I'm unsure of 4/3rds viability long-term. I suspect strongly that the lower-end 4/3rds DSLR's will be killed off by Micro4/3rds and the higher-end line will be on life support and exist mostly to fill in the gaps for Micro-4/3rds users. 4/3rds simply hasn't been able to capitalize on the promise of smaller lenses and cameras. As a practical matter Pentax simply dominates the small DSLR segment, offering a true compact system in the K-m/DA Limiteds, a compact high-performance system with the K-7 and DA Limiteds where Olympus actually has some of the larger available crop-format DSLR's (the E-3, E-30 and E-520 are all among the largest entries in their respective segments, the E-450 and E620 are only the smallest when considered without a mounted lens, the K-m/DA40 package is smaller than either of the compact E-series bodies paired with the 25 pancake, their smallest configuration)
I think that Micro4/3rds has a strong future ahead of it as it's getting the chance to build serious market share before there's any real competition in its segment. -Adam On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Desjardins, Steve<[email protected]> wrote: > I admit I'm more amenable to the "APS-C forever", unless it is beaten out by > 4/3. The point is that even though MF and LF existed, the smaller 35 mm > dominated because the IQ was good enough. I think that's where APS-C or 4/3 > is now. Of course, "good enough" doesn't make sense to many on this list > because there is an intrinsic selection for folks with higher photographic > standards. OTOH, I think that non-slr cameras like the EP-1 and the G1 are > about to start eating up some of the enthusiast market. If anything kills > the APS-C DSLR it will be these. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
