Olympus FE-290.

With the E-3, Olympus introduces their first new autofocus sensor in years: an 11-point array, each point consisting of twin cross-type AF sensors. Read user reviews (30).

• > Olympus FE-280.
• (Mju mini Digital S).
• Even with image stabilization, it's difficult to hold your target and press the Shutter button (especially if you're excited by finding a rare bird perched in your scene).
• They've grown accustomed to holding their cameras out in front of them and composing on the LCD.
• You can move the camera to a more contrasty subject, but you won't be able to see just where you've moved it until the camera focuses and your live view returns.
• 10.9 million sensor photo detectors.
• Olympus Reviews.
• The image is softer overall, however.

(3 shots). • Is compact, more stable and light.

E-System Backpack. 35 mm - 106 mm (3x) zoom lens. For comparison, if you shoot with the optical viewfinder, the shutter lag does full autofocus and fires in 0.35 second; and if you prefocus, it's a blazing 0.091 second. Olympus EVOLT E-330 digital SLR body. Whereas the Canon XTi on top left much chroma noise to preserve detail, and the D40 effectively smooshed out chroma noise along with some detail, the E410 strikes a balance between the two extremes. The first three three use Olympus's new Supersonic Wave Drive focusing motor, which the company calls the "World's quickest.".• Image Quality.

Up to now, few SLRs could do that trick, forcing the user to use the SLR just like you use a film camera: by looking through the optical viewfinder. Seamless 100x zoom range with 18x optical plus 5.6x digital.I really liked the feel of this material, which I found wherever I gripped the camera. The hinge is just a little loose, but again, this is a prototype camera, so we'll reserve judgment. So I zoomed in to full optical. Manual focus is electronic, not physical. For comparison, if you shoot with the optical viewfinder, the shutter lag does full autofocus in 0.37 second, and if you prefocus it's a blazing 0.092 second.

Visit our discussion forum for the Olympus EVOLT E-330! Lens hood (kit only). So the Optical viewfinder is indeed a viable and available option on the Olympus E-330.The pack duplicates the Function and AF-selection button, the Main dial, the Sub-dial, and the shutter button. CD-ROM with Olympus Master 2.0 software. "Police should have these," Mom said when I showed her what the Olympus SP-550 UZ could do. Scuba divers and snorkelers will appreciate the Olympus Stylus 770 SW's negative buoyancy, which means that it won't float up and hit your mask while you're underwater. I was also surprised to see the Live View image change to black and white in very low light.

I could also see him over the camera from this vantage. (Mju 410 Digital). No other brand makes a camera that compensates for my nearsightedness out of the box, with compensation from -3 to +1.0; that's good for me, but your results will vary. The gallery shots have several examples of this -- but you really have to be told that the shots go together (look at the file names for close sequences).Auto White balance leaves incandescent shots quite warm.

Dual image stabilization with Olympus' Sensor-Shift optical stabilization and high ISO and fast shutter speeds providing digital stabilization as well. SuperSonic Wave Filter cleans dust from sensor. Despite its narrower range, I had better results with the on-camera flash. Because the optical viewfinder bezel had to be extended to clear the LCD, you can't just tilt the LCD up, you have to first tilt it down (or pull it out slightly as above), then it will swing up 90 degrees for those waist- or ground-level shots. Aimed squarely at the Nikon D300 and Canon 40D, it's no surprise that the Olympus E-3 is big and teeming with buttons and controls.

• Today, digicam users seldom look through their optical viewfinders.
• No light lost, no trouble; you get the view you're used to, framed exactly as the capture sensor will see it.
• Add the ability to manually focus on a 10x zoomed area via Live View, and the E-510 is clearly a great solution for the experienced photographer wanting a closer look at what he's about to capture.
• 36 mm - 100 mm (2.7x) zoom lens.
• 1.5 million sensor photo detectors.

Canon PIXMA MP610 Printer. The Olympus E-330 is utilitarian, not beautiful. • Splash-proof Top Pro lens.

