Stuff Gadget Awards 2011 – Olympus PEN E-P3 gets Camera of the Year

As you may have noticed, the Stuff Gadget Awards 2011 were on last night, and we thought you might like to know the Olympus PEN E-P3 took Camera of the Year Award. Why, you ask? Well.

In the past, it was possible to see DSLRs as the 100-metre sprinters of the camera world – big, fast and powerful – and compact system cameras as long-distance runners: smaller, lighter, and prone to taking a while to do their thing. Then came the Micro Four Thirds PEN E-P3, and our running-related categorisation system went out the window.  Not that we mind: the first interchangeable-lens compact to truly keep up with the big boys, the E-P3 can refocus 120 times per second, which is probably more than Usain Bolt.

Read the full Olympus PEN E-P3 review.

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Tom Wiggins Contributor

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Stuff's second Tom has been writing for the magazine and website since 2006, when smartphones were only for massive nerds and you could say “Alexa” out loud without a robot answering. Over the years he’s written about everything from MP3s to NFTs, played FIFA with Trent Alexander-Arnold, and amassed a really quite impressive collection of USB sticks.

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A bit of everything but definitely not cameras.