I wouldn't if I were you... If you still have the camera body, then keep the 12-60mm... it is still a good combination.
[ Rumor and kopitiam ] Olympus E-5 Speculation
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I wouldn't if I were you... If you still have the camera body, then keep the 12-60mm... it is still a good combination.
What are your expectation of the new flagship?A little disappointed. Hopes the 4/3 lense can still be used with the rumored modular system, else Olympus can be condemned forever by playing out people who take the risks of buying the lense
It's not doomsday yet. Let's wait for the product announcement. After that, try it and see it yourself when the camera is made available in the stores. It's too early to comment isn't it?
I'm keeping my 12-60mm SWD, 50-200mm SWD and now gunning (where possible) for 14-35mm SWD and probably... 14-54mm MK II.
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WOW!! U guys sure know how to chiong threads!! HAHAHAHA!! :bsmilie:
Let me put it very comically, i've 2 special guests with me today, Robert De Niro & Sylvester Stallone
De Niro: U talking to me??
Stallone: What i want.... Is what all these people want.....
De Niro: Forget about it.
*Audience cheered wildly*
U see, whatever i want is not important, Oly is not going to manufacture it. There was already a post with E5 wish list & also this mega one, if Oly really wants any hint.
The big question is "How is Oly going to pull this one off to gain market share if the specs were as per touted by the church's mice?" Who's going to bite with yesterday's technology? How is Oly going to market it to convince old & new users? Where's that killer feature that many have wished/hoped for?
For all its worth, i really hope the church's mice is talking about a new E630 instead of E5. And HOPEFULLY the real E5 is something of a head turner. Tina Turner can launch it :bsmilie::bsmilie:
Personally for me, if i have to get a CMOS or NMOS or PMOS or whatever MOS cam, the strong candidate is the Canon cos they put in a lot of research to make it work. But i'm also looking hard at Sony, their colors is better
Here's one more from my Canon 40D, somehow this color reminds me of Fuji Provia film
Ok, now all u guys have been contaminated by the Canon virus, go get urself cleanse with holy water this weekend. HAHAHAHAHA!!! microcosm will install anti-canon-virus to del my pics Heeee.....
nah.... whether E-5 is 20 stops of DR or like now would not stop me from selling, coz move back to film already
What are your expectation of the new flagship?
It's not doomsday yet. Let's wait for the product announcement. After that, try it and see it yourself when the camera is made available in the stores. It's too early to comment isn't it?
I'm keeping my 12-60mm SWD, 50-200mm SWD and now gunning (where possible) for 14-35mm SWD and probably... 14-54mm MK II.
The expectation is for Olympus to continue to innovate and compete well with the competition. This is to force competition, which will benefit users.
At this rate, Olympus is not assuring that an E-6, E-7 and so on will appear and that the FT lenses will be usable for the 2-3 decades to come. If they do not have a top flagship to compete and brag about, people will not buy m4/3 in future. How can you sell m4/3 without the pros using it? It is as if you are asking people to buy Acer monitor for more serious use, when the pros are using Eizo/NEC monitors.
A little disappointed. Hopes the 4/3 lense can still be used with the rumored modular system, else Olympus can be condemned forever by playing out people who take the risks of buying the lense
I was just saying dont look to far when what will be E5 features, reading this article i was what!!!!??? :bheart:
U have a serious L9 contamination!! This call for immediate holy water cleansing!! Quick go beg, borrow or steal some!! That was SKII in the works man, what water colour????!!! What were u smoking???? HAHAHAHAHA!!!! :bsmilie: Go buy a Canon 7D or the new 60D. This calls for poison to fight poison, virus to fight virus, an eye for an eye. HAHAHAHA!!!
The reality is... with such specs, this E5 shud be rebranded as "E3i" ("i"mproved with video & TruePic V+) & launched last year together with PL1. That wud have bought Oly some time (15mths+?) to bridge over to the real E5 next yr. I think many wudn't mind a E3i last yr while waiting for the E5 in 2011. :angel:
Analogous to buying a Win98 with 866MHz Pentium 3 while the rest r now offering i5/i7 running Win7 (or in the mac world a G3 400MHz running OS 9)
Edited: Also looking at what Panny has done to LX5, i really dun know whats stopping Oly from using the GH2 16MP sensor. Maybe the size of the sensor not fitting into the housing? Redesign cost for that too hi? Shudn't be any issue le, from what i see
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Technically, IF Olympus can do what Apple did...
