My take:
Seems to me more like a 'leak' than a fake.... i viewed the webby
http://www2.olympus.dk/consumer/6739_6749.htm and its also
on all the oly europe sites... chateau d'images (french magazine) also claims it's real....
seems to fit in with what has been flying around, a new lower end DSLR. not an e300 replacement, but rather like the d50 to d70s...
seems like oly will be going to rock the bottom of the market by pricing it very competitively... on the website they mentioned various kits including one without the lithiom battery and charger, instead a case witch excepts lit cr2's... this could be to cut prices even lower as they would not have to package the blm and charger...
the new 17-45 also would keep costs even lower as the lens would not have to be designed as complicated to maintain the retrofocus wide angle..it only has 8 elements compared to 12 on the 14-45mm...
also from the webby... the new lens line-up would include....
17.5-45mm (35mm-90mm) f/3.5-5.6
18-180mm (36-360mm) f/3.5-6.3
and they also mentioned dates for the following...
if i remember correctly...
14-35mm (35-70mm) f/2.0 (Jan 06)
35-100mm (70-200) f/2.0 (Oct 06)
90-250 (180-500mm) f/2.8 (Nov 06)
35mm (70mm) f/3.5 MACRO (Jan 06)
the MTF chart for the 35mm macro was also up... seems to be veri good and has only 6 elements, and hopefully it will be cheap...
also new eyecups... ep-5 and ep-6 for e-500 and e-300....
Seems to me more like a 'leak' than a fake.... i viewed the webby
http://www2.olympus.dk/consumer/6739_6749.htm and its also
on all the oly europe sites... chateau d'images (french magazine) also claims it's real....
seems to fit in with what has been flying around, a new lower end DSLR. not an e300 replacement, but rather like the d50 to d70s...
seems like oly will be going to rock the bottom of the market by pricing it very competitively... on the website they mentioned various kits including one without the lithiom battery and charger, instead a case witch excepts lit cr2's... this could be to cut prices even lower as they would not have to package the blm and charger...
the new 17-45 also would keep costs even lower as the lens would not have to be designed as complicated to maintain the retrofocus wide angle..it only has 8 elements compared to 12 on the 14-45mm...
also from the webby... the new lens line-up would include....
17.5-45mm (35mm-90mm) f/3.5-5.6
18-180mm (36-360mm) f/3.5-6.3
and they also mentioned dates for the following...
if i remember correctly...
14-35mm (35-70mm) f/2.0 (Jan 06)
35-100mm (70-200) f/2.0 (Oct 06)
90-250 (180-500mm) f/2.8 (Nov 06)
35mm (70mm) f/3.5 MACRO (Jan 06)
the MTF chart for the 35mm macro was also up... seems to be veri good and has only 6 elements, and hopefully it will be cheap...
also new eyecups... ep-5 and ep-6 for e-500 and e-300....