Category Archives: Olympus

Nauticam NA-XZ1 underwater housing for Olympus XZ-1

By PR admin | Published: May 13, 2011

Nauticam announced a new underwater housing NA-XZ1 for Olympus XZ-1. The housing is rated up to 100 meters and it will cost $950. Expected shipping date is May 16th, 2011. More images and full press release:

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Olympus 6-24mm f/1.8-3.8 lens patent

By PR admin | Published: April 26, 2011

Olympus filed a patent in Japan for a 6-24mm f/1.8-3.8 lens designed for a point and shoot camera (28-112mm equivalent): The ZX-1 has a similar i.Zuiko 6-24mm f/1.8-2.5 lens. Maybe Olympus is thinking of introducing a lower level P&S camera with a wide f/1.8 aperture.

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Olympus to continue producing E-series cameras, promises new PEN products

By PR admin | Published: April 25, 2011

In a recent interview in China, Akira Watanabe from Olympus reassured that they will continue to produce their single and double digits E-series product line (E-5 and E-30). The three digit models are/will be replaced by the PEN m4/3 camera line. There were some conflicting statements in the past from Olympus, indicating that they could stop producing full size DSLR […]

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DxOMark: Fuji X100 outperforms 4/3 sensors

By PR admin | Published: April 14, 2011

DxOMark published new test data today for the Fuji X100 camera (see review). Here is the comparison with the Olympus PEN EP2 and Panasonic GH2: See some more new DxOMark test data on NikonRumors.com.

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Olympus XZ-1 review

By PR admin | Published: April 4, 2011

After the great Fuji X100 review (the third most viewed post in March), Dan shared his experineces with the Olympus XZ-1 camera. You can follow Dan in Twitter @ZDP189. Here is his review: Olympus XZ-1 – stuck with it Executive Summary If money is no object, just about any normal consumer would buy an XZ-1 over the competition. It’s […]

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Rumor: Olympus to introduce three new PEN cameras in 2011

By PR admin | Published: March 31, 2011

Photoradar reports that Olympus will announce three new PEN cameras this year: “Olympus plans to release a high-performance PEN camera with touchscreen technology – possibly the PEN Pro reported earlier this month – as well as a mid-range PEN camera with a tilt screen and a PEN camera with flash in the original PEN EP-1 design.” The first […]

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Olympus PEN Pro version is 2-3 years away

By PR admin | Published: March 6, 2011

Megapixels interviewed Dominic Papenheim from Olympus Europe and published some interesting hints. Olympus sees the PEN camera line as their future: On the question about a future Olympus PEN Pro model that was part of the presentation, the Olympus representative answered:

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Olympus announced SZ-30MR, SZ-20 and TG-810 compact cameras

By PR admin | Published: March 2, 2011

Today Olympus announced three new compact cameras: SZ-30MR, SZ-20 and TG-810. The SZ-20 was the camera previously leaked on the European Trade Marks and Design office. The new Olympus SZ-30MR is the first ever camera to capture Full HD movies (1080p) and 16MP stills simultaneously. Specs at a glance: 24x wide optical zoom (25-600mm) backlit CMOS sensor 3D photo shooting […]

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Olympus announcement tomorrow?

By PR admin | Published: March 1, 2011

The latest rumor indicates of a potential Olympus announcement tomorrow. One possibility is this new compact camera that was filed with European Trade Marks and Designs office few weeks ago:

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New compact camera design from Olympus

By PR admin | Published: February 14, 2011

Olympus registered a new compact camera design with the European Trade Marks and Designs office. The new point and shoot camera is similar to the Olympus SZ-10 model that was announced a week ago: For comparison here is the Olympus SZ-10 design:

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