- 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: High-end compact with very similar specifications to existing rivals, including a 10-megapixel 1/1.63-inch sensor and an f1.8 4x zoom lens, plus HD movies.
- Launched: September 2010
- Type: Digital SLR
- Sensor size: Four Thirds, 17.3 x 13mm
- Resolution: 12.3 megapixels
- Lenses: Four Thirds
- Key features: In-built anti-shake, articulating LCD
- Links: Press release, Product page
Summary: Long-overdue replacement of the E-3 as Olympus's top-of-the-line professional digital SLR. The E-5 is rugged and versatile, but the smaller sensor puts it at a serious disadvantage compared to other pro SLRs.
- 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 It's now been superseded by the E-PL2.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: 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: August 2009
- Type: Digital SLR
- Sensor size: Four Thirds, 17.3 x 13mm
- Resolution: 10 megapixels
- Lenses: Four Thirds
- Key features: None
- Links: Press release, Product page
Summary: Super-compact Four Thirds SLR with great layout and design but hampered by an older 10-megapixel MOS sensor. The only digital SLR to use a classic rectangular design and barely larger than an SLR style hybrid.
- 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.
- Launched: February 2009
- Type: Digital SLR
- Sensor size: Four Thirds, 17.3 x 13mm
- Resolution: 12.3 megapixels
- Lenses: Four Thirds
- Key features: Art Filters, in-built anti-shake
- Links: Press release | Product page
Summary: An SLR for enthusiasts, it's small, light, and well-designed, and the controls have a light but precise feel which is typical of Olympus's DSLRs. The 12-megapixel sensor delivers good colours and definition and the 14-42mm kit lens is very good too.
- Launched: November 2008
- Type: Digital SLR
- Sensor: Four Thirds, 17.3 x 13mm
- Resolution: 12 megapixels
- Lenses: Four Thirds
- Key features: Art Filters, Articulating LCD, Sensor-shift anti-shake
- Links: Press release | Product page
Summary: Four Thirds format digital SLR aimed at photo enthusiasts and one step down from the Olympus E-3/E-5 professional models.
- Launched: October 2007
- Type: Digital SLR
- Sensor size: Four Thirds, 17.3 x 13mm
- Resolution: 10 megapixels
- Lenses: Four Thirds
- Key features: Articulating LCD, Dual card slots
- Links: Press release, Product page
Summary: Olympus's previous professional Four Thirds format SLR, now superseded by the E-5.
