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Oooh! Fantastic! i am so excited!

Here is the google translation.

Product Description:

Olympus E-P1 is a compatible at the micro 4 / 3 System standard for digital camera lens. “Olympus Pen” name comes from the legendary Olympus Semilattice film cameras, in the October 1959 release quickly swept the world, the global total of 1,700 million units sold, and continued around the world people brought the joy of photography. New products we have decided to give the same product name, because it will be a new camera to reduce the size of the original Pen and convenient in terms of the same ground-breaking achievements to digital SLR photography, and fashion design at the same time a classic display of their charm. This name expresses our commitment to make as many people as possible can experience the real fun photographic pursuit.

As a result of the micro 4 / 3 System standard, this camera the abolition of the traditional SLR mirror box design, which greatly reduces the camera size, and high-performance and high image quality, such as the advantages of traditional single-lens reflex camera is in no way lower. Olympus E-P1 has a beautiful body and the metal texture to express the originality of the “OLYMPUS PEN” by emitting a series of cameras, high-quality design features and superb technology.

More user-friendly easy to shoot, Olympus E-P1 is also a very special additional features and utility of the i-Auto Intelligent Auto-priority mode, it can automatically assess the scene and set up the best scene mode accordingly.

E-P1 is equipped with a 1,230-megapixel Live MOS sensor and high-speed research and development of new image processing engine TruePic V to provide the previous single-lens reflex cameras only to achieve the high-definition images. In addition, the HD can record 720p high-definition video. The camera also offers stereo linear PCM format audio recording capability, the real effect of the realization of high-definition audio and video synchronization, so that more professional high-definition filming. In addition, the art filter function – used to add exciting image filter effects. At the same time, the dynamic can be applied to video and still images, which greatly enrich and expand the creative expression of the user space.

Olympus E-P1 will attract the birth of a wide range of user groups, not only for beginners can be used as the entry-level digital SLR cameras, and can be used as a high-level enthusiasts and professional photographers the backup camera.

Looks like a solid camera! Yeah, what is up with the tiny, bad views, highly compressed photos. Either someone is photoshopping these and then hiding the flaws by compression or resolution reduction or Olympus wants to build up the hype without spoiling the surprise.

Here is the link to the original Japanese blog entry :

http://www.yourdigi.com/web/products/dc/olympus/20090611/24,6038,0.htm

Any Japanese language gurus around here?

I want one NOW!

Looks and feels kinda fake to me. 1) The EVF looked like it’s popped out and judging from the design of the camera body, the body seemed kinda thin and tiny for that bulk to be hiddeb in it, which really looked suspicious to me. 2) The tiny image, it makes this piece of info even more doubtful. 3) TruePic V processor <- so they skipped Truepic IV naming convention totally [E30/E620 were using Truepic III+ processor]

I would love to translate it for you….but the original page seems to have disappeared!

For original chinese article , you could refer to:
http://forum.xitek.com/showthread.php?threadid=628866
There’s a copy.

it looks better than I was worried about, but, style wise, it’s not a camera for the ages. I appreciate that Oly is doing this, but I’m still on the fence. I can’t wait for the unveil, and then being able to hold it in my hands. I do like how the zoom lens is very compact. I was worried about that. why have such a small camera and then a big lens like the G1 GH1. now… who ever makes the first fast prime lens will get my money.