Olympus E-500 - Digital SLR.

I actually felt I should back off a little for a nicer composition. Get more information about the lenses! Discussion Forums. Olympus E-500 - Digital SLR. Dim optical viewfinders aren't comfortable to use over time.But to do that, you need a live preview like you have on all-in-one digital cameras. D-SLR Viewfinder. And the initial results show that my experience and Olympus's claims for their edge-to-edge sharpness are indeed valid, at least in the first lens we've tested. Shutter speed from 1/2 sec.

37 mm - 111 mm (3x) zoom lens. Unlike other manufacturers, all with an existing base of AF lenses to support with their new digital SLR designs, Olympus could afford to start fresh. And if there are kids in the house, mom and dad can rest easy that even the most mischievous child will have a hard time damaging this tough little camera.Olympus Digital Cameras: Digital Photography Review. Unless your needs are specifically for a very small camera that you'll be shooting primarily in daylight -- and you have no problem regularly tweaking images -- I think most consumer needs will be served better with a different SLR. Unfortunately, while most higher-end SLRs, like the Canon 20D or Nikon D80, have a second control dial to control aperture while the first controls the shutter speed when shooting in Manual mode, the E-510 has only the one Control dial. Depending on how contrasty your subject is, you can focus in around a half second, or it might take a few.

• Live View. Olympus Stylus 410.Spot, Spot with Highlight Control, Spot with Shadow Control, Center-Weighted, and Digital ESP metering systems. Olympus Stylus Verve S. Our lab tests are designed to simulate common situations you're likely to encounter with a camera, but we also spend time with the cameras and use them in our real lives.

Dust can still get into the E-510, and it does. Read user reviews (41). In the E-410 review I mentioned a problem I had with shots from the camera having strangely underexposed mids, with blown highlights.Live View B seems more simple, and will be more familiar to owners of "regular" digital cameras, but it's more difficult to accomplish from an electrical engineer's standpoint. (Mju 780 Digital).

560 shots. Olympus 770 SW camera. As you'd expect, the E-510 retains Olympus' unique Supersonic Wave Filter, which couples a high-frequency vibration of the imager to remove dust from its surface, plus a range of seals to stop movement of dust through the camera body.Continuous mode is fast at 3.25 frames per second. I think most users would appreciate greater magnification from the viewfinder, as well as a higher eyepoint. • Browse our Pro image. You'd think you'd get that greater speed with this spiffy hybrid Olympus E-330 SLR, but I think most users will be so overwhelmed by the viewfinder choices that they'll only use one. > Olympus Stylus 790 SW.

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It's not that Olympus is entirely marketing these two cameras exclusively as Live View SLRs, but because they're the. The 790 SW also has a twelve second self-timer to let you get into your own pictures. This is especially useful at longer focal lengths, where the slightest camera movement can result in a blurry image, or in low light, when shutter speeds can be too slow for the typical user to hand-hold.

This was taken with the 40-150mm kit lens. And because the camera can't do any metering until just before the exposure, you get no onscreen display telling you what the settings are. Untitled Document. The Olympus Stylus 790 SW digital camera is the latest in the company's popular series that features designs ensuring wherever you go - regardless of environment - your camera will go right along with you.

Buying an E-510 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. In bright sunlight, we found that reducing the contrast to -2 in the Normal mode kept shadows from clipping too badly, but highlights were still too strong. A new shutter mechanism in the Olympus E-3 delivers 1/8,000 second speed, and 1/250 flash sync, and an expected lifetime of 150,000 cycles. Because of the natural shape of a pentaprism or Penta-mirror, you'll find a similar shape under the Rebel XTi's flash; but I'll take Olympus's word that they did this on purpose. In order to avoid throwing off the meter when in Live View A mode, the user must close a manual shutter over the optical viewfinder to keep stray light from affecting both the LCD image displayed and the exposure. I finally just stopped trying to anticipate the next shot and kept press the shutter over and over.Built-in pop-up flash with six operating modes and intensity adjustment. Solid & lightweight body and lens design. The LCD view on our pre-release sample is big and bright, though, and excellent for composing images.

