OM System teased its new camera well before its official launch, and while it gave very little away, it was clearly a rangefinder-style camera with an integrated EVF. Combined with OM’s own interview responses over the past few months, this suggested a new PEN-series camera with the compact, pocket friendly format that made the original PEN series so popular,
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These cameras are HOW old??
This list might surprise you. It surprised me, anyway. It includes a whole bunch of cameras I still think of as being like, well, new(ish) but when you check the dates it turns out they’ve been around longer than we think.
OM Systems’ new rangefinder-style camera will have just one rival – and it’s a tough one
You might imagine the market is full of rangefinder-style mirrorless cameras with viewfinders, but those days are gone. Olympus itself only made a camera like this once before – the PEN-F – and while Panasonic made a bunch of compact GX-series cameras that might have competed, they are long gone. So what’s left that could compete with the new OM.
OM System teases new PEN-style camera, but you’ll have to wait until September 9 for the unveiling
This is the news that will make any Micro Four Thirds fan leap from their chair. It’s a short video, but it shows something completely unlike recent D-SLR shaped cameras from OM System. It looks – gasp – like a PEN!
What are the best compact digital cameras to get in 2026 IF ANY?
We’re in the middle of a compact camera boom. It started with the TikTok celebrity Fujifilm X100 VI, continues with the barely refreshed Canon PowerShot G7 X III and has scooped up a whole raft of second-rate compacts from yesteryear and bargain-bin point-and-shoot Amazon specials that anyone can afford and no-one should buy. What’s going on?
Why shouldn’t cameras have style? These are cameras that combine both style and performance
Would you ever buy a car you thought was ugly or horrible to drive? Would you ever eat food you don’t like in a restaurant because it’s cheap? And yet it’s a curious thing in photography that there are so many ‘experts’ who insist that practicality, value and features are all that count and all the rest is shallow vanity or just plain stupidity.
What does a pro ‘trinity’ lens set actually cost in 2026? Five different formats compared!
The launch of the new Nikon Z 70-200mm f2.8 VR S II made me think. At $3,197/£2,999 at the time of launch, this is a seriously expensive lens that is surely out of reach for anyone other than a full-time pro who can treat this lens as a logical business decision.
I have just one question about the new OM System 50-200mm f/2.8 IS PRO. Why is it so big?
I get it. Professional, constant-aperture telephoto zooms are always going to be big. I also get that this lens is in its own way unique, offering a constant f/2.8 100-400mm equivalent zoom range. But why is it bigger and heavier (and more expensive) than, let’s say, the Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS II, a FULL FRAME LENS?
OM System launches the OM-5 II: so is it really new or just a routine refresh?
It was only a matter of time, you might think, before OM System put its latest 20MP stacked sensor in the OM-5. But no! The OM-5 II keeps the same (non-stacked) sensor as the OM-5 and makes do with some tech tidy-ups and a few functional tweaks.
I think the OM System OM-3 is amazing, but there’s one thing stopping me getting one
OM System will probably get two sets of responses to the OM-3. One will be that it looks amazing, just like the original OM1 and OM2 film SLRs, and is a retro camera good enough to challenge the legendary Fujifilm X100 VI. The other will be that it’s ‘just’ another MFT camera, without even a new sensor, and too big and too expensive. So who’s right?