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@MiguelATF Here's a true comparison with some others for good measure. Really surprised I don't have a picture with the hood and half case on the X70. 
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Here's one, a bit messy but...
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@MiguelATF Here's a true comparison with some others for good measure. Really surprised I don't have a picture with the hood and half case on the X70.
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Very cool comparison, David - thank you!
And one can easily see some shared design philosophies between Olympus and Fujifilm.
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It's hard to avoid thinking that Fujifilm took some pretty extensive notes from the early Olympus offerings. Olympus was, after all, the first manufacturer who dared to put out retro-style mirrorless cameras.
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@MiguelATF Here's a true comparison with some others for good measure. Really surprised I don't have a picture with the hood and half case on the X70.
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I make the identical paracord wrist straps
Fuji went retro with the X100, which came after the E-P1, but before the E-M5. I know what you mean, but I think that the retro RF/SLR styles were already pretty well established before Fuji and Olympus, although Olympus can certainly make a claim of the original small SLR with the OM-1. (Maybe Pentax with the MX?) I do think the X-S10 is very close the Olympus E-M1 models with the DSLR style controls.
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As far as I'm aware, the ep-1 was the first mirrorless camera to go retro. It was also somewhat daring to offer the 17mm pancake and optical VF-1 finder as a kit. Olympus wasn't retro styled with their 4/3 DSLR offerings, and the world was pretty squarely in a modified 1990s-style DSLR trend at the time of the ep-1's release.
I think it was. I still have one. I’ve always thought it was a beautiful camera.
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I'm sorry I got rid of mine. I already had a more advanced 16mp sensor at the time (EM10) and was disappointed with the output some of the time with the ep-1, but I think I needed to learn the shooting envelope a little better.
