Seriously, Olympus. Where's my E-P6?

Maklike Tier wrote:

Guy Parsons wrote:

Guy Parsons wrote:

In an Olympus interview (probably saw it at Imaging Resource) the Oly guy admitted that the Pen-F was a marketing experiment.

My friend Google found it..... http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2016/03/05/olympus-interview-cpplus-2016-recovery-is-techology-pen-f-experiment and scroll down to the Pen-F pic and start reading, the bit under the E-PL7 pic lower down is where the Oly admission is.

Regards........ Guy

Hey, thanks for the link.

I wish I understood exactly what the 'experiment' is. Is it an experiment of pushing prices (and margins) up, or an experiment in selling a camera with bad CAF and a gimmicky dial that hipsters can get excited about?

You are missing the forest for the trees. Any model introduced from the E-M1II forward will have a price that will hurt your feelings - the economic reality is even camera-crazed types like Olympus won't be making cameras if they can't turn a profit doing so.

And as others have pointed out, there never has been an EP-series camera with C-AF any more than terrible. And to be fair, Pen-F probably has more processing power and the C-AF likely scales a bit with that. But it's a twice zero equals zero type of thing.

You'll have to buy an E-M1II if that's not good enough - it was never reasonable to expect that level of C-AF in non-flagship models anyway.

I kinda feel like us shooters that prefer rangefinder-style shooting in a retro package are being somewhat neglected at the moment.

I have perhaps the world's tiniest violin for just such occasions. Sales numbers and profit/loss would have dictated no offerings at all. I don't much care for the 'creative' dial either, but at some point you are going to have to recognize that it's a wart on the face of the very camera you pine for. Stamping your feet and repeating 'but the C-AF sucks' is irrelevant - it was never realistic to expect more.