Released in 2019, the Olympus OM-D E-M1X was met with a bit of a mixed response. It was a high-performance flagship – the Olympus equivalent of the Canon 1DX Mark III or Nikon D5 – but it had Micro Four Thirds users torn. It’s a big camera with a built-in vertical grip and the whole point of MFT for them is that it’s a small camera system. Not so much with the OM-D E-M1X.
The OM-D E-M1X has had a fairly good run. Announced in January 2019, it’s coming up to four years old now, so it was about due for a replacement. Whether or not we’ll see one, however, remains to be seen. If Olympus were still Olympus, then I’d be inclined to agree that we would see a similarly sized high-performance successor. But Olympus is not Olympus. It’s OM Digital Solutions. So who knows what plans they have for a Micro Four Thirds body at this level? Do they even have any plans for this sort of body beyond “abandon them”? There’s a new OM-5 expected to be announced later this month, but so far, no rumours or even hints on an OM-D E-M1X successor. OM Digital might just decide that this type of camera is no longer part of their target demographic. [via Asobinet]