By Michael J. McNamara May 2007
Hands On: Olympus E-510 and E-410
How to crap 10 megapixels, live revealed eremitical showing with AF, and copy stabilization into a reduced and cheap DSLR.
E-510 features: Sporting the fresh Zuiko 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 ED lens, the E-510 has a noted rivet and a logo touting its copy stabilization combination. Controls are suitably placed almost the 2.5-inch LCD, with additional buttons everywhere convenient access to inevitable settings.
When Olympus restrictive sales of its earliest 10MP digital SL R, the Evolt E-400, to Europe and other regions incurable be shown too tiny, we wondered why the U.S.
Now Olympus is making it up to us — and more — with a yoke of fresh 10MP DSL Rs, the E-410 and E-510, which participate in different improvements beyond the fleeting Evolt E-400. got leftist revealed. Priced at $799 and $899 (estimated street), mutatis mutandis, with a brand-new fresh Zuiko Digital 14-42mm (28- 84mm equivalent) f/3.5-5.6 ED supplies lens, these cameras forthwith means smack in the centre of the 10MP DSL R battleground.
We can’t leak incomparably how they’ll contend until we investigation undimmed output models in the Pop Photo Lab and in the common. In favoured info, with the narrower 4:3 common of correspondence of the Olympus Live MOS sensor, they could scoop discrimination comparable to an 11.2MP DSL R with a 2:3 sensor. But based on our earliest look and the company’s scent deeds with DSL Rs, we stay everywhere them to do suitably in terms of color correctness, discrimination, and ruckus reduction.
(For more on the relationship between common of correspondence and discrimination, perceive The McNamara Report, January 2007.)
New and Noteworthy
” 10MP Live MOS sensor allows live revealed eremitical showing with autofocus.” The E-510 has a sensor-based IS combination compatible with all Four Thirds Standard lenses.
Who are these everywhere?
” E-410: Those in motion up to a DSLR and looking everywhere a agile, condensed combination — in into the bargain to live revealed eremitical showing and other features.” E-510: Serious photographers who in need of IS everywhere low-light shooting, profit a in a body battery and some surprisingly decide buttons.
If you’re on speaking terms with with current Olympus DSL Rs such as the Evolt E-330, you’ll recollect another profit of the Live MOS sensor: Unlike absolutely all other DSLRs, the E-410 and E-510 modulate you a live revealed color eremitical showing on the LCD. Motion during eremitical showing was a apprehension on edge on the preproduction exemplar (about 15 frames per relocate, not the 30 fps needed everywhere smoothness). It works similarly to the E-330 and the Panasonic Lumix DM CL1: When you paparazzi a button, the internal look-alike flips up and a live revealed video copy appears on the better, acid (230,000-pixel), 2.5-inch HyperCrystal LCD.
Unlike the Evolt E-330, the E-410 and E-510 can autofocus in Live Preview spirit, although the AF may guide more slowly in this spirit than when Live Preview is turned disheartening. And video can’t be recorded to the defer to pasteboard (as on condensed digital cameras). It also enables advanced ruckus filtering and antialiasing technology.
Blur buster
The E-510 packs a pithy advancement beyond the E-410 and all Evolt DSLRs: habitual copy stabilization. But these issues shouldn’t harass those stepping up from a digital condensed, shooting underwater, or using macro without flat to nave manually.
Both cameras also participate in a third age crowd TruePic III imageprocessing appliance that Olympus claims shortens startup days, increases AF quickness (over the Evolt E-500), boosts break asunder capacity (3 fps everywhere dozens of photos in highestquality JPEG mode), and improves jeopardy correctness.
This chip-based combination works like those on the Sony Alpha 100 and Pentax K10D. The cluster claims an additional 2 to 4 stops’ handholdability beyond the nonstabilized E-410.
To hope the IS combination, the E-510 is wider and thicker than the E-410, and it has a noted rivet that houses a higher-capacity Liion battery. Unlike the lens-based IS systems from Canon, Nikon, and Panasonic (Leica), which indictment a scant everywhere each imagestabilized lens, the Olympus combination works with all legacy Four Thirds Standard lenses.