Unlike other manufacturers, all with an existing base of AF lenses to support with their new digital SLR designs, Olympus could afford to start fresh. Sample Galleries. Read user reviews (19). Read user reviews (33). 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.Read user reviews (15). Olympus FE-140. You'll have to switch back to meter and make one final framing check, either through the optical viewfinder or on the LCD, then take your shot. You can't do that on the Pentax and Sony SLRs that integrate sensor-shift image stabilization. The Olympus E-510's ISO 1,600 performance was pretty good, producing somewhat soft images, but with little noise.

38 mm - 105 mm (2.7x) zoom lens. The Olympus 770 SW's 2.5-inch LCD is large enough to easily see the menus, but the controls are very small and can be difficult to use. Battery capable of 650 shots per charge (without using Live View).

• The FE280 product bundle includes a LI-42B Li-Ion Rechargeable Battery and Charger, USB Cable, Audio/Video Cable, Wrist Strap, Manual, CD-ROM with OLYMPUS Master 2 Software and Warranty Card.
• Weighing far less than the camera's crushproof threshold of 220 pounds, I even stood on the camera with one foot for a few minutes.
• • Splash-proof Top Pro lens.
• Olympus EVOLT E-510 Digital Camera - Full Review - The Imaging Resource!
• Lens cap with strap.
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• Review: DCViews Side by Side of the Panasonic DMC-FZ8 compared to the Olympus SP-550 UZ.
• Images saved on CompactFlash cards and Microdrives, as well as xD-Picture cards.

Other SP-550 UZ features include a 7.1 megapixel 1/2.5 inch CCD that delivers images up to 3,072 x 2,304 pixels in size. Well, Live View introduces significant and widely varying shutter lag, ranging from a half second to three or more seconds depending on whether the camera can focus on the subject.

So clearly this mode is only a temporary, focus-only mode. This little portable wonder also works with a pretty impressive array of high-quality optics that are themselves quite small. 5.4 million sensor photo detectors.Taking a picture of my son sleeping on the floor, I realized the shot would be a little better if I could get directly above him, but without my feet in the shot.

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This might not be the ideal test, but the camera was no worse for the wear after I completed my circus-like balancing act. 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. ISO 3200 and 5000 at reduced (3.1Mp) image size.This camera can go where others cannot; in fact, the 770SW may be more resistant to the elements than the person using it. They were incredible handheld computers, and people who see them today -- even those who own the most advanced modern handheld computers -- marvel at the design and interface. On one hand, the Olympus E-410 is cute, quick, fun to shoot (used with Live View off), and stows easily. Olympus never produced an autofocus SLR system with interchangeable lenses, which is why it was easy for them to let go of the manual-focus OM-series and build an entirely new system designed around a smaller sensor, which they dubbed Four-Thirds (you can find out more about the Four-Thirds system at www.four-thirds.org.) Unlike other manufacturers, all with an existing base of AF lenses to support with their new digital SLR designs, Olympus could afford to start fresh. There's an Illumination sensor in the upper left corner of the Olympus E-3's LCD that can be set to dim or brighten the LCD automatically depending on the ambient light.

