On 1/25/2019 11:57 AM, Philippe wrote:
I haven’t read the list reactions to the new E-Oly
I am in the process of switching away from Oly bodies.
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From what I can see, all the benefits of a smaller sensor are now lost - sad !
For whatever reasons, and I wish them well, Oly has been moving to serve a different market than me and others who
treasure the small, light aspects of their traditional offerings.
It started with the 12-40/2.8 Pro and 40-150/2.8 Pro in 2013 & 2014. Since then, every single new lens has been a big,
heavy, fast Pro lens. The latest, announced with the E-M1X is a 150-400/4.5 monster, not due for at least a year. Who
needs an f1.8 fisheye?
The E-M1X is aimed at sports/action photographers. Oly has decided that rather than join the FF herd, they will
challenge the hegemony of FF DSLRs for those uses.
Although of no interest to me, an E-M1X with 150-400/4 is tiny and light, compared to FF action cameras with anything
near the FL range.
Annnnnd . . . Another factor, brought to my attention by Ctein:
"One thing neither of us knows is what the world market looks like for those huge boat anchor cameras with bottom
battery packs. It could well be that they are a lot more popular than either of us know. I gave up trying to figure out
what the market wanted a decade ago, when it became clear that foreign markets, about which I knew nothing, were often
very different.
To give two examples, Leica and Pentax's super-SLRs, which turned out to have very big followings among the upper
classes in China and India, respectively. As percentages of their population, their upper classes are much smaller than
in the Western world, but a small percentage of a billion people is a very large number of people.
So while we're poo-pooing big brick cameras, it may turn out that we are not
the audience.
. . . It was Chinese and Indian sales that made the Leica SL and the Pentax D645 successes. That's why I've given up
trying to guess whether a camera is well placed in the marketplace. "
Movin' On Moose
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