43 Rumors

i had a feeling this would happen, like when one exec started babbling about Oly going fully mirrorless last year… hehe

anyway, that’s good to hear

I think they are just trying to preserve sales.
No new 43 lenses while EVERY OTHER format continues to make progress. To me that equals a dead or dying format.

wow they made a splash in the firmware department; im convinced 4/3 will thrive for many weeks to come.

here is a small suggestion from someone with no authority other than being a consumer:

release a price drop, to reflect the fact that (1) the market (ok, speaking for myself) will not support such an astronomical price, (2) the e-5 is NOT technology that is new; it does NOT compete on specs with cameras that have been released for photokina (maybe competes with some cameras of the past year).

e-5 would be my last choice if I were buying today, how is that competitive? my last choice from almost all cameras including old models given the price. these cute little announcements aren’t doing them any favors. bye!

Surprisingly, I wan’t very impressed with the Dpreview samples, although, I’m sure they’ll post more soon. I’m glad FT will continue producing lens and what not, but the price of the E-5 is way to high. I like more current E-620 setup, although having a better processor, video, better screen and SD card access would be nice, without paying $1,700… I’ve been very supportive of Oly and FT development, but now I’m starting to wish the new D7000 had a FT mount. But even then, it probably wouldn’t autofocus. I’m very close to jumping over to the new Panasonic GH2, the only thing holding me back is the lack of image stability.

I’m going to go try my Zuiko 50 mm macro lens on the GH1 or G2 and if I can take handheld macro shots decently, then I’m officially done supporting Olympus. It’ s like they don’t have any clue about what customers want. Yes, the E-5 is nice, but the price is ridiculous, especially considering everything added is basically evolutionary. These days consumers expect more, why? Because other brands are giving them more…..

Hi All!

Throw at me hints what to look for at Photokina.

If nothing would happen overnight (like I get drunk and oversleep), tomorrow I’m going to Cologne (aka Köln).

I plan to check out the E-5, 60D, GH2, GF1, PENs (had no chance yet to hold one in my hands) and probably the new Sigma Feveon based dSLR. (After closer look at specs of Fuji X100, it turned out to be less interesting than I expected.)

Anything else potentially interesting?

See? I told you folks you were acting like Republicans. That’s a terrible insult, FYI, for all you people from Kansas.

I would love to see Oly make a committment to support autofocus as fast as PDAF for all 4/3 lenses on any future u4/3 bodies. Without that, I can’t see buying new 4/3 lenses that might have no better compatibility than manual focus on a pro u4/3 body in the future.

I would do just about as well to buy lenses for another type of mount and use them as manual focus lenses on any u4/3 cameras with an adapter. I purchased a used 4/3 mount 50-500 for my E-30, but that 50-500 only works as a manual focus lens on all u4/3 mount cameras currently available. I could just as well buy a 50-500 with a mount for another vendor and use it as manual focus lens on a u4/3 camera. Then at least the 50-500 would have more value and flexibility going forward to work as an AF 50-500 on another vendor’s mount. For long telephoto zoom lenses, there are no choices in the currently-produced 4/3 lens line-up, and it also looks like there will be no planned lenses of that type for 4/3 for the long-term.

On another note, I have been looking at other products such as the 5D and D700. Based on descriptions of those products, I would lose pop-up flash, articulating LCD, and in-body image stabilization on those platforms. If camera size is not an issue, what other drawbacks are there to switching to those platforms from an E-30? In a system I normally would get 5 or 6 zoom lenses to cover a wide range of photo opportunities.

I’m not buying any of this Olympus shit.

They will not develop 4/3 any further. No new lenses, no new bodies.

Too bad. I have been longing for that 35-100mm SWD for a while… Shit happes.

You people at 43 unit keep in mind that panasonic gh2 is better than the e5 lol I wish someday I can really buy the real e5 not just a simple upgrade crappy and worthless company I have a lot of lens like 14-35, 12-60, 50-200 swd, 50mm and fl50r it’s seems I have shift a new unit but not selling my equipment and wait a better Olympus cam

Wow # of down coments for not reading the whole txt. No new 4/3 lens development was something reported here but came from an Olympus spokes person. If you look at the “old” lens designs compared o the SWD, it is very diffrent! Not just the motors (which are completly diffrent & cause the lens bodies to have to be redesigned), but also in each the internal lenses & capabilities changed. While the oustide still was similar inside they are VERY diffrent from an engineering standpoint. O how I wish I could buy a 35-100 or 90-250SWD, but it really is not a simple refresh to build them. By the time the new optics, body, & motors were designed & ready to build you would have easily at least 4,000 man hours from optics desgin, engineering, the back & fourth to finish the design in the right size/weight/cost, motors, testing for reliability, optic tests on a camera to make sure it delivered proper performance, tooling, production set up & training, AF algorithms, any retooling, let alone training the glass pollishers to get each of the 11+ lenses curved right, & let us face it not easy to do ESP on big glass. For pro glass that has to be dang near perffect for years it is a he’ll of an investment before a finnished product rolls out so if they are moving to the m4/3 mount & have a modular system or a new adapter it would make much more sense to build them with the faster interface of m4/3.