> "Clearly there's no technical problem with making a good EVF these days." Sadly, Sony owns a number of OLED patents that prevents anyone from getting anywher

> "Clearly there's no technical problem with making a good EVF these days." Sadly, Sony owns a number of OLED patents that prevents anyone from getting anywhere close to the NEX-7's EVF performance. Personally I don't find the OM-D's EVF to be that bad at all, but you're right, it's definitely not the NEX-7. The problem here is that the classic little SLRs existed because there wasn't anything "better" for the professional shooters. Manual mode was all you got, and the nature of film meant that you didn't need a bajillion menu items just to get a picture out of the camera - white balance, resolution, file formats, etc etc. I suspect there is no longer a market for a such a thing. The professional/high end of the market demands whiz-bang kitchen-sink featuresets (to be fair, they actually use them), while the consumer/low end of the market demands a whole other set of whiz-bang kitchen-sink featuresets (face detection, a bajillion filter modes, etc). The market for "barebones camera that does precisely and the basics and only the basics" is vanishingly small. The X-Pro 1 was engineered pretty much for this market, but it has, as you pointed out, so many concessions on the concept that it's not very compelling. Honestly, your best bet for that is still the Leica M9.