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It's more comfortable than using the smallish optical viewfinder, and the AF points are more visible on the LCD than they appear in the optical viewfinder. Olympus E-System Bag. It's a design that's been refined over the years to what can only be called ideal.It could be a little deeper and flatter inside, but it's comfortable and not as unusual as the E-330.
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10.4 million sensor photo detectors. Built-in pop-up flash with six operating modes and intensity adjustment. The sensation really does bring back the old days of slim, gripless camera bodies. We also ran into an odd problem with hot spots appearing only at ISO 400 and above, and only at certain exposure times (e.g.: ISO 400 at 2.5 seconds and f/3.2). 500 shots. • For all current Olympus digital compact cameras.Review Date: 8/7/07.
Interchangeable lens mount accommodates Olympus Zuiko Digital lenses. A new Highlight/Shadow metering mode biases exposure to maintain either shadow or highlight detail. The elongated shutter button is easy to identify by feel, resting as it does in a wide, sculpted notch. Then I remembered Live View. Sample Galleries.37 mm fixed lens. The Olympus E-510 uses a fixed eye-level pentamirror with a 95% field of view. Mids of images are often underexposed. • Special digital dedicated & near telecentric design for good image quality from maximum aperture on.
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The Olympus E-330's LCD is big, very much dominating the back of the camera, but all controls are still where they ought to be. Though this wasn't the last SLR with a live preview to hit the scene in 2006, it was the first on the market; and those that did follow were really just modifications of this very design. The pop-up flash is manually activated with a well-placed release button, which causes it to slide forward and up, as it did on the E-300. Compatible with the entire Canon EOS lens lineup, either model delivers a lot in a small package.Thanks to the LCD I was able to sit back and frame shots with the camera comfortably out front.
Olympus Zuiko Digital 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 ED Lens and Olympus Zuiko Digital 40-150mm f/14 - 5.6 (kits only). With digital,. And fine focus can be had with the press of a few buttons.Olympus FE-200. We haven't tested its optical quality, but its feel and focusing speed were quite good. The E-500, launched at the end of last year, is a conventionally-styled lightweight and relatively compact D-SLR which offers all the advantages of the 4/3 system at a price of just £549 including a 14-45mm standard zoom lens. We were able to try Olympus E-3 with the Zuiko 12-60mm SWD, which offers the equivalent of a 24-120mm lens, and were impressed.
Camera Drivers. Turn down the contrast in the Natural Picture mode, and these tendencies improve. 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. With a better grip, image stabilization, a big battery, and all the optical benefits of the Four-Thirds system under its belt, the Olympus E-510 is currently the most well-rounded choice among Four-Thirds SLR cameras. Live View mode is very slow, introducing extreme shutter lag. 4.2 million sensor photo detectors.The camera also makes twice the noise in Live View B mode. With digital,. 35 mm - 98 mm (2.8x) zoom lens.
Read user reviews (25). Divers who wear gloves will also find it difficult to operate the camera.Despite its foibles, the Olympus E-510 is a very good digital SLR, one I'd recommend to photographers who want to travel light, anyone with a need for Live View on occasion, and anyone wanting to learn more about photography with a digital SLR. As a result of all this light splitting, however, the image in the optical viewfinder is noticeably dimmer than that of the Olympus E-330. We start at 5.6, because this is the first aperture that all three lenses share in common at all focal lengths. UPDATED 8/14/07: Kit lens comparison.
• Splash-proof Top Pro lens. Twin Flash. Read user reviews (20). Program, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, and Manual exposure modes, plus 20 Scene modes.
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We haven't tested its optical quality, but its feel and focusing speed were quite good. The Olympus E-510's ISO 1,600 performance was pretty good, producing somewhat soft images, but with little noise. An optional battery pack/vertical grip is available for the Olympus E-3 as well, the HLD-4. The first was the Pen F, a small half-frame 35mm camera that was very popular, and the OM-series of full-frame SLRs. You can still preview the exposure, white balance, and depth-of-field accurately on the screen, a major benefit to Live View, and there's a new Shadow Adjustment Technology that helps you assure that you'll maintain detail in the shadows.
