With a retro-cool design, improved handling and OM-D image quality - could this be the best compact system camera on the market?

Updated The Olympus compact system camera has the same sensor and processor as the OM-D, as well as a touchscreen.

Photokina 2012 The new Olympus PEN E-PM2, or PEN Mini, is one of the smallest CSCs currently available on the market - but what can it deliver?

The Olympus OM-D is the first camera in what appears to be a whole new line-up for the company, we put it well and truly through its paces to see if it lives up to its high price tag.

Is the smallest Olympus compact system camera as easy to use as it promises?

The new downsized Micro Four Thirds PEN compact system camera boasts an extremely fast autofocus system

With its new control set-up, touchscreen and fast AF, could the Olympus PEN P3 be the best compact system camera yet? Angela Nicholson puts it through its paces

Olympus has a lot riding on the E-PL2 if it is to compete in the increasingly crowded compact system camera market. Angela Nicholson puts the latest 12.3Mp Pen through its paces

Does this DSLR have enough to tempt Four Thirds photographers?

The micro four thirds range from Olympus

The Olympus E-620 DSLR fits nugly between the E-30 and the recently announced E-450, in the middle of the Olympus 'E' range.

The past year has been quite a busy one for Olympus. First there was the launch of the cute E-410 and E-510, followed by the impressive professional E-3 DSLR, which saw one of the world's most innovative camera brands re-enter the serious DSLR market.

Small is beautiful, or so it's said. Could this be true of a DSLR that's as small as a large compact? Well, if you give the E-420 a chance, not only will you find it astonishing value, but its dinky size means you'll end up taking it everywhere with you.

Four long years have passed since Olympus launched its first professional digital SLR. During that time there may have been moments when some Olympus fans doubted there would ever be a successor to the much-loved E-1. Now the wait is finally over with the launch of the E-3

The promise of compact Four Thirds SLRs was finally fulfilled with the launch of the Olympus E-400 a year ago. That model has been superseded by the E-410 and is now joined by this, the excellent E-510

In almost every physical respect, this dinky DSLR camera is identical to the Olympus E-400, launched barely six months ago. It's still supremely small and light, and it noticeably lacks the bulge of a battery grip that appears to be standard

Olympus has obviously been listening to our gripes, with the E-500 looking like the camera the E-300 should have been all along. With more of a resemblance to the E-1 and a 'proper' digital SLR design, it also comes packed with clever photographic features

Welcome to the only really new SLR this year. The Nikon D80 is so similar to the D50/D70s that it doesn't really count as a 'new' design, while the Canon EOS 400D is essentially a revamped 350D and the Sony Alpha 00 is a heavily revised Dynax 5D.

The E-system, introduced by Olympus in 2003, reminds us of the Olympus of old: lean, daring and technically very clever. Driving the new system is the industry's ambition to reduce the size of the 35mm format, so that cameras can be smaller and lighter