OLYMPUS PEN E-P3, E-PL3, AS WELL AS E-PM1
Not one, not two, but 3 new Olympus PEN cameras move your pleasing prophesy to life. Compact unstable bodies broach implausible picture quality, speed and in-camera creativity.
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. – Today Olympus launches 3 new PEN compress system cameras written to assistance inspiration-seekers constraint their singular visions and share their stories in shining still images and high-definition (HD) video. The Olympus PEN family combines the portability of a point-and-shoot with facilities found on bulkier cameras or camcorders to broach extraordinary picture peculiarity and lightning discerning speed. With a new 12.3-megapixel Live MOS Image Sensor, TruePic VI Image Processor, tall ISO of 12,800, a reengineered autofocus system, full 1080i HD video with Dolby Digital receptive to advice recording, newly written user interfaces and a accumulation of Art Filters and built-in pleasing features, these strenuously elementary cameras suggest modernized capabilities but the complexity of a digital singular lens automatic (DSLR) camera.
New Cameras and Features
- PEN E-P3: Also voiced today, the flagship Olympus PEN with a classic, all-metal pattern and the world’s fastest autofocus**. A physique unstable enough to transport the universe but sacrificing DSLR picture peculiarity and control that gifted photographers expect. It facilities a bright, 614,000 pixel, high-resolution, OLED touchscreen to easily navigate and control the camera at the hold of a finger.
- PEN E-PL3: This absolute camera is undiluted for photographers who want their memories to simulate incredible, veteran picture quality. Easy-to-use pleasing technologies are finished in the versatile physique – the size of a small, unstable point-and-shoot camera, but with the coherence of transmutable lenses. A clever, sloping three-inch LCD empowers photographers to go head-and-shoulders on top of the throng to constraint graduations, easily bob to eye-level as babies take their first stairs or even reduce to the belligerent to get an darling shot of the family pet.
- PEN E-PM1: The smallest and lightest Olympus PEN is available in 6 in vogue colors (purple, pink, brown, white, china and black) and facilities a new and made easy user interface as well as a streamlined symbol make up for higher palliate of use. Its small size and portability make it the preferred camera to request life’s fun and extemporaneous moments.
Superior Image Quality
A vast 12.3-megapixel Live MOS Image Sensor delivers the top peculiarity images. Take good photos in low-light environments interjection to the Olympus PEN E-P3 camera’s built-in peep and the E-PL3 and E-PM1 cameras’ bundled appendage flash. Each camera comes versed with an AF illuminator and ISO up to 12,800. To urge tone and speed, the new Olympus PEN cameras underline the new TruePic VI Image Processing Engine. Photos and HD videos will be frail and transparent interjection to 3 modes of in-body picture stabilization and the award-winning Olympus Dust Reduction System.
Blazing FAST AF Speed
The new Olympus PEN cameras use a accumulation of facilities to grasp speed rivaling that of the veteran Olympus E-5 DSLR. Focus and fire faster with the new 12.3-megapixel Live MOS Image Sensor, TruePic VI Image Processor and new magnitude increase in speed sensor record (FAST) autofocus system. The FAST AF Tracking System facilities 35 detached concentration points widespread over scarcely the complete sensor, enabling pin-point focusing correctness on small subjects wherever they crop up in the frame. Selectable 3×3 groups inside of the 35-point area are generally in effect when sharpened active subjects. The cameras’ discerning shiver reply times safeguard you will never skip a shot, even in the toughest sharpened environments.
Creative Freedom
Olympus PEN array cameras move a new turn of pleasing leisure to the sharpened knowledge and capacitate present investigation and gratification. The new PEN Series facilities full 1080 60i high-definition video. Push the approach HD video symbol to now begin filming in possibly AVCHD or AVI formats with uncompressed CD-quality.
In-camera pleasing facilities such as Art Filters, Multiple Exposure, Aspect Ratios and In-Camera Editing concede photographers to constraint the universe as they see it. Art Filters set Olympus PEN images and videos detached from the pack. Since they’re built into the camera, Art Filters can grasp thespian results on the go but the need for a resource or modifying software. All filters can be unsentimental to both still shots and HD movies.
The Olympus PEN family offers several ways to constraint inventive visions. Apply up to 10 Art Filters (Depending on model: Diorama, Pop Art, Soft Focus, Pale & Light Color, Light Tone, Grainy Film, Pin Hole, Cross Process, Gentle Sepia and Dramatic Tone) in the camera while shooting. Vary images by blending and relating Art Filters to grasp your pleasing prophesy or by requesting effects, together with the new Star Light and White Edge to support photos the way you want after capture.
