Topic: New Olympus higher end recorder ? sneak pics

[FrozenSounds]

Looks like Olympus will launch an interesting new recorder next week.

It looks quite a like the LS-10/11 but with something the size of 2x AA batteries along each of the sides.

Could this be XLR inputs ( with phantom power please ) ?
Or build in pull out line-gradient mini shotgun mics ?

http://olympusamericaaudioblog.com/sneak-peek-part-2/

http://olympusamericaaudioblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Approved-2.jpg

http://olympusamericaaudioblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Approved-3.jpg

Are there two LCD displays there ?

[andromedanwarmachine]

fascinating and bizarre!

with video? High end blogging aplications?

[FrozenSounds]

could well be that: a cross between the LS-10/11 and a VIO POV ( a remote recorder/display for a helmet mount video camera )

[Colin Liston]

Looks like the Enterprise

[rastasean]

I'm hoping for spdif and/or aes inputs.

[F.O.Bean]

Hmmm, very interesting!!!

[Eight_Tit_Chicken]

I think the blurry words at the bottom are "USB" and "HDMI".  Protective cover with finger nail slot ?

As much as it looks like the cylinders slide up, the MIC and EAR ports prevent that.  I think the cylinders are a grip feature.

What is that splash of gold on the lower left cylinder ??  It's mount protrudes.  Is it an Ext Power or Digital In ??

Oh god let that be a single gold RCA.

[H₂O]

Yeah - I think the bottom is a rubber boot with SD card and/or USB - the indentation looks simply as the pull tab.

It does look like the HDMI logo is there (on the right) - w/ 2 displays

[FrozenSounds]

LS-20M :
http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/product.asp?product=1560&page=overview

Unfortunately nothing new on the audio front.

The video camera is fixed, forward facing and not on a remote cable.
Field of view equivalent to a 50mm standard lens on a 135 film camera.

A bit of a disappointment.
Price same as LS-11.

[rastasean]

I was assuming it would be some kind of video recording device.

[Ozpeter]

Pretty daft design as far as the video is concerned.   To see what you are pointing it at, you need to hold it somewhere around waist height.

At the Royal Wedding parade - "Excuse me, could I get to the front, I've got an badly designed camcorder here"

At the rock concert - "Hey, everyone sit down, I can only see your backs with this thing"

So many designers don't have to actually use the stuff they design.  (And architects don't have to live or work in the buildings they inflict on the rest of us - now is there anyone else here I can insult?)