Antonio Rojilla

Bogdan Spineanu: So, as a Canon owner .. Canon thinks probably they are the "Apple" of photography with these prices.
What .. GPS tracking and it isn't compatible with older cameras ? No software syncing of GPS data ?
That wireless transmitter is as expensive as a laptop !
For God Sake Canon !
That was a stupid day when I choose to go with Canon !

Antonio Rojilla: Too bad it won't use Android. Not that I don't like Symbian, but with the just announced Ubuntu for Android and this cameraphone I'd be in heaven.

BTW, it is taking too much for the big camera companies to integrate a mobile OS -Android, Symbian, Maemo or whatever it is called now- in at least some of their models. How come you can't put this Nokia's phone hardware -antenna, Wi-Fi, GPS- inside a D800??? There should be space somewhere...

Antonio Rojilla: Too bad it won't use Android. Not that I don't like Symbian, but with the just announced Ubuntu for Android and this cameraphone I'd be in heaven.

BTW, it is taking too much for the big camera companies to integrate a mobile OS -Android, Symbian, Maemo or whatever it is called now- in at least some of their models. How come you can't put this Nokia's phone hardware -antenna, Wi-Fi, GPS- inside a D800??? There should be space somewhere...

D200_4me: I vote to disable commenting on these news stories. If we thought the comments could be childish/foolish/arrogant/rude, etc in the discussion forums, just look below. There ARE some useful comments...or at least comments that are not intentionally demeaning, but way too many are insulting and childish. There's nothing wrong with dissent, but very often the comments people make here go way above and beyond that.

YouDidntDidYou: Olympus is running at an operating profit has strong cash flow and funds to last until 2016.
Olympus imaging have had a rise in sales in many other countries part from Japan.

Michael "the donut" Woodford said: 'If they [Olympus] move in that direction, what happens to Olympus's camera business?" Like he ever cared and knows anything about photography or it's consumers.

"Olympus whistleblower Michael Woodford is being pursued by Hollywood for the rights to make a movie " who's going to play him, who's going to be the love interest, is it being shot in 3D????

Roger Knight: It is excellent news that there have been arrests which may go some way towards vindicating Michael Woodford in this affair. It remains to be seen if the Japanese judiciary are as currupt as we are led to believe.
Perhaps the court system will also do a thorough audit of all company officials to back up their case which will at the very least keep the wrongdooers in prison for some more time at least.

Anastigmat: Kodak was the early leader in DSLR cameras. They were building DSLRs using Nikon and Canon bodies that pros used to capture events such as the World Series. Unfortunately, they priced their DSLRs so high that ordinary folks could not afford them. That gave Canon an opportunity to come up with an "affordable" DSLR camera, the $3,000 D30. Canon soon followed with full frame DSLR cameras, leaving both Nikon and Kodak in the dust. At one point in time, shortly before Nikon released the D70, Canon had 80% of the DSLR market. Kodak simply could not compete. Kodak also made a full frame DSLR camera, but instead of using one of its own CCD sensors, it used a CMOS sensor designed and manufactured by an outside company to save cost. That sensor was so noisy that it doomed the camera. Besides, even with the cheaper CMOS sensor, the camera wasn't cheap. Quite simply, Kodak had a chance to be a player in the DSLR market but it made marketing mistakes by pricing their cameras too high.

Dan Nikon: Interesting that you left out the most important and best part, Kodak is still going to make film, a niche that serves them and Ilford well and keeps us real fine art photographers set with all the options we need to stay in business. Not that many on this site would care, but many of us pros use fillm along side of digital and will continue to do so. As cited in the BJP:

http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2145203/kodak-phases-digital-businesses-film-alive

Albino_BlacMan: I'm actually surprised it took companies so long to come out with this. I think smartphones with zoom lenses and compact camera sized sensors are going to be the future of P&S

Ashley Pomeroy: Talking about the flash, I've always wondered why some enterprising compact camera manufacturer doesn't build it as a ring around the lens mount; it'd be a mini ring flash. 'twould go down well with hobbyists, and even if it doesn't work very well it would at least be something to put in the press release.

Antonio Rojilla: What's that long orange strip? The India-Pakistan border??? Amazing.

M Aryan: Am I right? Is this camera competing against Sony NEX-5N with about same size and megapixel senor BUT has:
1. APS-C size sensor (micro 4/3 for GX1)
2. ISO range of 100-25600 (160-12800 for GX1) with really low noise and very good detail on ISO 1600 and above
3. Tilt touch LCD (Fix On GX1)
4. 920,000 Pix True black or whatever (460,000 on GX1)
5. 1080 60p (1080 60i on GX1)
6. Build in EyeFi Compatibility (No on GX1)
7. 12 m build in flash range (7.6 m on GX1)
8. 10 fps full resolution continuous shooting (4.2 fps on GX1)
9. Optional OLED EVF with 2.4 megapixel (1.4 Megapixel LCD on GX1)
and in defense:
1. Hot shoe external flash (some sort of accessory flash on NEX-5N)
2. 60 sec Maximum shutter speed (30 on NEX-5N)
3. And damn cool and useful pancake(compact) 14-42 mm X series (No on E mount Sony “it is so blamable”)
with “SAME PRICE”?
In my opinion: with huge disadvantages and few not so important advantages (except one) again at same price, “not acceptable!”

bricci_mn: Hello everybody!
Just lurking for years here around at DPreview, but much more than rarely I have written something... Now it's my turn...
Long awaited "Big N" and "Big C" mirrorless alternatives to Panasonic and Olimpus (m)4/3 finally came, and then... The Nikon ones are such a "intermediate-of-intermediate" format between 4/3 and Pentax Q format, which, in my very very humble opinion, none of the small form factor enthusiasts will invest on unless they want to carry around the "coat of arms" of one of the two great japanese makers...
Will Canon come out with something very similar, I think, then we will see where they would go any farther...
In my opinion, the success of V1 and J1 (V1 is probably FAR better in terms of everyday useability) is only reassumed on a mere consideration of both availability and quality of lenses and accessories whith which they'll feed the market.