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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Adey Baker" data-source="post: 3479244" data-attributes="member: 1805">Depends how well it sells. The Pen F came out at the start of this year and is still the same price (£999 body only, UK), so presumably, that's still selling well enough at that price.An Olympus 'rep' at Photokina did the EM1 MkII no favours by stating that it would be slightly higher in price compared to the original price of the MkI - and Olympus themselves introduced the MkII EM5 the previous year without loading the price up over the original MkI.In the end, it will all depend on how much better certain features are than the MkI EM1.It's all well and good taking people off to Iceland because of the excellent possibilities of great landscape shots, but soon someone will be testing it at fast-action sport events or challenging wildlife situations which will test the continuous focus of the camrea to the full (and possibly the reduced 'rolling-shutter' effects in silent mode). Then we'll know whether it's worth the price - if there's no great benefits then you can always get, for the same price (£1849, UK), an EM1 MkI body together with both the !2-40mm Pro and 40-150mm Pro F2.8 lenses (<a href="http://www.wexphotographic.com/buy-olympus-om-d-e-m1-digital-camera-with-12-40mm-pro-and-40-150mm-pro-lenses/p1570115" target="_blank">http://www.wexphotographic.com/buy-olympus-om-d-e-m1-digital-camera-with-12-40mm-pro-and-40-150mm-pro-lenses/p1570115</a> (£1999 less £150 discount until November 10th)</blockquote>

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