Olympus E-P2

someone at Olympus really messed up here. They designed a retro clean body and then they match it with this honking big plasticky looking evf. ugh. I hope Ricoh will salvage the small format mirror-less cameras with internal evf. Now I really believe that Panasonic being the leader in m43... I hope this is not the "pro" camera that Oly was talking about.
 
Am I the only one who thinks that it's not ugly? Just looks like a medium format SLR prism. It is rather big though, sort of missing the point of having a small body, but I guess you can't have everything!
 
considering that the only time i'd want to use an accessory EVF is with a bulky zoom lens, it doesn't seem that awful. at least they didn't build it into the body.

they also have two new zoom lenses:

9-18mm f4-5.6
14-150mm f4-5.6

less and less interested in m4/3. 🙁
 
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Some useful pictures of the GF1 and EP2 with their respective EVFs mounted.

http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/digitalcameras/0,39001468,45125664p,00.htm
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0911/09110501olympusep2.asp
http://web.me.com/pekkapotka/pekkapotka.com/Blog/Merkinn%C3%A4t/2009/11/5_Olympus_E-P2_plus_VF-2_page_2.html
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/EP2/EP2A.HTM

I'm not interested in the side of the finder that most people here seem to be complaining about. Given some of the user icons on this thread, I feel confident that the finder will not be the most ugly thing in the general direction of the camera anyway :-D

Still not much info - it will probably be a bit before the previews come out.

Cheers,
-Gautham
 
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I don't like it. An internal EVF like the one in the G1 would have been so nice. Since the OM2, Olympus has almost always managed to disappoint me. I have the same problem with the GF-1, though.

Cheers
Ivo
 
I still love and use my old school Olympus E1. I really haven't needed an upgrade, but have long hoped for a similiar construction (in terms of weather sealing and ruggedness) in a smaller package.

If an EP-Pro ever were to come out, with a flip out screen and all-weather body, I would pay as much as I originally payed for the E1, as size is the primary upgrade I want now.
 
No VF, they complain.
Have one, now it must be pretty.

Folks, that EVF can swivel 90 degrees...

And finally, a real matte black body, none of those silver/white stuff.

I like it.
 
still waiting for the Leica X-2 M or 4/3rds. has to happen, you know. this is only the beginning...a kind of rally by the consortium for some ready cash to move on to the big one.

-dd
 
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