These Olympus PEN cameras supplement a new dimension to photographs by sharpened energetic 3D photos in any incident from macro to landscape. Simply name the 3D Photo Mode, recover the shiver and solemnly vessel until the camera automatically takes a second picture from a somewhat different perspective. The 3D interpretation is processed in-camera, ensuing in an .MPO file, the concept attention 3D format for easy arrangement on 3D televisions or laptops.
Easy to Use with New User Interfaces, Menu Structures and Button Layouts
All 3 Olympus PEN cameras have a 3-inch, high-resolution display. Controlling the E-P3 is elementary to use with the three-inch, touch-sensitive 614,000 pixel OLED, immoderate much reduction appetite than the normal LCD. The arrangement has a far-reaching 176-degree point of perspective of perspective and is splendid enough to harmonise images even in oppressive midday light. The discerning and unsentimental touchscreen creates it easy to navigate the camera’s new menus and striking user interface. Going through a day’s photos is easy by scrolling through and swelling photos with the daub of a finger. The E-PL3 facilities a sloping 3-inch 460,000 pixel LCD shade that offers the coherence to constraint moments from a accumulation of angles. The E-PM1 facilities a 3-inch 460,000 pixel display. All 3 cameras underline a newly written Graphical User Interface. The rise and graphics used in the menus suggest softened prominence and peculiarity to describe superb graphical menus that are tasteful and easy-to-use. The E-P3 incorporates a rotational dial and sub-dial on the back of the camera. With just their thumb, users can fine-tune orifice and bearing time in an present – but the need to switch in between menus. Fans of hands-on sharpened will adore the 3 customizable buttons that can be reserved to the user’s the one preferred functions.
All of the Olympus PEN cameras are concordant with SDHC, SDXC and UHS-1 mental recall cards for larger speed and genius and can work with Eye-Fi cards for present uploads.
New Lenses and Accessories for Every Shooting Challenge
Today Olympus is unapproachable to make known several new Movie & Still Compatible (MSC) lenses with high-speed lens drive mechanisms delivering near-silent autofocus during still sharpened and high-definition (HD) video capture. New accessories embody discretionary physique grips and the FL-300R outmost peep to element the PEN array ideally and enlarge the pleasing horizons for any photographer. The flourishing Olympus PEN MICRO Four Thirds family now facilities 8 fully-compatible MICRO Four Thirds lenses. The mythological Olympus Zuiko® Digital Four Thirds operation of twenty-seven high-quality lenses, OM-series and other manufacturers’ lenses can be trustworthy to Olympus PEN cameras with discretionary adapters. Each new PEN comes finished with the re-sculpted M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 14-42mm II R f3.5/5.6 II R wizz lens (28mm-84mm equivalent) or the M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 17mm f2.8 budding lens. Designed with Movie & Still Compatibility (MSC), knowledge near-silent operation, enabling you to fire HD cinema in stereo with extraordinary clarity.
M.Zuiko Digital ED 12m f2.0 lens: This high-speed, single-focal-length, wide-angle lens is preferred for sharpened all from high-quality, thespian landscapes in low-light conditions to hard-to-get, extemporaneous travel shots. It has a pleasing full-metal physique and a snap concentration ring that allows photographers to vessel concentration with a stretch indicator.
M.Zuiko Digital ED 45mm f1.8 lens: This singular focal length mural lens has a pleasing shoal abyss of field, which allows for credentials blurring goods that are not probable with prior pack lenses. The MSC resource is good for tracking a relocating kid or pet, and provides a discerning and wordless concentration resource for cinema and still photography.
FL-300R Compact Flash: This peep functions on all 3 PEN cameras as a rebound peep as well as a wireless remote peep with enough energy for most every sharpened situation. It is written in china to compare the new PEN lineup.
U.S. Pricing / Product Configurations
- Olympus PEN E-P3 Body with MSC M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED m14-42mm II R f3.5/5.6 Zoom Lens
Estimated Street Price: $899.99 - Olympus PEN E-P3 Body with MSC M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED m17mm f2.8 Prime Lens
Estimated Street Price: $899.99 - Olympus PEN E-PM1 Body with MSC M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED m14-42mm II R f3.5/5.6 Zoom Lens
Estimated Street Price to be announced - Olympus PEN E-PL3 Body with MSC M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED m14-42mm II R f3.5/5.6 Zoom Lens
Estimated Street Price to be announced - Olympus PEN E-PL3 Body with MSC M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED m17mm f2.8 Prime Lens
Estimated Street Price to be announced
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