It looks like the advertisement is calling it "ultra compact" and "flat". Ultra compact is a well-defined market that this camera is not a part of. Elphs are flat, this has a pancake lens sticking out of it. Come on ad guys, let's keep it honest.
It's an awesome concept.
Not only is the passage of time shown, but it further connects us by imposing the landscape of the home where all this is "unfolding" once in a while, kepping us connected on a couple of levels.
Brilliant bits of filmmaking, both. Clearly the Olympus ad is highly derivative right from the opening shot, though to be fair after that they really just mimicked the technique without copying the film. It's an ethical lapse on par with, say, some of the stuff that Sony has done in the past, and Olympus should still have credited the technique more directly (assuming that the "japanese fellow" was the originator of that technique).
Sooooo...what, the guy left his wife and kid and never saw them again after about age 30? Jerk! He probably blew his kid's college fund on that fancy balloon and champagne ride.
@Scaramanga: Four-Thirds sensors are (relatively) small. The sensor on my G10 is about the same size as this. The results that this camera delivers can just as easily be delivered by sticking the $250 25mm pancake lens on one of the E-500 series in a package not much bigger.
I think that there are already a couple of options out there that deliver this functionality in a similar package.
The G10 packs quite a wallop in this size which oodles of functions that allow the user to individually set ISO, shutter speed, flash speed, and f-stop and it does it for about $450 (yes, the price has gone up since release).
And on the Oly front, I can put the 25mm/2.0 pancake lens on the E-520 and get a dSLR with the same size as the E-P1.
having recently been told to take my gear and put it back in the car "or else" at a David Byrne concert because of the obvious "Pro" nature of the Sony a900, I'd be very interested in this tiny-little, stylish interchangeable lens camera. I only wish it weren't bound to suffer all the problems associated with the tiny-little 4/3rds sensor....
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Time to put the LX3 on ebay.
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Not only is the passage of time shown, but it further connects us by imposing the landscape of the home where all this is "unfolding" once in a while, kepping us connected on a couple of levels.
Both are well done.
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Still, I'll stick with my LX3.
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The LX3 is great, but this is a dSLR sized sensor and has interchangeable lenses. This will blow the LX3 out of the water.
This also uses Panasonic sensor BTW, its well worth the upgrade.
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The G10 packs quite a wallop in this size which oodles of functions that allow the user to individually set ISO, shutter speed, flash speed, and f-stop and it does it for about $450 (yes, the price has gone up since release).
And on the Oly front, I can put the 25mm/2.0 pancake lens on the E-520 and get a dSLR with the same size as the E-P1.
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I don't understand people bringing cameras to concerts. When the the concert become about the pics you could blog?