Olympus has today announced a new Four Thirds standard entry-level DSLR with features and price that would put smiles on many fans’ faces. The E-620 packed many of the features from E-30, which included the newly developed 12.3 MP “Live MOS” image sensor and a 2.7-inch tilt-swivel LCD, in a smaller and lighter chassis.
Olympus announced the development of a new Four-Thirds complaint Digital SLR back at Photokina, with an estimate launch date in the first quarter of 2009. The announcement has come early; folks at Cnet have jumped the gun with an officially launch of the New EVOLT but the article was later pulled. So there you have it, the unnamed prototype at Germany has an official title, a 12.3 megapixel Olympus midrange E-30 EVOLT to bridge the gap between the E-3 and E-520.
Schedule to launch at Photokina is Olympus’s concept Digital SLR featuring the company’s joint ventured Four Thirds System with Panasonic. Few details are available at the moment, but the new body will sport a new light weight and designed E-system with mid-level features set – 11-point autofocus system, 5 stops in-body image stabilization, rotated LCD monitor, high-speed contrast detection autofocus system, face detection function, Shadow Adjustment Technology and supports highest shutter speed up to 1/8000s. The un-named Digital SLR will be Official introduced in the first quarter of 2009.
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