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Olympus’s Stylus 1 is a Small Sensor, Fixed Lens OMD; Sort of

Chris Gampat
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10/29/2013
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Though many of us snub our noses at point and shoots these days, that doesn’t mean that camera manufacturers won’t try to still compete in the category. Olympus today is announcing their new Stylus 1 camera–a small sensor camera with OMD EM5 styling but with a small sensor and a fixed f2.8 long zoom. The camera sports a 1/1.7″ 12MP CMOS sensor, a 28-300mm f2.8 lens, 1.44 million dot EVF, and the tech specs say that the camera shoots RAW images but the version we played with didn’t seem to. Plus it has a 3 inch LCD screen, Live Bulb mode, Wifi, and a special lens cap that can also totally cover and protect the lens.

Then there is a telephoto converter adapter to give the user even more reach.

No official word on pricing or release date yet, but we can surely expect it around the holiday season. Just don’t take it out in the snow, there is no weather sealing.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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