Olympus Pen E-PL7 First Look

Olympus announced today a new member of the PEN line of mirrorless cameras – the E-PL7 – a relatively minor update of the previous E-PL5 from 2012 with built in WIFI and a tilt screen for all those selfies.

No too much had changed in Olympus’ PEN light series with the introduction of the new E-PL7 – we still have the same micro 4/3 16MP CMOS sensor, the same TruePic VII processor and a very similar design but there are also a couple of improvements.

Olympus E-PL7 key features and improvements

  • Sensor: 16MP M4/3 CMOS.
  • Processor: TruePic VII
  • Continuous shooting speed: 8 fps (much faster than before).
  • LCD: Tilting 1.04M dot touchscreen.
  • Connectivity: Wi-Fi + new app.
  • New filters: including what seems to be an interesting partial color filter.
  • Focus peaking
  • stabilization: 3-axis’ image stabilizer (similar to that on the OM-D E-M10).
  • Price: Just under $600 – body only on Amazon.

Above is a quick look at the camera by Lexy Savvides from Cnet. Below is One of Olympus’ videos showing the camera’s Touch Selfie feature

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owb7F-rFcBQ[/youtube]

Here is a quick look at some of the filters on the new E-PL7

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbXOyep1mSQ[/youtube]

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Iddo Genuth
Iddo Genuth is the founder and chief editor of LensVid.com. He has been a technology reporter working for international publications since the late 1990's and covering photography since 2009. Iddo is also a co-founder of a production company specializing in commercial food and product visual content.

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