"Pen Lite" equipped with a reverse liquid crystal monitor and "Pen mini" enabled touch operation Practical photo review

OlympusPhotokinaMirrorless camera middle class machine equipped with 16.55 million pixel Live MOS sensor equivalent to the company 's high - end model "OM - D E - M5" and an image processing engine "TruePic VI" making it possible to shoot with ISO 25600PEN Lite E-PL 5"And the introductory machine's"PEN min E-PM 2We announced.

The exhibition booth looks like this.


◆PEN Lite (pen light) E-PL 5

The appearance of "PEN Lite" is as follows.



The main body size is 110.5 × height 63.7 × thickness 38.2 mm, weight including the battery and recording medium is about 279 g. It is equipped with COMS sensor with effective pixel number of 1.605 million equipped with 2 axis sensor shift type camera shake correction function and supports movie shooting at 1920 x 1080 (30p).


The lens mount adopts the micro Four Thirds method.


It actually looks like this.



The side is like this.



On the top is equipped hot shoe, mode dial, shutter button, power button.



Bottom side.


On the back is a 3-inch liquid crystal display (460,000 dots).


You can also touch the shutter by focusing.


Since it can be tilted downward about 65 degrees, you can see the live view screen firmly when you extend your hand and shoot from high angle.


Furthermore, when you do "self-shooting" shooting yourself with a camera yourself, you can transform it into a "reverse liquid crystal monitor" state that allows you to shoot with the display facing the same direction as the lens.


Looking from the front like this.


Actually, use the camera as follows.


In addition, the release schedule in Japan is from the beginning of October 2012, and the estimated actual price of only the body is around 62,200 yen.

◆PEN mini (pen mini) E-PM 2

The entry of the PEN series - the appearance of "PEN mini" to be the model is as follows.



The main body size is width 109.8 × height 64.2 × thickness 33.8 mm, including battery and recording medium Weight is about 269 g.


It is equipped with COMS sensor with the effective pixel number of 1. 160 thousand equipped with the same two-axis sensor shift type camera shake correction function as "PEN Lite", and it is possible to shoot movies at 1920 x 1080 (30 p).


I tried to remove the lens.


side.




Looking from above it looks like this.


The back has a 3 inch liquid crystal display (460,000 dots), but the big difference from "PEN Lite" is that the display is fixed type.


It corresponds to focusing and shutter operation by touch.


The release schedule in Japan is late October, and the estimated actual price of only the body is around 45,000 yen.