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02.04.2012

Triple design award triumph for Olympus E-P3 camera, LS-100 and IPLEX UltraLite win red dot award: product design 2012

Olympus is proud to announce that three of its flagship products received a red dot award: product design 2012. Creative heads and manufacturers from all over the world submitted a total of 4,515 entries to the renowned competition. All three Olympus...

07.02.2012

Olympus Europa Holding: Company Profile

Since Olympus was founded in Japan in 1919, it has become a leading manufacturer of innovative optical and digital equipment for the healthcare and consumer electronics sectors. For over 90 years it has led the way in designing endoscopy and ...

10.01.2012

New OLYMPUS TOUGH is ideal for active families & holidays

Buying a new compact camera can be like getting a new pair of sunglasses – you spend a lot on something impressive only for it to break the first time you drop it. Which is why Olympus developed TOUGH. Shockproof*, waterproof* and freezeproof*...

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07.02.2012

Olympus Europa Holding: Company Profile

07.09.2011

"Portraits of Courage" Worldwide TV Program sponsored by Olympus Corporation

We are happy to announce that our special feature program "Portraits of Courage" is going to be broadcast on NHK WORLD/jibtv channel and internet streaming (http://jibtv.com) throughout the world this September.

15.03.2011

Olympus Business Update on the Situation after Earthquake No 1 (as of 15th March 2010)

Since the terrible events that took place in Japan last Friday, Olympus Europe and its employees have been constantly thinking of our Japanese colleagues, their relatives, and all of the Japanese people. All our hopes and wishes are with them during ...

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10.01.2012

Olympus Ultra Zoom cameras set the benchmark. Again.

An Olympus Ultra Zoom ‘Traveller’ camera wears its class on its sleeve – there’s no mistaking the huge optical zoom lens on the front, nor the extraordinary character and quality of the images it delivers.

10.01.2012

New SZ Series cameras boast powerful zooms plus a new Magic Filter

Vivid movies and close-ups bring memories of holidays and other trips to life. That’s why the latest stars of Olympus’ compact SZ ‘Super Zoom’ Series come with Multi-motion Movie Image Stabilisation (Movie IS) and massive wide optical zoom lenses...

10.01.2012

New OLYMPUS TOUGH is ideal for active families & holidays

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PK PlasmaSORD - New member of PK Technology family

20.11.2010

Advancing gynaecology: PK Technology

The PK Technology is a dedicated system for hysterectomy operations: As each instrument is made for a specific procedure the surgeon will always benefit from a best-in-class designed product, offering faster procedures and increased efficiency.

25.10.2010

Magnetically guided capsule endoscope system presented at UEGW in Barcelona

Magnetically guided capsule endoscope system from Olympus and Siemens for comfortable examination of the stomach - More than 50 participants in the first successful study

25.06.2010

Olympus to Acquire Spiration, Inc., a U.S. Pulmonary Device Company, as a Consolidated Subsidiary

Olympus Corporation (President: Tsuyoshi Kikukawa) (“Olympus”) is pleased to announce that an agreement was reached with Spiration, Inc. (Head Office: Redmond, Washington, U.S.A; President and CEO: Rick Shea) (“Spiration”) in which all shares of Spiration

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09.06.2011

Olympus introduces silicon immersion objectives for life science imaging

Olympus has introduced two new silicon oil-immersion objectives, the UPLSAPO30xS and UPLSAPO60xS. The new lenses are ideal for live cell experiments, particularly those investigating thick samples or requiring long-term imaging.

17.05.2011

Advancing FluoView functionality

Olympus has introduced FV10-ASW 3.0, the latest version of its software for the FluoView FV1000 range of confocal laser scanning microscopes (cLSM) and Fluoview FV1000MPE (multiphoton excitation) systems. By incorporating high dynamic range imaging ...

21.04.2011

Olympus microscopy shines a light on real-time FRAP

Olympus provides the cell^frap module for the xcellence live cell imaging and manipulation system, which enables users to perform fluorescence recovery after photo-bleaching (FRAP), inverse FRAP (iFRAP), fluorescence loss in photobleaching (FLIP) and ...

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13.05.2011

Outstanding success of international metrology conference and exhibition

Olympus attended the recent International Conference on Metrology and Properties of Engineering Surfaces, where it displayed its advanced measuring confocal laser scanning microscopy, the LEXT OLS4000. Hosted by the National Physical Laboratory, the ...

03.05.2011

A complete materialographic solution

Olympus today launched the latest version of its highly successful Olympus Stream materials science microscopy imaging software family at booth 1512 in hall 1 at Control, Stuttgart. Olympus Stream 1.6 provides a number of new and improved ...

06.04.2011

Setting new standards in optical metrology

The Olympus LEXT OLS4000 is being used as a benchmark tool for the development of good practice guidelines and new reference standards in optical metrology. With both of these projects being detailed at the ...

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Triple design award triumph for Olympus E-P3 camera, LS-100 and IPLEX UltraLite win red dot award: product design 2012

Olympus Europa Holding: Company Profile

New OLYMPUS TOUGH is ideal for active families & holidays

Olympus Europa Holding: Company Profile

"Portraits of Courage" Worldwide TV Program sponsored by Olympus Corporation

Olympus Business Update on the Situation after Earthquake No 1 (as of 15th March 2010)

Olympus Ultra Zoom cameras set the benchmark. Again.

New SZ Series cameras boast powerful zooms plus a new Magic Filter

New OLYMPUS TOUGH is ideal for active families & holidays

Advancing gynaecology: PK Technology

Magnetically guided capsule endoscope system presented at UEGW in Barcelona

Olympus to Acquire Spiration, Inc., a U.S. Pulmonary Device Company, as a Consolidated Subsidiary

Olympus introduces silicon immersion objectives for life science imaging

Advancing FluoView functionality

Olympus microscopy shines a light on real-time FRAP

Outstanding success of international metrology conference and exhibition

A complete materialographic solution

Setting new standards in optical metrology

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