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d2creative · 06-16-2009, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Pascal

I wouldn't say the Digital PEN is DOA. In fact, I think it will do better than the rest of the Olympus or Panasonic Lineup. This is the first of a series of sub-compact micro 4/3rds to be released.

If you look at the sample images on DPreview, ISO 1600-ISO3200 is quite usable. ISO 800 is good as is without noise reduction. This coupled with the size, lenses, etc. can make this a much wanted product.

Agreed on the pricing - it is a bit high - then again this is MSRP and the product usually sells for less than that in a few months once the market has saturated. Any new product has to cover initial R&D costs.

And NO... this is not supposed to replace your D700's or 1Ds camera's - Olympus has not geared this product to compete at that level. However, it will kill any hopes Sigma may have had for the DP series and push the P&S market to provide for better G10's or Coolpix cameras at a much lower price.

The big drawbacks for me are the low resolution LCD display - Olympus has plagued itself on it's entire product line with this and doesn't seem to want to improve the LCD to 920k and the fact that there is no viewfinder are bothersome. Apart from that, I can see nothing that would kill this camera.

If Nikon or Canon had released this camera, I am sure the views would be slightly different. In fact, I think this little camera makes more sense than a Leica and it's overpriced lenses do in today's market.

This is pretty much my feelings on the subject.
It ain't perfect, but it looks better than anything else that's available.
Hopefully this is just another stepping stone to get what we as photographers really want.