On June 09, 2021, the Olympus PEN E-P7 was announced.
Basic properties
- The first camera from OM Digital Solutions
- Camera system Micro 4/3
- 20MP Live MOS sensor (same as previous models?)
- TruePic VIII Processor
- 4.5 steps integrated image stabilizer
- 4K video
- Focusing with face and eye detection
- WiFi and bluetooth
- Main display with tilt function
- Weight 337 grams
- Scant data and characteristics in the press release and on the website (we are waiting for information updates)
- Price: about 1000 dollars. Prices for modern Olympus cameras are available see here
Appearance
All OLYMPUS / OM SYSTEM M.ZUIKO DIGITAL lenses for Micro 4/3
- 8mm 1: 1.8 FISHEYE PRO
- 9mm 1: 8 FISHEYE
- 12mm 1: 2 ED MSC
- 15mm 1: 8
- 17mm 1: 1.2 PRO
- 17mm 1: 1.8 MSC
- 17mm 1: 2.8
- 20mm 1: 1.4 PRO OM SYSTEM
- 25mm 1: 1.2 PRO
- 25mm 1: 1.8 MSC
- 30mm 1: 3.5 ED MSC MACRO 1.25X
- 45mm 1: 1.2 PRO
- 45mm 1: 1.8 MSC
- 60mm 1: 2.8 ED MSC MACRO
- 75mm 1: 1.8 ED MSC
- 90mm 1:3.5 MACRO IS PRO OM SYSTEM
- 300mm 1: 4 IS PRO
- 7-14mm 1: 2.8 PRO
- 8-25mm 1: 4 PRO
- 9-18mm 1:4-5.6 ED MSC
- 9-18mm 1:4-5.6 ED II MSC
- 12-40mm 1: 2.8 PRO
- 12-45mm 1: 4 PRO
- 12-50mm 1: 3.5-6.3 EZ ED MSC MACRO
- 12-100mm 1: 4 IS PRO
- 12-200mm 1:3.5-6.3 ED MSC
- 14-42mm 1:3.5-5.6 ED
- 14-42mm 1: 3.5-5.6 L ED
- 14-42mm 1:3.5-5.6 MSC II
- 14-42mm 1:3.5-5.6 R MSC II
- 14-42mm 1: 3.5-5.6 EZ ED MSC
- 14-150mm 1:4-5.6 ED
- 14-150mm 1:4-5.6 ED MSC II
- 40-150mm 1: 2.8 PRO
- 40-150mm 1: 4 PRO
- 40-150mm 1:4-5.6 ED MSC
- 40-150mm 1: 4-5.6 R ED MSC
- 75-300mm 1:4.8-6.7 ED MSC
- 75-300mm 1:4.8-6.7 ED MSC II
- 100-400mm 1:5-6.3 IS ED MSC
- 150-400mm 1: 4.5 TC 1.25X ED IS PRO
- 150-600mm 1:5-6.3 IS ED MSC
Decoding of the main markings of OLYMPUS lenses M.ZUIKO DIGITAL for Micro 4/3:
- PRO - professional lens
- SPLASH PROOF - a protected lens (so are marked, for example, all 'PRO'-lenses)
- OM SYSTEM is the trademark under which some Olympus lenses have been produced since the end of 2021
- ED (Extra-low Dispersion) - low dispersion elements in the optical circuit
- MSC (Movie & Still Compatible) - a special focusing system for comfortable video and photography
- EZ (Electronic Zoom) - electronic zoom
- IS (Image Stabilizer) - built-in image stabilizer
- MACRO - macro lens
- Fisheye - ultra wide angle fisheye lens
- R (?) - lens with an updated design
- II - second version of the lens
- TC - built-in teleconverter
- 9mm 1:8 FISHEYE and 15mm 1:8 (MF) lenses do not have auto focus
All Olympus Micro 4/3 cameras
Olympus Pen EP Series:
Olympus OM-D EM Series:
- M1X
- M1, M1 Mark II, M1 Mark III
- M5, M5 MARK II, M5 MARK III
- M10, M10 Mark II, M10 Mark III, M10 Mark IV
OM SYSTEM line:
Materials on the topic
- Full frame mirrorless systems... Discussion, choice, recommendations.
- Cropped mirrorless systems... Discussion, choice, recommendations.
- Cropped mirrorless systems that have stopped or are no longer developing
- Digital SLR systems that have stopped or are no longer developing
- JVI or EVI (an important article that answers the question 'DSLR or mirrorless')
- About mirrorless batteries
- Simple and clear medium format
- High-speed solutions from Chinese brands
- All fastest autofocus zoom lenses
- All fastest AF prime lenses
- Mirrored full frame on mirrorless medium format
- Autofocus Speed Boosters
- One lens to rule the world
- The impact of smartphones on the photography market
- What's next (smartphone supremacy)?
