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I was in the photo shop today, and talking with the E-1 guy and he said the OLY rep was in and next month (This probably really means 3 months) the new oly bodies will be out, and 3 or 4 lenses.
I don't know if this is true but that is what I was told.

Also the new PRO camera will be around 8 MP. I asked him about how much and he said no idea, but around $3000. So who knows but I thought that I would tell you all.
$3000 seems a bit high for a 8 MP camera.
Anyhow, just to let you know of the rumor that I heard.
I guess that I am now a gossip, but my wife did not apreciate the knowlege.
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Tony Spore said:
I was in the photo shop today, and talking with the E-1 guy and he
said the OLY rep was in and next month (This probably really means
3 months) the new oly bodies will be out, and 3 or 4 lenses.
I don't know if this is true but that is what I was told.
Also the new PRO camera will be around 8 MP. I asked him about how
much and he said no idea, but around $3000. So who knows but I
thought that I would tell you all.
$3000 seems a bit high for a 8 MP camera.
Anyhow, just to let you know of the rumor that I heard.
I guess that I am now a gossip, but my wife did not apreciate the
knowlege.
T
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I wouldn't hold much by the $3000 as he said he had no idea. Probably just looking at the prices of the 1d and guessing a figure below that.

8MP makes sense for a higher level camera, although if that's the case I hope they don't make the E20 mistake and fail to speed up the processors. The E1 already lags behind other DSLRs in operation speed: it can't afford to get slower.

3 or 4 lenses sounds a lot, probably the 2004 roadmap: ultra wide, 3xstandard and 3xtelephoto. I reckon the 3xstandard will be a consumer grade, maybe the 3xtele too.

Dan
 
Yea, I think it will probably be around 2000 but who knows.
Maybe the lenses are the the ones by sigma that are to come out????
Who knows....
but I thought that everyone would like to know what I heard.
-T
 
Tony Spore said:
Yea, I think it will probably be around 2000 but who knows.
Maybe the lenses are the the ones by sigma that are to come out????
Who knows....
but I thought that everyone would like to know what I heard.
-T
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I found this when googling for Olympus Photokina Rumours...

http://www.sdcard.be/English/store/viewitem.asp?idproduct=8979467

Price quoted is 1098 euros, which I make to be about £750 or $1300. This would be too much for a consumer body, unless lens(es) included, and too little for a prosumer body.

Less than 7 weeks to wait...

All the best.
 
Hi E1man,

I understood the E-3 to be qualified higher and the E-300 to be qualified lower than our E-1. The 1098 Euro tag simply does not belong here.

Also the "next information" is to be expected for 10-May-2004 ?? sound like this is a very old rumor. At such stage certainly no price-tag can be given.

Let's just wait for end of September.

Ruud
 
Tony Spore said:
$3000 seems a bit high for a 8 MP camera.
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Interesting. Canon gets $4500 USD for its only 8Mp DSLR. Nikon doesn't offer one. If we get a true high-end pro 8Mp body for $3000, we will have a bit of a bargain IMO.

Four lenses makes sense: The two expected consumer zooms, the 150mm f/2 (as yet unavailable), and the long-anticipated ultra wide zoom. All in all, nothing terribly unexpected from your source, but fun to speculate anyway.

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Darn it James, you just stole almost everything I was going to say: $3000 for an 8MP DSLR with a professional grade body would be a good price, and there are exactly four lenses in the Zuiko Digital roadmap for 2004 that are not yet available.

At worst the Olympus rep. is just going by that roadmap and does not have any new inside information.

An optimistic interpretation: when companies are chasing the competition, they talk a lot about products well ahead of release, in the hope that potential customers will wait (e.g. the E-1). When new products are mostly improvements on the company's own current successful offerings and will cut into their sales, announcements come closer to availability (e.g. the 10D).

So it might be a sign of strength that Olympus is now holding back details of new products until they are closer to being available.
 
James Pilcher said:
Tony Spore said:
$3000 seems a bit high for a 8 MP camera.
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Interesting. Canon gets $4500 USD for its only 8Mp DSLR. Nikon
doesn't offer one. If we get a true high-end pro 8Mp body for
$3000, we will have a bit of a bargain IMO.
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If they can get close to 8fps for 40 frames and the noise characteristics.

the Nikon D2H can also do 8fps for 40 frames for half the price, at half the MP.
 
Dan Pidcock said:
James Pilcher said:
Tony Spore said:
$3000 seems a bit high for a 8 MP camera.
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Interesting. Canon gets $4500 USD for its only 8Mp DSLR. Nikon
doesn't offer one. If we get a true high-end pro 8Mp body for
$3000, we will have a bit of a bargain IMO.
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the Nikon D2H can also do 8fps for 40 frames for half the price, at half the MP.
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The price I can find for the Nikon D2H is US$3,200 at B&H. How would people like a similarly priced 4/3 model to be configured: the same 4MP and 8fp? twice the pixels, half the rate (8MP, 4fps)? other?
 
