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feeling in your hand. All the dials are accessible with your thumb and index finger. It balances beautifully. It doesn’t have the
feeling that if you carried it around all day, it would turn into a brick. For example, I’m running around in the street through traffic,
photographing stuff that I see, running up sidewalks, catching things that happen, that look interesting to me. It was amazing
that the camera was right there for me. To me it felt like I’ve worked with it forever. There was no sense that I had an unfamiliar
object in my hand.”
Meyerowitz adds, “they [Olympus] haven’t stuck a conventional film camera lens on a digital body. Something in the lens design
allows them to make a lighter barrel and it doesn’t have the forward weight on it that makes your wrist ache.”
Extraordinary Dispersion Glass, 4x Zoom, 9-36mm f2.0~2.4 Lens
The CAMEDIA E-10 Zoom SLR lens design is one of the most impressive attributes of this camera. It features include all glass,
all multicoated elements with extraordinary dispersion (4 elements in 11 groups, with 2 aspherical elements), a seven bladed
aperture and is a 4x zoom of 9-36mm (35-140mm equivalent). With inferior lenses there is a noticeable difference in the
brightness of the image at the center compared to the outer edges of the frame. The primary benefit of this lens design is that
it allows for a “faster” lens, capable of providing greater detail in shadow areas or in low light with less “fall off” of light from the
center of the lens to its outer edges.
The CAMEDIA E-10 SLR’s 4x zoom lens also features a non-rotating 62mm filter thread for attaching conversion lenses. Focus
can be manually controlled or automatically controlled, with a range from 1.97 feet (0.6m) to infinity in normal mode, and from 8.0
to 30.0 inches (0.2 to 0.8m) in macro mode. The zoom can be manually controlled and has a textured-rubber ring around the
outside of the lens for better gripping and to absorb shock. A second adjustment ring at the end of the lens controls the manual
focus.
High Index Low Dispersion Lens
ED (Extra Dispersion Lens)
Aspherical Glass Lens
Gauss Type Lens Groups
Exclusively developed 14 element, 11 group 4 X zoom for the E-10,
designed as a very high precision and highly accurate optical system.
Beam Splitter
CCD Imager
