Olympus Mju 1060 hits the scene

With Photokina just around the corner, it's time for camera manufacturers to start kicking out the standard updates so we can all be appropriately focused next month, and it looks like Olympus is getting things started with the new Mju 1060 point-and-shoot. The 10 megapixel shooter (it'll be a Stylus when it comes Stateside) has a nice 7x optical zoom, dual image stabilizers, Intelligent Auto mode with face detection and shadow adjustment, and takes both xD-Picture and MicroSD cards, in case you're into semi-obscure memory card formats. Should be out in the UK in September for £259 ($482), we'd expect it to arrive here for less shortly thereafter.

[psyclotron Posted Aug 19th 2008 2:58PM]

yay?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 19th 2008 3:12PM]

£259? jesus wept a thousand tears.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 19th 2008 4:24PM]

Delighted to see something other than an XD card in an Olympus, Fuji started including an SD slot long ago, but a MicroSD slot... sheesh

[n230099 Posted Aug 19th 2008 5:47PM]

Agree, not sure why Olympus rode Xd media this long. SDHC seems to be the vehicle with a future. Xd stopped at least a year ago and finally did make 2g. But I would be surprised if it goes further.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 19th 2008 6:59PM]

ummm...is the "Mju" the official name, or did somebody simply misinterpret the lowercase Greek "mu", which is also used as an abbreviation for micro?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 19th 2008 8:40PM]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Olympus_mju_ii.jpg/800px-Olympus_mju_ii.jpg

been out in europe since 1991, that's the mju II

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 19th 2008 10:08PM]

hmmm...takes MicroSD cards? I guess it is there to imply "Micro".