Then it articulates pretty much like we've seen on most Canon-style swivel-screens. Olympus E-3 Digital Camera - Review - The Imaging Resource! Read user reviews (10). Shutter speeds range from 1/1000 to 4 seconds, and the Olympus 790 offers automatic or preset white balance control courtesy of six presets, but no custom white balance mode.A surprisingly large speaker sits above the Olympus 770SW's Four-way controller and to the right of the Mode and Playback buttons and provides a thumb rest for the otherwise gripless camera. • Fixed focal macro lens. Well, if you forget to close the manually operated viewfinder shutter, your photos will be underexposed because stray light entering the viewfinder eyepiece as you hold the camera away from you to see the LCD is "seen" by the exposure sensors. Olympus Talk.

Though the Canon 40D got bigger than its predecessors, the Olympus E-3 is bigger still. A Preview includes basic specs and a brief description. Auto White balance leaves incandescent shots quite warm. No lens is perfect and optical distortions are easily accommodated by our "intelligent" vision. The Olympus E-510's image stabilization seems to work pretty well.> Olympus EVOLT E-510. Given that the E-510's Large/Fine JPEGs can be as large as 8MB each, you'll want one or two large CF cards for vacation. Olympus E-500 - Digital SLR - TrustedReviews. Get past that, however, and you'll find that the E-510 can be customized to do a lot of convenient tricks, like swapping the Function button with the AEL/AFL button for easier autofocus when in Live View mode. While I had a little trouble focusing on subjects that wouldn't sit still, the Olympus SP-550 UZ let me shoot things I couldn't even see without looking through its lens.

Extras include a manometer, which records the depth or altitude at which the shot was taken, and a useful set of in-camera post-processing editing functions such as redeye fix, saturation, and brightness adjustments. Both have dust reduction, but only the E-410 has Live View. Contrast, Saturation, Monochrome (with several filter options), and Graduation image adjustments. No other brand makes a camera that compensates for my nearsightedness out of the box, with compensation from -3 to +1.0; that's good for me, but your results will vary. Like all Olympus SLRs, the E-3 has the company's Super Sonic Wave Filter, which shakes the sensor's cover glass at more than 30,000 times per second. Olympus SP-560 UZ.5.2 million sensor photo detectors. I did feel comfortable knowing that I didn't have to treat the Olympus 770 SW with kid gloves when I was outdoors. Caution when using Digital Image Stabilization, the Available Light Scene mode, and high ISOs should help prevent most image noise, giving snapshooters a way to capture decent -- albeit not great -- images of their outdoor adventures.

The third iteration of Olympus FE-290 's compact shock and waterproof cameras, the Olympus Stylus 770 SW, takes the "SW" classification up a notch. Most cameras will give you some trouble focusing in low light, but this was more trouble than I'm used to. Found this little dragonfly to be unusually cooperative, flying back to this favorite flower over and over so I could make use of the 150mm f/2.0. 28 mm - 140 mm (5x) zoom lens. I prefer LCDs that turn left, right, and forward as well for shots around corners and in tight spots. But I just know that we're going to get a lot of emails from those who just wanted a live preview, asking me to explain why an E-330 underexposes all their images, or why it just won't focus anymore.

The mirror flips out of the way completely while the Live View B mode is active, allowing light to strike the MOS sensor the entire time. Interchangeable lens mount accommodates Olympus Zuiko Digital lenses. (Mju 410 Digital). Big maximum apertures over the whole zoom range as well as dust & splash proof construction distinguish these lenses. I also like that the E-3 has a slightly better grip area on the left of the camera, for better two-hand control when working the menu and looking at photos.

I should also note that there's quite a bit of distortion with the Olympus SP-550 UZ's lens at both ends. On the back three buttons that are not on the E-410: the IS (image stabilization), Fn (Function), and AF point selector button. Good Prefocus shutter lag. Though Live View does give you a live image onscreen, that image won't be in focus until you press the AEL/AFL button.Canon PIXMA Pro9000 Printer. The cool part is that you can customize which direction you use to focus in the menu.

This of course was a prototype, so the finished Olympus E-3 could very well be faster at the decision-making aspect. Viewfinder blackout is brief enough that you can stay on your subject. It's quite an impressive range that fits in the smallest of camera cases, and that's the real story to the Olympus E-410. Olympus FE-250.Read user reviews (4). The introduction also includes five new optics and two new flashes that can be remote controlled from the Olympus E-3's onboard flash in three groups.

