Olympus EP-2 coming?

The Panasonic lens is amazingly good, especially for the money.
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Yeah, your right. It's a great deal for the money and size/weight. I have a Nikon 35-70mm f/2.8 that I consider too big and heavy to lug around with my Pen. The Voigtlander 90mm f/3.5 is not much smaller than the panny 45-200mm. Plus, you get the AF and OIS. I'm not sure how much better the OIS is vs. the EP-1 IS.
 
count_zero said:
Yeah, your right. It's a great deal for the money and size/weight. I have a Nikon 35-70mm f/2.8 that I consider too big and heavy to lug around with my Pen. The Voigtlander 90mm f/3.5 is not much smaller than the panny 45-200mm. Plus, you get the AF and OIS. I'm not sure how much better the OIS is vs. the EP-1 IS.
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Well, I do think in-body IS, like Olympus has, is a great thing, for situations like we're discussing--adapting old lenses that aren't auto anything (not even auto diaphragm on a modern camera).

With a manually focused, manual everything telephoto the E-P1 would be fast enough, and the IS would be nice, but for that application I would want a TTL viewfinder like on the G1 or GF1.

So maybe we're still waiting for just the right combination of features.

I'm OK for now, because I am not a frequent telephoto shooter. Most of my stuff uses normal and wider lenses, or short telephotos. So it is especially easy for me to live with the Panasonic lens.

Tom
 
The camera pictured on the left is not a good fantasy design. Three command dials on the back for just the right thumb is a little excessive don't you think?

I would like a m4/3 camera design similar to the Panasonic LC1 or the Olympus C7070 (my cam). A focus distance scale and a DOF scale on the LCD/EVF for manual focusing is a must also. A programmable custom mode is also a must.

My 5 year old C7070 has both an electronic focus distance scale and a custom mode. Why has there yet to be a m4/3 camera with a focus distance scale for manual focusing? Why has Olympus not released a camera with a custom mode in over 4 years?

They can perhaps go even further and have add a mode where the camera automatically sets the hyperfocal focus distance as you change focal length of aperture, similar to the way the custom mode for my C7070 is set up. Great for street shooting.

If they can do all this, then I will happily upgrade to m4/3. Until then, I will continue using my C7070.
 
e. Why has there yet to be a m4/3 camera with a focus distance scale for manual focusing?
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I think it's a physics problem. There are no mirror(s) and prism in the m43 body, and the manual focus (assuming non 4/3 lenses) settings are not transmitted back to the camera digitally. So, it simply can't triangulate distance. But, they should have something like a DoF and focus distance scale for the digital lenses at least. They probably think more numbers on the screen will confuse point-n-shoot users who want to upgrade, or they have other pressing firmware bugs that are higher priority to fix first.
 
theRenaissance said:
And where did you heard it from?
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I probably should have said it is widely speculated that the E-P2 will have an external EVF as the new Panny does.

This has been widely reported and all but comfirmed on the photo rumor sites since OLY announced they will introduce a second body before the end of the year.

I would bet there will not be an in body EVF.
 
I would think that an optical VF would make it the real deal. I have an external EVF on my Ricoh GX200 and it freezes during shutter lag.
 
Does nobody believe in this photo? It looks quite plausible to me.

EDIT, ah yes, found its origin. Too bad, this would be super nice.
 
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