LAS VEGAS -- Olympus has announced the rather hot-looking XZ1, an enthusiast compact camera that goes up against the Panasonic LX-5, the Canon G12 and Nikon's P7000. As befits this kind of camera, ...

Though it was announced last month along with two other new cameras in Olympus' PEN series of interchangeable lens compact (ILC) cameras, the Olympus PEN E-PL3 is just now getting pricing and a ship ...

It’s not every day that a major camera company touts a brand-new flagship product, but that’s the agenda for the new Olympus OM-D E-M1. And there’s a good reason. Olympus baked the the technology of ...

There's not much doubt that the Canon PowerShot S95 ruled the high-end compact camera roost this holiday season. Both the S95 and its predecessor the S90 have been wowing photo enthusiasts looking for ...

Looking to boost your compact capabilities, but don't want to deal with the hassle of swapping lenses? You might take interest with the Stylus XZ-2 -- Olympus' most powerful point-and-shoot model.

The price is high for Olympus' first Micro Four Thirds camera, but the hybrid camera design holds promise for the industry. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

The pre-Photokina camera announcement parade marches on today with Olympus E-PL7 interchangeable-lens compact camera. The E-PL7 shares a lot with the E-PL6 that came before it, but it borrows the same ...

Olympus has unveiled its Stylus XZ-10, a compact camera with a sophisticated, classic design that is sure to appeal to many photographers. The point-and-shoot comes with fairly standard features, as ...

Olympus has released some details of a new compact digital camera which features an integrated ZUIKO lens, although they are yet to give us any real specifications it certainly does look very ...

Olympus today announced the Stylus 780, a 7.1-megapixel digital compact camera with technologies from Olympus’ next-generation digital single lens reflex (SLR) camera for taking crisp, clear ...

Over the last few years, the evolution of compact, mirrorless cameras (so called because they lack the reflex mirror that distinguishes SLRs) has been progressing rather quickly. The demand for a ...

— -- It's not a digital SLR. It's not a point-and-shoot. And it certainly is not a pen! Olympus' new Pen E-P1 camera is a nostalgic beauty, reminiscent of classic cameras from the 1960s, but with ...