Olympus Stop Motion: The PEN Story

Sun, Jul 5, 2009
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Olympus are celebrating the 50th Anniversary of their legendary “PEN” camera and have created a stunning Stop Motion tribute. Called “The PEN Story“, it’s a stop motion video with 60,000 unique photos & no post production! It also marks the re-launch of a special edition PEN. Enjoy!

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    7 Comments For This Post

    1. Gonzalo Zamorano N. Says:

      Nice history!
      see the original video inspiration on:
      http://ojodesapo.blogspot.com/2009/04/takeuchi-taijin-stop-motion-made-in.html

    2. a Says:

      So he walks off on his wife and kid and never comes back. That’s a bit dodgy.

    3. MartianR Says:

      is it inspired by or simply copied ?

    4. JL Says:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmkLlVzUBn4&feature=related

    5. Maria Says:

      I love it, also loved the song but can not find the title/author/singer anywhere, can somebody tell me?

    6. Guyom_h Says:

      The song in this video is called “Down Below” and you can dowload it for free here : http://olympus.eu/penstory/

    7. scott Says:

      very cool, a lot of photos used, how long did it take?

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