It's official, it is goin to be a digital Pen

wallace said:
If they add the viewfinder, what will the Pen cost then???

Please, Olympus, give us a digital Trip 35 with a 17 or 20mm (same sensor as the Pen) fixed focal lenghth and a nice viewfinder instead!!! Best (for me) would be a b/w version.


wallace
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I'm thinkin' you might start Gromit to work on that, 'cuz I don't think Olympus will be making it. The market would be pretty small, and I think the price of that size sensor makes it uneconomic.

At that point, however, it would be a XA-D, not a Trip ... the XA is even smaller than the Trip, and has true RF focusing. Olympus would not make a zone or scale focus digi.
 
majid said:
Some kind of quick-release belt holster would be nice.
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Bingo, exactly what I was thinking. My photo tutor/mentor had a (leather) slip-in holster for his M3, and I still have in mind to do a design and start producing them for a variety of cameras, beginning with Leica M, CL/E, ZI, etc.

Pickett Wilson said:
I'm particularly interested in how the LCD on the back handles bright outdoor light. Still can't understand why Olympus would go to the trouble to put this kind of camera together and then stick a low resolution LCD on it. Especially since it has no optical finder or EVF.
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I'm puzzled too. There must be some really good reason, as it's too obvious for them to miss. I'm guessing licensing of a higher res LCD would have pushed up the price beyond their target. Since this is a whole new platform, they have a lot of R&D cost to recoup.

Normally I would let others be early adopters, but on this one I'm tempted to dive in. Fortunately, other expenses right now will keep me from being the first on my block, so it's not a choice I have to make.
 
While a year from now it will be a very different story, I am hard pressed to sell other cameras that I love to fund this one. I want to see the other primes and a black body before I get tempted to jump. I would love to see it next to a Nikon D60 with a CV 20 attached. I know it will be smaller, but I'm not sure it's a WORLD of difference. Now with a D3, but that's a different beast all together.

B2 (;->
 
All the hype for the new camera and this thread is updated with new posts every few minutes and the Olympus Pen finally gets anounced and nobody has posted here for over 17 hours.Dont take long for all the excitment wear off.
 
With luck tomorrow I'll be testing various adapted lenses, the Panasonic kit lens, the Oly lenses, autofocus speed, manual focus operation, and LCD brightness in outdoor conditions (and they are BRIGHT in Texas at this time of year.)
 
astroman said:
All the hype for the new camera and this thread is updated with new posts every few minutes and the Olympus Pen finally gets anounced and nobody has posted here for over 17 hours.Dont take long for all the excitment wear off.
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Well, for me, it just isn't working. I want either great manual focus, or great auto focus. The Olympus without viewfinder will give me so-so auto focus and having to stare at the LCD, and with viewfinder I won't be able to visually control the focus in any way from what I gather. If I could get a central focusing point with a confirmation flash or something in the optical finder I'd be happy, but it doesn't look like that's in the cards... and frankly, I doubt the contrast detect AF system is anywhere near as good as I'd want auto focus to be. 🙁
 
I just read through John Foster's preview on biofos.com and that sealed it for me. The ISO6400 performance is respectable, and when I ran his JPG shot through Photoshop + my tweaked Exposure 2 settings, the result was very appealing, imho.

The LCD isn't an issue for me fortunately. I just came back from a hectic 3-week tour abroad with my Olympus RD and a Fujifilm P&S. Shooting digital without a viewfinder didn't bother me at all. Looking at the Digital Pen's specs though, it would have been the perfect companion to the RD. Wish I had it on this particular trip.

Pre-ordered mine via Amazon.
 
cmedin said:
Well, for me, it just isn't working. I want either great manual focus, or great auto focus. The Olympus without viewfinder will give me so-so auto focus and having to stare at the LCD, and with viewfinder I won't be able to visually control the focus in any way from what I gather. If I could get a central focusing point with a confirmation flash or something in the optical finder I'd be happy, but it doesn't look like that's in the cards... and frankly, I doubt the contrast detect AF system is anywhere near as good as I'd want auto focus to be. 🙁
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But Chris, you haven't even try it yet 🙂

FWIW, the ability to magnify portion of the LCD is a boon for my manual focusing on the E-620, and I am finding myself using it more. I'd be very surprised if they don't have this feature on the E-P1.

Also the AF on the E-620 has not yet let me down. But I don't shoot sports or horse racing, so

I wish the external viewfinder has some electronic smarts in it too, but maybe that's for later versions.
 
I use liveview sometimes on the 50D and it's handy but only for static subjects. When zoomed in to get more accurate manual focus you lose most of the rest of the frame so that makes it kind of not worthwhile for things like street shooting.

The format does show promise, but I think I will wait a bit. 🙂
 
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