The fifth model in the Olympus Pen series is a highly simplified version of the consumer model of last year, with a new lens and a no-nonsense design. If the E-PL1 a more modern, artistic feel was right, the E-PL2 fit well with the company’s line of E-Series digital SLR cameras. Along with the new [...]

The 12-megapixel, interchangeable lens PEN E-P2 is the second Micro Four Thirds camera from Olympus. It offers the same great-looking, old-school design as its predecessor, the Olympus E-P1, but one better a little bit with some unique in-camera modes and the inclusion of a plug, eye level electronic viewfinder (EVF). It is available in two [...]

Olympus fairly invented what we now call the super-zoom digital camera, the ambitious carbon 2100UZ (Ultra Zoom) starts in 2000. The camera featured a 1.9-megapixel sensor, a 10x zoom lens (38-380mm equivalent) and an early optical image stabilization. It was big, heavy, expensive and not massively popular, but there a standard for the market segment [...]

The Olympus Stylus Tough-8010 is the latest in unbranded “Olympus” Tough “series of take-a-licking, keep-on-ticking digital cameras. Equipped with a shockproof, waterproof, frost resistant, crushproof body – we begin to ask how Olympus can find many more things to prove, designed to take against their cameras – the Olympus 8010, the elements can throw around [...]

Olympus has introduced high-end compact digital camera, SP-800UZ, that is also known as T5000 in the U.S.. It was designed in accordance with the demanding needs, the needs and issues of today’s advanced photographers. It also has 3″ AMOLED screen at the back, which swings out to allow the photographer to get a better angle [...]

Olympus, the E-PEN PL1 in February less than a year after his announcement of the retro-style PEN E-P1, and only a few months after the E-P2, which seemed like a first correction of all errors of the E-P1. I had had the good fortune under the brand-new E-PL1 around Brick Lane in London to be [...]