(FT5) First Olympus OM-D leaked image!
As you all know on February 8th Olympus will announce a new line of Micro Four Thirds cameras with the name “OM-D“.The image above is actually the very first image that shows a detail of the camera. This looks super well built with high quality finishes. I hope to get more details/pictures of the rest soon.
Summary of all rumors:
This will be the first digital camera of the prestigious OM series that this year will become 40 years old. The first film camera was the [shoplink 28221 ebay]M-1[/shoplink] (launched in 1972) that was than renamed [shoplink 28222 ebay]OM-1[/shoplink] because Leica put some pressure on Olympus to change the name (to not confuse it with the Leica M-series). A couple of days ago Olympus launched an advertising campaign on Amateur Photographer last page (Click here to see it:http://minus.com/mxvrbfbS1#1). As you see the letter “O” and “M” are in bold! After that we discovered that Olympus registered the “OM-D” name at trademark.markify and the german patent institution (Click here). A Hong Kong invitiation from Olympus said the camera will be announced on February 8th. There is also a “coming soon” message on Olympus website.
I am pretty confident that those will be the specs (expect minor changes only):
– Camera has a classic OM design
– It has a magnesium body
– It is weathers sealed
– weight 373 g (body only).
– 16 megapixel sensor optimized for High Dynamic Range
– 200 up to 25.600 ISO
– Built-in electronic viewfinder 1.44 million dots (positioned in the center of the body like the old OM optical viewfinders and same resolution as the external VF-2 viewfinder (Click here to see on Amazon).
– 610.000 pixel OLED tilting 3 inch screen.
– Five-axis image stabilizer in body.
– FAST AF and 3D tracking
– Comes in Black or Silver.
– Price: Around $1.100 in USA or 1.000 Euro in Europe.
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Here are all the past Olympus OM film cameras:
[shoplink 28221 ebay]M-1[/shoplink]
[shoplink 28222 ebay]OM-1[/shoplink]
[shoplink 28223 ebay]OM-1 MD[/shoplink]
[shoplink 28224 ebay]OM-1N[/shoplink]
[shoplink 28225 ebay]OM-2[/shoplink]
[shoplink 28226 ebay]OM-2N[/shoplink]
[shoplink 28227 ebay]OM-2S/SP[/shoplink]
[shoplink 28228 ebay]OM-3[/shoplink]
[shoplink 28229 ebay]OM-3Ti[/shoplink]
[shoplink 28230 ebay]OM-4[/shoplink]
[shoplink 28231 ebay]OM-4T/Ti black and chrome[/shoplink]
[shoplink 28232 ebay]OM-10[/shoplink]
[shoplink 28233 ebay]OM-20 (OM-G)[/shoplink]
[shoplink 28234 ebay]OM-30(OM-F)[/shoplink]
[shoplink 28235 ebay]OM-40 (OM-PC)[/shoplink]
[shoplink 28236 ebay]OM-77AF (OM-707)[/shoplink]
[shoplink 28237 ebay]OM-88 (OM-101)[/shoplink]
[shoplink 28238 ebay]OM-2000[/shoplink]
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