From an Olympus Japan Press Release of today, which Chris Cheesman of the British Amateur Photographer magazine pinpoints to Haruo Ogawa, Director of the Olympus marketing division:
“As the originator of the Four Thirds System and Micro Four Thirds System standards, Olympus Imaging Corp. will continue to develop and enhance the product lineup for both standards to meet the diverse needs of our customers.”
Ogawa-san has said similar things late last year already, as was translated in part1 and 2 from a Japanese pdf document, where he also said:
“In this line of work, if you rob the customers of their dreams, you are finished.”
A lot of people were afraid that Olympus would abandon their E-series of cameras, and that the E-5 might be the last model of that line, and this was Mr. Ogawa’s answer to it. He also said (this was in mid December, 2011) that they are already working on the E-5 successor.
I would still like to see a successor to an E-520 or an E-30 as well, but at the moment, let’s first wait until Feb 8th, and see their new OM-D (Micro Four Thirds) camera. The rumors sound good so far…
