Poll evaluation “What we want from Panasonic and Olympus”
We closed our poll. We had over 2.100 unique voters. Every person had three votes. 29% of the voters came from US, 34% from Europe, 23% from Japan and 14% from other regions.
What do we learn from the poll results?
1) It came with no surprises that people needs prime lenses (and possibly fast lenses!). Almost half of the voters voted for it!
2) The first surprise came on position three: 28% of the voters wants a camera with built-in electronic viewfinder (rangefinder look!)
3) 26% of the voters wants Olympus and Panasonic to continue the “classic” FourThirds line development. And many people (26%) is wants a High-End camera model that includes all the best features (wheatersealed body, fast autofocus and all the gimmics you need inside a High-End model).
Duarte (a 43rumors reader) added the following conclusion “The interesting issue here is that both of these groups are probably 4/3 hardcore users. The conclusion is that half of them are on jump ship mode (4/3 -> m4/3).”
4) “Only” 14% needs a fullframe camera.
Feel free to add your considerations! Comment this post!
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P.S.: I voted for my “monochrome sensor camera” option, and only 2% voted for my idea 
The final results are here:
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Duarte Bruno
November 12, 2009 |Quote:
“3) 26% of the voters wants Olympus and Panasonic to continue the “classic” FourThirds line development. And many people (26%) is wants a High-End camera model that includes all the best features (wheatersealed body, fast autofocus and all the gimmics you need inside a High-End model).”
The interesting issue here is that both of these groups are probably 4/3 hardcore users. The conclusion is that half of them are on jump ship mode (4/3 -> m4/3).
admin
November 12, 2009 |Hi Duarte!
You are right! That’s interesting!
Lu
November 12, 2009 |I voted for swivel LCD. It’s a pity, only 7% voted for this.
Can’t you image, how much this boosts your creativity???!!
This is something that could finally set digital photography apart from analog photography just through the way you are able to look at something. Don’t you realize this?!!!
(I’m not even talking about the possibilities that one could go further and seperate the device that takes the picture and the one you see the picture on, it only needs cable and a clever design).
And it doesn’t matter if this is too far away from mainstream, this is something System stands for. It should be an add-on, a module, an accessory. It’s not just some nice addition, it’s about designing something more modular than they did previously. The same body can be used over a wide range, from amateur to pro, and with some relatively small primes it would still be something totally different from traditional SLR, because it could still be much smaller.
Especially together with video, for me a swivel-LCD is a must have.
I thought that Olympus would release a “top High-End model” with a tiltable LCD at the end of this year, now they’ve just upgraded/changed the EP-1
They should make something a bit larger than the EP-1 with a good design (not like GH-1), that is greatly customizable because of a modular Desing-Idea.
travel5239
November 12, 2009 |a better, full-frame sensor – something that can give the noise/quality of the canon 5d in a pocket size body with the weatherproofing of the old olympus stylus epic and manual focus of the olympus xa2
e_dawg
November 12, 2009 |Something to note is that 20% of all respondents want autofocus improved.
Given that this is a combined Panasonic and Olympus poll and maybe half the respondents are responding from a Panasonic-centric perspective, one might conclude that a much higher percentage of Olympus users want Olympus to improve their autofocus system… maybe 40% if the poll was Olympus-centric.
That would put “improve autofocus” at number 2 on the poll. Are you listening Olympus?
mulan
November 12, 2009 |I think they should go even smaller with designs, e.g. cramming in a 2/3″ inch sensor inside, and then the body will even fit in your pockets!!
Also 2/3″ is fairly enough for DoF, because for the most time you will not always want super shallow DoF. Sometimes these shallow dof shots look pretty bad..
In other words, you don’t always need shallow DoF – or FULL FRAME
So SONY: MAKE IT SMALLER pocketsized!!
Radis.Rut
November 12, 2009 |“Improving repairing/customer service” is important too.
In my country, I think there’s only one place where I could get Oly camera fixed and I have no idea about Panny, since they got loads of products and dealers spreding across the country
Tom
May 19, 2010 |I vote to open source the SDK for all their camera firmware. Google is open source everything. When you open source the sdk, people develop apps to run on your device. It unlocks your device to the world and makes it better. Look at iPhone, Droid, Google OS, Ubuntu, ect… People will help Olympus be the BEST!
Not everyone can afford the latest and greatest, however we e-3 owners can refine our gear to function properly. Example we could use the code for the e-30 and the 620 to be able to custom adjust lenses. The flagship E-3 can’t adjust the the flagship Zuiko Digital ED 14-35mm F2.0 SWD. But the epl1, the 620, the e-30 all can. I am not asking for art filters god forbid. Either update the E-3 firmware or open source so we can.
I vote to open source the Olympus SDK