Comments on: Poll evaluation “What we want from Panasonic and Olympus”

By: Radis.Rut

Radis.Rut — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:12:11 +0000

“Improving repairing/customer service” is important too.
In my country, I think there’s only one place where I could get Oly camera fixed and I have no idea about Panny, since they got loads of products and dealers spreding across the country

By: mulan

mulan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:38:41 +0000

I think they should go even smaller with designs, e.g. cramming in a 2/3″ inch sensor inside, and then the body will even fit in your pockets!!

Also 2/3″ is fairly enough for DoF, because for the most time you will not always want super shallow DoF. Sometimes these shallow dof shots look pretty bad..

In other words, you don’t always need shallow DoF – or FULL FRAME

So SONY: MAKE IT SMALLER pocketsized!!

By: e_dawg

e_dawg — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:32:51 +0000

Something to note is that 20% of all respondents want autofocus improved.

Given that this is a combined Panasonic and Olympus poll and maybe half the respondents are responding from a Panasonic-centric perspective, one might conclude that a much higher percentage of Olympus users want Olympus to improve their autofocus system… maybe 40% if the poll was Olympus-centric.

That would put “improve autofocus” at number 2 on the poll. Are you listening Olympus?

By: travel5239

travel5239 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:38:38 +0000

a better, full-frame sensor – something that can give the noise/quality of the canon 5d in a pocket size body with the weatherproofing of the old olympus stylus epic and manual focus of the olympus xa2

By: Lu

Lu — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:12:59 +0000

I voted for swivel LCD. It’s a pity, only 7% voted for this.

Can’t you image, how much this boosts your creativity???!!
This is something that could finally set digital photography apart from analog photography just through the way you are able to look at something. Don’t you realize this?!!!
(I’m not even talking about the possibilities that one could go further and seperate the device that takes the picture and the one you see the picture on, it only needs cable and a clever design).
And it doesn’t matter if this is too far away from mainstream, this is something System stands for. It should be an add-on, a module, an accessory. It’s not just some nice addition, it’s about designing something more modular than they did previously. The same body can be used over a wide range, from amateur to pro, and with some relatively small primes it would still be something totally different from traditional SLR, because it could still be much smaller.

Especially together with video, for me a swivel-LCD is a must have.
I thought that Olympus would release a “top High-End model” with a tiltable LCD at the end of this year, now they’ve just upgraded/changed the EP-1

They should make something a bit larger than the EP-1 with a good design (not like GH-1), that is greatly customizable because of a modular Desing-Idea.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:06:43 +0000

Hi Duarte!
You are right! That’s interesting!

By: Duarte Bruno

Duarte Bruno — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:00:39 +0000

Quote:
“3) 26% of the voters wants Olympus and Panasonic to continue the “classic” FourThirds line development. And many people (26%) is wants a High-End camera model that includes all the best features (wheatersealed body, fast autofocus and all the gimmics you need inside a High-End model).”

The interesting issue here is that both of these groups are probably 4/3 hardcore users. The conclusion is that half of them are on jump ship mode (4/3 -> m4/3).