Olympus E-510 Digital SLR
Olympus E-510 Digital SLR
Olympus E-510 Digital SLR
(ED 14-42mm 1:3.5-5.6 & ED 40-150mm 1:4.0-5.6)
Product Description
Image Stabilisation:
For razor sharp pictures, the image stabiliser (IS) corrects image blur caused by handshake even in low-light conditions and with high focal lengths The image stabiliser works using breakthrough SWD technology, achieving a correction effect of up to 4 EV steps
Live View:
The comfort and flexibility of continuous live previews shown directly on the HyperCrystal LCD is available to digital SLR users for the first time. This ground-breaking innovation enables framing of shots without the need to look through the viewfinder. Users can therefore see what’s going on around them while they shoot and also use the camera in situations where it is difficult to frame using the viewfinder – e.g. above the head or below the waist.
High image quality 10 Megapixel Live MOS Sensor:
The newly-developed Live MOS sensor ensures superb image quality even of fine details
An energy-efficient technology, the Live MOS sensor reduces battery consumption and heat development and thereby pleases the photographer with a minimum of noise while ensuring maximum performance.
Dust reduction system;
Dust is a serious problem for DSL-R cameras. With every lens change, tiny dust particles enter the camera body and can settle on the sensor. Subsequent photographs are affected and need to be retouched. The Supersonic Wave Filter from Olympus ensures worry-free operation
HyperCrystal LCD for perfect viewing:
On the HyperCrystal LCD the images can be viewed comfortably straight-on, from below, above or the side. 176º viewing angles ensure visibility in extreme shooting conditions It provides a clear view – even in bright sunshine
Four Thirds – a forward-looking standard:
Four Thirds is a completely new standard devised for the specific requirements of digital imaging
Lens and camera construction are based on a mechanical, optical and data exchange standard, allowing for impressively-high aperture lenses, fantastic image quality and an extremely compact formThe Four Thirds Standard ensure compatibility with components from different manufacturers for a broad range of equipment and the greatest flexibility.
Angle of View:
When you use the lenses designed for 35mm film with digital camera bodies that incorporate sensors smaller than film there is the potential problem of a loss of wide-angle capability.
Four Thirds solves this phenomenon. As the lens if always fully optimised to suit the sensor, you don’t have to contend with expensive wide-angle lenses that do not attain their intended specification – the angle of view you expect is the angle of view you get.
Lens Resolution & Corner-shading:
Because the medium of film is very tolerant, there was no need to equip lenses with very high resolving power in the past. But with digital sensors, this has changed.
For Edge to Edge Clarity:
All Four Thirds-optimised lenses feature so-called near telocentric optics. However, the near telocentric construction of lenses optimised for the Four Thirds standard ensures light hits the sensor at right-angles. This guarantees edge-to-edge colour, clarity and brightness.
Standardisation:
Four Thirds is a technological standard dedicated to the needs of digital SLR camera systems. It has been designed to maximise the performance of both image sensors and lenses. To achieve this, it sets definitive standards on three levels: Mechanical, Optical and Communication.
You will be pleased to the client’s reviews below of Olympus E-510 Digital SLR:-
To start off with it has tons of features like live view, built in body IS, anti-dust system act plus you can use either XD or compact flash or both together, also a Biggy for me is spot metering 3 different types to boot as well, eh Canon only just finally decided to add this to its overpriced 450D.
Another good thing with this camera is the supplied 14-42mm & 40-150mm both very well built & very good optics considering they kit lenses, & the pictures this camera can produce are nothing short of excellent ISO noise control is also very good.
Another plus with 4/3 cameras is it 2x so if you invest in say a 300mm lens it becomes 600mm very handy.
Now onto the viewfinder loads of reviews said the viewfinder was small but to be honest it’s not that small similar to the 400D just more square.
Realistically, this camera is too cheap for what you get basically,
as there is a lot of brand snobbishness among camera buyers, Olympus need to
offer more, for less money…..this is a great bargain for anyone buying on
merit, rather than anything else I chose the 510 because;
a) Leica designed lens ( not branded ) offer the best kit lens quality, no
contest
b) any 10mega pixel camera, will offer very close image quality to any other
one, so the difference is in lens quality and features
c) IS – works amazingly well, no more blurred photos
d) live view, excellent for close up work, or tripod work
e) build quality, looks AND feels like it cost much more, in fact the feel is
better than many pro camera costing 3 times as much.
finally, the image quality is excellent, and the menu lcd system is very easy
to use……add in top of class battery life, top of class lens quality, top of
class build quality, top of class features, and it’s no wonder this camera was
EISA 2007-08 best camera total bargain at this price, nothing comes close,
despite the hype.
The Olympus comes with (in this guise) a 14-42mm and a 40-150mm lens which,
when taking the 2X crop factor into account, gives a fantastic 24-300mm focal
range. Combined with an in body image stabiliser, the only really effective
dust reduction system available on the market and live view, this makes for a
fantastic package on paper.
In the real world things are different, of course. Handling the E-510 is a joy
with a proper grip on the body, something the smaller E-410 is sadly lacking,
which means the camera feels secure and stable in your hand, even at the 300mm
end of the standard kit telephoto lens.
The out of the box results from this camera are excellent and Olympus have done
a fantastic job of dealing with the noise issues previously associated with the
Four Thirds system. However, here is perhaps my only criticism of the initial
settings when you first turn the camera on. Olympus have tried to reduce image
noise by having the noise filter set to medium by default. The noise filter is
very effective however it does lead to a lack of fine clarity in the image.
Olympus has countered this by altering the sharpness of the image. Effectively
the camera takes slightly soft images which it then attempts to sharpen
digitally in its default settings.