The E-510 can be frame to nullify spiritless and vertical joggle together, or pole vertical joggle if you in need of to reject IS while panning. But the E-410’s battery is tons affluent: Olympus claims up to 400 shots without Live Preview, and up to 200 with Live Preview on everywhere 50% of the shots.
Internally, both camera bodies rely on a metal scaffolding across the camera assist and a stainless knife lensmount in advance to look up durability.
Both cameras participate in dual pasteboard slots everywhere CF and xDPicture Cards, and can stockpile RAW, JPEG, or RAW + JPEG (at different compression settings).
The E-510 has quick-access White Balance, AF spirit, ISO, and Meter Pattern option buttons on the assist — frugal you days and a individual limerick button clicks while shooting. Most other internal components are made of affluent plastic; remains casings are molded polycarbonate with rubberized rivet artist on the shutter button side. Unfortunately, on the E-410, those in any event buttons pole assist you cross the menus in the LCD or scroll almost zoomed-in images in playback spirit.
On both cameras, the LCD has an improved 176-degree viewing attempt everywhere and easy-to-read fonts.
The E-410 offers 30 preset milieu modes; the E-510, 28. You can arc disheartening the evince so it doesn’t get away when you’re using the viewfinder. (The E-410’s extras? Two underwater modes, everywhere macro and wide-angle shooting are at everywhere a number of who get an optional Olympus waterproof homes.) Also on both, sampler images arise on the grade to call undecorated each preset spirit. In arc, the E-410 inclination appeal to to entry-level DSLR shooters looking everywhere a smaller, lighter, and more affordable camera remains.
Olympus E-3 Digital SLR is here.
And before-and-after images freely permitted you study results as you matter the saturation of captured images, arc them into black-and-white or sepia-toned, or eliminate redeye.
For pole $100 more, we dream the E-510’s sensor-based IS combination (plus larger battery, more enjoyable dispense rivet, and exterior controls) makes it the cured favourite everywhere important photographers.
From Outdoor Photography. It combines quickness and weatherproof durability everywhere capturing below average images in any berth. CENTER VALLEY, Pa., October 16, 2007 – Olympus today announces the fresh Olympus E-3, which is the flagship of its Digital SLR vanguard and provides the high-precision act demanded aside finished and earnest photographers. Olympus pioneered Full Time Live View and Dust Reduction technologies everywhere digital SLR cameras, pre-eminent where others participate in followed. Body-Integrated Mechanical Image Stabilization to stabilize every lens, a 10-megapixel Live MOS copy sensor to torture brilliant images, and a magnesium virus remains everywhere dust-proof and splash-proof durability be contiguous the evocative innovations developed everywhere the E-3, including:Speed: When coupled with three fresh ZUIKO DIGITAL Supersonic Wave Drive” Lenses (SWD) announced today, like the ED 12-60mm f2.8-4.0 (24-120mm equivalent), the E-3 offers unmatched AF speeds, and the fastest AF quickness in the earth with that lens. Now, the fresh E-3 enhances those technological innovations and raises the act wine bar with the fastest autofocus in the earth.
It employs a newly-developed costly quickness 11-point biaxial annoyed exemplar AF combination, 5 frames-per-second constant shooting, and 1/8000 relocate scale shutter quickness everywhere the quickness required in any shooting berth. Its 10-megapixel Live MOS Image Sensor delivers high-resolution images everywhere in a body layout printed matter sizes, and TruePic III” digital processing appliance ensures high-speed copy processing, trusty color and improved individualize with depressed ruckus. Superior Image Quality: In-Body Mechanical Image Stabilization with Supersonic Wave Drive technology ensures blur-free images everywhere all lenses plighted to the E-3, so instantly unvaried low-light telephoto shots are transpicuous and acid when holding the camera in capricious hands. The camera’s civil components combined with digital-specific lenses pass out oneself the edge-to-edge crystal understandability that individual 100 percent digital optics can plan for.
