This Vintage-looking Camera Has A Button For Computational Photography

OM System has announced a caller Micro Four Thirds mirrorless camera called nan OM-3 pinch a creation inspired by nan Olympus OM-1 movie camera that first debuted successful 1972. Despite its vintage appearance, nan OM-3 offers features akin to past year’s OM System OM-1 Mark II successful a overmuch compact and affordable body. These spot a 20.37-megapixel stacked back-illuminated sensor and 10-bit 4K 60p video capabilities, pinch nan summation of dedicated dials and buttons for colour modes and computational photography features.

The OM-3 too features nan aforesaid computational photography modes arsenic nan OM-1 Mark II but makes them easy accessible done a dedicated fastener and powerfulness dial. A azygous spot of nan fastener activates nan mode you past used, according to DPReview, while a agelong spot brings up a database that tin beryllium customized pinch only nan effects and filters you usage astir frequently.

These modes spot nan expertise to seizure higher-res images successful 14-bit RAW (up to 50MP handheld aliases 80MP erstwhile utilizing a tripod), neutral density and graduated filters, composite imagery utilizing attraction stacking and vulnerability bracketing, and AI-powered autofocus that tin automatically observe circumstantial subjects. It too shares its predecessor’s expertise to seizure up to 120fps pinch attraction locked connected a subject, aliases up to 50fps pinch continuous autofocus utilizing nan aforesaid 1,053-point cross-phase-detect autofocus system.

Another dedicated powerfulness that references nan movie cameras that inspired its creation is nan Creative Dial (carried complete from nan Olympus Pen-F) correct adjacent to its lens that gives photographers speedy entree to simulated movie profiles, arsenic bully arsenic colour and black-and-white profiles pinch extended customization options that are made instantly accessible connected screen.

The OM System OM-3 is now disposable for preorder for $1,999.99 for nan camera assemblage unsocial aliases arsenic information of a $2,299.99 kit that includes OM System’s M.Zuiko ED 12-45mm F4.0 Pro lens. For a constricted time, OM System is offering a $200 discount successful nan US erstwhile nan OM-3 is purchased pinch either nan $499.99 M.Zuiko Digital 25mm F1.8 II lens aliases nan $549.99 M.Zuiko Digital 17mm F1.8 II lens. Shipping is expected to commencement connected February 27th, 2025.

Other features of nan OM-3 spot a 240 fps slow-mo video mode pinch nan solution dropped to 1080p, a leatherette texture for added grip, IP53 upwind guidance (it tin withstand a ray h2o spray and has constricted particulate ingress), and a rechargeable artillery bully for astir 590 shots pinch nan camera successful its Standard shooting mode.

The OM-3 too offers up to 70 frames of pre-capture shooting to thief guarantee a photographer isn’t precocious to a shot, but its five-axis in-body stabilization is somewhat small tin than nan OM-1 Mark II’s. It too only uses a azygous UHS-II SD insubstantial slot, truthful there’s small redundancy, and while it has nan aforesaid three-inch LCD show arsenic nan OM-1 Mark II, it has a small solution physics viewfinder — 2.36 cardinal dots alternatively of 5.76 million.