Well,
IMHO Olympus has been watching what happens with micro fourthirds. It
´s much easier to wait rather than starting to manufacturing a wide
range of lenses like Panasonic. This costs tooo much. Zuiko opticks
are much better than Panasonic ones even with the "LEICA engraved
name". Obviously 17/2.8 and 14-42/3.5-5.6 are cheapo lenses for
selling them as a cheap kit. All reviewed Panasonic fourthirds lenses
aren´t as good as Olympus ones. It seems micro fourthirds has an
unexpected success so I am pretty sure tomorrow Olympus will reveal
several prime lenses for micro fourthirds tomorrow. Plus if Kodak and
Fuji start manufacturing micro fourthirds cameras, Olympus will
benefit from this as they won´t manufacture lenses for sure and
Olympus lenses will be more compact and cheaper.
Dave
El 04/11/2009, a las 17:25, Dawid Loubser escribió:
> I sure hope you are right... But as a pessi.. umm... realist, and
> looking
> at what Olympus has done over the past year or two, I very much doubt
> it.
>
> They certainly have the potential for "wow"ing the world with a new
> system similar in scope - and maintaining the values - of the OM
> system,
> but from the same company that produced the M.Zuiko 17mm f/2.8 as
> their first
> Micro Four Thirds prime lens, and as a lens+body which is constructed
> 100% of
> plastic internally with metal plates tacked on for visual / haptic
> goodness, I very much doubt it.
>
> Let's wait and see. But I would be surprised if they manage at all to
> produce
> something which you as photographer can "become one with" in the same
> way we
> can with an OM-1/2/3/4 body.
>
> I get the feeling Olympus is no longer interested in producing compact
> cameras for
> serious photographers, in the way they used to. I am afraid that only
> Leica fills
> that niche currently, although some of the Panasonic offerings do
> warrant attention.
>
> Panasonic seem to be much more serious about putting a decent range of
> lenses in
> place for the M4/3 format.
>
> But maybe... just maybe, we might by pleasantly surprised by Oly.
>
>
> On 04 Nov 2009, at 5:42 PM, David Irisarri Vila wrote:
>
> <snip>
>> Let´s cross fingers :) The perfect camera is round the corner !!!
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> VIVA Yoshihisa Maitani !!! Your legacy will be continued.
>
>
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