DP-Now’s editor Ian Burley has just returned from a trip to Majorca to test out the new Olympus E-1 DSLR (what a great life journalists lead!). Ian has added a hands-on report of the E-1 on the DP-Now forums, with a full preview due later this week.

Here’s an interesting snippet of information to whet your appetite:

“The Four Thirds standard, around which the E-System is based, relates to the old Videcon picture tube sizing standard and the key dimension to note is the sensor diagonal of 22.3mm. We were told that this means that cameras could be developed with sensors of any aspect ratio a manufacturer desired, including square format, as long as the sensor diagonal remained 22.3mm. So the Four Thirds standard name is not tied to the 4:3 aspect ratio that the E-1 has adopted.”

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