From the Manufacturer
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A new era of digital imaging begins with the Olympus E-P1. The
world’s smallest 12.3-megapixel interchangeable lens system
camera blends the high-quality still images of a digital single
lens reflex (DSLR) with High Definition (HD) video, stereo Linear
PCM audio and In-Camera Creativity within an
ultra-portable body. The easy-to-use E-P1 expands your creative
horizons and its diverse multimedia features offer something for
everyone. Built for today’s visual generation who lead active
lives online and offline, the E-P1 will make you rethink what you
can do with a camera.
Capture More of the Life You Live
Shooting spontaneous images of your daily life usually means
snapping small, grainy images with your cell phone or using a
point-and-shoot if it’s handy. A DSLR delivers incredible image
quality, but most aren’t compact enough to roam with you. Now,
the E-P1 changes the game with a compact body that delivers the
professional quality images of a DSLR without the bulk. Moreover,
its sharp HD video capture and stereo audio helps you live a
better-documented life because you’re carrying one portable
camera rather than a DSLR, an HD camcorder and a high-end audio
device.
You can share more of your life with the world when the E-P1
travels with you. Make your Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube,
Twitter and personal blog postings unique by capturing and
sharing more videos and photos. You can chronicle more of the
life you actually lead, rather than just special occasions you
prepare for, like weddings, holidays and birthday parties. Since
it’s the only camera to offer in-camera art filters for both
still photography and videos with high-end audio, even your
everyday activities will look and sound amazing!
Beautifully Designed Stainless-Steel Body
The new camera’s high-end, stainless-steel body is easy to
handle and carry, and has the styling and refinement of a
precision watch. Its retro-chic look turns heads, from tech
aficionados and camera buffs to the fashion-conscious and
everyday point-and-shooter. Built to be solid, it fits
comfortably in a jacket pocket or a handbag for a night on the
town, or to take on any spontaneous adventure. The E-P1 lets you
do more and go more places while capturing your life, thanks to
its compact size--4.75 x 2.75 x 1.43 inches (W x H x D)--and
light 11.8-ounce body. Attention to detail is visible in every
aspect of the camera’s retro-style metal body design, available
in either silver or white with accompanying new small and
lightweight Olympus M. ZUIKO Micro Four Thirds lenses: 14-42mm
f3.5-5.6 (28-84mm equivalent) and 17mm f2.8 (34mm equivalent).
The new E-P1 offers many great features derived from the
E-System, as well as many breakthrough innovations, including:
* Superior DSLR Image Quality
* In-body Image Stabilization
* Amazing 3-inch LCD
* Proven Dust Reduction System
* 12 megapixels with next-generation TruePic V
* HD video with high-quality audio
* In-camera creative features (for still images and video)
* Multiple exposures
* Multi-aspect shooting
* Multimedia slideshows
* Digital leveler
* Magnified focus assist
* 18x18 metering modes Olympus E-P1 Highlights and Features
Ultra-Compact Body Delivers Superior DSLR Image Quality
The E-P1 erases all doubts about whether a compact camera can
take images that are equal to those taken by a DSLR, because it
has everything you need to produce vibrant DSLR-quality images: a
large 12.3-megapixel imager, In-body Image Stabilization, fast
Imager Autofocus, the proven Olympus Dust Reduction System and
the new TruePic V Image Processor.
As the first Micro Four Thirds camera from Olympus, the E-P1
provides the same image quality as current Four Thirds format
E-System cameras because it has the same image sensor size as the
E-30 and E-620 DSLR models, but in a much smaller body. This
high-performance 12.3-megapixel Live MOS image sensor delivers
excellent dynamic range, accurate color fidelity, and a
state-of-the-art amplifier circuit to reduce noise and capture
fine image details in both highlight and shadow areas.
Be a Mover, Not a Shaker
Any lens attached to the E-P1 will deliver blur-free images
thanks to three modes of In-body Image Stabilization that
compensate for up to four steps EV (exposure value). Mechanical
Image Stabilization works to automatically compensate for camera
shake in low light or when using a telephoto lens. And because
the E-P1 is the world’s smallest interchangeable lens camera with
built-in Image Stabilization, you’ll feel comfortable taking it
on the road with you to capture the action.
Small Real Estate with an Amazing 3-Inch LCD View
What you see on the new camera’s 100 percent accurate, 3-inch
full color HyperCrystal LCD is what you get. Photographers
accustomed to composing and focusing using a point-and-shoot
camera’s LCD will appreciate that the E-P1 offers the same easy,
seamless experience when shooting still images or videos. With
the new Live Control function, icons appear on the LCD, making it
easy to compose, edit and shoot pictures or videos without
stopping to access various menus. The E-P1’s fast Imager
Autofocus in Live View also enables you to compose, focus and
capture the quickly and easily without ever taking your eyes
off the large LCD.
The LCD displays 230,000 pixels in vivid color and includes
HyperCrystal technology, which offers many times the contrast of
conventional LCD monitors for easier viewing in both preview and
playback. It also provides a wide viewing angle of 176 degrees,
which ensures that images can be composed from even the most
obscure angles.
