Olympus have released a special guest review of its new flagship E-System Digital SLR: the E-3. Professional wildlife photographer Mituaki Iwago is interviewed by Toshiyuki Terada, Olympus Imaging Corp Product Manager. Mituaki Iwago was given an Olympus E-3 for a month to test in the fields of Africa and explains how all the new features proved ‘indispensable’ in the field.
The interview is available on the Olympus E-System Website.
The E-3 improves on the E-1 in a number of respects, first and foremost auto focus performance with a new 11-point ‘Full Twin Cross Sensor’. Its other new features include shutter speeds up to 1/8000th of a second, 5 fps shooting, reduced shutter lag and a ‘Dual-axis Flexible-angle LCD’. The view finder size has increased and the in-camera Image Stabilizition has also been improved to be able to compensate for up to 5 shutter steps.
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Olympus has release the successor to the E-1. It has been over four and a half years since the E-1 was announced and there have been a lot of rumor leaks, but the E-3 has finally arrived. It features improved auto focus, increased shutter speeds, decreased shutter-lag and up to 5 frames per second shooting. More information below.
Olympus Press Release:
The Olympus E-3: An all-round professional masterpiece
London, 17 October 2007 – It’s here: The new flagship of the Four Thirds Standard-based Olympus E-System. The E-3 gives photographers a high-performance tool that is primed for any assignment and satisfies the most stringent demands for D-SLR photography. It represents the ultimate choice for the professional photographer and provides the highest levels of speed and image quality as well as Live View capabilities and the ultimate in reliability.
The E-3 features the world’s fastest* auto-focusing speeds thanks to an advanced AF system and new ZUIKO DIGITAL SWD (Supersonic Wave Drive) lenses. Matched with shutter speeds of up to 1/8000th sec. and 5fps sequential shooting (with a 19 image RAW buffer in burst mode), the E-3 gives photographers a crucial edge to help capture that decisive shot. Read the rest of this entry »
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