Dario Bonazza wrote: > Such a design could have been a better choice for the FourThirds standard, > since Olympus decided to start from scratch, and they already had the > renowned E-series (E-10, E-20) cameras. > In that case they could (sort of) avoid the hard (for them) quality > comparison with APS-C DSLR's, to which they had little if anything to > counter (not smaller size, not higher quality, despite their claims) because > of intrinsic higher noise. > > I'm with Godfrey here, thinking of Sony as the company currently closest to > this trend, because of their R-1 and KM stuff, and also because of their > heritage in going against the mainstream. > I think of the KM take over as an accident for Sony. If only KM was able to > go ahead on their own, I was expecting an interchangeable-lens R1 to be the > logical step forward. > > Also the Olysonic cameras (aka Leicas) are going that way: less and less SLR > and more and more EVF-type of stuff. > > Dario >
Actually, the Olysonic's are moving back to more SLR-type features rather than going EVF. The last 3 bodies announced all lack the Live Preview sensor in the mirror box, and only the Panasonic and Leica support the Mode B preview with the mirror flipped up, the E-400 lacks even that. The E-400 is fairly clearly an effort at making an OM10 DSLR. The only really EVF-ish 4/3rds body is the E-330. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
