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Olympus is Ditching Entry-Level SLRs for Micro Four Thirds Cameras [Cameras]

While an entry-level DSLR has its time and place, Olympus is focusing its attentions on its PEN series of micro four thirds camera instead, consistent with Toshiyuki Terada, the product manager at SLR Olympus Planning department. ” We shouldn’t have concrete plans to interchange the E-620 and other recent SLRs. The entry level SLR class will also be completely replaced by the Pen system by way of performance.”

While Olympus will continue making high-end DSLRs for now, the death knell has been sounded, with Terada saying that , Olympus will only be making micro four thirds models (and compacts, presumably), though they ” have no idea when this would happen.” [ Fotopolis via Photo Rumors via Photography Bay ]

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