DIGITAL SLR QUALITY WITHOUT THE SIZE

The PEN E-P1 is the first model in Olympus' revolutionary new PEN series of digital cameras that provides the picture quality of the traditional SLR with the size and ease-of-use of a compact camera. If you find SLR cameras a little bit bigger than you'd like, but want the better picture quality of SLR cameras, with the new E-P1, you can now have the best of both worlds. 

Sleekly designed with a modern yet classic look, the PEN E-P1 impresses with its premium feel from an exterior finish of stainless steel and aluminium. 

AS EASY TO USE AS A COMPACT CAMERA

Operating the PEN E-P1 is as easy as setting it to the truly fuss-free Intelligent Auto (I-AUTO) mode and letting the camera get the best shot for you. In I-AUTO, the camera automatically picks out the optimum settings for you to ensure that exposure and colour always looks the best for the scene you're taking a picture of. It even turns on Face Detection to ensure that pictures of friends and loved ones are always focused on them, automatically balancing the brightness of their faces with that of the background, ensuring that both turn out beautifully.

HD MOVIE RECORDING WITH STEREO SOUND

Movie capture in widescreen High Definition (HD720p) allows you to record those special moments that only a video will do - with CD-quality stereo sound no less. Imagine the convenience of being able to film a candlelit birthday scene, a christening, a big festive celebration, or a family backyard BBQ, and then immediately switch over to shoot a high-resolution still picture of such quality that you can print to a meter wide! Not printing yet? Just gather friends and family around to show off your pictures and video on your HDTV through the convenience of the HDMI interface on the camera. Or upload movies to the many online video sharing websites for friends and family to relive the shared moments.

CREATIVE OPTIONS GALORE

Need to add some instant flair to your pictures or movies? Six easily applied Art Filter effects will make your pictures and movies truly stand out. Choose from the colour intensifying Pop Art, dreamy Soft Focus, chillout Pale & Light Colour, lightening Light Tone, film-noir Grainy Film, or arty Pinhole filter effects. Need to shoot with a wide-screen look? Change from the usual 4:3 picture shape to 16:9 by using the easy-access Live Control. A square 6:6 and postcard print shape 3:2 format are also selectable.

FULLY COMPATIBLE WITH THE WORLD'S LARGEST RANGE OF DIGITAL LENSES

Compatibility with the world's largest range of digital lenses, the Olympus E-system DSLR lenses , via the optional MMF-1 lens adapter means that you're never short on lens choices. Featuring some of the smallest and lightest SLR lenses available, most of the affordable but high-performance Standard series "Zuiko Digital" lenses complement the size and weight of the PEN E-P1 especially well.

A SERIOUS CAMERA FOR THE ENTHUSIAST AS WELL

For the SLR photography enthusiast, the PEN E-P1 is arguably the ideal compact complement to the larger sized digital SLR camera that you already own. 

Featuring a sensor size that's four times the size of the largest used in a "consumer compact" camera, and typically even larger than most model compact cameras, together with the newly designed Truepic V image processing engine, the new E-P1 provides pictures of exceptional tonality and detail, with an ISO capability of up to 6400 for available light photography.

Traditional exposure modes of Manual, Aperture Priority, Shutter Speed priority and Program Auto can be selected at a flick of a dial to suit your preferred way of controlling exposure. A 324-zone light meter in the intelligent ESP metering mode provides accurate automated exposure decisions, or use center-weighted or spotmetering.