There a new big rumor going around. The issue seems like when Olympus did the Korean presentation, there's a mention of a "trine FFT CCD."
And also someone points to a picture of a document showing something:
What this would mean is the light is split into three CCD's - r g and b giving it effectively a 10 megapixel Foveon sensor like resolution.. which in turn would mean the E-3 would have an effective comparable resolution that would match or probably even exceed even the new Canon EOS 22 megapixel full frame camera (and with no issues of having to buy new lenses to take advantage of that).
What to I think? Well, *IF IF IF IF IF * *if if if if if * IF IF IF x 55 if's Olympus is *really* doing this and pulling this off, then that would explain why they have been so darn secretive all along. This would be a major jump in 4/3rds and the market actually at that range. It would really stop most of those thinking the D300 is their next upgrade form 4/3rds. Quite frankly, this would be revolutionary. And Olympus could *easily* charge $2,500 to $3,000 USD for this camera.
But I don't think this is happening, it could still be a hoax. The picture above could certainly be a hoax, so I don't consider it evidence that this is what is going on. The only credibility I will give it is that this rumor of something like this surfaced more than a year ago for the technology of this camera and that Olympus is in bed with Panasonic/Matsushita, which have some patents and know how precisely in doing something like this form their cam corders.
Oh, it would also mean that I am wrong about the sensor in the E-3
Anyway, I still categorize this in the hoax realm, so I wouldn't get too excited yet.
Everything now seems to point that the camera will be announced in Oct in a show in New York. The USA Open wont' be it- they are pushing the e-510.
- Raist