Four-Thirds Tag

It’s here: all the jealousy, envy, and desire Olympus warned us about. The new Olympus E-P1 is a micro four-thirds digital camera with funky retro styling, modelled on the Olympus Pen series (launched in the 1959).

Those of you who endeavour to keep abreast of photographic news, gossip and technological developments will not have failed to miss the tantalising teaser campaign from Olympus over the past weeks. But just what is under that slightly naughty looking, red satin cloth…

The Panasonic Lumix G1 is a new 12.1 megapixel digital SLR which uses a 4/3rds ratio sensor. The Lumix G1 features a high-resolution electronic Live View Finder (LVF), 3 inch tilt-swivel LCD screen, integrated sensor cleaning and contrast autofocus. The contrast autofocus provides face detection whilst using the camera in intelligent auto (iA) mode, which is now a widespread feature in many compact digital cameras.