Zone-10 posted a very loooong article right in time for the PEN anniversary. The article makes an exhaustive summary of the PEN history.

So take a break, click the link, and enjoy your reading

UPDATE:

rumor 1: “It seems the Olympus m4/3 is bigger than the Canon G10”

rumor2:  “I’m not sure first that there is no built-in flash, but they are testing with external flash ..”

UDPATE2: A chinese reader (Alsene) sent us a summary from the thread:

1. This lucky guy was a vendor of Olympus.
2. He saw Olympus engineers were testing the M43 camera and compared to normal DC.
3. The M43 was attached with variable focal lens (14_?), not pancake one and external flash. It is not aware if built in flash existed.
4. It is like a big DC compared to G10.
5. Another discussion told who wants to buy GH1 should wait a moment. Olympus M43 was an excellent one

It seems some fortunate chinese guy had the chance to play with the Olympus MicroFourThirds camera. We tried to use google translation but it doesn’t work very well. Can some chinese reader translate the most important part of the following discussion?

http://www.mobile01.com/topicdetail.php?f=249&t=1054016&p=5#11990825 (chinese mobile01 forum)

http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mobile01.com%2Ftopicdetail.php%3Ff%3D249%26t%3D1054016%26p%3D5%2347&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&history_state0= (english google translation)

Why is Olympus showing us again the orange mockup? It is time for real images from the real camera!

Thanks Stephen for sending us the link!

http://asia.olympus-imaging.com/products/dslr/special/pen50th/pen/

Ok nice, but dear Oly where are your leaked MicroFourThirds images?

Thanks Mike for sending the link!

screenshot from Amateur Photographer UK

Many Thanks!