Welcome to my site about cult cameras and why we love them. What is a cult camera? Typically it's a camera whose time has passed and is considered obsolete. Users have abandoned it in favor of newer, flashier technology. Some however, still appreciate, and even prefer a certain camera because of some special quality or characteristic that sets it apart from the rest. In some cases, others also recognize what this camera offers and the legend begins to grow.
My goal is to explore and demonstrate how, in many cases, these old relics are every bit as good and in some cases better, than the latest state of the art 24 megapixel, ISO 75,000 supercomputers that we all lust after.
Olympus E-1
Up first is the Olympus E-1, launched by Olympus in 2003. The E-1 was the first camera in the Four-Thirds system which was designed from the start as an all-digital with nothing carried over from legacy film systems. I have no plans to cover the technical details of the four-thirds system, there are ample resources on the web that can do that much better than I. Targeted directly at working professionals, the E-1 was already lagging behind the equivalent pro bodies from Nikon and Canon when it was released.
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