Ken Tanaka on Olympus E-P1:

I sug­gest that buy­ers of the E-P1 com­pletely immerse them­selves in the PEN’s retro spirit. Just assume that you’re buy­ing a man­ual focus cam­era just like the orig­i­nal PEN cam­eras. Then be delighted when you dis­cover that the cam­era offers AFA (Auto Focus Attempts)…Fortunately the E-P1 fea­tures the best manual-focus sup­port I’ve encoun­tered in a small dig­i­tal cam­era. When using an Olympus dig­i­tal lens in man­ual focus mode the rear dis­play auto­mat­i­cally switches to a 7x mag­ni­fied view to assist crit­i­cal focus

He fore­closed with the fol­low­ing com­ment that I hap­pen to agree:

The cam­era world is badly in need of new ideas even if they’re not entirely new. Taking advan­tage of the PEN’s 50^th anniver­sary was an inspi­ra­tion that has injected wel­come excite­ment into the cam­era marketplace

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