I'd go for 6 megapixels, less high ISO noise, 5 fps, and faster image processing and be tickled to death.
Steve
BJL said:
Dan Pidcock said:
James Pilcher said:
Tony Spore said:
$3000 seems a bit high for a 8 MP camera.
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Interesting. Canon gets $4500 USD for its only 8Mp DSLR. Nikon
doesn't offer one. If we get a true high-end pro 8Mp body for
$3000, we will have a bit of a bargain IMO.
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...
the Nikon D2H can also do 8fps for 40 frames for half the price, at half the MP.
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The price I can find for the Nikon D2H is US$3,200 at B&H. How
would people like a similarly priced 4/3 model to be configured:
the same 4MP and 8fp? twice the pixels, half the rate (8MP, 4fps)?
other?
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James Pilcher said:
Tony Spore said:
$3000 seems a bit high for a 8 MP camera.
Click to expand...
Interesting. Canon gets $4500 USD for its only 8Mp DSLR. Nikon
doesn't offer one. If we get a true high-end pro 8Mp body for
$3000, we will have a bit of a bargain IMO.
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Canon gets $4,500 for a 8MP camera with a sensor nearly two and a half times the size. It's not really comparable. Unless this pro body has a really high frame rate, $3,000 seems like crazy money. With the E-1 at $1,300 now, the new body could be $2,000 and be worth it if they've managed to eke out slightly better high ISO performance.
 
I tried to find a 8MP+ 4/3 sensor on Kodak website but nothing came up. Could the new camera be using something from Sanyo or Panasonic?
J.
alistairsyme said:
James Pilcher said:
Tony Spore said:
$3000 seems a bit high for a 8 MP camera.
Click to expand...
Interesting. Canon gets $4500 USD for its only 8Mp DSLR. Nikon
doesn't offer one. If we get a true high-end pro 8Mp body for
$3000, we will have a bit of a bargain IMO.
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Canon gets $4,500 for a 8MP camera with a sensor nearly two and a
half times the size. It's not really comparable. Unless this pro
body has a really high frame rate, $3,000 seems like crazy money.
With the E-1 at $1,300 now, the new body could be $2,000 and be
worth it if they've managed to eke out slightly better high ISO
performance.
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Jón Ragnarsson said:
I tried to find a 8MP+ 4/3 sensor on Kodak website but nothing came
up. Could the new camera be using something from Sanyo or Panasonic?
J.
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I think that if they have a new camera coming out with a new sensor, it's unlikely they would tip their hand by announcing the sensor before the camera is announced. But that doesn't mean it couldn't be from another manufacturer.
 
alistairsyme said:
... Unless this pro body has a really high frame rate, $3,000 seems like crazy money.
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Why do people bother to complain about a price heard only as a rumor for a product whose spec's we know almost nothing about?

Have patience, Photokina is coming soon!
 
Steve Sheppard said:
I'd go for 6 megapixels, less high ISO noise, 5 fps, and faster
image processing and be tickled to death.
Steve

Yes , a nice little upgrade like that I would just love it not too pricey as well.
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Mick>
Steve Sheppard said:
BJL said:
Dan Pidcock said:
James Pilcher said:
Tony Spore said:
$3000 seems a bit high for a 8 MP camera.
Click to expand...
Interesting. Canon gets $4500 USD for its only 8Mp DSLR. Nikon
doesn't offer one. If we get a true high-end pro 8Mp body for
$3000, we will have a bit of a bargain IMO.
Click to expand...
...
the Nikon D2H can also do 8fps for 40 frames for half the price, at half the MP.
Click to expand...
The price I can find for the Nikon D2H is US$3,200 at B&H. How
would people like a similarly priced 4/3 model to be configured:
the same 4MP and 8fp? twice the pixels, half the rate (8MP, 4fps)?
other?
Click to expand...
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My Oly dream is not so much a new camera but an accesory focusing screen with a split crosshairs so I can focus the camera in low light, men will that be a nice thing for wedding work.
 
Jim writes: This is great fun. Anticipation,speculation,disappointments,

whatever "The Big O" gives us is clearly going to take us into new directions. If the forum is lucky, maybe we will learn some news prior to the the big picnic in Cologne. Will it write faster,will it be noisy, how many MPs will it have. These questions and more will just have to wait. Cheers, Jim
BJL said:
alistairsyme said:
... Unless this pro body has a really high frame rate, $3,000 seems like crazy money.
Click to expand...
Why do people bother to complain about a price heard only as a
rumor for a product whose spec's we know almost nothing about?

Have patience, Photokina is coming soon!
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Most wish lists for high end lens are dominated by fast primes. As I am comfortable with the strong trend towards doing as much as possible with high quality zooms, and there are no more primes in this year's ZD lens roadmap, my new hope is a high end "standard zoom"; faster but of narrower zoom range than the 14-54 f/2.8-3.5.

Since the 11-22 seems to handle the wide to normal range well, and correcting for good wide angle performance seems to be a serious design challenge for zooms, I would go only moderately wide coverage, and no more than 3x zoom.

How about 14-40mm? Also, maybe 4/3 format is small enough to sustain about f/2-2.4, as on the E-xx models. In bulk it might be comparable to about a 28-80, f/4-5, not at all bad.

A lens of about this focal length range is on the lens road map, but will that be a cheaper, slower entry level option or the one I am now hoping for?
 
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