Olympus’ booth is situated in the centre of the exhibition hall, one cant possibly missed it. I had a few words with Leo Goh of Olympus Malaysia and tested out their latest dslr the Olympus E-510. Apart from that, I tried the Zuiko 300mm F2.8 mounted on an E-330. Almost full range of Olympus lens were present at the show, some half-cut mock up were seen. An Olympus P-1 mock up were present too.

Olympus E-510 with kit lens 14-42mm

According to Leo, the Olympus E-510 with Image Stabilization (IS) activated is able to maintain 100% sharpness of the photo up to 3-stops down. As user goes to 4-stops down, 90% sharpness is believed to be achievable.

Having won the EISA "European Consumer Camera 2007-2008"Award, I was eager to know how true is what Leo said. Theoretically speaking, having the IS system built-into the camera body, one can save a huge amount of money on lens investment. For instance, a 70-200 F2.8 non-IS version cost around USD1100 (RM3740) while the IS version cost around USD1700 (RN5780).