Latest news:
The E-P2 is going to be announced tomorrow in Asia, it will be very early in the morning in Europe and night in US.
Two more thing…
Olympus will probably release a new lens roadmap.
The japanese leaked specs are not exact.
“The big Olympus news on October 31st was about a new ambassadors for Olympus in Holland – I just learned that today. The announcement of the E-P2 is still expected in the next few days – latest by next week. There is also a possibility for a new tele zoom (40-150) and a macro lens.”
source: photorumors.com
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Two of our trusted sources told us that this specs are close to the real ones but not the exact E-P2 specs! We hope to get the real E-P2 specs soon!
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Just received this from an anonymous sender. I don’t know if this specs are true. He sent me an image of the specs in japanese. Can you help me to translate it?
UPDATE: No one else than Thom Hogan helped me ;) “third item is 3″ 460k dot LCD
seventh item is 3.5-4 fps shooting rate” Thanks!
Also John helped us:
“I think the only improvements are:
1) True Pic V+
2) External EVF 1.44mp
3) 3″ LCD 460k
4) 1080p 30fps
5) Flash Sync 1/180 or 1/250 and below
6) 3.5 ~ 4 fps shooting speed”
Radu added following information:
“Also, it looks it works with Oly RM-1 IR remote control instead of the cable RM-UC-1, and the flash sync has an 1/250s option.”
Price:
E-P2 alone Body / 79,800 yen ($880)
E-P2 kit lens / 89,800 yen ($990)
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Here the english google translation of the official Olympus presentation:
“November 10 2009: Olympus to Release New Pen
Olympus Hong Kong China Limited will hold a conference on Tuesday November 10 2009 at the Pearl Hall of the Hong Kong Eaton Hotel on Olympus’ new Micro FourThirds Pen single-lens digital camera.
The Olympus Pen single-lens digital camera represents a breakthrough from traditional design concepts, removing the reflex mirror and pentaprism and in so doing, creating a more compact footprint not unlike a digital compact camera but with DSLR-type image quality.
Olympus has now improved autofocusing, resulting in faster performance with higher level of accuracy. What we currently have is a new revolutionary digital age combining 100% digital in the imitable style of a classic film-based camera body. And with that, we present a more professional version of the Olympus Pen single-lens digital camera that will be available for members of the media to try out.
We therefore invite you to send your reporters and photographers to attend our conference. The details of this conference are as follows:
Date: Tuesday, November 10 2009
Time: 2:30pm to 5:00pm
Location: Eaton Hotel (Pearl Hall, 2nd Floor), 380 Nathan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Invitation for Members of the Press Only”
http://www.omuser.com/viewthread.php?tid=102778
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UPDATE: One more invitation has been leaked in malaysia: http://lucifer-doom.blogspot.com/2009/11/olympus-pen-gathering-in-malaysia.html
Found here: http://e-p1.net/index.php?topic=891.0
It is probably a fake. The hotshoe is the same as the and the real E-P2 leaked image shows a higher Hotshoe on the E-P2!
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P.S.: Amazon.com has the Panasonic LUMIX G 20mm f/1.7 Lens in Stock!
And also amazon UK has the Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 Lens in Stock!
More photoshopped E-P2 mages are available here: http://informationondigitalcamera.blogspot.com/2009/11/olympus-e-p2-black-body-black-leather.html
I do not have specs and price of the E-P2. But some of my sources told me that the camera will be available in stores on January 2010.
You can see the E-P2 near the ! The E-P2 comes in black!
Google translation of the chinese text:
“* Body jacket CSS-S10BWT (White) CSS-10BBR (Brown) CS-10BBK (black)
White (CS-10BWT) or brown (CS-10BBR) or black (CS-10BBK) three types of options.”
Feel free to post the images on your blog or forum and it would be nice if you put a link on us. And keep following us until the real announcement! Follow us on twitter! Subscribe our RSS feed!
Here the other pictures:
Google translation:
“* Electronic viewfinder VF-2
An external installation, E-P2-specific high-resolution electronic viewfinder, which has 1.44 million pixels, 100% field of vision and 1.15x magnification, while the ultra-high contrast and brightness characteristics of the video camera can even add an external color comparable to the viewfinder. It also provides a refractive adjustment function.
* Can not be installed on the accessory shoe used in conjunction.”
Shoe accessory attachment port and allows you to use the optional stereo microphone to achieve high-quality stereo linear PCM recording.
* Can not be installed on the accessory shoe used in conjunction.“
UPDATE: Olympus sends invitation for a big camera event…in Sweden!
Original swedish Invitation is available here: http://circular.olympus-imaging.eu/
Google translation:
“On Friday, we show a world first.
And you are especially welcome.
Hi all photo interested!
Welcome to the Photo Fair 2009 on 13-15 November at the Stockholm International Fairs.
Time for this year’s event and photos as you like Olympus is particularly welcome! You may be among the first in Europe the chance to see autumn’s big news camera. We offer a pleasant nostalgia. You will meet Sweden’s hottest idol photographer, meets all of our models and compete for great prizes.
See you at the photo exhibition 2009!”
UPDATE2:
Countdown for the Olympus E-P2? http://focus.it168.com/focus/200910/oly_newpen/index.html
Zhou wrote me following text:
“IT168.com is a big website of IT hardware and 3C stuff in China. These days they launch a countdown with Olympus of Oly’s NEW PRODUCT ON M4/3 SYSTEM! On the page the draft picture is an estimated one of the new m4/3 camera. The unveiled date will be NOV. 6th. ”
UPDATE3:
Upsized photo.
UPDATE4:
Olympus E-P2 announcement expected on Thursday 5 November (we are still waiting for some 100% proove of it).
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