With such a long zoom, the SP-550 also uses an electronic viewfinder with diopter correction. Read user reviews (9). Update: 12/22/2007 Added Imatest results! Olympus Stylus 725 SW. All 11 AF points appear in the Olympus E-3's Live View mode, and light up very similar to how they do in the optical viewfinder, except that the whole dot illuminates.Most amateurs wanting a live preview will do better sticking to Live View A, closing the optical viewfinder's shutter, and forgetting the Olympus E-330 has an optical viewfinder.

Live View mode is very slow, introducing extreme shutter lag. Image Control. Here image stabilization helped maintain sharpness despite a 1/10 second exposure.

Read user reviews (6). All 11 AF points appear in the Olympus E-3's Live View mode, and light up very similar to how they do in the optical viewfinder, except that the whole dot illuminates. Twenty-four scene modes, including movie mode, with text descriptions. Conspicuously absent from the Olympus E-510 are two scene modes: both of them Underwater modes. Olympus C-720 UZ.

Olympus 790 SW. I was pleasantly surprised by how little I had to do to get great results. Read user reviews (22). Olympus C-2020 Zoom. Read user reviews (45). Shot-to-shot time was sluggish, and was noticeably slower when the flash was engaged.500 shots. Read user reviews (193). Olympus's EVOLT E-410 finally realizes one of the most clearly stated goals of the Four-Thirds standard: A small camera with a great lenses and good quality. You could call it a crime in progress (see the Gallery images for the painter crouched over the bench: images YP4160884.JPG, YP41608845.JPG, and YP4160887.JPG). Automatic exposure.

The OM-series spanned three decades, culminating in the OM-4T, an innovative, albeit manual-focus camera that was finally discontinued in 2002. Sensor-shift image stabilization, a first for Olympus, detects camera motion, and moves the CCD to compensate, reducing blur due to camera shake. Other benefits of TruePic III include faster connectivity, faster flash card write speeds, faster startup, and improved image quality (detail, color accuracy, and color transitions). Visit our discussion forum for the Olympus EVOLT E-510! Image stabilization works well, helps indoors. With the addition of crush resistance, an altimeter, and even a flashlight, the Olympus 770 SW is the best ruggedized point-and-shoot camera on the market, making it a Dave's Pick.These were large and heavy enough that they really required a tripod, and were better suited to the Olympus E-510, with its bigger grip and sensor-shift image stabilization. Read user reviews (19). With four AA batteries in the Olympus SP-550 UZ, I was able to shoot for days without swapping out the cells.

(4 shots). Enthusiasts will also appreciate the 550's Raw image file support. In 1990, the company introduced a three-point AF system in their IS-1, a camera design that they dubbed ZLR, for Zoom Lens Reflex.Though it's still quite radical in appearance, the Olympus E-330 is slightly more curvaceous, with a better grip and improved control layout. Four new lenses and a 2.0x teleconverter were also announced with the Olympus E-3: the Zuiko 12-60mm f/2.8-4.0 SWD; the Zuiko 50-200mm f/2.8-3.5 SWD; the Zuiko 14-35mm f/2.0 SWD; and the Zuiko 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6.

The same holds true for the E-510's sensor-shift image stabilization. This might not be the ideal test, but the camera was no worse for the wear after I completed my circus-like balancing act. You can also just trust that the Olympus E-510 will focus properly, press the shutter all the way, and it will usually focus right before it fires. The same holds true for the E-510's sensor-shift image stabilization. Here the lens is set to 28mm. Focusing via Live View B isn't quite that bad, but similar.

• Otherwise, the Olympus clearly outperforms Nikon and Canon's Kit lenses in terms of corner sharpness.
• The Olympus FE-280 combines an eight megapixel CCD imager, an Olympus-branded 3x optical zoom lens, and a 2.5-inch LCD display in a pocket-friendly body.
• But the Olympus SP-550 UZ was up to it.
• Olympus Stylus 760.
• We attribute the slight increase in blur at f/22 to diffraction limiting due to the Four-Thirds sensor's smaller pixels.

