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Summary: Just Great
Review: The more I use this camera, the more I love it. If you have worked with 35mm SLRs and you know a little about aperture and shutter priority and how one relates to the other, you will feel right at home with the E-10. If you know nothing about all this technical stuff, but just want a great point and shoot, this camera will still work for you. It can be set to full automatic.
I just shot some outdoor scenes on a gray, overcast day on the coast, and I am bowled over by the quality and color depth I am able to pull out of the digital images with just a little tweaking in the provided Camedia software. (I haven't tried the Photoshop software yet.) The 8x10 prints out of my HP 952 DeskJet are sharp and vivid. No visible grain, no noise. The brighter colors "snap" against the overcast sky.I love this camera.
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Summary: excelent but problems in focus
Review: When you take group pictures, I foud problems with the autofocus.
The rest is excelent.
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Summary: Film no more.
Review: The E-10 is not perfect, yet it is still the best-designed product I have used. I'm not limiting this claim to photographic equipment. Car, toaster, pencil, whatever, this is the best product I have ever purchased. The toughtful design goes beyond technology into the realm of art. I especially enjoy using the E-10 with Olympus' lithium-polymer battery pack. It gives the camera extra heft, and provides an extra shutter release button. Some have complained about the low top shutter speed of 1/640 of a second. Many of the staff photographers at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway use the E-10, and have no problem shooting race cars at 1/640. You have to pan in these situations. Several of the IMS photographers have told me they much prefer the E-10 over the Canon EOS D-30 for high-speed subjects, and the D-30 costs a thousand dollar more, and doesn't come with lenses. An impressive E-10 feature is the camera's ablity to take sharp photos in low-light situations. I have taken numerous clear, focused photos at 1/8, handheld. Autofocus is a unreliable in the dark, but if you crank the diopter on the eyepiece all the way clockwise manual focus is not a problem. I also suggest trying to focus using the LCD screen in low light. The more I use this camera, the more charmed I am by it. Every time I pick it up I get a good feeling about the photos I'm about to take. The E-10 works with you, not against you. Use and and you will become a better photographer.
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Summary: For Amateurs Too!
Review: This is an extremely cool camera. Being a photography amateur, I have to disagree with another reviewer who said this camera was not for beginners. I've learned more about photography with this camera than with the dozen or so film cameras I've owned before. Believe it or not, this camera will make you a good photographer. The pros will surely laugh at this statement, but if you are a beginner, you will be simply amazed at the quality of the pictures you'll get out of this thing. Coupled with the P-400 dye-sub printer, you'll blow people's minds with the quality output. I do have to second some of the negatives mentioned by other reviewers. Auto-focus in dim-light is nearly impossible and quite frustrating. Consider adding the FL-40 flash (with additional rangefinder) to correct this problem. I couldn't agree more with the guy who said the Olympus semi-hard case wasn't good. Another thing I don't think anyone mentioned was the close proximity of the eyepiece to the camera. It would have been nice if they'd extended that piece farther back or inset the LCD display. You'll often find yourself wiping nose prints off your LCD. One review mentioned the poor support for the MicroDrive. Olympus states that the E-10 is not compatible with the MicroDrive. While you can get it to work, it's just not worth the hassle and it will quickly drain the batteries. I bought a couple of 256K CompactFlash cards and each one gives me 96 pictures at the highest JPEG setting. Olympus seems like a good company so far, but I was quite unimpressed with how they market this camera on their own website. You won't find it easy to find options for this camera at their E-10 page. The info on the camera itself is pretty sketchy as well. I spent a lot of time comparing makes and models and found this camera to be at the top of its class. After owning and using it for a few months now, I know I made the right choice. Overall, this is a great camera and while it has a few shortfalls, they pale in comparison to the features and quality of this unit. If you buy one, you will not be disappointed.
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Summary: Best of breed for the price
Review: I've completely switched from emulsion to digital because of this camera. Not for the novice (although would take great pictures). Coupled with a FL-40 flash and stroboframe bracket make this the envy of professionals.
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Summary: One Terrific Camera
Review: This is my 6th digicam and likely my last (for a while) :-). I started with a Kodak D460, moved thru three Olympus Camera's including the D400, C2000, and C2500, then the Nikon's: the 950 and the 990. I must say that I really enjoyed the C2000 and the the Nikon's the most. I continue to think of the 990 as a superb digicam whose macro ability is without peer. Having said that, I thoroughly enjoy the E-10! From the moment I picked it up, I think I was hooked. Ergonomically, the camera is beyond approach. All the important functions are at your fingertips (literally) and none are buried in menus. Second, the image qualtiy, color and resolution are amazing. Every bit as good and in some cases even better than the 990, although it cannot get as close ( even with the add-on macro lens)It is also very quick, shot to shot, manual focus, Compact flash and Smart Media, I could go on an on. For me, it represents the next step from a point and shoot. It gives me the ability to take pictures and feel like I have all the control in the world. It is a superb instrument. It is, like others have pointed out, not without shortcomings. The picture review is way too slow when compared to any other digicam I've owned. Is this a showstopper-absolutely not. They say fixed lens is a problem. For me, I knew it was fixed when I bought it. I knew what it was capable of alone and with the attachments. Max shutter speed too, has been cited as problematic at only 1/640. Guess what? After 6,000 pics, I haven't had one missed shot because of slow shutter speed. Besides, I don't take pictures of car racing. Anyway, suffice it to say that this is one great camera and I haven't regretted my purchase once!
