E-P 1 In The Wild

Seems like everybody has caught some sort of serious compact camera bug. I should say there is always some group of extremely well-off people who prefer compact cameras to manly man gigantic SLRs with oversized lenses. The Olympus pen is emblematic and a continuation of this serious(ly expensive) digital compact camera trend represented by the Leica M8, D-Lux 4, Panicsonic LX-3, Sigma DP-1, DP-2, and Ricoh GR Digital II, Epson R-D1s. The Olympus E-P1 attracted tons of attention from serious amateurs and arm-chair photographers alike. Tokyocamerastyle has a couple of pictures showing the pen in the wild as carried by a woman. Oh well, the camera does look like a girly camera. But I don't think I would have any qualm wearing and using one. I would get one of those original half frame pen.