photo - Ken Gilbert

PETER KOLONIA
THE HOTTEST NEW STUFF AND THE TECHNOLOGY TRENDS BEHIND IT
WE WANT THIS
A BEAUTIFUL UPGRADE
AF tracking and new accessories take this looker up a notch
MERE MONTHS after Olympus
announced its game-changing
and gorgeous E-P1 Micro Four
Thirds camera, here comes a
successor, the E-P2. It shares
the E-P1’s sensor and imageprocessing
engine, but adds
some cool features. The silvery
fi nish is gone, though—the E-P2
comes exclusively in black.
Chief among the improvements:
The accessory port. This
powers an articulating accessory
electronic viewfi nder (in-
The E-P2 has a
new hot-shoe
EVF and, for
video shooters,
an optional
microphone
adapter and
full manual
control—you can
change aperture
and shutter
speed while
recording.
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E-P2
12.3MP
Micro Four
Thirds format
720p HD
video
$1,100,
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14–42mm
f/3.5–5.6
or 17mm
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cluded), which is useful for the
extra steadiness you get from
holding the camera to your
eye. This will come in handy,
because there’s still no onboard
fl ash and, with the EVF in the
hot-shoe, no room to add one.
The new autofocus tracking
for both photos and video is designed
to lock onto and follow
a subject, whether it’s moving
or you are. Given the slowish AF
on the E-P1, we hope the E-P2
focuses fast enough to keep up.
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