OM System's ?budget? camera for astrophotography is priced at ?2,180 |
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Japanese company OM Digital Solutions, owner of the Olympus camera brand, has unveiled the E-M1 Mark III digital camera designed for photographing the starry sky. The new product is interesting not only for its basic characteristics and specific lens kit, but also for its quite ?down-to-earth? price. Technically, the new product is a modified version of the Olympus E-M5 Mark III camera with a new lens. It includes an IR filter that ?reveals? the colors of cosmic objects that are usually invisible to the human eye, such as nebulae. Left: photo taken with the filter; right: the same shot taken with a regular lens The camera supports a ?starry sky autofocus? function to improve photo clarity and a 50-megapixel mode for long exposure shots taken with a tripod. Example of a photo taken in 50 MP mode The new product is already available in the UK market at a price starting at £1,899 (approximately ?2,180). At the same time, the company announced two additional optical filters: the BMF-LPC01 for suppressing light pollution (city lights, etc.) and the BMF-SE01, which blurs the background to enhance the contrast of stars in photos. Their prices in Europe are ?297 and ?205, respectively. |
