PLX serie was never a serious camera.”

I would add a “meant”…Some are using it as a serious camera, because the image quality is good enough to beat other bigger cameras

yeah there’s a gundam version and the one beside it has a bear on the lens cap. yep must be a new variant *sarcasm*

some of you guys are funny

In the second pic with the epl2 with red/white/blue colors, the black camera at the bottom: Is that a soft shutter button I see?

the girl on the left is hotter, the one on the right looks about 14

It pretty obvious that these Pens are just rehashed EPL-1, targeted at Japanese Gen Y who care more about pretty colours than camera performance or image quality.

I just spent six months living/working in Japan. I was so dissapointed at how ignorant many Japanese are about photography. Considering their electronic industry designs and manufacturers about 80% of the world cameras.

I ecountered people of both genders, all ages, different educational and vocational backgrounds. Even the sales staff in some of the big camera retailers, including reps, knew very little.

This ingorance makes me nervous, since the marketing executives will be pitching their future products to such ignorance.

So when is Olympus going to get serious about m4/3rds or 4/3rds for that matter if it still exists as a format?

Why don’t they build a new and improved camera with some real innovation.

For example, why not drop in an oversized Sigma Foeveon 1.5x image sensor into a new Pro level m4/3rds camera?

They already offer multi aspect ratio as a scale down from a native 4/3rds image sensor.

Why not also offer a native scale up via the sensor without cropping?

They can use it for existing m4/3rds and 4/3rds lenses with a scaled down 4/3 image ratio and also offer an interface (with full AF support) for existing Sigma lenses that fit the APS-C mount via an adpator or through some other modular design.

After all the new Sigma SD-1 sports the same 11 point bi-axial AF system as the Olympus E-5. Possibly Sigma purchased it from the same third party vendor as Olympus. Or it may very well be that it was purchased by Sigma from Olympus.

Olympus need to stick with Phase Detection AF. Why don’t they try a fixed, pellicle-type semi-translucent mirror system, ala Sony STL-55?

And implement a dual or hybrid system with a vastly improved Contrast AF system.

Then include a flip out / articulating screen in a environmentally sealed body.

They already have the detectable high res EVF from the EP-L1.