UPDATE: More Olympus E-450 official photos added to the gallery, check them out!
The Olympus E-450 has just been flashed in public by Olympus for the first time, and it’s a corker – the world’s lightest DSLR. Read on to see what Olympus has managed to squeeze inside it.
The Olympus E-450 is similar to its slimmed down predecessor, the Olympus E-420, with a few bumps in everything but size (It weights just 380g without the battery): the 10MP Olympus E-450 also packs 3.5 fps shooting, as well as three of the art filter modes that have been cropping up on some of Olympus’s recent efforts, Pop Art, Soft Focus and Pinhole.
On the downside, the Olympus E-450 lacks image stabilization, and unlike Canon’s new DSLR, the Canon EOS 500D, video recording is absent. The LCD screen is also on the small side at 2.7 inches. Still, we should be looking at a price even lower than Canon’s latest, so the missing features in the Olympus E-450 are a trade off worth making if you’re feeling less flush, or travel a lot.
Olympus says the Olympus E-450 will hit shops in the UK from May for an undisclosed bundle of notes, but we’ll let you know how much when we hear.
