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OM-D opportunity missed, heritage trashed?

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No I haven't missed the 'point' of 4/3, but just because Olympus has gone down that route some years ago doesn't mean it doesn't progress technology options as they evolve.

Has previous product lines stopped fuji developing new sensors and lens ranges - No, Has it stopped Leica, nikon or canon using different sensor sizes and in the case of the last two develop differentiated lines of lenses for them - No.

Olympus was one of the big boys and OM was its premium product and if it was to be relaunched should have been done so at that level. My point, which so many seem to hate is that they have simply pushed the image onto an inferior format.
 
Hey, I think you missed a forum!
 
John_A_G said:
I suggest there is a VAST difference between a Pro - someone making primary living through photography vs the weekend warrior making a few extra grand a year through photography.
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Yes and no. Having known about a dozen by now, half of them well, I would first of all point out that the majority of them do not use Nikon or Canon's $5000- $8000 street dreadnought'sany more than they absolutely have to. Too big and heavy and obtrusive for some, sometimes most of their shooting.

The two exceptions are a full and a part time newspaper photog, using company cameras. A third, partial exception does use a Canon monster for sports, but is mainly landscape artist for which he uses Canon 5DII's Two of these three are fairly young, over 6 feet tall and weigh around, likely over 200 pounds. The other older and more moderately-proportioned pros tend to use cameras like the Nikon 300D or Canon xxD line for most of their shooting, and point and P&S, or increasingly m4:3rds and even in one case (a large city newspaper photographer and photo-editor!) a top cell-phone camera whenever possible.

And all these people have long earned their income from photography (well one, Han Domasch is retired). Professional photographers are also people, with vulnerable necks, spines and joints. Except for a quite small elite who have unlimited budgets and can manage helpers as camera sherpas, they too are often

looking for lighter, and cheaper ways of getting the job done. Or, especially, of making their photography more enjoyable.
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Yep, got a nikon d90 and a ricoh GRD and a panny FT2 and an OM2n and an OM4ti plus a box full of lenses. Had an E1 (yep 4/3) but whilst a decent camera image quality was never top notch and was soon superseeded. So not a brand troll, just disappointed.
 
Great point rick. Unfortunately Olympus can't run themselves globally either - read the papers
 
My point wasn't that full time pros only use canon or nikon. It's that if you're going to talk about what gear pros do use, you need to be talking to full time pros. their answers/criteria are different than the weekend warrior.
 
You can please some of the people some of the time but you can't please all the people all of the time.

I disagree with your assessment of this camera, I love the looks and the build appears up to OM standards but don't let the door hit you on the way out.
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Personally, micro 4/3rds doesn't appeal to me, but I have to admit that the OM-D does intrigue me a bit.
 
It was almost my perfect camera but then I was really disappointed to see that it doesn't have a pop up flash to control off camera flashes. I thought those B'@sT* ds at Olympus have done it to me again!! They did it with the EP1 and now this camera.

But then I see that it comes with a nice pocket-able flash so I might have to sell all my 4/3 gear to fund a new purchase or should I wait for the EM6 with pop up flash??

Decisions, decisions.
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SimonRW said:
Is it me or is this a big missed opportunity. There are millions of photographers with great memories of the OM series. The design of this looks like one of those bad chinese car copies, not even a stylish pastiche. The OM's were fabulously well built and beautifully designed. They could produce top level images.
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And I actually agree with that part absent the insult to the Chinese, but certainly the OM-D looks to me like a generic, poorly drawn SLR thing.

Just that everything else is nonsense. Come back to earth, Simon, when you get over your disappointment. I'm not buying the OM-D but I'll be here in a year or so when the EP-5 comes out with these goodies (this cam has the E-P5 goodies, so a repayment is in order!) including an EVF built into a humpless body á la the PEN F.

Who wouldn't? The technical specs of this camera are excellent.

Good photographers will use it to produce top level images.

And while I'm waiting, I'll be galloping about producing the best images I possibly can with my delightful E-PL3.

And don't say it's not a professional camera -- it has the same silly add-on flash as the OM-D!!! :)

Cheers, geoff
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There's plenty to choose from.

To expect Oly to change sensors after all they've invested in 4/3rds is just plain delusional. You might be able to argue they backed the wrong horse (although sensor technology improvements and the oversized lenses of bigger formats tell me otherwise), but there is clearly no going back now.
 
"You mean Toyota didn't make the new Camry with Ferrari engines? Or Super Tight suspensions?!?!" AHHHHH fouy, they missed a huge opportunity to make right on what they shoulda been making all along...

Sounds ridiculous doesn't it? Just as ridiculous as expecting Olympus to totally change their sensor which may have affected flange back dist. needed or mount size, which then would have made the camera bigger, which then would have sparked users to flame the size like you flamed the overall homage to the OM's DESIGN.

To sit here and whine about it just makes you sound like a 2yr old throwing a temper tantrum inside an adults 35+ if you used an OM body.... Grow up. Real photogs haven't even gotten their hands on this to put out real images samples with NF turned down or processed through LR3 or LR4 beta to get the most out of the images. To compare to a point and shoot also shows your ignorance. More so than the slow focus comment.

Please be a man-child of your word and move on to the tool that best fits your needs. Whine on your blog
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...everything else about this camera is brilliant. It is hard to think of how a better "bridge" camera that will work well with both m4:3rds and 4:3rds lenses (big) IF the focussing with the latter is decent. Especially at this price point.
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erichK
saskatoon, canada

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
  • W. Eugene Smith, Dec 30, 1918 to Oct 15, 1978.
http://erichk.zenfolio.com/

http://www.fototime.com/inv/7F3D846BCD301F3

underwater photos:
http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/5567
 
Just saw a blurb about Annie Leibovitz's new show in New England... her first of landscapes and objects. She said she only recently started using digital at all, and a lot of the shots on the gallery tour were done with a point and shoot.

I guess she counts as a professional.
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