The rumored price around $2000 does not place it in a professional
camera category especially if you consider the inevitably lower
street price. There is no reason not to think it will be a nice mid
price camera with a better body and so so sensor which will sell much
better than a pro level camera. The worrisome part is nicely summed
up by this quote from Mike Johnston:
Tuesday, 04 September 2007
4 Years, 4 Months
dpreview.com is reporting this morning that the Olympus E-3 (if that
is indeed the final name) will debut in October of this year. If
true, that will mean that Olympus will have gone 4 years and 4 months
between its first and second "pro" digital bodies, which has to be
some sort of record. (The E-1 was introduced in June of 2003.) If
they keep up this torrid pace, the next Olympus pro body will come
zooming past in early 2012. That's about 30 years from now, in dog
years.
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Mike
Slotting the E-3 at the midlevel is interesting and does open the
range for a pro camera. Full frame anyone? Or a 4/3 Jumbo Sensor for
the EP-1? Would the coverage of the digital Oly lenses handle that?
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On / September 4, 2007 CE, at 7:45 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> If the camera is to be announced (and delivered) soon then the sensor
> and supporting software have been under development for a long
> time. If
> it's different from the 510 it won't be by much. The fact that it's
> live view probably means a Panasonic NMOS sensor.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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