{"id":1176,"date":"2011-01-06T16:51:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T08:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.my\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2011-03-22T16:47:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T08:47:17","slug":"new-olympus-xz-1-flagship-compact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/new-olympus-xz-1-flagship-compact\/","title":{"rendered":"New Olympus XZ-1 Flagship Compact"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olympus launched their new flagship compact, the XZ-1 and new Micro 4\/3 Pen E-PL2 this morning. Here are some sample still images captured with the new XZ-1 camera. Specs and additional info can be found at the Olympus Malaysia website<\/a> and special Facebook promotional page. Picture samples from the Pen E-PL2<\/a> are featured on the next page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Launched\"<\/a>

Launched!<\/p><\/div>\n

Mr Tan Tick Boon, Managing Director Olympus Malaysia, with the new XZ-1 and Mr Yong Kee Nyap, Assistant General Manager, Imaging System Division with the new Pen E-PL2.<\/p>\n

\"Underwater<\/a>

Underwater Housing & Light for Pen<\/p><\/div>\n

Still Samples:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Olympus<\/a>

Olympus XZ-1, ISO 500, f 2.5, 1\/160 sec - full size reduced to 800 x 450 <\/p><\/div>\n

Olympus E-PL2 black version shown with the optional Medusa LED Close-up Light.<\/p>\n

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Olympus XZ-1, ISO 500, f 2.5, 1\/160 sec - 100% crop from original<\/p><\/div>\n

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Olympus XZ-1, ISO 500, f 3.2, 1\/400 sec - full size reduced to 800 x 450 <\/p><\/div>\n

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Olympus XZ-1, ISO 500, f 3.2, 1\/400 sec - 100% crop from original<\/p><\/div>\n

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Olympus XZ-1, ISO 100, f 2.0, 1\/400 sec - full size reduced to 800 x 450 <\/p><\/div>\n

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Olympus XZ-1, ISO 100, f 2.0, 1\/400 sec - 100% crop from original<\/p><\/div>\n

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Olympus XZ-1, ISO 3200, f 2.5, 1\/2000 sec - full size reduced to 800 x 450 <\/p><\/div>\n

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Olympus XZ-1, ISO 3200, f 2.5, 1\/2000 sec - 100% crop from original<\/p><\/div>\n

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Olympus XZ-1, ISO 6400, f 6.3, 1\/200 sec - full size reduced to 800 x 450 <\/p><\/div>\n

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Olympus XZ-1, ISO 6400, f 6.3, 1\/200 sec - 100% crop from original<\/p><\/div>\n

The announced retail price of the XZ-1 in Malaysia is RM 1799 (app USD 585). The underwater housing for the XZ-1 (PT 050) is quoted as RM 1090 (app USD 354) and the underwater housing for the E-PL2 (PT-EP03) is RM 2090 (app USD 680).
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\nFirmware version is 0.9 and all settings at factory default. No post-adjustments made except size reduction & cropping. Images saved at 50% jpeg compression for web.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Olympus launched their new flagship compact, the XZ-1 and new Micro 4\/3 Pen E-PL2 this morning. Here are some sample still images captured with the new XZ-1 camera… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378,25,9,12],"tags":[159,317,227,114,311],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news-commentary","category-photography","category-tech","tag-camera","tag-compact-cam","tag-launch","tag-olympus","tag-xz-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}