We begin linking you the E-P1 image samples shown by digicamreview. And this is not the only page showing image samples!

Go here

and here

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Le monde de la photo a french online magazine posted a new Interview with the CEO of Olympus.

http://www.lemondedelaphoto.com/Entre-chat-a-propos-de-l-Olympus,2341.html

There are not many news just follwing minor indications over the next E-P2 camera:

It will have an electronic viewfinder and faster AF and  not get any bigger in size than E-P1

I could not imagine a E-P1 sized camera with EVF.

Brian Mosley from Photo Safari Group had the chance to play with the E-P1 for one week. You can read his experiences here.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1022&message=32258456&changemode=1

In short:

-It’s a camera you’d want to wear in public – I don’t have that feeling for my G1.

– Both kit lenses are lightweight, well made plastic construction… optically the 14-42 has the edge for sharpness, but the 17mm f2.8 is so much more fun, low profile and I love the 35mm FOV.

– Olympus seem to have revisited the colour/tone curve since the E-30/E-620 – the darker areas seem richer – I think it’s a marked improvement.

– autofocus not that bad

-very accurate metering

– The E-P1 is softer and lighter sounding than the G1… perhaps 50% to 75% the volume of the G1.

And a lot more to read here: http://www.ukphotosafari.org/e-p1-diary-index/

Something else, look at this beatiful “red” E-P1!

click on picture to enlarge!

Noisycameras made a Canon-Nikon-Leica trendspotting based on tumble. We made it better by adding Olympus and Panasonic. In the chart above you see what people is searching for in the tumble blog network. Olympus had his moment of glorious around June 16th.

Then I tried to add the “E-P1” search term and here are the results:

But of course the most complete trends are the one coming from google:

The “A” marks the E-P1 release day.

I suggest Olympus to release a camera every month in order to reach the canon search volume :)

Olympus has announced a firmware update for its new Pen camera that will allow the device to operate more effectively with the following MFT lenses from Panasonic:
-Panasonic LUMIX G VARIO 14-140mm f/4.0-5.8
-Panasonic LUMIX G VARIO 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6
The firmware update for Panasonic’s 14-140mm MFT “superzoom” increases overall performance stability between body and lens.

Similarly, the 14-45mm firmware update improves auto focus performance for still and movie recording, improves the stability of optical image stabilization during movie recording and decreases audible noise while adjusting the aperture while movie recording.

source: digitalcamerareview

Finally someone got his and uploaded the pictures of the unboxing ritual. Can’t wait to live the same experience!
Take a look here to see more pictures.

Two different sources confirmed us that Leica won’t make any MicroFourThirds camera…for now! But “it seems” ;) they made an agreement with Panasonic to develop special MicroFourThirds lenses. Both sources told us this lenses will be very expensive….surprise surprise :)
Do we have some timeline? Yes Q4 2009 or Q1 2010 you will see the first Leica MFT lens
Do we know wich kind of lens Leica will offer us at first? No! But you know we are working on it…

UPDATE: One more (and new) source confirms that Leica will make few (expensive) MFT lenses. (FT3) Timeline: between November 2009 and March 2010 Leica should release the first prime lens.

P.S.: This last update cost me a very good deal in ebay. I received the email from the new source 5 minutes before the end of the ebay bid. I have been so excited that I answered him but not quick enough to go back to ebay and place my offer :(