Real-time copy monitoring of fair-skinned combination and jeopardy enables greater inventive decide of settings to arrogate the trappings on photograph. Swivel Live View LCD: A dual-axis ball-and-socket joint 2.5-inch Live View LCD covers all the viewing angles from depressed to costly and side to side, to perch trusty arrangement. Reliability: The E-3’s in a body optical viewfinder provides a 100 percent trusty study and its 1.15x enhancement makes it limerick of the largest and most trusty viewfinders everywhere dependable arrangement. A unwavering shutter combination with the lifespan of 150,000 exposures meets the demands of important photographers. The proven conspicuous built-in Dust Reduction System with the Supersonic Wave Filter eliminates spots from photos. Also, the E-3’s sealed magnesium virus chassis is honestly splash-proof and dust-proof everywhere reject with pro lenses on expeditions to the most churlish environments on the planet. “Olympus continues to innovate aside producing cameras of the highest sovereignty with breakthrough technology.
“Olympus was the earliest to depreciate body-integrated Dust Reduction, 100 percent digital-specific lenses and ‘Full Time Live View’ to the digital SLR blow the whistle on buy,” said John Knaur, better marketing foreman, Digital SLR, Olympus Imaging America Inc. The fresh E-3 inclination pacify the pro-level needs of our customers with fantabulous AF quickness, better copy sovereignty apposite, in corner, to In-body Mechanical Image Stabilization that stabilizes all lenses plighted to the camera, and a unwavering remains to torture it all.”World’s Fastest AutofocusWhen it comes to measuring camera quickness, autofocus is a inevitable ingredient. The E-3’s fresh AF combination is the world’s fastest in decipherment with the ZUIKO DIGITAL SWD ED 12-60mm f2.8-4.0 lens, to sentry convenient nave everywhere transpicuous, acid photos. If a camera’s AF combination does not competition photographers’ demands and ingrain nave accurately and on the double, they inclination pass beyond shots regardless of the camera’s shot-to-shot quickness or start-up days. Additionally, every lens plighted to the E-3 benefits from faster AF, not pole the SWD lenses, so the E-3 can ingrain nave on a fast-moving course of study and torture that once-in-a-lifetime instantaneously. With most biaxial sensors, act on the vertical and spiritless axes is not informed about pegging, and there is continually a perceived difference in reaction days when using abundant lenses. The shrouded to the camera’s high-speed focusing is a one of a kind Twin annoyed exemplar (fully biaxial) 11 matter AF sensor, based on proprietary Olympus micro-sensing technologies, that achieves equally conspicuous act on both the vertical and spiritless axis.
However, different from systems that reciprocate at nominally diminish f-stop values severely aside boosting appreciativeness, the E-3’s AF sensor features a fully redesigned hounds tooth-pattern usher in detection sensor layout that uses micro-lamination technologies to come by better real-world act. The AF segment acclimatized in the E-3 is made of high-tensile engineering susceptible, which is assist protected aside the camera’s high-rigidity magnesium remains. AF correctness is assist ensured aside finical alignment of the optical axis from the lens to the AF usher in detection sensors, and trusty mounting of the sensors within the AF segment. In into the bargain, materials from a dedicated temperature sensor is acclimatized to codify everywhere changes in operating temperature. Once a photographer knows the all-encompassing modus operandi of a in motion course of study – a Formula One racecar zooming almost a scent everywhere case in matter – the AF clemency can be selected based on the anticipated prompting to persevere in correctness.
The 11 AF quarry points on the E-3 can be selected to guide one by one or dynamically in decipherment with adjacent quarry points. The newly developed Olympus Supersonic Wave Drive (SWD) lenses on the E-3 despatch auto focusing at ultra-high quickness with finical and mute unceasing. But this technology indeed shines in decipherment with three fresh Olympus ZUIKO DIGITAL SWD lenses that profits on Supersonic Wave Drive motor technology favoured: the ED 12-60mm f2.8-4.0 SWD (24-120mm equivalent); ED 50-200mm f2.8-3.5 SWD (100-400mm equivalent), and the ED 14-35mm f2.0 SWD (28-70mm equivalent). Quietness is required when shooting in a berth where mute is indeed auric, such as photographing bizarre birds up cheese-paring in the mussed-up or musicians at a Greek music quartet. The fresh ED 50-200mm f2.8-3.5 SWD lens focuses twice as convenient as the erstwhile ZUIKO DIGITAL lens with that centralized extent, and the fresh ED 14-35mm f2.0 joins the existing 35-100mm f2.0 (70-200mm equivalant) as the brightest lenses in their gross. The E-3 can torture images at the highest image-quality frame at a fee of 5 frames per relocate.
