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<\/img>\n <\/p>\nDue out at the end of June, the Olympus E-P5 features a 16-million-pixel TruePic VI Live MOS imaging sensor and a claimed top shutter speed of 1\/8000sec – trumpeted as a world first for a CSC.<\/p>\n
It also incorporates Wi-Fi connectivity, for sharing images online and to allow photographers to control camera functions such as shutter speed and AF remotely via an Apple or Android smartphone.<\/p>\n
\u2018To mark the 50th anniversary of the famous Pen F, we wanted a more distinctively retro concept,’ said Olympus UK in a statement, adding that its launch triggered a \u2018revolution’.<\/p>\n
\u2018Instead of spending a year’s wages on a clunky camera, 1960s consumers could get a portable Pen F with interchangeable lenses for no more than they earned in a month.<\/p>\n
\u2018Fifty years on, the E-P5 looks to honour the Pen F tradition with the same sloping lines, elegant Olympus lettering and “step-down” front profile.’<\/p>\n
The E-P5 will cost \u00a3899.99 body only. It will also be available in a \u00a3999.99 kit that includes a 14-42mm lens; and for \u00a31,349.99 in an outfit that combines a 17mm f\/1.8 prime lens and VF-4 (2.36-million-dot resolution) EVF.<\/p>\n
Functions include five-axis image stabilisation, a claimed 9fps burst rate, focus peaking (when manual focus assist is deployed) and 12 art filters.<\/p>\n
Photographers will have the option of adding a wooden grip in one of three styles.<\/p>\n
To aid handling, the E-P5 features two dials and a switch mounted \u2018within easy reach’ on the back and top of the camera.<\/p>\n
Launched in 1963, as the first half-frame system SLR, the Pen F featured a porro-prism finder and a rotary titanium shutter. On its website, Olympus says the shutter combined \u2018speed with durability’. <\/p>\n
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\n OLYMPUS\u2019S retro crusade looks set to continue with the classically styled Pen E-P5. The soon-to-be-launched compact system camera (CSC) aims to \u2018pay homage\u2019 to what the firm lauds as a 1960s collectors item, the Pen F.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":9737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"product-category":[],"class_list":["post-9736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
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