- Launched: January 2011
- Type: Compact style hybrid
- Sensor size: Micro Four Thirds, 17.3 x 13mm
- Resolution: 12.3 megapixels
- Lenses: Micro Four Thirds
- Key features: Accessory Port, Art Filters
- Links: Product page
Summary: Compact style hybrid for beginners and enthusiasts. It's an update to the E-PL1, and comes with an improved 14-42mm kit lens with 'silent' focussing, a higher-resolution LCD and ISO boosted to 6400.
Summary: Compact style hybrid camera using the same Micro Four Thirds sensor and lens system as the Olympus Pen cameras. The GF2 replaces the GF1, bringing full HD movies and a touch-control display.
- Launched: September 2010
- Type: Compact style hybrid
- Sensor size: APS-C
- Resolution: 14.6 megapixels
- Lenses: Samsung NX/i-Function
- Key features: 'i-Function' lenses
- Links: Press release, Product page
Summary: Compact style hybrid camera which introduces Samsung's new 'i-Function' lenses where you can control the camera with dials on the lens.
- Launched: May 2010
- Type: Compact style hybrid
- Sensor size: APS-C 23.4 x 15.6mm
- Resolution: 14.2 megapixels
- Lenses: Sony e mount
- Key features: Full HD movies, articulating LCD, Sweep Panorama, 7fps continuous shooting
- Links: Press release | Product page
Summary: Super-compact hybrid camera with full HD movies, high-speed shooting and Sony's Sweep Panorama mode. The body is very small, but Sony's NEX lenses are not, so overall size benefits are limited.
- Launched: May 2010
- Type: Compact style hybrid
- Sensor size: APS-C 23.4 x 15.6mm
- Resolution: 14.2 megapixels
- Lenses: Sony e mount
- Key features: Articulating LCD, Sweep Panoramas, 7fps continuous shooting
- Links: Press release | Product page
Summary: The cheaper of Sony's two compact hybrid cameras. It has a plastic body and shoots standard HD movies not full HD, but otherwise it's much the same. Good for novices, though some could find the graphical interface slow and simplistic.
- Launched: February 2010
- Type: Compact style hybrid
- Sensor size: Micro Four Thirds 17.3 x 13mm
- Resolution: 12.3 megapixels
- Lenses: Micro Four Thirds
- Key features: Art Filters
- Links: Press release, Product page
Summary: The E-PL1 was launched as the 'affordable' Pen camera from Olympus, with a plastic body and much simpler and more cheaply-made controls, though it does have a built-in flash. It's now been superseded by the E-PL2.
- Launched: January 2010
- Type: Compact style hybrid
- Sensor size: APS-C or 1/1.7-inch
- Resolution: 10-12.3 megapixels
- Lenses: Ricoh GXR system
- Key features: Interchangeable camera-lens units
- Links: Press release | Product page
Summary: Unique hybrid camera where you change whole lens-sensor units rather than just the lens. It's inefficient in that each unit costs more, but allows sensor/lens pairings optimised for different kinds of photography. Designed for enthusiasts and pros.
- Launched: November 2009
- Type: Compact style hybrid
- Sensor size: Micro Four Thirds, 17.3 x 13mm
- Resolution: 12.3 megapixels
- Lenses: Micro Four Thirds
- Key features: Standard HD movies, in-built anti-shake, Art Filters, optional EVF, Accessory Port
- Links: Press release, Product page
Summary: A development of the original Olympus E-P1 'Pen' camera, now including an accessory port and manual movie controls.
- Launched: September 2009
- Type: Compact style hybrid
- Sensor: Micro Four Thirds, 17.3 x 13mm
- Resolution: 12.1 megapixels
- Lenses: Micro Four Thirds
- Key features: Standard HD movies
- Links: Press release, Product page
Summary: Panasonic's compact style hybrid camera uses the same Micro Four Thirds lenses as the G-series cameras. It's now been superseded by the GF2.
- Launched: June 2009
- Type: Compact style hybrid
- Sensor size: Micro Four Thirds, 17.3 x 13mm
- Resolution: 12.3 megapixels
- Lenses: Micro Four Thirds
- Key features: Standard HD movies, Art Filters, in-built image stabilisation
- Links: Press release | Product page
Summary: Olympus's first Micro Four Thirds camera, now superseded by the slightly improved E-P2. The classic retro styling is inspired by Olympus's 'Pen' half-frame cameras of 50 years earlier.
