ptomsu
Workshop Member
I agree there are exceptions of MF lenses, which are pretty good even for digital - mainly agree these are Leica M and Zeiss lenses.Hmmm - I'd say that Leica's MF lenses are up to the digital requirements of today - and so are most of the Contax, Zeiss, . . . there are lots!
However, As Vivek says - I would expect a rather more solid and satisfying version of the GH-2
Olympus aren't going to make a full frame camera right now (why would they?)
Having said that, even Leica shows continually that newer designs of their M glass are better suited for digital as their older counterparts.
But from the Canon, Nikon and other vendors range I do not see this great compatibility of their old MF designs for digital. Especially I can speak for Olympus, where I shot the E5 (superb camera) with the 14-35 and the 35-100 and all the old MF lenses I tried were nice to use and produced interesting results, but did not even come close to what the new digital designs could achieve.
Further I think the OM-D will be a m43 camera and I do NOT see Olympus really coming up with an E-system like lens lineup for m43. And please - do not start discussing adapters here, they really suck. So I cannot see where this new "pro m43" system should come even close to what the E system could deliver and could have even better delivered if Olympus only had concentrated on further developing the E system instead of only fooling around on the m43 trail of their cameras. Really too bad decisions which were obviously made already some years ago.
So yes, the OM-D might become a nice to have camera, but for sure not a real replacement for the E system.