Click on the image to see the fully exploded view of the E-P1
43rumors reader Warren sent me this image of his broken Olympus E-P1. He wrote: “The main control wheel gave up on me, and decided I cant be asked to have it fixed as I have like 7 ep1’s, 2 epl3’s a
ep2, epl5, epm2, 2 omds and a few others kicking about, so really just decided to make an artwork!”
The Olympus E-P1 was the first MFT camera from Olympus and is also the camera I still own and sue for my everyday shots along the superb [shoplink 15659]Nokton 25mm f/0.95 lens (here ot find on eBay)[/shoplink].
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It looks, naked…
The hacker in me really wants to use some of those parts to make something awesome.
Reminds me of my dad’s attempts of fixing his Zeiss Ikon Ikonta 35 (522/24) 🙂
Why does he have so many cameras, and 7 E-P1s?
Wondering the same thing … I could barely afford one and a couple of lens….
Maybe he repairs Olympus cameras :)?
I do camera testing for Olympus in South Africa as well as run a photographic school where we use them for clients etc that want something small and easy to use. 🙂
Very nice, but I’d like to see this picture in HQ, because the parts are so small…
“Fascinating!” as Spock would say. I’d like to see the parts arranged in a more organic fashion.
MEGA LIKE!
Can’t we get an high resolution image of this? I’d like to print it…
Me Too!!
heya, sorry not going to make the high res available, as it has been framed and is in our gallery as a one of a kind artwork for sale….
Impressive engineering as art….I love it.
It is difficult to locate the itsy bitsy sensor! LOL!
The second screw on the right above the wiggly wire and under the metal jigsaw bit, There should have been 2 of them. That’s what was wrong.
I tried my best to place all the screws where they came out with all the parts, but some screws hold more than one part so not as easy as that 🙂
I wonder how difficult it would be to scavenge part from this camera and assemble them into a rangefinder body.
the problem is EP-1 doesn’t even have a viewfinder unless you talk about the optical finder that work only with 17mm.
I meant more along the lines of designing or building a camera with an optical rangefinder with manual control, but using the sensor, image processor, lcd, etc. from a m43 camera. I have zero experience with this, but it might be more difficult than I imagine.
The E-P1 was Olympus’ first MFT camera and the white one with the white leather case still is the best looking MFT camera of them all.