Olympus's New Micro 4/3 Camera - E-P1

[yfyf]

Juicy wonderful juicy info I'm so happy weeee

http://www.dpreview.com/previews/olympusep1/

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Ok, so I ripped off The Online Photographer blog, but this is one of those cameras that actually excites me.

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad...-campaign.html

http://asia.olympus-imaging.com/prod...l/pen50th/pen/

It is apparently the successor of this beauty:

http://www.cameraquest.com/olypenf.htm

 

[maomao1980]

I will get this if the quality is at least as good as the current 4/3 SLRs from Oly. very cool. The pano G1 is a disappointment in terms of form factor.

 

[yfyf]

Rarrgh it's May 26th, update the ****** website Olympus!

Also, yes the sensor quality should be identical to the regular 4/3 cameras.

 

[yfyf]

I waited all day and got an update of the "next model" to be unveiled May 26th. This model is from 1961.

FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

http://asia.olympus-imaging.com/prod...l/pen50th/pen/

 

[yfyf]

omg yay hurray about time you bastards, I waited so long I became ungrateful. I also developed my own camera. BY MYSELF.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/15/l...us-hot-bother/

 

[montyharding]

Arrg dupe

 

[montyharding]

Not as drop-dead gorgeous as the prototype, which really got my want juices going - but last year there wasn't a definite 'go' so I ended up picking up an M8.2.

For a photographic two-thumbs like me, this probably would do just as good a job. Consider me ever so slightly cheesed off. Oh well.

 

[Artisan Fan]

I still have an old OM-2N with Olympus lenses. Still works fine. An under-rated brand imho. I mostly shoot a Nikon F-100 with low dispersion pro glass.

 

[Kai]

I will buy this camera. Maybe not the week it becomes available, but definitely within the first 2 or 3 months. I'm looking forward to the production models.

 

[yfyf]

What pisses me off (because apparently something always does) is that they seem to have a manual focus ring with no damn distance scale on it. Seems very pointless, as if the focus ring is just something for idiots to spin.

 

[yfyf]

Weeeeeeeeeeee!!!

http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/n...16_294159.html
http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/n...16_294160.html
http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/n...16_294162.html

 

[yfyf]

And the English preview!

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0906/09...olympusep1.asp

 

[yfyf]

I kept trying to figure out where they were hiding the control dials, and it's here! On the edge! You clever bastards!!

 

[ratboycom]

I own an old Oly Pen and love the camera's size and styling. Stylistically I was really diggin the prototype for this new 4/3, the production model seems ok in that respect. Not nearly as cool looking, but I will probably still consider buying it.

 

[otc]

I wish I could get my hands on the Pen F but they seem pretty expensive when they pop up.

The rangefinder would be cool too (especially if cheap) but the SLR seems more interesting...