That is, make iPods, iPhone, iTouch... Then revive their Mac line and Macbooks.
I sure as hell don't care about what's happening to the main FT line of cameras. I just want to know if Olympus as a company will THRIVE and CONQUER the world the way Apple did. If Olympus can carve out a reputation for photography and make photography synonymous with Olympus, then the day when FT business is back isn't that far.
Anyway, ever since I saw them create the idea of m43 and market for those cameras, I always thought that Olympus was going the way of Apple.:think:
What's happening now, shouldn't really be surprising right?
That is, make iPods, iPhone, iTouch... Then revive their Mac line and Macbooks.
I sure as hell don't care about what's happening to the main FT line of cameras. I just want to know if Olympus as a company will THRIVE and CONQUER the world the way Apple did. If Olympus can carve out a reputation for photography and make photography synonymous with Olympus, then the day when FT business is back isn't that far.
Anyway, ever since I saw them create the idea of m43 and market for those cameras, I always thought that Olympus was going the way of Apple.:think:
What's happening now, shouldn't really be surprising right?
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Hopefully, they'll give real information, not more teasers.
If this latest rumor is true, then they have serious problems beyond anything we could imagine and the camera division might as well become part of Panasonic.
However, we know nothing and I'm hopeful that they'll surprise us somehow.
5 more hours! But I'm not expecting much so I won't be too disappointed if the rumours are true.
Maybe Panasonic themselves aren't licensing/selling their sensor sensor yet, not until they put it out in the market on their own cameras which is the GH2.
Well, if that E-5 image, which incidentally looks exactly like an E-3, on 43rumors is accurate, then I think this would be Olympus' last iteration of the traditional DSLR.
Perhaps after this, Olympus would go totally mirrorless.
And upon going mirrorless, which vis-a-vis m4/3 would see the lens closer to the sensor, we could see the 4/3 sensor actually increasing in size.
AF would then be a hybrid phase-contrast system.
(What would be really nice would be 4" touch screen to play angry birds in between shots...)
Dream away people!
Perhaps after this, Olympus would go totally mirrorless.
And upon going mirrorless, which vis-a-vis m4/3 would see the lens closer to the sensor, we could see the 4/3 sensor actually increasing in size.
AF would then be a hybrid phase-contrast system.
(What would be really nice would be 4" touch screen to play angry birds in between shots...)
Dream away people!
I don't really care about the direction of camera bodies, regular 4/3 or m43.
Think about it, regardless of the camera body size, what drew me to Olympus years ago was its Zuiko Digital lenses. And the fact that the Four Thirds standard was a true digital design from ground up.
As long as I am able to continue to use the current line of lenses in my photography, the camera body is really not an issue for me, PEN or otherwise. There is already a MMF adapter that Olympus has put out for that purpose. So far, the pictures that the PEN can produce with the ZD lenses are good, and that makes me happy. So if there is an update of technology which allows faster AF with ZD lenses, it is really something for me. Olympus did say that they are working on AF improvements and a probable hybrid system. The issue here is cost. Hybrid AF systems costs a lot more money and that will jack up the price of the camera bodies. Which will kills its consumer market.
m43 line will continue to grow for sure, and its lenses will be the Standard Grade ones to keep the cost low (for entry level users).
With MMF adapters, advanced shooters or 4/3 users can continue to use their existing ZD lenses on the cameras. Though I fret the day I have to take out the 50-200 with the PEN... ha ha ha... the balance is very off... but if Olympus can develop a really ergonomic PEN, then that is something else altogether... might not be the PEN line by then...
I still have faith in the company that has brought the world so much new technology in imaging, and this is a period of time where there are changes, and we will be somehow caught in this, and might cause a little grief. Whatever it is, I am happy with what I have now, and anything else is simple a bonus.
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