I hadn’t checked into any photography-related sites for a while, so I thought I’d check in on some of the latest discussions. It turns out that Olympus just this week announced an update of their flagship line of camera bodies (the E-M1). The latest iteration available later this month is the E-M1 Mark III. It […]
All of the venerable camera makers are continuing to see declines in sales. Canon, Nikon, Olympus, et al have seen camera revenues plummet again throughout 2019. Canon predicted earlier this year that they expect unit sales to drop by another 50% over the next two years. Nikon recently announced that they’re expecting their camera business […]
October 12th, 2019 marks the 100th birthday of the company now known as Olympus Corporation. The company started out with the name Takachiho Seisakusho, and the first product was a microscope. Their first camera, the Semi-Olympus 1, was introduced in 1936. Interestingly, the lens was designed first, and the camera was designed around the lens, […]
One camera that I keep by the front door – and one that I failed to mention in my camera lineage a few months ago – is the Olympus E-PM1, also known as the Pen Mini. It originally came out in 2011, but I picked up a used copy for around $100 back in 2014. […]
It had been 8 years or so, but I went out with my old Olympus E-300 just to spend time with an old photographic friend. Originally released in 2004 (I got a refurbished one in 2006), it’s a pretty basic DSLR – no live view, no in-camera art filters, no in-body image stabilization. But was […]