The PEN Story: A Journey Through Time With Olympus

The PEN Story

By prawn1 January 21st, 2010

Introduced in 1959, the Olympus PEN was one of the smallest cameras at the time, and was as easy to carry around as a pen. Back in 2009, Olympus celebrated the 50th anniversary of their PEN range by creating a beautiful stop-motion video that shows a boy taking a journey through time to adulthood.

An impressive 60 000 shots were taken in 20 different locations; of those pictures, 9600 prints were developed and 1800 pictures were re-shot. The results are fantastic – see The PEN Story below.

If you liked it, then you should also take a look at A Wolf Loves Pork – it’s the work of Takeuchi Taijin that inspired the Olympus team to create their video.

[via Guy With Camera]

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4 Comments

lisa (Reply) on January 21st, 2010

amazing!!
- prawn1 (Reply) on January 21st, 2010
  
  Hi Lisa! Thanks for visiting :-)
  
  If you like the song, you can get it for free at http://www.olympus.eu/penstory/
Deems (Reply) on January 21st, 2010

That was awesome and very well done ( a lot of time and effort involved ) – nice find!
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