Opening the Olympus E-3's Card cover is awkward at first, but if you just rock the camera to the left and hold it in your left hand, a simple upward flip of the right thumb moves the release lever and the door pops open to reveal not only a CF card slot, but an xD-Picture Card slot as well. I was particularly impressed shooting the E-510 with its kit lenses, which are small and sharp even in the corners, and the 40-150mm telephoto lens makes for a small 10.7x combo that will fit in a very small camera bag. The on-camera flash will allow you to mount an external flash and shoot bounce shots with fill. So the Optical viewfinder is indeed a viable and available option on the Olympus E-330. (EVOLT E-330). Compared to competing designs in the same category, the E-510 is smaller than most prosumer digital SLRs, and it includes almost everything found on those, save for the faster frame rate of some slightly more expensive models.The FE280 aims to keep things simple, with a whopping seventeen scene modes that make it easy to get the shot without understanding the subtleties of shutter speeds, apertures and the suchlike. I could also see him over the camera from this vantage. 33 mm fixed lens. But I'm happy to report that it's not as bad as we saw in the E-410, making the images more usable overall. Contrast, Saturation, Sharpness, Monochrome, and Graduation image adjustments.

On the other hand, the camera will sink if you let go of it, important to know if you're using the camera on a boat and it falls overboard. Olympus Talk. • Live View. Olympus D-400 Zoom.

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• 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.
• I'm a little perplexed by the LCD's design accents, putting a thick rectangular LCD with hard edges and a silver accent on a camera with few other hard edges makes it seem like an afterthought.
• • Special digital dedicated & near telecentric design for good image quality from maximum aperture on.

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). You can also set the E-3's autofocus sensitivity to the sensor's full width (Normal), or confine the focus to consider only the area inside each AF box for greater precision.

Then it articulates pretty much like we've seen on most Canon-style swivel-screens. The Olympus E-330 is utilitarian, not beautiful. Olympus SP-700. This helps it clear the lens, but a slight shadow is still sometimes visible when you focus close at 14mm and use the flash with the 14-45mm lens.Olympus C-770 UZ.

The Olympus 770 SW's 2.5-inch LCD is large enough to easily see the menus, but the controls are very small and can be difficult to use. Autofocus in low light was weak, however, resulting in many a missed shot; and its tendency to blow highlights and underexpose the mids left some shots similarly out of reach. Dual image stabilization with Olympus' Sensor-Shift optical stabilization and high ISO and fast shutter speeds providing digital stabilization as well. One thing digicam owners quickly grow to dislike more than small, cramped optical viewfinders is extreme shutter lag.High ISO images are also pretty good, with admirable control over noise, especially considering the smaller size of the Four-Thirds sensor. (Mju 600 Digital).

Olympus 770 SW camera. (EVOLT E-510). Otherwise, the Olympus clearly outperforms Nikon and Canon's Kit lenses in terms of corner sharpness. One thing digicam owners quickly grow to dislike more than small, cramped optical viewfinders is extreme shutter lag. So I'm concerned about Live View, and how it will be seen by the public. Olympus - Digital SLR.ISO 50 to 1600 at full resolution. It's the one SLR on the market that will let you frame pictures from the ground without laying down on the ground yourself. Olympus - Standard.

The two major changes include less space between the microlens array and the light sensitive area, and a faster readout speed to help enable five-frame-per-second shooting. Though it seems huge compared to the E-410, this 150mm f/2.0 lens is short compared to others of the same length and power.According to Olympus test method. The Olympus 770 SW certainly won't break any speed records when it comes to performance. Add the pop-up flash to Live View, and the full AF shutter lag actually gets slower than the Panasonic L1. The E-410's pop-up flash actually had better success focusing, but it took a lot longer, with several bursts of illuminating flash. The test results do indeed show the corners to be quite a bit sharper than the competition's kit lenses, so it's likely that Olympus's digital-specific lenses do indeed offer an advantage.

Olympus C-740 UZ. Optical viewfinder shutter doesn't close automatically to prevent accidental underexposure due to extraneous light.• Browse our Pro image.

Faster shutter speeds help freeze subject motion, something that beginning photographers either don't know about, or don't have time to think about. Though the Olympus E-330's sensor is the same size as the E-300 and E-500, it is not the same 8 megapixel Kodak sensor we liked so much in those cameras.

Olympus Stylus 410. Mids of images are often underexposed. Add that delay to your shutter lag delay, and you end up with a pretty peculiar shooting experience, especially when shooting action.