Less Than 100 Millisecond Shutter Release
An inherent problem with most previous digital cameras has been the lag time when the shutter button is pushed to when the
image is actually captured. A true photographic instrument should give a photographer instantaneous, mechanical like
results. Olympus knows this and has gone to great lengths to hurdle this problem. The CAMEDIA E-10 Zoom SLR now
provides a shutter release lag time of less than 100 milliseconds. This means no more having to anticipate the shot and
guesswork. Now when the precise moment is there to be captured, the E-10 allows you to get the shot within 100 milliseconds.
New Ground Glass Viewfinder
The construction of the CAMEDIA E-10 Zoom SLR’s viewfinder is a fine-grained
ground glass design that permits direct focus evaluation, finer than a 35mm
SLR. The new viewfinder utilizes a beam-splitter to simultaneously deliver the
image from the lens to the optical viewfinder and the CCD simultaneously. The
benefit to the user is real-time viewing with a centered 95 percent accuracy of
what the CCD captures, which is extremely important when composing to the
outer edges of the frame. The new viewfinder is also more color accurate. You
can also see through the viewfinder whether the camera is turned off or on.
When turned on, the viewfinder becomes brighter.
Three Position Articulating LCD
The CAMEDIA E-10 SLR is one of just a few digital cameras to offer a movable LCD
display. The E-10’s is an articulating high-resolution TFT LCD display that represents a
quantum leap in providing professionals an easy means to compose and capture in
difficult positions such as having to shoot hail-marys or ground level shots. The 1.8” LCD
provides viewing angles of 20
°
, 0
°
and 90
°
and provides a 100% viewing accuracy to what
the CCD captures. The high resolution LCD also allows easy index viewing of 1, 4, or 9
images; as well as a 2x to 4x magnification inspection mode.
Walter Urie comments on using the articulating LCD, “let’s say for example you’re a
news photographer. You’re in a crowd of people and there’s someone in the middle of
that crowd of people you want to photograph. Normally you would have to try and go in
shooting with a wide-angle lens and end up cropping quite a bit out. With this camera you
can raise it over your head and zoom tighter in on whomever you wanted in the frame. You
can actually see what you’re doing. And the same thing applies to shooting at ground
level. Unless you have a special viewfinder on a 35mm film camera, whenever you try to
shoot at this angle, your face will be on the ground. And as most professional photogra-
phers will tell you, point of view has everything to do with how interesting your picture will
become. The new LCD is a great tool for getting the job done in these types of circum-
stances.”
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