E3 Review By -F. Haynes-
Olympus Evolt E-3 10.1MP Digital SLR Camera with Mechanical Image Stabilization with ED 12-60mm f/2.8-4.0 Lens and FL-50R Flash
SENSOR
The Live MOS sensor is a 10 megapixel Four Thirds format. This is the standard by Olympus (which together with other producers created a consortium to promote it)
in order to offer something different from the format has always been used by traditional cameras, and APS (the traditional non-APS cameras, as well as the digital compact the non-full frame digital SLR, which usually have dimensions equal to 24×16mm) is format “full” 35mm (ie 36×24mm).
The size of the sensor are very small or 18×13mm, but the difference is even basexaltezza ratio, which is different as you can see (other sizes are 3:2). In theory this should have a devastating effect on noise and loss of detail.
However, it should consider the benefits not just from the sensor itself, but from the “Four Thirds System” (four thirds indicates the ratio between width and height, that is precisely 4:3 then the standard of the old ante-LCD TVs).
These targets are constructed with a very high resolution, thanks to special production processes, thus ensuring that the sensor is fully exploited.
Moreover, these objectives have built a “telecentric” (sort of) involving an angle formed between the light beam and the sensor.
The standard lenses, however, that in the past were built without giving too much weight on their resolving power due to the wide tolerance of the film, said those objectives, as opposed to 4:3 of the objectives were and are constructed so that light strikes the sensor with a wide angle of incidence,
which means the fall of light at the edges, as well as a reflex effect on adjacent pixels to the pixel directly affected, and therefore in general a loss of detail, brightness and lower color fidelity. The image stabilizer built into the camera body of the Olympus E-3 is able to compensate – to that house – the effects of camera shake to the equivalent of five stops.
I say it does not go beyond 3 stop, but will update about the review as soon as I can test it fully and any shot.
LCD MONITOR
The monitor is a 2.5-inch HyperCrystal LCD, 230,000 pixels very beautiful, bright,! This makes it very attractive, since it helps a lot in architectural compositions or at least in the shots in difficult position.
Even the Live View function (now present on almost all digital SLR cameras) makes shooting from above or satin-ground, so if we combine this function with the adjustability of the monitor get a unique versatility. It ‘can magnify images up to 10x on the screen to double-check the focus.
Useful feature is the ability to check on the monitor what are the effects of Shadow Adjustment Technology (SAT), balance exposure compensation and white. Need to recognize the merit of Olympus pushed all the competition to enter the LiveView on their SLR cameras, as was the first to mount it on his E330.
Price : $3,150
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