Yeah, programmable dials ala NEX-7 is something I would love. Would likely set them up one way and leave them like that forever, but at least I would be ABLE to.
Bifurcator wrote:
And phone service with Face Recognition that can call the person you just took pics of?
Tariq Gibran wrote:
Well, since Sony is now involved with Olympus, who knows. You may get your wish.
Oh gawd!!! I hope not!
I do think it will be an attractive body though, as long as it's all not just fluff.
My thinking: It's Olympus so it won't be just fluff. They're in some trouble so it can't be just fluff.
The rotating dial under the shutter button that protrudes beyond the front edge reminds me a little of the rotating shutter dial on the original Black Beauty Canon EF from the mid seventies. Very handy to use while looking through the finder. Hopefully, it will be programmable.
Time will tell. The leaked pics and mockups have me interested already.
Qwerty64 wrote:
Top deck is taking shape with the latest leaked image piece. Love the classic OM look. Hopefully it has a very large viewfinder like the OM's did in that false penta-prism bump in the middle.
Tariq Gibran wrote:
All I want to know is...does it have a headphone jack
Nikon D4 does.
and MP3 player.
I'm surprised that so few cameras have audio recorder mode (no video, just sound - like a dictaphone). After all they CAN record sound and it'd cost a couple of pennies. I remember having to use the 1D series' voice memo feature to record audio clips (like having a person say his/her name for later identification) and it was awkward as hell.
I'm surprised that so few cameras have audio recorder mode (no video, just sound - like a dictaphone). After all they CAN record sound and it'd cost a couple of pennies. I remember having to use the 1D series' voice memo feature to record audio clips (like having a person say his/her name for later identification) and it was awkward as hell.
Yeah, my Fuji S2 Pro was able to record voice notes in the field (something I used exactly ZERO times though). The original Ricoh GR-D I owned could also record audio at any length and had a surprisingly good microphone and sound quality. I used it all the time to record lectures as it offered much better quality than a smartphone/ iPhone. Unfortunately, Ricoh dropped the feature in future GR-D's
At the risk of repeating what others have written, it isn't. If you hold the camera ready to shoot, you will see both the Fn2 and E-whatever are written for you to read, not for others, like the writing on the front face of the camera, i.e. Olympus OM-D.
Too bad that the pentaprism bump is OM-3/OM-4/OM-10 shape and not the more distinctive OM-1/OM-2 shape But it looks like a very nice camera so far.
Are you guys just screwing with me? The E is oriented the same way as the P on the mode dial. Are you thinking it is part of the front of the camera? Do you wonder why Leitz wrote M3 upside down and backwards on their cameras too?
Have you been wondering why all your pictures end up being shirts?
carstenw wrote:
Too bad that the pentaprism bump is OM-3/OM-4/OM-10 shape and not the more distinctive OM-1/OM-2 shape But it looks like a very nice camera so far.
Speaking of which. Why does it have a pentaprism shaped hump? Doubt that'll be a good shape to fit an evf in. Sure, retro looks and such, but wasting space for it?
MichaD wrote:
Speaking of which. Why does it have a pentaprism shaped hump? Doubt that'll be a good shape to fit an evf in. Sure, retro looks and such, but wasting space for it?
Well, look at the VF-2 and imagine how it would fit into a camera body. I don't the difference is massive, and hints of the past are very valid, and even appreciated.
pingflood wrote:
Are you guys just screwing with me? The E is oriented the same way as the P on the mode dial. Are you thinking it is part of the front of the camera? Do you wonder why Leitz wrote M3 upside down and backwards on their cameras too?
Have you been wondering why all your pictures end up being shirts?
, no I really brain farted. I can easily follow this but a spun E threw me completely.
Spyro P. wrote:
it holds the speaker for the fake mirror slap
Come on now, it is an $1100 camera. Surely they'll at least have one of those cell phone shakers in there to actually make it move like a mirror had slapped.
What?
But it looks like a very nice camera so far.
, no I really brain farted. I can easily follow this but a spun E threw me completely.