Estimated Street Price:
$999.99 (Body only, available in Black and Silver)
$1,299.99 (Black or Silver body with black M.ZUIKO Digital ED 12-50 mm f3.5-6.3 EZ lens)
$1,099.99 (Black body with black M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 14-42 mm f3.5-5.6 II R lens)
Olympus will also introduce later this year:
the M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 75mm f1.8 and the M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 60mm f2.8 macro
I am anxious to see this new IS it has. Having just invested into M4/3, no doubt I I'll be picking the lens and body combo up and selling the EP3 once it arrives.
It does, and nice write up! One quibble on your write-up, 14-bit RAW will buy you nothing but larger files with the sensor on this camera. Read noise is way higher than the quantization noise from a 12-bit RAW file.
The DPR preview shows that the button customizations are excellent. Five custom buttons! They don't describe the dial options though.
this camera does look nice but I don't think the M4/3 crowd can make fun of the "huge" Nex kit lens anymore. That 12-50mm is massive looking on the OM-D
Looks very solid. I particularly like how they handled the grip, with either the bolt-on front grip or the grip plus a vertical/battery grip.
I think Oly's got a winner here. Especially if the AF can keep up with the 9fps continuous rate. But even without that the EM-5 plus a set of m43 primes or the 7-14 and 12-50 zooms looks like a great kit for lightweight and capable shooting.
If I was looking to jump digital systems, I'd be looking strongly at the EM-5 with the 12/2, 25/1.4 and 45/1.8.
. For myself, I like what I see.