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That’s far east Asian style polite talk (not just politicians talk this way). The idea is to keep users not feeling too bad, which is quite central to keeping a relationship (not just customer relationship, but relationship in general). It’s not to focus on E-5 is the last in line for 4/3, but to remind them that E-5 is a very capable camera as long as it is in service. Before my cat died, I kept counting how long I could still spend with him. Shouldn’t I be appreciating the days I had spent with him rather than obsessing when he was going to die? As you see, what is considered as very considerate gesture can be translated as marketing disaster…. It’s a diverse world.

You don’t need more info, the info is already there. You just need to decipher the language. Cultural connotation is not something Google Translate can do…. But they said 4/3 is kept for professional use, while E-4xx, E-5xx and E-6xx will be replaced by PEN system (it’s clearly spelled out in plain English in the last section).

So far I’ve shot about 2,000+ photos this year. Yes, I’m a serious amateur…. You’d be surprised how many pros prefer to use a camera they’re familiar with. Leica’s camera bodies are pretty much remain the same style. I think that is the reason Olympus stick with the E-3. It’s not just Olympus does that, Nikon’s high ends are pretty constant in style also. Photographers typically are actually quite resistant to changes as a group…. Lots of people are still using Canon 40D and lots of Nikon D80 users too, though D90 is about two years old already.

Don’t ever put down other people’s work, Juavel. I remember in my previous job, people thought I was doing nothing, when I was cleaning up the mess they left behind, so the entire team isn’t slowed down. They’re not work I can ever take credit for, because you don’t EVER tell your bosses they are the weakest link. You just quietly clean their mess up so other people aren’t affected by it.

I think that’s what they did to E-5 too. Lots of people are tinkering with the features and that takes time. Like most R&D work, some projects take years to figure out a way to do something better, though the result may seem deceivingly simple (trust me, the most well-thoughout ideas are intuitive to use, rather than headline turning flashy). It’s not lazy work. It’s a long lost art called craftmanship….

With the price of the CF card nowadays, any serious photographer is better off using a 400x CF card or faster. I know E-5 also features the more popular SD memory, but I can’t imagine any serious person would use such a slow standard…. Class 10 SD is only 10MB per sec…. 400x CF is 60mb per sec…. UDMA standard allows 133MB per sec, and most newer Olympus cameras, my E-620 included, uses UDMA interface. Olympus is just not very good at promoting its camera’s features…. But whatever the competitors have, Olympus has it too (maybe not Sony’s sweeping panorama, but pretty much everything else).

I saw your data. What’s a file size of an E-3 (10MP) vs an E-5 (12MP)? What’s the mode when the test was done. Are they shot JPEG only, RAW only, JPEG+RAW? Are settings tested are more or less the same?

By the way, you have conducted a test on which frame it stops, not a direct test on the processing speed. Testing the buffer is not the same as processing speed. If you have the fastest CPU in the world, but the buffer is 2k, it’s still going to be very slow. A test of the output does not test the CPU speed. Your hypothesis may be correct, or maybe it’s the file size is bigger as I suggest (or other factors), but you need a second, more direct experiment before reaching to the conclusion. Indirect proof is weaker than direct proof. What you have proved was CF’s speed is not the factor. Which weird enough, I notice a drastic speed improvement between 80x and 266x CF used on my E-620, but your test suggests 266x and 400x has no edge over any of the three models tested…. 133x CF is extremely slow. A modern CPU that has a processing speed slower than 133x CF is very unlikely.

Keep in mind the photos must be processed before it can get recorded.