On 1/3/2014 8:44 PM, DZDub wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 1/2/2014 7:41 PM, DZDub wrote:
>>> ...
>>> Does it explain why Olympus is keeping the doors open to the E system via
>>> the E-M1 adapter? Might there be an E-7 in my future?
>> Only if you stick that that label on an E-M1. They have announced the end
>> of development of DSLRs. Oly went to a LOT of
>> trouble to make the next 4/3 camera in the E-M1. You are the sort of folks
>> they did it for.
>>
> I understand why you say that, but the point of the article is that
> mirrorless is supposedly doomed and DSLRs (at least with C+N markings)
> persist.
Only one opinion, though. Latest from Thom Hogan on TOP shows mirrorless to be
the only growth area in camera sales, the
only one where one need not, as yet, compete with C&N, and the one where Oly
has a healthy lead in market share.
> Does Oly want to die if there are other pickings to be had?
As above, there are none in DSLRs for anyone but C&N and maybe Sony. Mirrorless
IS where Oly has perhaps its best,
perhaps only, chance.
> Also, I don't think an EVF is as good as an OVF if you want an OV
Might that be a tautology? Unless the last 'OV' is meant to be 'VF'?
> , and somebody does because they keep buying those C+N DSLRs.
But they didn't buy (enough) Olys before, and are very unlikely to in the
future.
> But that's all devil's advocacy. I'd like at least to give an E-M1
> a whirl. And I find myself picking up the lighter E-system lenses more and
> more, which makes the mFT lenses seem all the more attractive.
I find them appealing to use and quite high quality optically.
M. F. T. Moose
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