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UPDATED-> Short Olympus E-P1 spec list

Still no official Olympus announcements but I believe these will be the specifications of the E-P1:

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Body type: interchangable lens, consumer grade camera
DSLR: 4/3 system
Manual Mode: Full Manual Mode
Sensor: vertical/horizonta ratiol 1.33 (4:3), SSWF dust reduction system
Effective Pixel: 12.3 MP
Maxi Definiton: 4032*3024
Image type: Raw 4032*3024, Jpg 4032*3024 – 640*480
Imagine: TruePic III+

Optical zoom: -
Digital zoom: -

Focus mode: high speed AF (ps. I wonder is means phase detection ?) (when used with non High speed AF lens, it will work as AF assist)

S-AF, C-AF, MF, S-AF + MF
C-AF can’t be used under high speed AF
11 foucs points, auto select or manual select
no AF assist lamp unless an external flash is attached
AF lock – half press shutter release button ( AEL/ AFL customizable)
image magnifying function when manual lens is used (focus ring is turned)

LCD

3′, 100% coverage, 15 steps of brightness control, 15 steps of colour temp control

shutter
electronic focal plain shutter
shutter speed
Auto mode
60- 1/4000s
30 mins in B mode (default is 8 mins)
(1/3, 1/2, 1 EV step increment)

Flash
external flash connected with hotshoe
supports FL-50Rã€FL-36Rã€FL-50ã€FL-20ã€FL-14
Flash mode
TTL auto, auto, manual, FP-TTL-Auto, FP-manual
extenal flash mode

Auto, red eye reduction, red eye reduction with slow curtain, 1 curtain slow sync,

2 curtain slow sync, fill flash, manual 1/4 1/16 1/64, off
x-speed 1/180 of lower
flash compensation
Max +3EV (0.3, 0.5, or 1 EV increment)
flash bracket
3 frames (0.3, 0.5, or 1 EV increment)

Exposure control
1 Auto
2 P mode (adjustable)
3 A mode
4 S mode
5 M mode
6 Scene mode
7 Art filet
Auto exposure lock
Exposure Bracket
3 frames (0.3, 0.5, 0.7 or 1 EV increment)

Exposure compensation
+3 EV (1/3 1/2 1 EV increment)

Metering
1 324 zones ESP metering
2 center weight
3 spot
4 hi light
5 shadow
ranger 0-18 EV (normal temp, 50mm F2, ISO 100)

White balance
high speed Live mos
8 presets, 3000k – 14000K
1 custom
one touch wb
WB bracket
3 frames, R-B. G-M 2/4/6 step increment

ISO
Auto 200 – 3200
M mode 100-6400
(1/3 EV increment)

High ISO Yes

Image stablizaion
internal Optical IS with 3 modes,
custom mode to support legacy lens
Max 4 EV compensation
Electronic IS for Movie mode

Scene mode
portrait, perfect portrait, landscape, landscape + people
sports, night scene, night scene with people, children
hi key, low key, DIS mode, marco, natural marco, candle light, sunset
document, panorama, fireworks, beach and snow

self timer
12 or 2 s

Burst mode
3 FPS
Max 14 Raw
Jpg depends on compress rate and no. of shots
(LN mode with toshiba super class 6 4GB card can shoot about 280 frames

colour mode
vivid, natural, soft, portrait, monochrome, custom(default is natural)
5 steps of contrast and sharpness control for each mode
5 steps of saturation control for vivid, natural, soft, portrait modes
4 steps of gray scale control in custom mode

Art filter
can apply yellow, orange, red, green filter in Monochrome mode
LCD can show monochrome mode (PS no sure what it means)

Movie mode
HD:1280 x720(V)16ï¼š9
SDï¼š640ï¼ˆHï¼‰x480ï¼ˆVï¼‰4ï¼š3ï¼ˆVGAï¼‰
Max record time HD:7mins SD:14mins

Colour space
sRGB, Adobe RGB

User interface
34 languages

Mic/speaker
mute/ volume controllable

Print mode
Pict Bridge

Editing funtions
Raw Edit (I think it mean Raw development)
Jpg Edit: Auto gray scale, monochrome, sepia, red eye reduction, saturation
resize, crop, image ratio, perfect portrait

replay mode

single frame, information(histogram, brightness, RGB, highlight/shadow, AF area, EXIF), index (4/9/16/25/49/100 frames a time), calendar,

close up (2-14x), rotate, movie (with sound, fast forward, backward, pause), slideshow

delete mode
single frame, all frames, selected frames (with frame protection function)

Medium
SD/ SDHC

File Format
12 bit Raw, jpg, Raw + jpg, AVI motion jpg 30 fps

Terminals
USB 2.0
USB multi purpose output
MiniHDMI type-C(1080i/720p/576p/480p)

Power
BLS-1 Li-ion battery, around 350 frames per charge

Exterior (information for general consumers, u can ignore them)
light weight, no
slim body, no
large LCD

Others
dimension 120.5*70.0*35.0mm
weight 335g body only

Remote control RM-UC1, which can control the B shutter
shake reduction (1/8 to 30s)

2 My modes
Sleep mode. 1, 3, 5, 10 mins

Art filter
soft, pinhole, Grainy Film, Light Tone, Pale Light&Color, Pop Art

Multiple exposure
2 frames, auto gain control, real time, expose on a ready exist frame

Image ratio
4:3ã€3:2ã€16:9ã€6:6
when shoot in raw, image ratio is recorded in EXIF

2 axis leveling on LCD display

Liveview

Face detection

grid line assist

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First picture taken with the E-P1???