This Camera Leaves Others in the Dust
You don’t have to waste precious time worrying about dust
ruining the perfect image; instead, spend more of that time
shooting with the E-P1. The proven Olympus Dust Reduction System
produces spot-free photos with the exclusive Supersonic Wave
Filter, a patented ultrasonic technology that vibrates to remove
dust and other particles from the front of the image sensor,
capturing it on a special adhesive membrane every time the camera
is turned on.
Unleash 12 Million Pixels on Your Canvas
The E-P1’s Live MOS image sensor is complemented by Olympus’
next-generation TruePic V Image Processor, which produces clear
and colorful photos using all the pixel information for each
image to provide the best digital images possible. The new image
processor is noted for accurate natural color, true-to-life
tones, brilliant blue skies and precise tonal expression; it also
lowers image noise in photos at higher ISO settings (ISO 100
to an incredible ISO 6400), enabling great results in low-light
situations.
What Will You Create with In-Camera Creativity in HD?
Olympus pioneered easy-to-use Art Filters for still images
captured inside its E-System DSLRs, and now those same In-Camera
Creative Features are built into the E-P1 with a fresh
twist--they can also be applied to High Definition video
s to take your videos to a new level of creative
expression and put you in the director’s chair.
Your movies and YouTube videos will have the incredible clarity
of HD whether Art Filters are applied or not. Just imagine how
dramatic and unique your videos will appear with any one of the
six in-camera Art Filters applied as effects: Pop Art, Soft
Focus, Pale & Light Color, Light Tone, Grainy Film or Pin Hole.
Whether you’re a videographer, documentarian or established
director--or just want to shoot like one--Art Filters set your
images and videos apart from the pack. Since they’re built into
the camera, you can achieve dramatic results on the go without
needing a computer or editing software.
Because the E-P1 is an interchangable lens system camera you
have more creative options in composition for video capture, to
add to your visual palette. You can attach any one of the new
super-compact Micro Four Thirds lenses or, because the camera can
accept all other Four Thirds Format lenses with an available
MMF-1 Four Thirds System Lens Adapter, you can add anything from
an extreme wide-angle fisheye lens to a super telephoto lens for
a wide range of expressive options. All the while you will have
more DSLR-like control over depth of field, focus, white balance
and ISO.
What You See Is What You Get
When viewing the LCD in Live View, Art Filter effects and
settings like white balance and exposure are viewable right on
the LCD, and their impact is seen instantly on the display. This
real-time monitoring offers amazing versatility and creative
control, and users who apply a setting have instant gratification
because what they see on the camera’s LCD is what they’ve
captured. For musicians used to applying audio effects like
reverb to their instruments before them, the concept of
setting the E-P1 to capture precisely the kind of image they want
before they press the shutter makes perfect sense. For imaging
purists who want to shoot without filters, and apply them to
unfiltered images inside the camera later, or just edit images
back at their computers, the E-P1 provides these options and
opens more in-the-field creative possibilities.
Mix It Up with Multiple Exposures
With the E-P1’s Multiple Exposure function available for still
image capture you are free to tell a visual story your way,
whether in a portrait, a landscape or a combination of both. The
image capture options allow you to shoot one , then another
and combine them in real time, or capture both s separately
and combine them in the camera later. Overlay your face on top of
your pet’s face. Create an "identical twin" of yourself. Put the
moon in the sky at noon. Your ability to manipulate space and
time makes this new creative multimedia device a veritable time
machine.
Frame Your Works of Art Inside the E-P1
You can often achieve greater photographic expression by framing
a scene in a unique way. The E-P1 provides four aspect ratios
that serve as s to frame your image to the desired
proportions, including: the standard 4:3 aspect ratio that is
perfectly suited to an 8 x 10-inch ment; the 16:9 aspect
ratio that will display your images beautifully on a widescreen
television; and other popular aspect ratios such as 3:2 and 6:6.
The Multi-Aspect Shooting further expresses your creative vision
when combined with Art Filters and multiple exposures.
Stereo Audio Sounds As Good As the E-P1 Images Look
Like the innovative Olympus LS-10 portable audio
device that puts the power of a studio in your pocket,
the E-P1 features uncompressed 24 bit/96kHz Linear PCM
capability to capture the rich sound quality of your scene. When
you shoot with the E-P1, it’s like having a sound technician
built into your camera to capture the nuances of the audio
happening all around you. It has the versatility to record and
play back in the WAV format and records with its built-in stereo
microphones. Whether audio while shooting a video or
adding audio by a narration to your still images, the
E-P1’s audio sounds as great as its images look.
Create Your Own Multimedia Slideshows with Stills, Video and
Audio Inside E-P1
Content is king, and with the E-P1 you have your own portable
kingdom of still images, HD video, and audio to remix at your
command. In playback mode you can seamlessly mix stills and
movies inside the camera to create a multimedia slideshow and dub
in one of five built-in dramatic background music options to
provide a soundtrack for your cinematic creation. Plug the E-P1
into any HD television with an HDMI cable and show off your
masterpieces to your audience before the DVD arrives in stores.
