Our friend Tyson Robichaud analyzed the current situation of MicroFourThirds and in general mirrorless system. He ends his post with an open request to Panasonic and Olympus:

“My plea to both Panasonic and Olympus:
Panasonic: Now offering 3 different “small” dSLR style body lines that are barely smaller than a Rebel? Really? This is ludicrous in my mind….Please continue to advance the GF platform
Olympus: Please oh please have someone redesign your menus and interface.
To both (my rant): For the love of all that is holy, get some new, fast, reasonably affordable, small lenses to market to compliment the kit lenses you’ve already released.”

I do agree with his “analysis” and you?

Read the article: tysonrobichaudphotography.wordpress.com

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Press release:

“The new Olympus Viewer 2 is designed especially for photo editing, picture sorting and selection, and RAW image file development.

It offers the same ability as the previous Olympus Studio 2 for image management and the development of RAW format image files with Art Filter effects (with RAW files from relevant cameras), as well as the e-Portrait and movie editing functions of both Olympus Master 2 and Olympus Studio 2.

Product features

• Flexibility in selection and management of images with thumbnail view at a glance and colour sorting marks

• Light Box function for comparing different images with magnification of the same area of those images

• RAW development into high quality images with detailed adjustments

• Editing with ” before ” and ” After ” comparison viewing

• RAW development with Art Filter effects o Only for RAW format images taken with Olympus cameras incorporating Art Filter functions

• “e-Portrait” function for the images taken with the Olympus cameras that incorporate the same function

• “Beauty Fix” function for the images taken with the Olympus cameras that incorporate the same function.

• Compatible with PEN Lite E-PL1

• Compatible with Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard

• RAW development with the “Gentle Sepia” Art Filter effect o Only for RAW format images taken with the Olympus PEN Lite E-PL1

• RAW development of “Diorama” and “Cross Process” Art Filter effects for the RAW format images taken with the Olympus PEN E-P1”

Download page: http://support.olympus-imaging.com/ov2download/index/?Lang=ENU