Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Olympus Announces New E-3 DSLR

Olympus has announced the long-awaited successor to its E-1 camera. The new flagship model of the company's line of digital SLRs, the 10.1-megapixel E-3, promises to outdo its predecessor with significantly faster autofocus performance, a larger viewfinder, and live LCD viewing, while retaining the Four-Thirds format that makes it compatible with existing lenses from Olympus and other Four-Thirds optics makers. Equipped with an articulating 230,000-dot, 2.5-inch Live View LCD with a 170-degree viewing angle, the E-3 also offers a pentaprism eyepiece viewfinder that shows 100 percent of the image frame at 1.15x magnification. The LCD has a dedicated luminance sensor that allows it to automatically adjust the screen brightness in response to ambient light changes. The E-3 offers dual CompactFlash and xD-Picture Card slots, with support for fast UDMA CF cards.

Read the entire camera preview which includes the company press release, product gallery, hands-on review, etc., on popphoto.com.

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