We’re sure that the amount of lust that exists for a gadget is inversely proportional to the time taken for it to be torn apart and the resulting photos posted online for all to see. Olympus’ new EP-1, the current object of desire for both me and Wired.com Editor Dylan “Guile” Tweney , follows this metric: Pictures have already appeared of both the “digital Pen” and the 17mm pancake lens, stripped of their shiny skins to reveal hearts of pure… plastic?
Yes, inside both reportedly solid-feeling devices you’ll find a plastic core. Many feel that a camera isn’t a camera unless it is hewn from a solid chunk of metal, but I’ve never really had a problem with plastic cameras. In fact, the EP-1 looks like it’s pretty sturdy even without its aluminum shell. The most surprising part of this teardown for us is the amount of electronics inside the lens: It’s stuffed full of them. For more intimate shots of the innards, check out the two galleries at Photo Rumors.
Is the Olympus Zuiko 17mm f/2.8 Pancake lens all plastic? [Photo Rumors. Thanks, Peter!]
The guts of the m4/3 Olympus E-P1Photo Rumors]
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