Even if it is “exceptional”, the E-M5 III well be a resounding failure in the eyes of a lot of the doom and gloomers on this forum who will once again find a myriad of reasons to not upgrade from their ancient first generation OMD 5, and will continue to rant on the misguided Olympus camera designs.
A modern midrange wlll do to most. I am pretty sure by far the most people interested in this segment just want OSPDAF at a reasonable rate (say 6-7 fps with C-AF), they want a better EVF and given the slow cycle time it is wise to make it 3,6 MP. Of course they want the 20 MP sensor.
E-M3. Mark my words.
I doubt you will see all that at $900 mark, maybe off by 50%, I think. $1399 perhaps.
But the G9 intro price was $1700......how long ago? And, it seems Olympus has never been a pricing slave to Panasonic, much less the rest of the market....and least of all, this forum.
Absolutely.
I did not write from Oly's perspective, just from my perspective and what I see as a viable start for a cam with a cycle that seems to be three yeards….
Olympus need to introduce some truely outstanding updates, otherwise for 1200$ and few years old E-M1.2 sensor it won't cut it. Stripping down E-M1.2 to smaller non-PDAF version will be outdated from lauch already.
New sensor is indeed not likely. No announcements as far as I know from Sony. Just for marketing purpouses a 26-27 MP version with the same characteristics as the 20MP (so the same noise inspite of the higher pixelcount) would be welcome but would not give us a lot. It would be better if such a sensor was scored somewhat better on everything else. But Em1X has no better sensor so not too much chance for that happening.
Perhaps thy have decided to not compete with Sony, Fuji, and Canon....and I'll add in Nikon. As I have noted elsewhere, with a camera division that is less than 8% of their total corporate picture, and only 4% of the world camera market I think they are just a boutique camera company at best, and competing against the likes of those other companies is pure folly.
I'm curious about that example on wiki but didn't a clear explanation.. Can you link perhaps? Thanks!
Sony has started a price war. They have the resources to do that. When they have reached their aim, prices will return normal. In the long run, they are in business to make a profit. If Olympus play their cards well, they can stay out of this war and let the others sort it out.
LOVE how you avoided his valid Question... That was Hilarious, really. *Slow clap*
Olympus is also strong with "mass market" in Japan
People switch systems and start over all the time. I'm in the midst of it myself.
with RP at $1300 , A6400/XT30 at $1000
Well, if the E-M5 III doesn't bring anything to the table that makes it more worthy than those models, than Olympus should go back to the woodshed.
Yup
No it is not, but all manufacturers are up-pricing (even the RP is just a Rebel with a bigger sensor, and who ever heard of a $1300 Rebel). The price will be higher than most would like.
I really don't think that a $200 spread will make a big difference in the sales figures. Those that wouldn't buy it at the higher price, most likely wouldn't buy it at $1200 either
I'm just surmising that , based on Olympus's recent pricing history, they really don't care if you buy it or not. They know where they have to be to get their return on their investment, based on their projected sales. If you are not willing to buy at their required price point for the E-M5 III, and decide to get the E-M10 III instead, so be it, someone (like me) will be willing to buy it at the higher price.
