A Camera to all

Seems like olympus had a lot of experience from PEN, and want to put a bit of this mixture to point & shooters pocket back in 2010

by XZ-1 They did. It loved by users, some minor issues by them, but succesfull, so succesfull that "sensor" competiton becomes "Apeture" league anyway.

And back in Dec. 2012 They bring us XZ-2, and then there comes Pentax surprises us with MX-1. Well dont say "Ben, its Pentax..." but its barely Pentax ! its preety obvious that lens and sensor got Olympus touch. Even backscreen is a nice version (i dont want to say copy, because it looks nice, not naughty). That moment i was thinking XZ´s pocketable version is this, with stylish bras piece on it.

And now, XZ-10 (i remeber i was suggesting this name for XZ-2 back in rumor days!) for compact users. With that, there are different priorities, very light camrea, more accurate scren, touch sensitive. But no flipping. And to keeping bright lens , they mae their sensor size smaller.

Here is the new Menu for all P&S users by Olympus (feat. Pentax)

• XZ-2; Want to use my camera with huge variation of foto accessories (flash, remote controls, etc), i am a manual mode user, or other menu´s jus than automatic. I want to squeze every piece of usability from my camera. I can´t invest better lens on my cheap dslr body. I want to keep my superior lens with my alright sensor, hang around my shoulder with strap.
• MX-1; Retro is my style. But in terms of usability i want it in new technologies, as well it can fit to my pocket. I dont want to imprrover my fotography with any flash to hot shue, but its nice to use capabilities of a touch sensitive tilt-shift screen.. I also use a nice stran or in my pocket, not a problem.
  

• XZ-10;​I want to my camera in my hand, point & shoot the life around me, and after that want to put it back to my side pocket and walk around. RAW, whats that ? Should i cook for my camera ?
  

These are the user types that i can define. More importantly its all covered. It also makes me a bit relaxed to see that kind of joint venture from this two brand (well maybe there is not anything such...i only thinking loudly), coz every year from many different brands we see many P&S cameras with %90 smilar technologies, nothing else but waste of resources and money. As well customer satisfaction.

And I am glad olympus realised that, by the PEN series, that you can use your E-P2, E-PL2 equipments with OM-D E5. In terms of XZ´s now its possible to use many XZ-1 accessories smilarly to XZ-2 as well. I think it also save their time and effort on many areas. And XZ-2 comes in 2 years, even its short term but still feels ok. Considering P&S range of other brands, as well olympus.

Thanks to read, lets chat more about these issues this weekend

have a nice weekend all,

Ben.