Purported shots, specs of Olympus E-430 turn up online

You'll have to take this one with the usual grain of salt, but if a poster on Photo-Forum.net is to be believed, what you're looking at above is Olympus's yet-to-be-announced E-430 digital camera, seemingly a follow-up to the company's E-330 DSLR. According to that same poster, this one is supposedly a 12-megapixel number, and packs a live-view, flip-out 2.5-inch LCD, a wired remote option, and a slightly higher continuous shooting frame rate and larger raw buffer than its predecessor. Of course, the real stand-out feature is that design, which almost seems so out there that it has to be real, though we'd still recommend waiting for some official word before getting your hopes up too much.

[Via Digital Photography Review, thanks Jesse]

[soapn @ Feb 13th 2008 4:48PM]

Wow. I guess Olympus allows their industrial designers to smoke crack on the job.

[fahnboi @ Feb 13th 2008 4:57PM]

mtv makes me wanna smoke crack. fly out of the window and i'm never coming back.

[Maff @ Feb 13th 2008 8:12PM]

Looks like Steve Threw Up!

[Jeff @ Feb 13th 2008 9:22PM]

who's steve?

[Jeff @ Feb 13th 2008 9:25PM]

I think it's obviously a photochop... just look at is next to the E330 that's linked to in this article...

everything looks exactly the same (down to the reflection in the glass) ...just moved around a little.

So it's probably the Photochopper smoking crack.

...i think it's kind of interesting looking, but it reminds me of those ridiculous Sony cameras that wrote straight to CDs.

[Jared @ Feb 13th 2008 10:16PM]

@Jeff-

You're right on. It definitely is just a Photoshopped E-330 that has been Liquified!

[Sam Winter @ Feb 14th 2008 4:14AM]

Sony Mavica FTW!

[Mikey @ Feb 13th 2008 4:50PM]

Kinda ugly...

[Tony C @ Feb 13th 2008 4:52PM]

It's kinda cool looking in a funky, offbeat, asymmetrical kind of way... Great way to shake up the normally stodgy DSLR market!

[farfisa @ Feb 13th 2008 4:59PM]

Proof that a DSLR doesn't have to look like a...
no, wait, it does.

[Dustin @ Feb 13th 2008 5:01PM]

Looks like something Olympus would do. Kind of like the streamlined cousin of the Hunchback-of-Notre-Dame-esque E-330.

[paragraph @ Feb 13th 2008 5:04PM]

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Looks all good, execpt one oversight, no company with half a mind would put it's logo on the pop-up flash if there was a perfectly suitable place right next to it.

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But if it's real this might light a fire under everyone's asses to pump out a differn't SLR

[- @ Feb 13th 2008 5:14PM]

Reminds me of a Frank Gehry building

[puxpux @ Feb 13th 2008 5:31PM]

I've been wanting a DSLR for a while, but have always been put off by the size and un-discreetness (is that a word?) of most DSLRs on the market.

Any more specs available? Whats it cost? What does it weigh? How big is it? Will it blend?

[tekdroid @ Feb 13th 2008 5:22PM]

fake

[Jeff @ Feb 13th 2008 9:28PM]

totally. look at the top right of the camera... it's a pretty sloppy photochop. (creative though)

[SteveS @ Feb 13th 2008 5:24PM]

Who buys a DSLR for the looks? No matter how the body looks, the shit will still look goofy when you pop that telephoto lens on it...

[trumpton @ Feb 13th 2008 5:42PM]

That thing can't be real!

[David @ Feb 13th 2008 5:53PM]

Looks pretty ergonomic.

[Koray @ Feb 13th 2008 6:21PM]

How could this appear at engadget? Take this

http://a.img-dpreview.com/reviews/olympusE330/Images/allroundview.jpg

do a cheap photoshop distort job, and you are on engadget. Wow...

K.

[Raghu @ Feb 13th 2008 6:55PM]

You got a point there... the lens flare is identical

[F3 @ Feb 13th 2008 10:13PM]

Yeah, saw this on the dpreview forum as well. This was obviously produced from dpreview's imagery, especially considering the reflections in the lens. Can we declare this fake in the article and move on?

[Clem Noise @ Feb 13th 2008 7:54PM]

12 MP should be noisy on that small sensor.
It's real ugly too. I hope it's not real.
Maybe the noisy images will be processed and look
blurry like P&S images look from even smaller sensors.

[paultakeda @ Feb 13th 2008 8:05PM]

1. Fake.
2. 12MP noisy on small sensor? You'd think that by now people would realize that a) sensor tech improves over time and b) 4/3 12MP would be about the same as a 14MP APS-C sensor, which I believe is the next gen pixel count.

[Richard @ Feb 14th 2008 9:14AM]

Total fake. But, if real, I'd be interested in it as an upgrade from my E-510. If it had the E-3's sensor, IS, and the RAW buffer of the 510, plus swivel Live View screen, it would be a total winner. Unfortunately, this isn't real!

[Alex Moyler @ Feb 14th 2008 11:46AM]

That looks like um, cack. Olympus fails again.

[ann schepens @ Feb 26th 2008 2:10PM]

Dr. Gadget was a guest segment featured on the t.v. talk show february 22, 2008. The view daytime talk show. I would appreciate information on the remote shown which is a one and only remote for all t.v./stereo/c.d. devices. This remote programs everything and looked exactly like one I want to purchase. Ann Schepens

[Kryptoze @ Apr 8th 2008 8:31PM]

Engadget : this is an abvious fake you idiots.