Dario Bonazza wrote: > Adam Maas wrote: > > >>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. > > > OK.point taken. Howwever, it doesn't change the fact I wanted to highlight: > the two most EVF-oriented system camera makers are those coming from CE > (Sony and Panasonic). They are closer than others to release an EVF system > with interchangeable lenses, if they want. > > Apparently, Olympus simply doesn't know where they have to head to. > They were making optical SLR's (OM-system), then they changed to EVF > (E-System), then they turned it into an optical viewfinder system (E-1 + > E-300), then the headed again toward EVF (see live preview in E-330). And > then E-500 and E-400, once again optical-viewfinder SLR. They could wel > steer again any time soon. > > Dario >
Actually, the E-10 and E-20 were optical viewfinders. Olympus went form traditional SLR's, to fixed zoom SLR's (their film ZLR's), to Digital ZLR's (E-10 and E-20) to DSLR's, then experimented with adding EVF features to DSLR's (something that many people coming from P&S's ask about) and then essentially abandoning the Live Preview idea. Panasonic has moved steadily towards a real SLR, adding mechanical zoom, focus-by-wire and other SLR features, then bringing out a real SLR, and ignoring the full-time live preview they could have easily added to the DMC-L1 (As it shares a mirror box and finder with the E-330, Panaleica could easily have added that feature, but chose not to). -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
