Olympus OM-D E-M5 Specs and Preview article posted

Any word on the EVF, say, compared to the Nex 7 EVF?

Given that the unit I used was a pre-production model, and that I didn't have a NEX 7 there to compare, I think it would be unfair for me to give an opinion on comparing the two.

I thought the EVF in the pre-production model was pretty good though. But I'm also not the most familiar with the NEX 7's having only played with it a little bit.

As a long-time Pentax user, it makes me sad to look at this and the Nikon D800 announcements (and the imminent Canon 5dX), Sony's NEX line and Panasonic's excellent offerings, while those ludicrous toys, the Q and K01, are, apparently, Pentax's take on the market and where it's going.

I've got to wait it out anyway. It's this or the sony...for me, the chrome version looks so much more ugly than the black...

Jim, lighten up. The pentax toy cam takes your pentax lenses natively and has IBIS. The K-5 was the best of the recent aps-c dslr bunch.

The online complaints about the .92x magnification is obviously a case of people crying before they know all the facts. You can set the finder up like a DSLR with limited information underneath the image, meaning the image is smaller. If you use the finder like the Pen VF-2 finder, at 4:3 with the image across the entire finder and the data overlaid, the magnification is the exact same 1.15x as the VF2.

Using the lower magnification finder setup is a user option.

As a long-time Pentax user, it makes me sad to look at this and the Nikon D800 announcements (and the imminent Canon 5dX), Sony's NEX line and Panasonic's excellent offerings, while those ludicrous toys, the Q and K01, are, apparently, Pentax's take on the market and where it's going.

It's not really fair to lump the Q and the K-01 in with the N800 and the new 5D. That would be like grumping on Canon for only announcing the G1x when Nikon announced the D4 at CES.

That having been said, there are legitimate arguments to be made for or against Pentax's path in the mirrorless segment as compared to this camera or the NEX line.

Leslie, I'm as lightened-up as I need to be. Pentax is a small company with limited resources that they're flinging away at present. Yes, the K5's a beauty: why didn't they follow it up swiftly with a KR replacement that would cash in on the sensor's excellence and - sorry, but I have to be profane here - generate some market-share? Instead, they burn time and effort on a toy (the Q), and then come drastically late to the mirror-less party with a joke product: plug-ugly, big and costly as a dslr, and - without evf or articulated screen - only one means to frame a shot: the very worst one (so good luck with those long legacy lenses).
And Josh, I'm comparing business-, not camera models. You make niche products when you have a cult following, like Leica. Whimsy isn't going to get Pentax back into volume sales.

Pentax is a small company with limited resources that they're flinging away at present.

From 2007-2011, Pentax was a part of Hoya, a company with 34,000 employees. Since mid-2011 they are a part of Ricoh, a company with 108,000 employees. I thought Hoya really wanted Pentax for the medical imaging products. I'm still confused as to what Ricoh wants to do as the combined 2 companies have tons of niche products. Maybe that's good enough, I don't really know.

Does Ricoh intend to keep the Pentax line going?