Great to see we were right with the 17mm 2.8 lens!
Sorry guys, this time I have been late posting the picture. I was flying and I just arrived in my Hotel. This leaked picture was posted yesterday in a chinese forum http://forum.xitek.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=88. Thanks to all the people who sent me the link.
Finally no more xD cards!
“The King is dead. Long live the King.”!
I am sure that this announcement will cause mild bouts of hysteria in the Olympus faithful. Usually upon the death of a technology there is the glorious, innovative history of the product to reminisce  on. I think I speak for all when I say it is certainly not the case here.
If you do want to catch-up  with xd, check out Wrotniak.net for a full breakdown (slightly biased).
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You take an Olympus DSLR and an Olympus compact camera, you mix them together and here it is…the MicroFourThirds desaster! :)
Thanks Roeland for the link!
A chinese 43rumors reader wrote me he saw the E-P1 and there is a video mode on the top dial button. He want tell me more…
http://olympus-imaging.jp/pen50th/
Nothing new, just the videos are bigger.
Thom Hogan is one of the most famous Nikon reviewers (bythom.com). Normally he is only active inside the nikon dpreview forum, writing very interesting articles. But now he made a small jump into the Olympus dpreview forum. Maybe he is ready for the E-P1? ;)
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An interesting excerpt (dpreview):
“I almost always have big pockets available to me. Either a vest or a jacket or sometimes even cargo pockets on my pants/shorts. Likewise the small fanny pack I wear when running/biking. If the camera and lens combos I want fit there, I have a winner. The LX3, G10, Ricoh G200, even DP2 all fall into that category. All have liabilities that I think m4/3 would solve, though.”
“It’ll also give Oly the first real burst of significant growth and market share change they’ve had in a long time.”
“So what would I do if I were Oly?
1. Kill most of the full 4/3 models. Create consumer m4/3 and high-end m4/3.
2. Followup to the E-3 needs a big size reduction (about the same amount as I need to reduce personally ;~).
3. Introduce a mFX (full frame). Small size, high performance full frame. Nikon and Canon have left that hole for anyone to exploit.”
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I just want to say that Thom is one of the most serious, competent and friendly people I have met inside the dpreview forum. His website is worth visiting!