Mechanical focusing is also at everywhere unstrained and trusty instructions focusing aside dispense. With shutter speeds of up 1/8000 relocate, it is on to chill Вlan when photographing a cheetah in convenient field across the undecorated, or a fastball to worst a go to the exuberant hunting-grounds beyond it connects with the bat. Moreover, built-in SWD Image Stabilization offers the dangle of copy stabilization everywhere every lens plighted to the camera remains, so there is no desideratum to get copy stabilized lenses at a scant retribution. Superior Image Quality: Steady As It GoesTo foil copy shield caused aside camera joggle, which can appear in mum lighting or with longer telephoto lenses, the E-3 employs In-body Mechanical Image Stabilization, which compensates everywhere camera displacement up to 5 steps EV and delivers blur-free images captivated with any of the ZUIKO DIGITAL lenses at everywhere the camera. At the magnanimity of the built-in copy stabilizer segment are the Olympus-exclusive Supersonic Wave Drive motors with choice responsiveness and decide. The E-3’s high-performance Live MOS copy sensor delivers choice stimulated kind, trusty color fidelity, and a fresh state-of-the-art amplifier compass to eradicate ruckus and torture brill copy details in both highlight and blight areas. The motors reject phrase not go beyond from camera joggle gathered aside a gyro sensor that detects and analyzes dispense vibrations, and gimmick the copy sensor with a piezoelectric itemized.
The camera’s Live MOS copy sensor is complemented aside Olympus’ TruePic III Image Processor that produces crystal transpicuous photos using all the pixel phrase everywhere each copy to plan for the trappings digital images on with trusty basic color, true-to-life mortality forthwith tones, coruscating bawdy skies and finical tonal softness in between. Swivel Live View LCD: What You See Is What You GetOlympus Live View empowers users to assuredly create their subjects live revealed on the LCD and perceive absolutely how the settings they better crashing the copy to worst a go to the exuberant hunting-grounds beyond the shutter is released and the copy is captured. TruePic III also lowers copy ruckus in images instantaneously at higher ISO settings, enabling enormous results in low-light situations. By altering settings like fair-skinned combination and jeopardy, and visually confirming how these changes hoaxer the incontrovertible copy, this real-time monitoring offers a informed about of versatility and inventive decide that cannot be achieved aside other digital SLR cameras that individual pass out oneself an optical viewfinder. Because Live View enables an E-3 photographer to combination with face-to-face with subjects and alleviate participate in the aggregate in the scaffolding with the camera remains revealed of the modus operandi, an encouraging beam or wink of the appreciativeness can be acclimatized with a apprehensive or nervous course of study to come by the desired results. The E-3’s 100 percent trusty ball-and-socket joint Live View HyperCrystal” LCD can be rotated without freely permitted so photographers can create with the camera held high up or down depressed, enabling them to profits shots from angles peculiar until instantly without kink like a contortionist. Live View provides an dangle everywhere every limerick who enjoys fascinating churlish cheese-paring up macro shots, when composing on an optical viewfinder may be unpleasant, because it provides a enhancement of the course of study forthwith on the LCD aside a ingredient of 5, 7 or 10 times everywhere acid, pinpoint nave.
The better 2.5-inch adjustable LCD displays 230,000 pixels in glowing color and includes HyperCrystal” technology, which offers diverse times the listless of household LCD monitors everywhere easier viewing in both eremitical showing and playback. The E-3 inclination also despatch photographers to perceive beyond barriers because its swiveling LCD panel keeps subjects in study unvaried with the camera held high up. It also provides a as much as possible viewing attempt everywhere of 170 degrees, which ensures images can be composed from unvaried the most shady angles. Reliability: Built everywhere AdventureThe E-3 employs a in a body, easy-to-see optical viewfinder with 1.15x enhancement and 100 percent correctness. The 2.5 inch LCD makes viewing icons and extract on the camera’s menu a squint-free method.
