Tag: micro four-thirds (µ4:3)

The Olympus E-Pnext

Olympus launched a teaser site for the next E-Pnext:

Coming Soon

When I first saw this yesterday, it said “You can’t hide creativity…” and it’s since been changed to the unimanginative, “YOUR next camera is coming soon…”

For reference, I decided to see if I could glean it for MY last camera which came last month… the E-P2

MY last camera came last month…

MY last camera came last month…
San Francisco, California

Nikon D3, Nikkor Nikkor 85mm f/1.4D
1/5sec @ ƒ4, ISO200, 85mm

I didn’t have a 17mm pancake like in the picture and my “man-hands” are blocking some of the details, but the E-P2 extends out to my palm, while the photo shows the next one extending out to the woman’s knuckles. The length of my hand should be about right so it’s at most about an inch smaller and just as tall.

Continue reading about Guesses about the next Pen from Olympus after the jump

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Electronic Pen configurator

Spending a half our messing with Four-Thirds matching simulator.

Olympus E-P1 with Voigtlander M mount lenses

The top one is a 50mm f1.1 lens (100mm in 35mm equivalent). Imagine that! The middle one is a lens I own (35mm f1.2) except mine is in chrome and needs to be fixed. The bottom one is the 35mm f1.4 NOKTON classic. I own the 40mm version and mine has an “S.C.” stamped on the outside of it, but pretty much looks like that.

All would require an adapter available from Cameraquest in L.A..

Here is an amazing Stop Motion viral video from Olympus, titled “The Pen Story”:

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