Anyone interested in the Four Thirds digital SLR camera system, which comprises cameras, lenses and system accessories manufactured by Olympus, Panasonic Lumix, Sigma and Leica (Digilux) has a new online resource at their disposal from today. It’s Four Thirds User (fourthirds-user.com) featuring news, in-depth reviews, tutorials, a wiki-style interactive knowledge base and an integrated discussion forum and user photo gallery.

To celebrate the launch of the new site, Four Thirds User running a prize draw to give away an Olympus E-510 DSLR camera, the most recently introduced Four Thirds camera model.

Being a specialist site catering for an audience with a particular common interest FTU can routinely produce targeted content that more general publications can only justify publishing from time-to-time, if at all. “We’ve received a lot of behind-the-scenes support and encouragement from the companies that form the Four Thirds consortium. I doubt we could have embarked on this project without that encouragement. It’s going to be a lot of fun running FTU,” says Ian, though he’s keen to emphasise that FTU is complementary to DPNow, which will continue to be independent and impartial in its coverage of the general digital photography scene.

Website : Community Site Targets Four Thirds Standard Interest