Almost all gadgets popping out every month are looking more and more spiffy. All trying to look sexy and appealing to consumers. But Olympus is one of the few companies that are not entirely riding the whole trendy design stuff. That remains true when the camera company announced the new Olympus PEN E-P5, a mirrorless [...]
Along with the announcement of new cameras and lenses at Photokina 2012, Olympus also revealed a new pancake type of lens that doubles as a body cap. To simply put it, it’s a body cap lens. It’s similar to the X-Cap in functionality but more convenient because it’s already a lens by itself. The camera lens is [...]
It looks like wearable devices are the latest fad these days. With just days after Google’s announcement of the Project Glass, Olympus is now joining the fray with their own pair of glasses dubbed as the MEG4.0. Ironically, the MEG4.0 doesn’t sport a camera, considering that Olympus is one of the world’s biggest camera manufacturer. [...]
Many companies in the photography industry are hurting. Hurting so bad that even the once great and still iconic company Kodak,was forced to declare bankruptcy. At first blush one may be quick to mark off Kodak’s recent turmoil as a simple shift in consumer focus. The emergence of smartphones with high powered cameras has greatly diminished the need [...]
When it comes to rugged cameras, Olympus is one of the top brands. And to keep that reputation intact, Olympus has just released their newest “Tough” camera: the TG-1. Olympus may have just set a new standard in rugged cameras as the TG-1 is not only waterproof, shockproof, freezeproof, and crushproof, it also sports a [...]
Firmware updates are a manufacturer’s way of releasing added features and fixes to certain issues that users may have reported with regards to their cameras. Olympus has just released two new firmware updates: one for its OM-D camera and one for its M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-50mm f/3.5-6.3 lens. Olympus OM-D This firmware update improves the camera’s [...]
The guys at Digital Rev have just put out a video of a hands-on review of the Olympus OM-D E-M5 retro styled micro four thirds camera [Amazon $999]. Kai takes a casual, yet knowledgeable look at the camera’s functions and styling. It feels like Kai flips back and fourth a bit on his opinion of [...]
Owners of Fujifilm’s FinePix X100 and various Olympus camera models will be pleased to hear that both manufacturers have recently released firmware updates that will improve performance and upgrade certain camera features. Fujifilm X100 v1.20 Some functions, which can be set to the “Fn” button and shown as “Fn BUTTON” in SET-UP menu, can be [...]
The Olympus scandal continues to unfold, but there’s less of a scandal and more of a resolution nowadays. You might recall that Olympus was in deep trouble after it was revealed that they had been covering up around $1.7 billion in their company’s finances since the 1990s. Private equity firms and rival companies have since [...]
With all of the recent news about the Olympus OM-D, you’d think that the manufacturer would be planning to release more shooters from the same line; if not to take advantage of all the publicity, at least to just keep the momentum going. The E-PL3 cameras, which are a part of Olympus’s PEN line. However, [...]