CP+ 2014: Olympus – ‘our reason to exist is to push the envelope’

Wait and see on the G1Xii for me… I handled the G1X Mki in the store the other day, and thought it was kind of cool. The viewfinder was adequate. I’m not sure about the same camera without a viewfinder. Also, I’m suspicious of the Mk ii lens/aperture/size/zoom combination. I have CHDK on my SX230HS, and it is an eye-opener to see what the photos look like in raw. At the wide end, for example, I get a completely vignetted result, wider field of view than the jpeg, and corners black! Obviously, to produce the jpeg, Canon does some serious cropping, stretching, etc. in-camera. It would not surprise me that the G1Xii features a small (well, we know that), not well corrected, not very sharp, lens, that Canon messes with in the firmware to get the stated headline specs. I know that m43 corrects lenses in-camera too, but not like I’ve seen from Canon. On the other hand, my SX230 lens has some sweet spots, too, where the lens is quite good.