Comments on: Poll evaluation “What we want from Panasonic and Olympus”

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 19 May 2010 08:30:32 +0000

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

By: Radis.Rut

Radis.Rut — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:12:11 +0000

“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

By: mulan

mulan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:38:41 +0000

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!!