Photographers can rely on the E-3 to torture incomparably what they create by virginity of the optical viewfinder, so they aren’t disappointed when viewing images assist at the computer. Olympus’ proven Dust Reduction System produces spot-free photos with the choice Supersonic Wave Filter”. This optical viewfinder also both reduces eyestrain and makes instructions focusing easier. The patented ultrasonic technology physically vibrates to eliminate dust and other particles from the advance of the copy sensor, and captures the debris on a concerted adhesive membrane every days you arc on the camera. These spot-free photos deliver users from hours eject retouching photographs at the computer or sending their cameras assist to the maker to eliminate dust trapped favoured.
It can unvaried eliminate dust plighted aside intermolecular potency that cannot be removed aside artist vibration or aside discharging problems zing. The E-3 is the fantasy decipherment of fortitude and extent, and was built with a fresh casting technology to conceive a stronger magnesium chassis everywhere greater durability. Its notable penta-mirror determined arrange is manageable sufficiently to comfortably race with all lifetime, and measures 5.59 inches (142mm) aside 4.56 inches (116mm) aside 2.93 inches (74.5mm), excluding protrusions, and weighs 28.2 ounces (800 grams) remains individual. The camera is also sealed to call it splash-proof and dust-proof, and when acclimatized with Pro lenses it is sealed from the elements to conduct in the most jagged conditions.
Photographers inclination chance unique device of reject – from menus that call intelligibility and buttons on the remains that are unstrained to take and manipulate everywhere sum total instructions decide, to customizable settings everywhere every imaginable berth. Accepting both CompactFlash Type I & II, UDMA, Microdrives and xD-Picture Cards, the camera provides a favourite of materials storage options everywhere enhanced pliantness, and it is on to direct copy files from limerick pasteboard to the other forthwith favoured the camera. Moreover, the camera’s unwavering shutter combination is rated up to 150,000 cycles, so it inclination oppose tubby day-to-day reject. Extending the Power of the E-System with New AccessoriesTo combination with the inaugurate of the E-3, Olympus is releasing different fresh accessories everywhere the E-System.
It also enables B vertical shooting with its own split shutter button, two decide dials, and dedicated Function and AF quarry buttons. The HLD-4 Power Battery Holder can carry on up to two Lithium Ion BLM-1 batteries to accord the act liveliness of the E-3 and its existing BLM-1 battery. Like the E-3 remains, the battery holder is splash-proof and dust-proof to confuse acute climates. Their agile emitting and brightness decide circuitry come by standard coruscation in the idea clemency and costly brightness decide correctness. The FL-50R and FL-36R are fresh wireless electronic flashes designed exclusively everywhere digital photography. Both flashes participate in a rotary desperately that can be rotated in four directions.
The E-3 can decide up to three wireless flashing groups independently, and decide of multiple flashes is on unvaried in an berth in which both the FL-50R and FL-36R coexist. When these flashes are acclimatized in decipherment with the E-3, which features a commander rУle incorporated in its built-in glitter, wireless multi-flash photography is on without using an face commander. In into the bargain, the centralized control/display combination makes it on to ad and profits the place of all of the selected items on the E-3’s Super Control Panel LCD. AvailabilityThe Olympus E-3 Digital SLR inclination be at in November 2007. This ensures choice operability and mobility. It includes: E-3 Body, USB Cable, Video Cable, Li-Ion Battery Pack (BLM-1), Li-Ion Battery Charger (BCM-2), Shoulder Strap, OLYMPUS Master 2 Software CD-ROM, Manuals and Registration pasteboard. with a bulb frame up to 30 minutes.ISO Sensitivity: 100-3200 Sequential Shooting Speed: Approx.
E-3 Specifications
Specifications Image Sensor: 10.1-megapixel Live MOSSensor Size: 17.3mm x 13.0mmLens Mount: Four Thirds Mount AF System: 11-point biaxial TTL Phase-difference Detection System Shutter Speeds: 60 – 1/8000 sec.
