Mockups emerge of new Olympus OM-D 'OM-G'

I'm still waiting for it! All my other expenditures are on hold now....groceries, mortgage payments, medical appointments.... (sigh )

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Om-d omG

🎼 Oh mi di oh mi gee life's goes on bra 🎶

What's even funnier than this gag is the reaction of all the people who were angered by it. I am reading each and everyone of them and ROFLMAO. Seriously? People are actually angered by this? Get a life... It's not as if DPreview tried to prove that the earth was flat. (Oh, I forgot, that's somebody else's sacred cow).

Thank you DPreview, It's great to be able to laugh at ourselves sometimes.

All I needed to read was the date and the camera name.

OK. You got me! I can laugh now but I can hardly express how excited I was when I first started reading it, and how disappointed I was to learn it was just a joke. Taken in light of the recent introduction of a full frame, 36mpx mirrorless camera by Sony, it was totally plausible the Olympus could do the same.

So, April Fools Jokery Rule Number One: Never lead one on to think they are getting something they really, really want, like; a marriage proposal, a new car, or a high megapixel, full frame Olympus that will accept legacy lenses! The disappointment of realizing it was just a joke negates the humor of it.

That was just mean, especially for an old OM-1 shooter who has been nothing but disappointed with the cameras that Olympus has been making.

And now a few days later, the review is being quoted across the web without mention it was a joke and a few photo forums are all abuzz about this. Oops! DPR has started a rumor.

Wouldn’t it be funny if Olympus has one in the works?

If Olympus were to produce a camera like this, market it to the luxury crowd, give it the absolutely stunningly huge viewfinder of the OM-1 that makes everything we have today look like a sad joke, and maybe reissue a few OM lenses with modern coatings or even new designs, I think they could have a hit on their hands. A Leica for the DSLR shooter.

so many people wish for an Olympus full frame mirrorless, that this joke isn't funny, I thought we were past all the April fools bullcrap, so I was reading it thinking, wow, is it really possible that Olympus is going all out in the camera market, because i think if they really make this FF OMD, it would sell like crazy, it would probably be the best Ff on the market, but the whole time I was reading it, I was thinking that maybe this is another April fools joke, but I was hoping because it was on Dpreview, that maybe it had some weight, Dpreview you suck, and Canon and Nikon you suck also, for not making a killer full frame mirrorless camera, or even a great APSC one, now I want to see what this rumored Sony A7s is all about, or is that just another joke

My last real OM camera was an OM-4. Remember? It had that manual multi-point spot metering thing, a fast 1/2000 shutter, and the off-the-film-plane automatic real-time metering feature. I loved that camera as much as the fully manual OM-1 that got me started. At 19, I was very proud of the money I saved for the 50mm f1.4 lens. Wow, an SLR! Banish the Instamatic. That is where I learned deliberated shooting, depth of field, ASA, and thinking ahead. Although I never use either of them anymore, I can never part with them, or the glass that became part of the kit. Fast forward, April fools. Did I take it seriously or drool? Not a bit. Because I lack an application that would benefit from Full Frame (I shoot for fun, not profit, and rarely in poor light) I already feel gushed over with awesome alternatives in both the m43 and 1:1.7 enthusiast camera categories. I am having a lot of fun shooting digital. My bag is the family joke. "Um, Dad, how many cameras and now many lenses are enough?"

I loved it even if it was a joke.

Yes I know 1st in April ... but really hope its real.

and you know what? despite this being an april fool joke, it's quite possible they would end up making a FF omd. then it'd really by OMFG.

And in other news...Canon and Nikon to merge.

I'm just glad to see a little bit of humor around here! So many times now, nefarious detractors and deprecators have demanded I be stripped of my longitudinal rights, dunked in a heated vat of used motor oil, and exiled to the Outer Hebrides, just for cracking a joke!

Make it 43 lens compatible and we'll call it the OMFG.

I was really taken in by this - except the lens just looks a bit wonky.... still it would have been nice but no doubt so expensive it would be out of my league, like the OM-D still is.
Will have to make do with my super cheap plastic Sony Alpha 3000 with an adapter and my Olympus 50mm + 28mm lenses.
One day someone will make a manual focus full frame SLR metal bodied camera without anti shake sensor so it stays in position and not go out of adjustment and basic manual knob controlled settings. I wish...
Phil

Im still waiting for Yabokkie to not get the joke, to respond and trash this with his technie-nerd gibberish, as he does with al things Olympus...

Good Spoof ... only one problem ... I would LOVE an OM-compatible Full-Frame digital Olympus model!

Brian

Would have preferred a Ren Kockwell story. But then again, he's a fool every month...

It is my understanding that, similar to the Leica MU announced yesterday, the new OmG will, in future, have full underwater functionality without need of a waterproof housing. Olympus will provide the firmware update to enable this feature no later than April 1st 2015

Lol, just when I was starting to drool... I remember what day it is

I am afraid this for me this was clearly an April's fool joke because of the laws of physics: you could not mount 35mm OM lenses on a camera with such a short a register mount --- you'd never be able to focus at infinity. Also how could Olympus make a "hybrid optical viewfinder" without any mirror in the optical path?
The joke would have been more believable if they photoshoped the OMG on top of 4/3 DSLRs like the E5...

Sad thing is, I bet this would interest a lot of us more than many of the real news items.

Olympus could always have the last laugh and actually make one. That great mountain of stuff piled above the viewfinder is probably something of great beauty to an Olympus designer.

Pick any forum any day, half of the threads are April's fool material...

I should have read this yesturday, great job guys! As an OM-1n owner it hit a romantic heart string too! ISO cartridges, that put a smile on my face!
Next year, I look forward to reading about a Ricoh (Pentax name will be taken off) K-0 extra full frame DSLR with Infra-red filter instead of AA, and breaking with tradition, no compatability with previous K mount lenses!! That should cause a stir :)

Wait until the OMMFG, the MF stands for medium format of course. With the self correct system any lens would be able to cover the mf sensor.