As Easy to Use As a Point-and-Shoot with SLR-Quality
Technologies
The E-P1 is equipped with 19 automatic scene modes for
effortless picture taking. Standard scene modes like Night-Scene,
Portrait and Landscape are easy-to-use solutions for everyday
shooting. Capturing beautiful portraits is easy with the new
ePortrait Mode. It enables you to smooth your subject’s face--all
in the camera and before capture! Additionally, edits can be made
post-capture using the ePortrait Fix mode.
Shooting scenes with both highlights and shadows can often be
dicey because of the extreme contrast between dark and bright
areas. The E-P1 addresses this challenge with Shadow Adjustment
Technology that adjusts for extreme light variations and
maintains visible detail in both the shadow and highlight areas
of the scene. Now users can see and preview the gradation on the
Live View LCD and capture images showing the shadow detail they
saw. This feature is also accessible in the Edit menu after the
has been taken.
The E-P1’s Face Detection reduces the chance of blurred subjects
in images by recognizing up to eight people’s faces and the
background, tracking the faces within the image area, even if
people are moving, and automatically focusing and optimizing
exposure for sharp, brilliant portrait pictures (ideal for large
family or party group photos).
If you don’t want to change camera settings every time you’re
shooting something different, then the E-P1’s Intelligent Auto
Mode is for you. It automatically identifies what you are
shooting (Portrait, Landscape, Night + Portrait, Macro, Sports)
and adjusts settings to capture the best result depending on the
situation. First-time users will enjoy this quick and hassle-free
feature, which does the thinking for them and produces incredible
images like a pro.
The New Super Control Panel with Live Control technology, along
with the camera’s intuitive button layout, enables you to see
both the image and the controls on the 3-inch HyperCrystal LCD,
making the camera simple to use. The E-P1 records to SDHC media
cards to accommodate large files including videos with In-Camera
Creative Features and uncompressed audio.
Digital Leveler
The E-P1 is equipped with an internal Digital Level Sensor that
detects the camera’s pitch and roll and indicates it on the
control panel. This Digital Leveler is a tremendous benefit when
capturing landscapes. Level the perfect coastline on your
next tropical vacation without being tethered to a computer and
editing software.
Magnified Focus Assist
To enable accurate manual focusing the E-P1 provides MF Assist
Function and Magnification Display. In S-AF + MF or MF, the MF
assist enables you to zoom up the central part of the image by up
to 5 times by turning the focus ring. The Magnification Display
lets you magnify the image on the LCD by up to 7x at the touch of
a button. Additionally, if you use the dial, you can boost
magnification all the way up to 10x for more precise manual
focusing.
18x18 Metering Modes
This mode divides the image area into an 18 x 18 grid, metering
each of the 324 separate cells to obtain optimum exposure. In
addition to 324-division ESP metering, center-weighted metering
and spot metering modes are also available.
Smaller Accessories for Small Camera
In addition to the new Micro Four Thirds lenses, Olympus also
offers an optional Clip-on Optical Viewfinder for use with the
Micro Four Thirds 17mm f2.8 (34mm equivalent) lens. The MMF-1
Four Thirds System Lens Adapter enables all Olympus ZUIKO Digital
lenses as well as Four Thirds System lenses from Sigma, Panasonic
and Leica lenses to attach to the E-P1. If you have Olympus OM
lenses and want to attach them to the E-P1, that is possible with
the MF-2 OM Lens Adapter. Additionally, an optional FL-14 flash
unit, suitably small for the camera, adds more lighting
versatility to your s.
Olympus Master 2 Software
Use the included Olympus Master 2 software (Mac and PC) to
easily download images from the camera or other external device,
such as a USB drive, and automatically organize them into albums
and groups and by date. Develop high-quality RAW images, apply
Art Filter effects, edit and print images. Update camera and lens
firmware through the software and download additional menu
languages. A direct link makes uploading your images and videos
to YouTube easier than ever.
Olympus Studio 2 (Trial Edition Included)
Extend the capability of Olympus Master 2 with Olympus Studio 2.
In addition to the functions of Olympus Master 2, this software
includes a lightbox mode and selection marks for comparing and
sorting multiple images. RAW processing is enhanced with
additional controls for finer adjustments. The trial edition can
be used for 30 days after installation. After the trial period
has expired, a license key is required for further use.
What's in the Box* PEN digital camera
* Li-ion battery BLS-1
* Li-ion battery charger BCS-1
* USB/Video Multi cable
* Shoulder strap
* OLYMPUS Master CD-ROM
* Instruction manual
* Warranty card
- 12.3-megapixel interchangeable lens digital camera; Micro Four Thirds format.
- Body only; lenses sold separately.
- In-body Image Stabilization; 3-inch HyperCrystal LCD with Live View function.
- Record HD video with high-quality audio; in-camera creative features (for still images and video).
- Capture images and video to SD/SDHC memory cards (not included).