I did post a link to Robin Wong's video and for an hour he did discuss the worsening position of OM System. Of course die hards will not discuss his points:
Generally the lens lineup is pretty complete. Not sure there are glaring holes. Other lens companies are doing lots of refreshes, but that's hard to justify in the boardroom with a stagnant or shrinking user base.
I think those are all true, but some of the full frame lenses are a wash. The 28-200 seems weaker compared to the OM 12-100. But generally, many of the full frame lenses under 100mm were out-resolving my M43 lenses even on a ~25mp sensor of the S5II or S9.
I keep it mostly because the telephoto lenses are very light, like the 100-400 and 50-200. But yes that is a very small niche. I think many photographers don't go over 200mm.
Much-advertised? Much rumored, maybe.
I would jump at a Titanium colored OM-3.I'm still not counting them out.
This is going to be an interesting year for OM System for sure. Putting out two new bodies that have been backed by a strong marketing push, getting them out to a wide variety of outlets, etc should have a noticeable impact on market share - but we won't know if that has happened until next year.
Just keep in mind that it's actually really hard to know how much they may or may not be struggling. I get it, the CIPA year-over-year numbers are not good. But the nature of those numbers is that it's hard to know, quickly, what effect differences in Go to Market strategy are having. OMS certainly has the data on this, but we do not. So the situation may look dire, but those latest numbers are prior to the OM-3 and OM-5 Mark II releases, the 17/1.8 II, 25/1.8 II and 50-200/2.8 - all releases that have been pretty well-to-highly regarded, overall.
It's probably become difficult to convince consumers to buy into a system often described as 'good enough.' All they need to hear is 'better' noise performance, 'better' dynamic range, and 'better' depth of field control, and you've got their attention. 'Better' trumps 'good enough'!
Us existing customers are happy, what is worrisome is the lack of new/younger generation selecting MFT. My own young-adult daughter who grew up with my free hand-me-downs (Olympus MFT) is inquiring about Fuji because of the built in film simulations native to many of their cameras.
I see more younger people enthusing over their m43s on the Reddit subs. But OMS needs to get that Creative Dial and its color and mono profiles and other arty jpeg functions into the OM5 or another EVF equipped model in that same price range. Leave the stacked sensor and the rest of the super-powers for the bigger lens-using OM-1 size cohort, and offer attractive, well-made, fairly priced small "experience" cameras with WR and creative editing functions, for travel and life.
That's what she wants.
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For people like me the G9m2 is nearly perfect (the GH7 is a bit better) reason to enter MFT:
Still, while a Bentley is the 'better' car, far more 'good enough' little Toyota's being sold. Maybe photography (gear) for most is a luxury hobby, where it's more about 'wanting' than 'needing'?
Lol, a year or two after two major releases that were very well received and heavily promoted (they got many influencers to test them), the G9 II and GH7, Panasonic's now considered abandoning MFT?
This is down to marketing more than anything else, riding on the hype the X100V generated.
Just the usual doomer in here; these people are starting to be as bad as the whiny gamers who have a moan that there is not enough content in a game and send death threats when a game gets delayed.
