The best moments in life rarely announce themselves – they happen along quiet streets, in soft morning light, and unexpected turns every day.
Continuing the PEN series’ original idea of making photography as easy and natural as using a pen, the PEN is designed for everyday and travel photography. Compact, intuitive, and always ready, it captures daily life, city walks, weekend escapes, and unforgettable journeys – the moments you discover, not just the places everyone else has already seen.
FEATURES
- Multiple Computational Photography Functions
- IPX1 Certified Weathersealed Design
- SCN Mode & ART Mode
- Timeless Rangefinder Design
- AI Subject Detection AF
- Slow & Quick Video
- OI.Share App
- In-Camera Creative Color Profiles for Photo and Video
With creative tools built-in, PEN helps you shape color, contrast, movement, and mood in the moment. Instead of waiting until later to edit, you can create images that already feel like yours the instant you capture them. Tell your story the exact way you see it.
Creative Simplicity
Create more of the look you want, with less guesswork. PEN gives you easy in-camera tools to capture richer detail, softer motion, greater depth, and more expressive images, so it’s simple to make everyday moments look the way they feel.
Your Everyday Carry
A timeless range-finder style design. Compact, and made for everyday life, PEN brings back the simple pleasure of carrying a camera, looking through the viewfinder, and capturing the authentic moments that move you.
Your Signature Look for Photo & Video
Add your own creative signature to every shot. With easy-to-use color and monochrome profiles, plus intuitive in-camera computational features, PEN makes it simple to create photos and videos that look and feel the way you want.
Profile Control Switch
The Profile Control switch makes it easy to explore a look that feels like you. From rich colour to classic black and white, you can choose from inspiring film-like profiles, shape the mood of your image, and create a signature style that feels personal from the very first shot. With art filters close at hand, it’s simple to experiment, have fun, and make every photo your own.
Colour and Monochrome Profiles
With four colour profiles and four monochrome profiles to choose from, PEN makes it easy to find a look that feels right from the start. Use the film-like profiles as they are, or make them unique by customising your favourite profiles. Whether you are shooting stills or video, it is simple to create a signature style that feels uniquely you.
Sharing Your Film-Like Profiles
Define your look, then share it with others. Custom colour and monochrome profile recipes can be sent to fellow creators, who can easily upload them to their camera using OM Workspace or the newly updated OI.Share app.
Creative tools that do more for you.
PEN uses built-in processing power to make advanced creative techniques feel easier to explore. Instead of needing extra gear or complicated editing, you can try effects in camera and see the results as you shoot.
Scene Modes
How do you take the guess work out of complex photography modes?
Scene Modes take the guesswork out of more advanced photography by automatically optimizing settings for the kind of image you want to create. Whether you are capturing a night scene, portrait, landscape, or close-up, PEN makes it easier to get beautiful results with confidence.
Art Modes
How do you make creative looks with the press of a button?
Art Filters make it simple to give your images more mood, character, and visual impact right in the camera. Whether you are shooting stills or video, you can apply artistic effects with ease and explore different creative styles without needing extra editing.
Auto Live Guide
How does Auto Live Guide work?
This feature helps you adjust the look and feel of your images and videos in a simple, visual way. Instead of needing to understand technical settings, you can make changes like background blur, brightness, colour tone, and motion effects more intuitively, so it is easy to explore a more creative style with confidence.
Creative Profiles
Want to see how PEN can help you expand your creativity? Check out these unique recipes for film like colour profiles that you can easily download directly to your camera via the new OI.Share app or OM Workspace.
Creative Simplicity
What are computational photography features, and how do they help?
Computational photography features use built-in camera processing to make advanced creative effects easier to achieve right in camera, without extra gear or time-consuming editing. From smoothing motion in waterfalls and capturing star trails to expanding detail, balancing difficult light, and increasing depth of field, OM SYSTEM PEN gives you a wide range of tools designed to help you explore more creative possibilities with confidence.
Multiple Exposure
What is Multiple Exposure mode?
Multiple Exposure lets you blend different moments, shapes, or details into one image, opening up a more artistic way to tell your story. The PEN shows your first shot faintly on screen while you line up the second, so you can see the blend forming instead of guessing at it. It is a creative tool for making images that feel less ordinary and is uniquely yours.
High Res Shot Mode
What is High Res Shot Mode?
You can capture more detail when it matters most. High Res Shot Mode combines multiple images into one, helping you create photos with greater detail, cleaner texture, and less visible noise. It is especially useful for scenes like architecture, landscapes, artwork, or still subjects where you want a richer, more refined result. Use Tripod High Res Shot when you have time to set up for maximum detail, or choose Handheld High Res Shot for sharp, high-quality results without needing extra gear.
Live ND
What does Live ND do?
Smooth motion, without packing extra filters. Live ND is an in-camera feature that helps you create soft, flowing motion in scenes like waterfalls, rivers, clouds, or busy streets, all without needing an external darkening filter. It makes it easier to capture a more creative, atmospheric look in bright conditions, so you can explore long-exposure-style effects with less setup and more confidence. Best of all it shows you the effect live on screen before you take the picture.
