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Yes guys! What you see here is really a new Micro Four Thirds camera from Olympus! It’s called “Air Clip” and works just like the [shoplink 51238 ebay]Sony QX1 camera[/shoplink]!
The Air Clip specs are:
– 16 MP MFT sensor
– MFT mount
– 81-point AF system
– 10fps
– electrnic shutter with speed up to 1/16000s
– has physical shutter release button and tripod mount
– microSD slot and lithium-ion battery
– microUSB
– Air Clip control via Wifi from a mobile device.
– Art filter support
– Bluetooth
– Come with Open Source Api
– To be released in Spring in Japan
– 56.9 × 57.1 × 43.6mm. Weight about 146g (without memory card, battery built-in).
– Comes in Black or White
– Price: 33,800 yen for the body and with kit lens 14-42mm EZ 49,800 yen.
Image source: Olympus Japan.
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Could be great for drones.
Maybe. It might not be so great once you get too far for the weak wifi signal to get to the phone/tablet controlling the camera. It could be cool if the USB port allowed a remote shutter, though.
Have you missed a zero off of that price?
It makes sense to be this cheap. Take the E-PL7, take away the screen and ibis, and you have this. If body of E-PL7 is $500, this for $300 makes sense.
Are those connectivity specs right? Just Bluetooth?
No wifi?
It has both wifi and bluetooth.
That s pretty cool.It makes more sense nowadays to make good use of our much more powerful smartphones (better screen, better processing power, easier to email/facebook, photoshop express).
I would prefer more normal design with a slide in for the iphone and all processsing done on the phone, opened to third party apps (instead of waiting for their never coming firmware)
you forgot the terrible battery life and charging of smartphones
Just announced and available for order now and shipping March 6.
https://shop.olympus-imaging.jp/product-detail/index/proid/157642
One of these with the 45mm lens built into my hat and I’m
off to the cinema for some film piracy!
yes Q…and now you can get i-toiletpaper and i-food and i-water and i-car and i-sleep
and i-think ( so you can fall into huxxleys arms ang give your live up-push it all to garbage
realy al-then we take your data-bechaue we have the i-clooooud..and yes you get a littel
i-chip in your…emty place between your i-ees this things left right, optical bionic sensors-
they are realy hi hitec..bionicaly..)and so on.. fine for me and my wallstreet-i-papers
but… why do you like to share all you have ( your privacy is 1000 bilion dollars worth-you
give it for 0 cent to www and so on like 0 cent bitch..) to you life in a honkong chikken slave
hotel among 20 million others?– this not bad argue and want no nothing– but why do you
think your ass open technical stonage device is fin for that?
i-dioticry of insane on demand.– the oly is fine and a 45mm in a filmingdrohne would bee..cool
but with a remote i handel and zerro zerro no nothing is going somewhere.. if you want to use it
in creative way–if only ass-book-mega-filmstar 12345.79889.n9989. then– oki doki?
It probably will not fit my Ultra Z (6.4″ phone for those not into phones) and it really is too bad that it doesn’t have IS. Otherwise I would be all over it.
If they could make a body that could attach to it and power it and we have created close enough to a perfect modular camera, its light and can go in a drone and then can be attached to a body when needed, you upgrade just that part when needed
only electronic shutter, so not really suited for any serious still photography with current technology.
QX1 with battery but without smartphone attachment is 216g, right?
In a way, this things screams for custom build camera housings of wild DIY projects. Imagine building it into an old Graflex Speed Graphic camera. This thing lodged in it lens plate, a phone strapped at the back, and of course a beaten up hat with a press card stuck in its band for your own head. Street photography of a less casual kind…
3D print a custom grip that contours to your own hand!
This seems like it would be great for macro photography. One of the things I really miss about the GH2 when I moved to a GX7 was the fully articulating screen. Having a completely free screen in the form of a handheld tablet would be incredibly useful for precise positioning of objects for closeups without having to constantly move around the back of the camera to see what I’m doing. I never thought I’d say it, but I’m seriously considering an Olympus body now 🙂
You already have that capability, just use the WiFi feature of your GX7.
That’s all this (and the Sony QX1) are – a wifi-enabled camera without a screen or buttons.
Weird, I thought I deleted that post after looking it up and discovering this. I’ve been playing with that, but the connection to my iPad keeps dropping out. I think my Eye-Fi card might be conflicting with it or something. Going to have to figure out a better workflow.
Maybe update ur firmware if u haven’t already. The last one they releases was specifically targeting poor conection on iOS device
I have v1.3 – I updated it about two months ago. The built-in Wi-Fi doesn’t seem happy with my new router (Time Capsule). That’s probably the bulk of the problem there… Troubleshootin’ time!
Never thought I’d say it, but I want an Olympus body now 🙂 This seems like it would be great for odd angles, covert photography, and maybe as a dedicated macro body since it has a tripod mount.
I wonder what the battery life is like and the ISO performance in low light?
I imagine performance is the same as every other 16 MP Sony-sensored MFT camera that Olympus has already released.
Sony QX1 claims 400+ on a charge, so probably somewhere around there.
Throw a Panasonic 20mm f1.7 on that and it’s a pretty slick little rig.
It would be even better with a lens that has a smaller barrel diameter like the 17, Leica 15, Panny 14, etc. I really want to see it on the 40-150 Pro 🙂
Next time add ibis, then it is super cool!
Just got a fantastic idea: This camera + Body Cap Lenses = The truly smallest interchangeable lens camera in the world! Half the size of Pentax Q
We are still waiting for details on the “Open Source Api”. What does Open mean? Which level of control?
Really no stab???
if it has a 5 axis, I would say it s likely to have the same specs as the M5mkII.
Nice tool for videomaker on a tripod