Opticallimits

Official now:

http://www.olympus.com.au/Products/Inter...F/Overview

There are reviews/previews already out:

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/history-...ons-review

https://www.ephotozine.com/article/olymp...iew--28758

 

But that front dial proves well that there can't be a perfect design... it may be so close but then someone will inevitably add something as stupid as the... "Creative Mode" selection dial.  :blink: I think it may become the stuff of legends, akin to the Direct Print button found on Canons of yore. 

I agree, that dial is a silly ugly wart. I guess they try to cater to the instagram generation.

Quote:I agree, that dial is a silly ugly wart. I guess they try to cater to the instagram generation.

They can't really do that unless the camera is connected and equipped with a client (or runs Android, anyway). No, this is probably just another case of someone on the top level saying "hey let's add this, it would be a cool thing to throw in" and nobody from below having the guts to say that the idea sucked rhino.

Quote:They can't really do that unless the camera is connected and equipped with a client (or runs Android, anyway). No, this is probably just another case of someone on the top level saying "hey let's add this,it would be a cool thing to throw in" and nobody from below having the guts to say that the idea sucked rhino.

The camera connects via WiFi to your smartphone.

Quote:The camera connects via WiFi to your smartphone.

For the hipster crowd, that might be one linkage too many.  Besides, why would you need in-camera filters when you can add all kinds of wacky treatment - Lo-Fi, X-Pro II and whatnot - right in Instagram.

Though I may be overly harsh... I'm an Instagram user myself... I stick the microSD card from the camera into the phone and post; or, better yet, edit the picture on my computer and re-upload to post (there's a Windows desktop client for Instagram, for sure, but the one I was using hasn't upgraded when Instagram dropped the mandatory square format, so I kicked it and chose not to find another one, using the phone instead).

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Hopefully in this new offering Oly will not use construction grade cable for the charger. It is so annoying.

I just bought M10.

The weirdest thing is the name: Olympus PEN-F. Styled after a rangefinder camera, using the name from the old Olympus Pen-F camera. But that camera was not a range finder camera. And did not look anything like this new PEN-F.



Oh the wonders of marketing.

Well, I think the similarity is there. It's not a copy but a decent modern re-evaluation. When they did get down to copying stuff, they did it for wrong reasons. Of course, I'm talking about that stupid wheel on the front - stupid now in function, not in form. Now such controls are better used for some functions that have a limited number of options - like drive mode, metering or maybe exposure compensation. But there it quickly gets fiddly because modern cameras now go to Â±5 and it's just too many small increments that would be difficult to hit precisely. More so with shutter speed and ISO because I imagine it could be a nightmare to find the right value among a mass of tiny clicks, especially if you're in a hurry.