Olympus users: Dump the E-P1 now!

[RichA]

Ebay will be awash in these things in a short time and used pricing,
though still high now, will be down in the dumps. The addition of the
high resolution EVF to the E-P2 proved Olympus released the E-P1 way
too soon, it wasn't finished. I know it's not in the Japanese genetic
code, but they could have offered an upgrading service for the E-P1 to
make it EVF compatible, instead of leaving people with $1000 paper
weights less than six months after they bought them. This was not
some minor oversight, but a failure to provide a camera with what is a
near essential piece of hardware, unless all you ever do is AF. As an
expensive enthusiast camera, the E-P1 SHOULD have had a good MF
capability to begin with, and it didn't.

[swandy]

Thank you Rich for those sincere pearls of wisdom.
(If they did not come from someone who is always putting Olympus and
their 4/3 cameras down, perhaps someone would actually take it as a
serious comment.)

[RichA]

Rubbish. I've owned more 4/3rds cameras than most people have who use
cameras. The camera I use most now is a G1, 4/3rds. So, I have no
inherent bias against them. I do think that in order to be
competitive with the better results provided by the APS cameras,
Olympus MUST go the extra mile when making new ones.