Click on picture to enlarge!

More here: http://dcdv.zol.com.cn/137/1373593.html

Panasonic 20mm 1.7 lens to be launched in autumn?

More leaks

Bill

3 years ago | Reply

more:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http://detail.zol.com.cn/194/193758/param.shtml&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com

worrying that it states only electronic IS for video…

Ben

Almost as big as the G1 (a centimetre bigger in two of the three directions). Hmmmm.

Manolito

With that LCD and no optional EVF (ala Ricoh) Olympus can keep ‘my’ camera for themselves (or for any of you ). Obviously the future belongs to Panasonic and Samsung. It’s just a matter of time.

Eric

The photos show E-P1 in the Exif data . Also, there is a ISO 1600 example that doesn’t look bad at all, and the image posted here (as well as one other on the source page are taken with the 50 f2 … niice!

Mike

If the pictures are genuine then the Screen size is less than 3inch.Looks like 2.5′.

Ranger 9

“3-inch” means three-inch diagonal measure. That would be about 2 inches high, which would proportion out just about perfectly to the photos assuming the body-height dimension of 75mm is correct.

What really interests me in the specs is: “Focus mode: high speed AF (ps. I wonder is means phase detection ?)”

If it IS phase detection, it would need a separate sensor somewhere; I can’t think how they could do it off live view because phase detection needs two separate images to compare for in-phase/out-of-phase. (DSLRs have CCD arrays with prisms over them to give two views; the Contax G1 and G2 used separate CCDs looking through external windows.)

So either it’s not phase detection, or else Olympus has thought of something very clever!

Traciatim

@Bill: Who cares if it uses different parts of the sensor to anti-shake in video when you’re only using 7.5% of your sensor in the first place? Why waste the sensor space when you can have nicer video if you use it?

@Ben: 124 x 84 x 45 vs 120.5*70*35 . . . so if by “Almost as big as the G1″ you really meant “The G1 is 58% larger, and the E-P1 has no things sticking out everywhere needlessly just to make it look like something it’s not” then I can see where you’re going with that one.

Honestly, some people complain about everything. Though I am a little disappointed that there is no AF assist lamp, I really rely on mine lots on my current camera. Hopefully low light AF will still work well.

Ed

The last spec’s you had up there listed the 3″ LCD with only 230k resolution. Which is a great disappointment when you are supposed to compose pictures with the LCD. High end P&S are having 460k LCD’s (see LX3 for example).

@Traciatim:
If you’re only using 1MPx in the center of the sensor you’re not going to get shallow DoF and quality wise will get something worse than regular compacts using ccd. Secondly when companies say “electronic IS” they mean simply mean boosting ISO (which the average consumer doesn’t seem to understand). A FEW video cams offer the type IS you talk about but they’re small sensor cameras. This also might point towards the movie mode being only auto and not offering any manual controls.

media monkey

I have spoken to somebody in the photography world who has handled the EP1 and taken pictures. They said that 1600 was a huge (noise-reduced) leap forward for Olympus and they were so impressed that they are going to order one.

He also revealed that there would be 4/3-m4/3 adapters and an OM-m4/3 adapter, but they’ve been leaked now. I expect there’s already been a rush on 50mm 1.4 Zuikos…..

marcram

I too am getting pretty sick of all the negative criticism. Thank you Olympus for giving us a different camera option. Of course this camera could have been better, but I am happy with just about every aspect of it … especially the design. I bet it will be a blast to shoot with and it is apparently dressed up as a fashion accessory, although I know that pisses people here off for some reason. This will be a great little setup for shooting pics in a bar or club with a small external flash that eliminates red eye that would have been unavoidable with a pop-up flash.

This is a different style of camera that is perfect for someone like me who’s best camera so far has been the G10. Hopefully video will be good. The 7 minute limit is not great, but I don’t shoot much longer than that. Lack of extensive video compression will allow smoother editing and uploading to video sharing sites although at the expense of card storage capacity.

As for the plastic lens quality appearance, keep them plastic and sell them cheap!! Looks like a lot of the “classic” M-mount lenses will be perfect on these things.
http://www.cosina.co.jp/seihin/voigt/english/standard-e.html

Agent00soul

“2 axis leveling on LCD display”
Is this the same kind of built-in horizontal level gauge as in the E-30? That would be really cool.

Bu

Where are the fast lenses?

Niko

it’s only a few hours before official release, but for the folks who are still awake: new info from a french website (http://www.numerimatch.com/photo-video/exclusif-premieres-photos-de-l0lympus-pen-e-p1/12652), which also has some truly non-rendered photos. for those not capable of french, some highlights:
- kit price incl zoom lens: 749 eur
- kit price incl. both lenses plus external ovf: 949 eur
- individual lens price: 329 eur
- all metal case
cheers
niko