Live Composite
How can you make light trails in camera without editing?
Live Composite lets you build light into the image, little by little. Watch the image come to life right on the screen as it builds. Designed for scenes where light changes over time—like star trails, fireworks, traffic trails, or light painting—it adds only new points of light as they appear, helping keep the rest of the scene balanced and properly exposed. And it all happens in-camera, so you can create dramatic long-exposure images without complicated editing afterward.
Focus Stacking
How can you get more of your photo in focus?
Keep more of the scene sharp with Focus Stacking. This feature combines multiple images taken at different focus points to create one photo with greater sharpness from front to back. It is especially useful for close-ups, flowers, food, and small subjects when you want more detail in focus without needing to edit later.
HDR
How Can you balance light and detail more naturally?
HDR Mode helps bring out more detail in both bright and dark areas of a scene, so images look closer to the way you remember them. HDR fixes the show there the sky is bright and everything below it is a black silhouette. It is especially helpful for sunsets, backlit portraits, or high-contrast scenes where it can be difficult to capture everything clearly in a single shot.
Creative storytelling
The PEN brings the same creative personality to video as it does to still photography. Colour and monochrome profiles, simple creative controls, and video-friendly features make it easy to keep a consistent style across both formats.
For users who want to record travel, their everyday life, or social-ready content, it offers a straightforward, simple path into more expressive video.
PEN makes it easy to create images that feel more like you.
Slow & Quick Video Modes
Slow down the moments that happen in an instant, or speed up the ones that unfold over time. Slow & Quick Motion video mode easily gives you a new way to tell the story, revealing movement, mood, and details you might otherwise miss.
OM Cinema 1 & 2
Your signature look with built-in creative video modes, OM Cinema 1 & 2. With these modes you can capture cinematic videos without need of colour grading or intense editing.
Profile Control
The Profile Control switch brings creative tools together in one easy place, so it is simple to move from everyday shooting into a more expressive style of photography. With colour and monochrome profile recipes, it gives you faster access to the tools that shape the unique look of the image.
Vertical Video
What’s the best way to film vertical content? With PEN, it’s easy to shoot in portrait or landscape orientation and transfer your footage to your phone or computer exactly as it was captured. That means no extra rotating or reformatting during editing, so creating social-ready content is faster and gives you more free time to keep on creating.
Plug & Play Webcam Mode
What’s the easiest way to look better on camera for calls, streaming, or content creation? PEN makes it easy to use your camera as a webcam, so you can enjoy better image quality without a complicated setup. Simply connect it via USB-C and start using it for video calls, livestreams, or online content creation, with a clearer, more polished look.
Designed to Be Your Everyday Carry
A camera for everyday use has to be ready for unpredictability. Fast autofocus, reliable stabilization, a viewfinder that pulls you into the frame, and weather-ready protection make PEN easier to trust wherever the day goes.
Classic Rangefinder Design
A timeless design built to inspire you to feel the connection to your subject and the joy of photography.
Looking through the viewfinder creates a more focused, immersive way to photograph. It helps you pay attention to light, framing, and the feeling of the moment.
IP Rated Confidence
Don’t let a little rain stop you from telling your story. The PEN has IPX1 certified weathersealing for reliability come rain or shine, so you can keep capturing no matter what mother nature has in store for the day.
AI Subject Detection AF
Fast AI autofocus with human and pet subject detection helps PEN recognize what matters in the frame and keep it sharp. That makes it easier to capture fleeting expressions, movement, and everyday moments without second-guessing focus.
Stay Sharp with Better Focus
PEN combines a 20.4MP Live MOS sensor with on-chip All-Cross-Type Phase-Detection AF and the high-speed TruePic IX image processor to deliver fast, highly accurate autofocus performance.
Now enhanced with AI subject-detection AF for even greater ease of use.
Stay Dust Free
PEN features a dust reduction system which ensures camera’s internals stay clean, so your photos remain flawless and free of spots
The Super Sonic Wave Filter vibrates over 30,000 times per second when the camera is turned on, obliterating dust on the spot!
Keep it Steady
Built-in image stabilization helps reduce blur from camera shake, especially in lower light or when shooting handheld. That means clearer travel scenes, sharper evening moments, and more freedom to shoot without needing a tripod.
A camera is meaningless unless you take it with you.
The Olympus PEN line has always stood for the idea that photography should feel open, personal, and enjoyable. The PEN carries that spirit forward with a camera that feels welcoming for new users, while still offering room to grow creatively over time.
It is designed to be part of everyday life - something you want to take with you, use often, and make your own.
A legacy of everyday accessibility
Since it was originally introduced in 1959, the Olympus PEN line has made photography feel more open, approachable, and enjoyable for more people. Designed to feel as intuitive and natural as pen and paper, it helped empower more people to capture the moments, feelings, and perspectives they wanted to share.
Designed to be carried, made to be used
The PEN was created as a compact camera for everyday life, easy to take with you and make your own. Today, PEN reimagines that legacy for modern life, combining the spirit of the original with a refined design made to be carried, used, and loved every day.
