is the pen series still alive?

creepy.sol wrote:

i sure hope so. i love my pen ep5 bodies.

As another E-P5 user (one silver, one black, swapped maybe 6 monthly to even out the wear) I would like to see a real E-P6, one as simple as same control layout, ditch the pop-up flash for a dinky pop-up EVF like Sony use on the RX100M6/7 cameras, update the image processing chips to latest and use the 20MP sensor of course. Done. I would buy one. Oh, and keep the tilt screen as it is.

really wanted the new pen f, but i just didn't think it was worth the premium price tag given the incremental improvements.

There's more than incremental improvements but the flip-out-sideways screen turned me right off as I always use the screen and never the EVF, my VF-2 has not been used now for maybe near 4 years. The Pen-F was an almost successful experiment, and in the collapsing camera market there will be no more experiments.

As related elsewhere, I wandered past my local camera store and the usual large display of Olympus was in the window, I was surprised by the Pen-F as I hadn't looked at one for quite a while and it looked so darn square and old-fashioned and clunky and larger in my mind compared to my E-P5. I simply would not buy one based on that backward step in smoothness and looks now.

i'm hoping there will be a pen ep6 or something like that with the same build quality and materials. anyone know if oly will be making another iteration of the pen line?

The Pen line seems finished apart from the E-PL10 being a warmed over copy of the E-PL9 and now shrunk back to Japan and Asian markets only.

They see the future in bigger profits on less sales of more expensive larger mock SLR shaped bodies as  the market that buys into system cameras now considers that to be a "real camera".

Regards..... Guy