British Journal of Photography released information about the new Olympus E-P2. It is destined to replace half year old Olympus E-P1. It gets more powerful specs and a big live viewfinder.
Olympus E-P2 specs:
- 12 megapixel
- 8 Art filters (include cross processing and diorama)
- Optional external live viewfinder (1.44 million dots 100% field of view and 90 degree tilt-able)
- Record 720p HD video mode, with stereo sound and an AF live view
- AF tracking
- Black casing
- 460 k dots LCD screen
- Olympus E-P2 Price: $1099 with kit lens
When Olympus E-P1 is released, it excited many people, especially people that have long experience with the original Olympus PEN. It also excited many photo enthusiasts that longed for small compact camera with large image sensor. But E-P1 came out short. When Panasonic came out with their version a few months ago, Panasonic GF1, which has better specs in many aspects, it drove down the E-P1 momentum. Olympus was in huge pressure to comes out with an answer.
E-P2 is essentially Olympus answer to GF1 and its loyal fans concerns. Olympus does the listening. Many people desire black casing, better LCD screen, old school love good external viewfinder and so on. But because E-P2 still using the same body design as E-P1, customers won’t get built-in flash.
One thing that really differentiate Panasonic GF1 and E-P1 is the auto focus speed. If E-P2 address this problem, at least make the AF system faster than 1 sec. Then this might be become successful as E-P1 successor and GF1 competitor.
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