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An image froze onscreen. Camera is heavy on the left, weight is badly distributed. I experimented taking pictures of my son running around the yard with his Tonka truck. Digital cameras.This latter mode only compensates for vertical motion while you're holding the camera in "landscape" orientation; turn it vertical, and the IS 2 mode won't work. This of course was a prototype, so the finished Olympus E-3 could very well be faster at the decision-making aspect. 5x digital zoom. The Olympus E-410 is so small that it begs comparison to many cameras. In Playback, full image data -- including shutter speed and aperture -- was available on-screen so I used that to gather shutter speed information and assume that a similar shutter speed would be used under the same conditions.

Subdued color gives images a washed out, or faded look. Also compare favorably to the Olympus E-410. Olympus C-765 UZ.Buying an E-410 avails you of the entire suite of 20 Zuiko Digital lenses, as well as flashes, cables, finders, and there's even a lens adapter for using old OM lenses. 650 shots.

Olympus Stylus 740. Read user reviews (7). It's also a little fatter and contoured, with a nice, tacky rubber surface for excellent traction.

Though you need to use the lens hoods for best quality, the E-510's flash doesn't pop up high enough to clear even the small hoods of these two kit lenses. Olympus Stylus 700. Olympus C-2000 Zoom. Shot-to-shot time was sluggish, and was noticeably slower when the flash was engaged. Digital lens design.

But there's a problem with the implementation of Live View on the E-510 and E-410. Olympus Zuiko Digital 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 ED Lens and Olympus Zuiko Digital 40-150mm f/14 - 5.6 (kits only). The LCD view on our pre-release sample is big and bright, though, and excellent for composing images.It has a 10-megapixel Live MOS sensor, a new TruePIC III processor, a 2.5 inch LCD, and uses both CF and xD memory cards.

Read user reviews (16). The on-camera flash will allow you to mount an external flash and shoot bounce shots with fill. Olympus Stylus 1000. Be aware, however, that even if the body were perfectly sealed and you never removed the lens, dust still enters through zooming and focusing the lens, and dust can even come from the camera's internal components, especially the fast-moving shutter and mirror mechanism.Light first hits the main reflex mirror and forms an image on the focusing screen.

E-System advantages. Read user reviews (15). That dial is very well designed, with a great feel, reminiscent of manual cameras gone by. Lens is sharp corner to corner. Professional Camera: Independent field trial by UK enthusiasts.Reviews / Previews. Hands-On Preview. Spot, Center-Weighted, and Digital ESP metering systems. 10.8 million sensor photo detectors.

Shutter speeds range from 1/1000 to 4 seconds, and the Olympus 790 offers automatic or preset white balance control courtesy of six presets, but no custom white balance mode. • Aspherical lens elements for. Viewfinder accuracy. Then time goes backward: You see the image you captured. The viewfinder is cramped, unfortunately, and Olympus puts the status display off to the right of the viewfinder window, rather than across the bottom, which means I can't see it without pressing my glasses into the rubber eyecup and peering to the right of the viewfinder.If you hold the camera with a bright light source behind you with this shutter open, the problem becomes most apparent. Olympus Stylus 800. Live View can be confounding to the subject and the photographer if you're not patient. Built-in pop-up flash with six operating modes and intensity adjustment. Telephoto lens.

35 mm - 70 mm (2x) zoom lens. Olympus SP-550 UltraZoom Digital Camera - Full Review - The Imaging Resource! Individuals who have themselves downloaded this page may print a copy on their personal printers for convenience of reading and reference.The Olympus E-330 is very much a niche camera. My biggest complaint was the poor speed of the autofocus system. Instead, the E-510 is a few millimeters wider and offers a significantly deeper handgrip that adds to the camera's thickness, and offers a more comfortable hand-hold. In Aperture mode, you can see the aperture you've set, but you don't know what the camera's going to do with the shutter speed until after the capture. Olympus's most ambitious Ultra Zoom yet, the 7.1 megapixel Olympus SP-550 UZ features a whopping 18x (28 to 504mm equivalent) optical zoom lens, ranging from true wide-angle to long telephoto.

The camera also makes twice the noise in Live View B mode. It does not have the in-camera panoramic stitching mode found in the Stylus 820 and 1200 models.

Read user reviews (114). No other brand makes a camera that compensates for my nearsightedness out of the box, with compensation from -3 to +1.0; that's good for me, but your results will vary. digital camera timeline. That same five spot now gets you the Olympus SP-550 UZ, which has an 18x zoom with image stabilization.