(FT4) The Olympus modular system will be different than the Ricoh GRX system.

All our most important sources confirmed that Olympus is working on a completely new modular camera system. Some of them told us that Olympus original plan was to first release the Olympus E-3 } if ($loc == 'ES') { $sel = "1"; ?>Olympus E-3 } if ($loc == 'IT') { $sel = "1"; ?>Olympus E-3 } if ($loc == 'AT') { $sel = "1"; ?>Olympus E-3 } if ($loc == 'DE') { $sel = "1"; ?>Olympus E-3 } if ($loc == 'BE') { $sel = "1"; ?>Olympus E-3 } if ($loc == 'AU') { $sel = "1"; ?>Olympus E-3 } if ($loc == 'FR' OR $loc == 'FX') { $sel = "1"; ?>Olympus E-3 } if ($loc == 'JA' OR $loc == 'JP') { $sel = "1"; ?>Olympus E-3 } if ($loc == 'NL') { $sel = "1"; ?>Olympus E-3 } if ($loc == 'CA') { $sel = "1"; ?>Olympus E-3 } if ($sel != '1') {?>Olympus E-3 } ?> successor and after that the first modular camera. But now Olympus is forcing the modular camera development and there are three possible scenarios:

1) They release the Olympus E-5 at Photokina and the first modular camera by end 2010-early 2011.
2) They will skip the Olympus E-5 release and announce a semi modular camera (it means with not all the planned features)
3) Olympus makes the miracle and the modular camera should come with all the new features.

What kind of features will the modular camera have?
1) New sensor with a small increse of total Megapixels (14-15 MP)
2) You will be able to use both m4/3 and 4/3 lenses
3) faster autofocus
4) completely new design (based on the Olympus OM4ti } if ($loc == 'ES') { $sel = "1"; ?>Olympus OM4ti } if ($loc == 'IT') { $sel = "1"; ?>Olympus OM4ti } if ($loc == 'AT') { $sel = "1"; ?>Olympus OM4ti } if ($loc == 'DE') { $sel = "1"; ?>Olympus OM4ti } if ($loc == 'BE') { $sel = "1"; ?>Olympus OM4ti } if ($loc == 'AU') { $sel = "1"; ?>Olympus OM4ti } if ($loc == 'FR' OR $loc == 'FX') { $sel = "1"; ?>Olympus OM4ti } if ($loc == 'NL') { $sel = "1"; ?>Olympus OM4ti } if ($loc == 'CA') { $sel = "1"; ?>Olympus OM4ti } if ($sel != '1') {?>Olympus OM4ti } ?>)
5) easy-intuitive and fast controls
6) The mount should be modular but separated from the sensor module. Olympus will probably not take the path of the one piece lens-sensor modul from Ricoh GXR (and that’s good news!)

We are currently receiving some rumors about the modular camera but we are still not certain how exactly the real camera will look like. Contact us at 43rumors@gmail.com if you can and want tell us more!

Thanks!

Oh, and one more picture of the original Maitani modular system: