The Olympus E-1 is due for a replacement this year and it could not come any later as the competition is really moving ahead.
So far the only information found is from the forum section within www.dpreview.com. According to one of its member, rovingtim he says this is the exchange he had with an Olympus [...]
Did you know that DSLR camera have an expected shutter-life on their camera? This is the number of times the shutter is activated (actuations) before the mechanism fails. Although it is not an absolute figure, it does exit.
You see, on a good days shooting, a normal film SLR camera could use up 10 rolls [...]
According to Samuel Andreo, the director of photographic products for Sony Spain, Sony plans to become the number 3 in the DSLR market within 18 to 24 months and has ambitious plans to take Nikons number 2 spot within 3 to 4 years.
This is an english translation of what Samuel Andreo has to say to [...]
Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, the preseidnt of the Olympus Corporation has drawn up a new three-year Corporate Strategic Plan from 2006 to Marchn 2009. The aim of then plan is to maximize corporate value through the recovery and enhancement of value creation capabilities. this includes net sale of 1.2 trillion yen and operating income of 100 [...]
Olympus has just annouced a new 7.5 megapixel Digital SLR camera called the E-330. This camera is the first Digital SLR in the world to have a full time live image preview and incorporates a variable angle 2.5 inch LCD screen which can be tilted up to 90 degrees. This new innovation is accomplished using [...]
Olympus has filed a US Patent for a new display device which includes an organic electroluminescent element emitting multiple color lights for their cameras. It sounds like it’s going to be some form of electronic/optical hybrid viewfinder. That way, you can view all optical images, histogram overlay or even live preview, with detailed clipping information. [...]
Olympus suffered a 13% decline in global sales of digital cameras and a slump in net profit from September 2004 - 2005. Olympus, which also makes medical equipment, reported a net profit of 2.17 billion yen (18.41 million dollars) for the six months to September, a decline of almost 68 percent from a year earlier. [...]
Olympus has announced the launch of a new digital camera called the SP-700 which has a 6 megapixel sensor, 3x optical zoom and a large 3″ LCD screen (Sunshine LCD). It seems the larger screens are the trends these days.
The SP-700 has a feature that allows the users to check and compare results before [...]
The NEW Olympus E-500 Digital SLR camera has just been released. Here is the specifications:
Model Olympus E-500
Type Interchangeable digital SLR camera.
Compatible lens ZUIKO Digital, FourThirds System lens.
Lens mount FourThirds mount.
Body Engineering plastics.
Media CompactFlash card (Type [...]
Did you know that the size of the sensor also determines the quality of the image in a digital SLR camera as well as the number of megapixels. If there are two cameras side by side with the same number of megapixels, the one with the larger sensor usually delivers finer gradation which will result [...]