Olympus releasing new Micro Four Thirds models?

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Olivier Laurent

Last year, BJP revealed images of Olympus' first Micro FourThirds prototype. The camera uses a new concept developed in collaboration with Panasonic delivering all the advantages of a digital SLR camera, but in a compact body – by doing away with a camera's mirrorbox.

Now, rumours have it that Olympus is days (or weeks) away from officially announcing its first two Micro FourThirds models. According to EnGadget, which cites a Russian source, the M-1 and M-100 are 'about the size of a bulky point-and-shoot, with the former boasting a 3.2-inch LCD monitor and HD video capture'.

Now, we have to wait and see... but such cameras could prove very attractive to professional users looking for a high-quality compact that can be fitted with third-party lenses (using an adapter).

See our review of the world's first Micro FourThirds camera – the Panasonic G1.

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The interesting aspect of Micro FourThirds is that you can adapt high quality lenses from Leica or Zeiss. There are also several adapters for third party lenses available from a company called novoflex in germany. So you can adapt lenses from Canon, Pentax, Minolta, Leica R and others as you can see here: http://www.forum-fourthirds.de/news/431-neue-novoflex-adapter-canon-minolta-leica-r-uvm.html

Posted by: Franz on 06 Feb 2009 at 16:50

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