{"id":1122,"date":"2009-05-07T04:40:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T18:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2009-05-07T06:09:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T20:09:57","slug":"olympus-announce-their-1st-revolutionary-micro-four-thirds-camera-will-be-available-mid-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=1122","title":{"rendered":"Olympus announce their 1st revolutionary Micro Four Thirds camera will be available mid 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympus has placed a teaser on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympus.co.uk\/cameras\/?_s_icmp=oukprod001\">websites<\/a> indicating that their 1st revolutionary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photo\/photo_43rdMicro.htm\">Micro Four Thirds camera<\/a> will be available in the northern hemisphere Summer (mid-2009) and you can sign up to be emailed when it is announced.<\/p>\n<p>Will it be like the Panasonic G1 or video-enabled like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=885\">GH-1<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I am willing to bet that unlike the Panasonic&#8217;s optical lens-based image stabiliser, it will have a built-in image stabiliser, and it is likely to have the E-620 style flip out LCD and art filters and 12mp sensor.<\/p>\n<p>Will it have the Panasonic electronic viewfinder, or will it have a rangefinder-like optical viewfinder?<\/p>\n<p>How revolutionary will it be given that Panasonic GH-1 is quite revolutionary already being the only still camera with interchangeable lenses which is optimised for video with autofocus &#8211; and face recognition to boot?<\/p>\n<p>I just hope they bring out a wide aperture portrait lens such as a 50mm f\/2 macro designed to work with contrast detect AF, as then, that is about all I would need with Panasonic&#8217;s 14-140mm and 7-14mm lens, although a sharp 16mm f\/2 or f\/2.8 lens optimised for street photography (giving 32mm eq. focal length and with easy to read focus distance for zone focusing) would be nice.<\/p>\n<p>The rumours at <a href=\"http:\/\/43rumors.com\/tag\/m43\/\">43rumors.com<\/a> suggest the Olympus MFT camera will be 12mp with built-in IS, with Leica m like shape, no built-in flash and a 17mm f\/2.8 lens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympus has placed a teaser on their websites indicating that their 1st revolutionary Micro Four Thirds camera will be available in the northern hemisphere Summer (mid-2009) and you can sign up to be emailed when it is announced. Will it be like the Panasonic G1 or video-enabled like the GH-1? I am willing to bet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[18,14],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras","category-photography","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-olympus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}