- All announcements and novelties of lenses and cameras
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"Small complex"
By the way, no. The reason is also in physiology, but of a different sense.
Anyone else, but for me it is more convenient to have a camera with a full comfortable grip.
Fuji X100T was uncomfortable to hold, because it is very small for my hands. I had to farm and buy a thick leather case and something like a rig (from the Chinese).
The D750 was also small for my hands. For the D700, I specially bought a Chinese battery grip for convenience. Also for the Sigma SD-1 Merill, I also ordered a rare original battery grip through a dealer in Moscow (they took it for a month and a half for me - it was not on ebay at all).
The only crop that fits comfortably in my hands is the Fuji S3Pro.
Well that is to each his own.
I forgot to add - I also bought a handle for the D750 for a more comfortable grip.
The “small complex” was obviously related to the size of the matrix, at least in relation to that remark. This is exactly the complex, although it's okay, it is present among many amateurs.
"The 'small size complex' was obviously related to the size of the matrix"
It is not a complex.
If there was a crop / 1.5 matrix in Olympus, then I would buy some kind of OM-D.
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What personally doesn’t suit me in micros: how much I didn’t look at the pictures from them, I like the color profile on Olympus / Panasonic. What never suited me: minimal ISO200, 12-bit equal, lack of back-illuminated matrices, NARROW DD (graph in the attachment, point of no return iso800), some kind of flat picture, after ISO800 the picture starts to degrade and turn gray, becomes friable. In general, physics and nothing personal. According to their characteristics, the micros barely reach the old crops, and the ownership of the system itself (a normal camera with accessories such as batteries and a battery pen + a couple of three high-aperture high-quality lenses) is approximately equal to budget ff cameras.
Why buy the worst at the price of the best?
Well, I wrote about the grip above.
And yes, I repeat, but I am subscribed to flickr on people and who have micros.
In the last 2 years, some of them have been transferred to the budgetary bzk FF. Those. they immediately jumped to crop / 1.5.
And I also noticed such a moment: if earlier (5-8 years ago) you could see such replacements:
Nikon d7000-> d7100 / d7200 or Canon 60D-> 70D-> 80D also in microns, but now this is almost not visible - just a transition to a full frame (even a budget one).
Almost no one was interested in the Z50 (but the person seems to have sold it and switched to ff, because there were not many z50 pictures and had been gone for a long time, but before that he shot on d7500).
Only 50 out of 1 people have seen Z500.
Well, there is no sense in the Z50 now, lenses for Z crop have not been released and no one wants to fool around with adapters, it seems to me. My observations also show that almost no one buys DSLRs, except that completely beginners with a budget of $ 200-300 take an old mirror crop and 50 1.8 to it. Then they switch to Fuj or Sony's full frame due to the presence of a large park of glasses for this system
You might think that there were a lot of lenses under the DX and that nothing bothers anyone. It's just that the time has changed. What's the point of going somewhere there, if you can actually take a new camera under which Nikon riveted an overload of lenses? Unless if there is nowhere to go on Sunday ...
For size, weight. Micra with fixes weighs little and takes up almost no space. As a second camera, very even. I liked it, although it is not convenient to shoot
I have a Sony a5000 - a baby, you can lose it in your pocket. I bought it at discounts for a ridiculous amount, put the complete lens on the shelf, screwed the lens for video surveillance 50 / 1,4 through the thinnest adapter, I don't know much less. Picking is easy to target, the sensor is bigger than that, the resolution is too - and what's the point in this camera? Is it just for show-off.
To do without CCTV lenses and have normal focal lengths
It's good that at least someone in this crazy time can tell the difference between a normal focal length and an abnormal one. Respect!
Whoever said and praised what there was, but buying a crop2 camera for $ 1000, which does not even have a viewfinder, is an ASS!
And this is not for a whale, but for a body
Micra is eternal. At one time, I was lucky to buy a canon 80d for 600 euros, so this is a 1,6 crop
Was it a little weak to make a camera for bloggers like the Sony ZV-1? And the micra would be more advantageous here due to a larger matrix (4/3 versus 1 inch) and interchangeable lenses (a wide prime for selfies, for the rest a zoom). And the stabilization from the GH5 could be screwed on. That would be a camera gun.
And so ... the place of all these half-cameras of a format smaller than APS-C was confidently gobbled up by smartphones.