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lsquare wrote:
No, I'm not disappointed because there is a market for a cheaper version of the E-M5. I don't think the loss of the 5-axis IBIS is a huge deal for me because I like to shoot landscape and seascapes. I use the tripod a lot so it's not a dealbreaker. It's not like the E-M5 is going away so for those people that want the better IBIS, then they should step up to the E-M5.
Let me ask you this then... has $100 price difference really kept you from buying an EM5 though ?
I could see if they priced the EM10 at, say, $499, then that probably is cheap enough to appeal to a totally different group of buyers, but being a $699 camera still surely doesn't change its market that much.
Its like having another model of a new car at $18,000 instead of $19,000. Hey, $1000 is well and good, but its not like its suddenly making people who otherwise wanted a $8000 used car potential new car buyers, know what I mean ?
Maybe they will drop the price in time, perhaps it will be selling for $499 before we know it, and darn nice camera for that price I'm sure.
EM10 doesn't really seem to compete on price, and it really doesn't on size either.
GM1 doens't compete on price, its darn expensive for what it is, but its got the market beat on size. You pay a premium for that tiny size, but darn if its not cool to throw my 20mm f1.7 on there and toss it into my jacket pocket. It lets me do something other cameras couldn't in terms of size/weight/IQ tradeoffs
I've owned the EM5 before, and its a good camera, but it wasn't ever pocketable, jacket or otherwise. I never thought "gee....if I could shave just a few mm off this camera it would revolutionize when and where I can take it"
EM10 is going to basically be just as portable/unportable as the EM5. This is where I think they rather missed the mark, if they could of made it smaller, enough to make a real difference, they would of had something that would warrant the price.
Heck, just putting a tilt screen on a GM1 sized body alone would swing a huge number of sales to Oly, I know I would of bought one for that reason alone.
I have no real interest in the EM10 though, because its not giving me anything my EM5, or my later EM1 didn't. In fact its giving me less, and with no real added size benefit.
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