Okay, I've got a real serious bitch with Olympus.

[flamin lib]

Anybody who reads my posts knows that I bleed Olympus Blue. That said, since Mr. Miataini died product design has been done by committee.

The E-620, last design in the E series DSLR, had a fully articulated led screen that allowed shooting from ground level, overhead, around corners and it would do all this in either portrait of landscape mode. Enter the OM-D series, the most sophisticated ICL ever produced. The LED display tilts up and down. Yeah, you can shoot and compose with the camera on the sidewalk or overhead but only in landscape. What's up with that?

Then the OM-D EM1, the upgrade from the EM5, comes out and still not fully articulated.

Next comes the OM-D EM-10 (an entry level ICL) and it has WIFI while neither the 1 nor the 5 offer that technology at three times the price.

Finally the EM5 mkII comes out and has the display, WIFI and 40 MPLX while the EM1, supposedly the flagship of the line still doesn't have that technology!

Innovation like no other camera manufacturer but they can't seem to get it all in one place.

Mr. Miataini is probably weeping with the Buddha.

[alfredo]

1. I guess in their mind, the fully articulated LCD is for video.

I'd like to see their reasoning for not adding that feature.

[flamin lib]

3. It is on the M5 Mk II but

Skipped the first gen OMD! Perhaps its like Scotty on Star Trek, sand bagging features so they can justify a "new" and "improved" model. Scotty always said it would take 6 hours to get the powah but pulled it off in 4 . . .

[alfredo]

5. The articulated screen should be a good compliment to the sensor shift technology. That feature

was enough to justify a new model.

My EPM2 has a fixed screen, but the VF4 makes up for that shortcoming.

[Major Nikon]

2. FWIW, Nikon does this as well

They have tilt LCD screens on their consumer versions that never seem to make it on the pro versions, even though it makes the camera far more versatile. I suspect the reason might be because it's a common point of failure when the camera gets knocked around unexpectedly so manufacturers don't think it's a pro-level where cameras are expected to be bullet-proof. Some features also come out first on consumer grade lines simply because they tend to be quicker to implement.

[flamin lib]

4. The OMD IS bulletproof.

Also dust proof and rain proof. I think the problem lies with the team design concept. Worst case scenario if the lcd gets torn off just use the eye level vewfinder. These guys just don't seem to talk to each other.

That's been common for most manufacturers all the way back to 35mm days.