Olympus E-P1

#1 Dario

It looks like it was made out of cookie dough and black shoe polish.
Very disappointing, really.

6:37 pm - Monday, September 25, 2006

#2 Derek

Looks really horrible , and it is so so huge , isn't it?

How big and heavy is it?

8:20 pm - Monday, September 25, 2006

#3 Mark Goldstein

We weren't allowed to touch it - even getting the glass case off proved quite difficult!

8:37 pm - Monday, September 25, 2006

#4 Nicholas

To me, combined with Fuji's S5 staying at 6 MP, Samsung cloning Pentax (and A100 if you look closly), and Canon only upgrading the Rebel, not touching the semi-pro/pro level cameras ( yet), all I can think is that everyone is staying on the side lines as Sigma makes a very big wave with a 'fantastic' camera. It is only my guess.
We will see very soon.

10:40 pm - Monday, September 25, 2006

#5 Derek

So nobody knows how heavy it is yet.

Ok , looks like the design itself scare me a way from it .


I think E400 looks so nice like old-school kind of odd design , what is it ? OM?

I think in 1970 , Olympus released a cool film camera and I expect them to design D-SLR's the same design concept line as the film model .


To be honest , I would like to buy a Range Finder from Lica , but it is a dream , never be materialized .


Any way , I am waiting any one make a cam look cool like the old Lica or Olympus, then I will be more than glad to compromise many tech short comings ..... design is important .


The Canon Eos XTI looks horrible but takes some great pics even at 1600 ISO, but I will never buy or even think of getting it cause of the shitty design (like a toy).



Fuji is not making the body themselves for its flag ship model S5 pro , is it based on Nikon D200? If so , it is so so embarrassing.


Ok , thanks a lot for your great report from Germany.........No new Zeiss?

11:21 am - Tuesday, September 26, 2006

#6 Hokum

My God its ugly, why couldnt they just stick to the E10/20/1 body, the E-1 is quite possibly the best SLR body i have EVER used, and i've used almost all Dslr's!

I think a refined E-1 with a 10mp sensor would be awesome, esp if they can get it to do 5fps and give it better AF-C.

This E-P1 looks like the pff spring of an E-1 and the EOS-3 horrible!

6:34 am - Wednesday, September 27, 2006

#7 Zoltán

Whoaa, Darth Vader's camera!

That explains why there is no mode dial and AF mode switch on it. This is a camera you control with the Force...

I hope the portrait grip is detachable.

11:25 am - Thursday, September 28, 2006

#8 Thomas

In contrast to the other comments, I absolutely love the design. Finally a DSLR camera from Olympus that looks good, clean, modern and purposeful. In contrast, especially their initial designs (look at the old E-1) were really horrible. So let's keep fingers crossed it will perform as well as it looks.

1:29 am - Friday, February 23, 2007

#9 CARL HAMILTON

THIS BABY IS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL. GO AND BUILD IT , OLYMPUS !

2:49 am - Wednesday, March 7, 2007

#10 CARL

and Olympus , during the actual production of this gorgeous babe , please do not deviate much from the original shape of the prototype which is downright sexy and well put together . otherwise , you would end up like Porsche who diluted the aesthetic values of its production Boxster from the original shape penned by Grant Larsen.

2:57 am - Wednesday, March 7, 2007

#11 Kevin

Since when did the look of the camera become important? That's something that I NEVER understood. Also, all you idiots talking about the size... have you ever handled a Canon 1D? That's the size of the whole damn thing. This Olympus looks like it will be able to have the portrait/extra battery holder removable. All I can say is at least Olympus uses quality materials, where as Canon (like someone mentioned) feels cheap and flimsy (exception: 1D).

10:12 pm - Sunday, September 16, 2007