What would Asian and European women think?

Sergey Borachev wrote:

JakeJY wrote:

Sergey Borachev wrote:

OzRay wrote:

Good on you privileged old, white, male showing your misogyny as well as racism. Have you ever considered the other gendes inclusion perhaps being targeted with this program?

Does every camera have to be big, masculine and phallic?

I should point out (read my previous messages here, and also on the other 2 threads about the E-PL9), that I do not hold the same msogyny or racist views that you seem to detect.

I actually said in the others posts I disagree with others' apparent suggestion that those targeted Asian ladies are not so cluey, and I said that all those I know have brains, and that they would look at more than fashion. ... Check the messages I wrote out.

No one claimed that Asian women don't have brains. You are the one making a non sequitur argument and also doing a strawman (the claim was never that the market *only* cares about camera aesthetics but that it's of higher importance in those markets)

Let's break it down:

1) if a person values camera aesthetics/fashion, then he/she doesn't have brains.

2) the claim is Asian women value camera aesthetics/fashion

3) therefore it follows the people claiming #2 is claiming Asian women don't have brains

First of all your argument of #1 is not true, and even it was, the people claiming #2 do not necessarily agree. So the conclusion in #3 does not follow.

What would you call the practise of charging a high price for products with clearly very little substance in the main functions than competitors, due to the apparent lack of interest in technical details shown by a particular section of the buyers? You can computer's what is meant by"brains" in this context. Hint: it's metaphoric.

The problem is you are putting a value of $0 for the styling (and branding). The EPL-9 costs only 9435JPY (87USD) more than the X-A5, it's possible for people to be willing to pay a bit more for the style and branding (people have put of the Apple analogy previously), something you fail to acknowledge. On the specs there are pros and cons on either side.

What you wrote here and elsewhere seems to indicate a blind faith in Olympus and their strategy and products worth, apologising for your favourite brand consistently, regardless of what the facts are and therefore hardly worth reading. Bye. You have been blocked.

I have no allegiance with the Olympus brand nor do I own any product from them (I'm a recent MFT owner and only have a Panasonic camera and lenses right now; I have owned Nikon cameras far longer than MFT).

I put it elsewhere, I personally wouldn't buy a camera like the E-PL8 or E-PL9 at the given prices (back when shopping I considered the E-PL7 when it was on sale at end of life), but I'm not the target demographic. I crossed Fuji off the list early on because they don't have a pancake zoom (the new 15-45mm is more compact, but still not pancake).

The facts are Olympus just took number one in Japan for mirrorless (as they did for recent years) so that shows they are doing something right in the Japanese market. Nothing you have posted so far proves that their strategy is wrong.

https://www.dpreview.com/news/0966656912/2018-japan-bcn-camera-rankings-canon-dominates-dslrs-tops-sony-in-mirrorless