I can definitely see the the positive influence fuji has had on other camera makers, hopefully Olympus will take note of ricoh's user interface aswell. Right now i'm going between a nikon d90 aps-c and ricoh GRD and would be willing scrap both of those to move down to m43 if they took a few design decisions in the right direction.
I've never seen this discussed before but it seems that a 3''lcd screen has become the standard for all digital camera's. Would anyone be interested in moving down to a 2'' screen if it meant having a built in viewfinder that wouldn't bulge out allowing for a size more like the gx1 rather than GH2. The Sony NEX7 seems to be the same size as a GX1, has a built in viewfinder and even squeezed in a flash so the possiblity for olympus to do the same is there. It may be more of a rangefinder layout than a OMdesign but a center bulge would make it just as uninteresting as the GH2. The GX1 with the 20mm1.7 i can squeeze into a jacket/cargo pocket that just isn't happening with a GH2, it needs to be truely compact or else m43 has no real interest to me over a nikon DSLR.
I've never seen this discussed before but it seems that a 3''lcd screen has become the standard for all digital camera's. Would anyone be interested in moving down to a 2'' screen if it meant having a built in viewfinder that wouldn't bulge out allowing for a size more like the gx1 rather than GH2. The Sony NEX7 seems to be the same size as a GX1, has a built in viewfinder and even squeezed in a flash so the possiblity for olympus to do the same is there. It may be more of a rangefinder layout than a OMdesign but a center bulge would make it just as uninteresting as the GH2. The GX1 with the 20mm1.7 i can squeeze into a jacket/cargo pocket that just isn't happening with a GH2, it needs to be truely compact or else m43 has no real interest to me over a nikon DSLR.