Olympus Stylus1 24-300mm 1/1.7" sensor

Unfortunately, you're probably right.

- The sensor 1/1.7 inch 12 million pixel back-illuminated CMOS sensor
- Lens 28-300mm equivalent. F value is 2.8 throughout the entire zoom range
- 12 pieces in 10 groups, lens configuration adopted DSA lens, aspherical lens surface 9
- ZERO coating
- Stabilizer lens within
- Automatic retractable lens cap is attached
- ISO100-12800
- Shutter -1/2000 seconds 60 seconds
- Video 1920 x 1080 30p
- 1.44 million dots, EVF Eye sensor with
- 1.04 million pixels 3 type, movable, touch panel monitor
- It is equipped with a control ring
- Equipped with a Wi-Fi function, can work with smartphone
- 116.2 x 87 x 56.5mm size
- (Battery, media, including cap) 402g Weight

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For me that's a wonderful spec., especially the weight and automatic lens cap. Pity the wide end is only 28mm, but I can live with that.

Hope the UK price isn't too silly.

I suppose we'll have to wait ages to get a review.

Only other worry, as a Panasonic user, is will I be able to cope with Olympus' interface, which I usually find non-intuitive.

Ray

RayUK said:

RayUK wrote:
Only other worry, as a Panasonic user, is will I be able to cope with Olympus' interface, which I usually find non-intuitive.

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I had that problem after being spoiled by Panasonic's wonderfully intuitive menu system, but I got over it pretty quickly. It's an adjustment. but eventually you come to see that the Olympus UI has its charms too.

I suspect it's just barely too large and heavy to replace my XZ-1 as a take-everywhere camera. But the longer range (nearly triple!) is awfully tempting.

28mm on the short end = arghhhh!

An heated exchange over the uzi would be even more pointless than current threads about equivalence . But I can't let the opportunity pass without mentioning the excellent pictures taken by the CZ2100-z (which has a distinguished place on my "museum" shelf, mainly because it was the best that could be had at the time!

I still visit, now and again, the Galapagos pictures that I took at the time, and they always look good (2 Mpx and all!)

I agree, 28 mm is not very wide, but 300 mm with this sensor size, at f/2.8 is very good! Of course, you either need that FL, or not, but if you find it useful these are very good specs!

The price for f/2.8 throughout will be US $700. from what I've read. ;-)

I can't see how this camera can compete for a birder's attention when the FZ200 (smaller sensor, of course) gets you f/2.8 all the way to 600mm. However, if the size and weight and specs. are good, then this could be Jack-of-all-trades travel camera.

illissius said:

I suspect it's just barely too large and heavy to replace my XZ-1 as a take-everywhere camera. But the longer range (nearly triple!) is awfully tempting.

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I have the XZ-2 (so I am already a bit bigger and heavier than your XZ-1) but the major difference in the size is the height due to the hump for the EVF. Do wish they could have integrated it more like the Panasonic GX-7 but we will have to see.

Only "issue" for me is that a lot of concert venues let me get in with the XZ-2 because it does not look "professional". Don't know what their reaction would be to this mini-DSLR look.

John McCormack said:

The price for f/2.8 throughout will be US $700. from what I've read. ;-)

I can't see how this camera can compete for a birder's attention when the FZ200 (smaller sensor, of course) gets you f/2.8 all the way to 600mm. However, if the size and weight and specs. are good, then this could be Jack-of-all-trades travel camera.

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Yep, a jack-of-all-trades travel camera is what Oly's after on this one. No way is it for birders. If the IQ is significantly better than all the pocketable 20x travel cams on the market, it'll probably do well.

With that EM5 hump on the top will it have 5 axis stabilisation?

SHood said:

Olympus will announce this on Oct 29th. No details yet on lens aperture although I think it might be a constant f2.8. EVF seems quite large. Price will be $600-700.

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I'd bet against it, but we'll have to wait and see....

Rumors I read had it as lens-based IS. We'll know tomorrow I suppose.

illissius said:

I suspect it's just barely too large and heavy to replace my XZ-1 as a take-everywhere camera. But the longer range (nearly triple!) is awfully tempting.

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So the preview is up, and...

- The EVF hump is singlehandedly responsible for something like a 25% increase in both the height and depth of the camera. That really sucks. I might easily prefer not to have it, if that's what it requires. For storing in a large pocket or belt pouch the fact that it's just the EVF protruding and not the camera 'brick' itself extending that far doesn't make much of a difference. I would much prefer an EVF to be flush with the camera body, as with the X-E1 for example. (Not sure if they could have made the body, say, 5% larger in every direction and shuffled around the internal elements to make space for an EVF 'inside', which would have been far more practical IMO.) Without the hump this would've been almost a no-brainer upgrade over the XZ-1 (it's barely larger!), but this way it's a much tougher question.

- Gah: still the same power button. Really wish they'd move to some kind of sliding switch. This "simple push-button" version causes me no end of misery. (Thinking I've pressed it when I didn't, thinking I didn't press it because the camera is slow to respond, so pressing it again, and therefore having to then press it a *third* time... and so forth).

Anyway, other than these it looks really nice.