E-500 internal frame

[Peter Khor]

fwiw here is what's under the hood:

 

[butachan]

As shown by that photo, tooling a new camera ain't exactly cheap.

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[Digitalfuzz]

And lets not forget why she stays clean!





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[DillonJames]

Stamped metal is pretty cheap.

Not like the good old days where the entire frame was one or two pieces of diecast aluminum alloy.

As shown by that photo, tooling a new camera ain't exactly cheap.

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agrees.'

 

[Peter Khor]

How about the E-300, anyone got links or a pic of the internal frame? Is it diecast, or stamped metal+plastic?

 

[JP Lee]

As shown by that photo, tooling a new camera ain't exactly cheap.

Agree... I've been working with overseas (mainly Taiwan and China) suppliers for quite some time now tooling metal/plastic parts.

Actually it's not the hard tooling that's expensive. I suspect that in inner China, to hard tool just what's in the photo is ~$100K.

What gets really expensive is the amount of prototypes that must be soft tooled. Olympus probably made 3~5 passes at the body before the final revision. At each pass they probably soft tooled dozens of prototypes. A part that $2 in production hard tooled can cost literally 100x that soft tooled.

 

[eyespy]

100% Magnesium alloy - Now that's quality.
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[Bram de Mooij]

That's the box not the frame imo
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[Heinz]

see review here.
Heinz

 

[Adam-T]

A single thin plate basically .. wasn't the E300 a steel box inside like the old Canon D60 and Nikon D100? . the D60 was just polycarb panels over a stainless steel inner body - anyone who says the E500 (or 350D) has a steel chassis is stretching things a LOT

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[Peter Khor]

A single thin plate basically .. wasn't the E300 a steel box inside
like the old Canon D60 and Nikon D100? . the D60 was just polycarb

Anyone has a pic of E-300's internals? I'm rather curious also ...

 

[eyespy]

That's the box not the frame imo

Have you been eating too much cheese Bram? - I know what it's like I've been to Amsterdam

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