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The Olympus PEN-F, released on January 27, 2016, is an M43 micro single camera with a quasi-axle design. Its design inspiration is inherited from the 1960s PEN F half-frame film camera, the body lines and control components have been repeatedly deliberated and precision processing, is one of the most beautiful micro-single cameras in the hearts of cinematographers.

PEN-F confirmed the suspension of production in early 2019, and to this day there is no clear information about follow-up products. Every time there is a new product trend, the media and enthusiasts will ask about the successor of PEN-F, which shows the weight of PEN-F in everyone's heart.

* PEN F is Olympus's half-frame film SLR (left) in the 1960s, while PEN-F is Olympus's M4char3 micro single camera (right) launched in 2016. Note the differences in writing.

Main specifications:

4Accord3 frame is about 2030 megapixels CMOS

5-axis 5-gear fuselage anti-shaking

TruePic VII image processor

Standard sensitivity ISO 200-25600

Contrast detection AF

The maximum shutter speed is 1 stroke 8000 seconds.

Maximum continuous shooting speed 10FPS

Support 1080 60p shooting

About 2.36 million points OLED electronic viewfinder

3.0inch about 1.04 million-point rotating touchscreen

Built-in Wi-Fi

The standard weight is about 427g

A brief comment on high-performance cameras are the same, one in a million good-looking and exquisite cameras. However, both beauty and refinement cost extra, but the vast majority of consumers will not compromise performance or pay more. Therefore, in the face of products like PEN-F, the attitude of many people is "it will be decided next time" and "consider it when you stop production or have a good quality second hand".

In the final analysis, digital cameras are only consumer electronics and tools for recording images. Since it is a tool, the pursuit of high performance and cost-effective must be the most mainstream demand. Especially today, when the digital camera market is gradually shrinking, it will be more and more difficult for the beautiful and exquisite products to continue, alas.

Learn more about the fuselage: the top cover of PEN-F is magnesium alloy, the front is magnesium alloy and leather, and the bottom cover is aluminum alloy. In addition to the lines of the fuselage, the design of control components such as turntable and instruction dial also takes a lot of time and energy.

* on the Olympus website, there is an article devoted to PEN-F design.

Https://www.olympus-global.com/technology/design/story/penf/

Performance: PEN-F not only has the same five-axis anti-shake, 1max 8000 second mechanical shutter, 2.36 million-point EVF and a variety of computational photography functions (such as high pixel, real-time synthesis) as E-M5 II, but also increases effective pixels from about 16 million to about 20 million. In addition to CMOS on-chip phase focusing, Olympus really gave all the configuration it could give at that time.

Style: there is a "creative dial" in the front of the PEN-F body, which can quickly select monochrome, color, artistic filters and other picture effects. Version 3.0 firmware also adds the ability to save monochrome / color configurations to the camera through the computer.

Later E-P7 also inherited this design.

Competitive products: Fuji X-E2S and Sony α 6300 debut at the same time as Olympus PEN-F. The former also adopts retro design and provides film simulation function, while the latter has very outstanding focusing, continuous shooting and video performance. Most crucially, both Fuji X-E2S and Sony α 6300 have larger sensors and lower prices.

Olympus and Miku Mijiu (Yashihisa Maitani,1933-2009) are Olympus camera designers. He not only designed PEN series paraxial cameras and PEN F series SLR cameras, but also participated in the development of OM series, XA series, IS series and μ series. He is the soul figure who has influenced the design style of Olympus cameras in the past 60 years.

Three salutes of Olympus Micro single:

In June 2009, Olympus launched its first M4ram 3 micro single camera, E-P1, a tribute to the design of the 1960s PEN series of paraxial cameras.

In February 2012, Olympus launched its first SLR styling micro-SLR camera, E-M5, a tribute to the design of the OM series SLR series in the 1970s.

The last part is the PEN-F introduced in this paper, paying tribute to the half-frame film SLR PEN F.

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: camera Notes (ID:xjbiji), by Teng Fei et

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