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2009-6-18 01:32

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BERLIN, Germany -- As usual it was difficult to get Olympus to talk much about future products, but last night I asked Akira Watanabe (Manager, Digital SLR Product Strategy Department, Olympus Imaging Corporation, Tokyo, Japan) what we should expect from the Micro FourThirds and the 'Digital Pen' over the next few years.

It seemed to me that while Panasonic has started at the higher end of what Micro FourThirds can offer, with the DSLR style bodies, Olympus has started at the other end with a compact style model.

The two would surely join in the middle and then over lap? And what about viewfinders? Why does the E-P1 not have one, and would this be the case with the next generation of products?

Mr Watanabe surprised me by straight away talking about electronic viewfinders, and yes, Olympus is working on one and will incorporate an EVF into a future camera. He explained that this first model does not have a viewfinder as the company wanted to concentrate on its design first.

Although he didn't say it in so many words, I got the impression that had Olympus used an EVF the camera would have had that distinctive SLR-style lump on the top, which would have undermined the principle of a body that looks easy to use and that looks more like a compact camera than an SLR.

He made the point too, on a number of occasions, that Olympus is producing a new system, not just one camera body.
There will be a range of products, and that range will include cameras that might have that distinctive pentaprism lump on the top plate.

When I asked where in the range the E-P1 would sit, Watanabe indicated that it would have models both above and below it.

Lens production will be driven by demand, Watanabe says, and Olympus will listen to feedback from users before deciding what lenses to release.

I had wondered whether Olympus would launch the camera with a zoom to be mass market, or a prime lens to appeal to the higher end of the market. In the event they did both – the camera will be sold kitted with either.

Watanabe said there would be new lenses next spring, which would be wide angle zooms, but in the meantime FourThirds and OM adapters, as well as a host of other independent adapters, will provide plenty of optical choices.

In reality we should expect more zooms than primes, and it's not unreasonable that there will be dual ranges of standard and premium optics – again to suit different ends of the market.

It was important for Olympus to show the camera with its 17mm f/2.8 pancake lens, so we could all get a first impression of a very small system, but as we've seen with Panasonic optics, the superzooms that the mass market requires cannot be miniaturised to the same extent.

I think that if things go to plan we'll see an extensive Pen system that expands to fill that very real gap between compact and SLR, but which also will eat into the lower end of the SLR market. When sensor sizes are the same why would you buy an Olympus E-420 type product when you could have it in a smaller body?

Pen Digital，未来会有更高端的和更低端的产品！！！

也就是说，EP-1是Pen Digital的一个 “中端” 产品。

今天收到Amazon.com对EP-1的促销邮件了，挺感动的，哈哈。印象中Amazon，BHPhoto等几个大商家一般只介绍CNS的机器，奥林巴斯从来没份。

看来奥巴这次在营销上也下功夫了。

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原帖由 北刀 于 2009-6-18 02:54 发表
也就是说，EP-1是Pen Digital的一个 “中端” 产品。

今天收到Amazon.com对EP-1的促销邮件了，挺感动的，哈哈。印象中Amazon，BHPhoto等几个大商家一般只介绍CNS的机器，奥林巴斯从来没份。

看来奥巴这次在营销 ...

英国几家网站也都有EP-1的广告，这次确实很火

寓言兄给推荐几个英国网站呗，谢谢嗷！

很好，期待未来型号

Lens production will be driven by demand, Watanabe says, and Olympus will listen to feedback from users before deciding what lenses to release.

I need a 35mm f1.8 or 40mm f1.8, less than 200$

其实可以想见：

E-P1加上高分屏和EVF和内闪的，就是高端型号
E-P1换成塑料壳子的就是低端型号。。。

但是不管高端和低端，价格都给我再下来点才是正道。。。。

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原帖由 春卷 于 2009-6-18 10:24 发表
其实可以想见：

E-P1加上高分屏和EVF和内闪的，就是高端型号
E-P1换成塑料壳子的就是低端型号。。。

但是不管高端和低端，价格都给我再下来点才是正道。。。。

如果加上高分屏和EVF和内闪，但是价格要高1500，我看我还是要这个中端的吧
如果换成塑料壳子，质感和做工仍旧不错的话，要是能便宜个500-1000，还是不错的。呵呵

关键还是镜头啊！

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原帖由 春卷 于 2009-6-18 10:24 发表
其实可以想见：

E-P1加上高分屏和EVF和内闪的，就是高端型号
E-P1换成塑料壳子的就是低端型号。。。

但是不管高端和低端，价格都给我再下来点才是正道。。。。

也不是这么绝对的，国外不少摄影人就在等O记的全金属三防M43，再贵点也无所谓...