Olympus DM-450 & DM-550 Discontinued In Australia

This week will see the end of the highly popular Olympus DM-450 and DM-550 recorders in Australia. They will be replaced by the new Olympus DM-3, the smaller brother of the already available DM-5.

The DM-450 in particular was the most popular digital voice recorder we had ever sold from the Olympus range and rightly so. It was a superb recorder in so many ways, superb audio pickup is a given with all Olympus recorders but the DM-450 was something special.

The first DM-3's will arrive in Australia at the end of this week (24th June, 2011) and we will get our hands on one straight away and run it through its paces. Blog review and photos will be posted soon after ... watch this space.

Dear Santa - Olympus LS-20M Please !

About to launch in the US is the new Olympus LS-20M HD video camera and digital PCM recorder combo.

A new venture for Olympus taking their extensive imaging knowledge and combining it with their world class digital recording technology to come up with the beast known as the LS-20M.

Set to debut for a mere US$299 in June 2011 across America there are no plans as yet to see this device in Australia, but I have my fingers, toes and arms crossed hoping it will be here for Christmas. This will be the present from me, to me !!

Olympus Voice Announce DM-3 For Australia

Olympus this week advised its Gold Aussie resellers to expect a new recorder in their notetaker range, the DM-3.

Expected in June/July 2011 the DM-3 will join the already available DM-5 in the top tier of digital notetakers for recording meetings, interviews, conferences and focus groups.

To make room for the large colour screen DM-3 we will see the end of the hugely popular DM-450 and DM-550 recorders, some of the best recorders ever to come out of Olympus in my opinion. The DM-3 along with the DM-5 raise the bar just that little bit more, great work Olympus.