You can preorder the E-M1II for $1,999!

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Shrinking market, strong YEN, Brexit and Trumpism (LOL) are lifting the prices of cameras. And that’s why you will not like this: Today Olympus announced the E-M1II pricing:
In USA you can preorder it for $1,999 at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.

I am pretty sure all future new cameras from all companies will have those kind of new crazy high prices…

Poll: If you would have the money would you go for the X1D or GFX?

Now let’s imaging you just won $10,000 on the lottery and you can spend them either on the new Fuji GFX or on the Hasselblad X1D….

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I know this is a hard choice. Personally I like the X1D design and leaf shutter. But I acknowledge there are clear advantages for many by having a focal plane shutter and the Fuji switchable EVF.

Nikon interview at Dpreview gives us little hope about a “serious” mirrorless system camera launch

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Dpreview interviewed Nikon managers at Photokina. Here are a couple of info:

  1. For now we’ll keep Nikon 1 as usual.’ The sudden focus on KeyMission doesn’t take away from this
  2. Some manufacturers have tried to enter the DSLR market with their mirrorless camera or something. Our standpoint is different. Because our product mix covers full-frame and APS-C DSLR and the Nikon 1, these three product categories mean we offer to the full lineup and we receive each customer’s good reactions.

Nikon makes it sounds as like they don’t need to make an APS-C or FF mirrorless system camera. But we know from past interviews that Nikon always is very “conservative” when it comes to information sharing. So let’s hope this is just an interview that “hides” their real FF mirrorless intentions…