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Summary: Wow! I'm in love! (and 5 stars just isn't enough!)
Review: I used to shoot semi-pro photos for insurance companies and the occasional newspaper, so I have a pretty good collection of "traditional" SLR equipment. Lately, I've been interested in digital, but didn't want to 1) spend spend a lot on a pro-grade digital SLR, and 2) spend less, but get a cobbled-together film-body-digital-back that really didn't work well together. The Olympus E-10 is the solution to my problem! Rather than trying (as some other manufacturers have done) to make the most of film technology in a digital product, Olympus started from scratch. First was the lens: wow! Quite an impressive chunk of glass, and designed specifically to work with their CCD capture device. No lost light or image area; no focal length multipliers because of the smaller size of the CCD (as compared to 35mm film). And fast -- f2.0 at wide angle, and only dropping to 2.4 at tele. Granted, the lens is permanently attached (meaning you can't use any of the lenses you've collected over the years), but I think that's a fair trade-off for the knowledge that you will always have a properly-focused, dust-free image. Next are the controls. There seem to be a lot of buttons and dials on the camera body, and this seemed a little disconcerting at first. I couldnt have been more surprised to find that this actually makes life easier, and operation quicker, than roaming through several levels of menus to change a setting. Having used another digital camera, I'm used to doing the "two thumb shuffle" in order to tweak exposure, white balance, etc. With the E-10, I can do it in about 1/10 the time, and not have to take my hands off the camera (and, therefore, miss some unexpected great shot -- like I've done so often while backing out of the wrong menu, trying to remember where the right option was). I'm also very happy about the lack of delay from pressing the shutter button to actually making the exposure. This has been a bone of contention with a lot of anti-digital photographers: press the button, wait a second or two, and find you've missed the shot you thought you were taking. Not so with the E-10; it's as fast (or faster) than any of the film SLRs I've used. Last, of course, is the image quality. Four megapixels; fast lens; TIFF or RAW modes. What else can I say that other reviewers haven't gushed over? I am so extremely happy with my E-10 that I have absolutely no reservations recommending it to everyone! It does have a few things that could stand improvement (1/640 max shutter speed? one-second to load images in playback?), but what product doesn't. Overall, the good points of this excellent, feature-packed camera far outweigh any minor irritants. If you are looking to step into high-quality digital, but not break the bank, this is the camera for you.
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Summary: Blown Away by Design and Capability
Review: I was anxious about paying so much for a digital camera. But after looking for a couple of months I bought the E-10 because of its form factor and the relatively high resolution of the images. I have been using the camera for a couple of weeks and almost everything about it is terrific. The extra lenses, especially telephoto and macro let you capture photos of just about everything you can do with an SLR. The features are more or less accessible by the physical controls all over the camera. Some of them are novel, but once you experience them (opening the flash, turning on the menu) they are pretty easy to use. I thought the two form factors for image storage well silly at first, but it allows you to load your photos into almost all other devices (printers). The only difficulties I had were based on the problems associated with managing the images and finding a USB driver.
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Summary: I don't regret it for a second
Review: I'm an amateur photographer (at best) and bought this camera on a whim after getting my bonus... Yikes ! the second i bought it i thought i made a really extravagant purchase and thought i would regret it. So now it's 3 months later and I love it.... It was worth the money. I've sent many pictures to be developped (ofoto.com) and the quality is awesome, Especially once you figure out how to use the cameras features. (read the manual, your pictures will be much better.). Buy it , you won't regret it. PS: It is 400$ cheaper on other websites (that is where i bought it).
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Summary: Voting Anything Less Than Five Stars Is Just Plain Silly
Review: I'm sorry, but it's true. I've been shooting professionally with this rig for about 4 months now. I have the Nikon D1, but this camera is the first out of my bag. It gives so much. One thing to consider is that this outstanding camera is currently in a class by itself. There just isn't another one like it. Let me just comment on the "noise". There is some. This is also a bone that many have been chewing on ever since the E-10 came out. But, I read everything I can about this product. I participate on professional message boards. I have access to many pro-grade digital cameras, and I know a lot of people who use the E-10. The consensus - the noise is not a problem. The 640th of a second top shutter speed is odd; I'll give you that. But I have had little reason to exceed this speed - even to my own surprise. The first argument is that you'll tend to over-expose in bright sunlight. Well, get a neutral density filter for 30 bucks - problem solved. The second, I can't use it in sports shoots. My answer to that is, well you shouldn't have purchased this camera for sports in the first place - Oly's E-100 is better suited for that. It takes 15 frame bursts, and has a whopper of a zoom on it, plus a progressive scan CCD that rings in at 1.5-megapixels. The E-10 uses the interlaced CCD at 4.1-megapixels. It's just a whole different animal. And, honestly, I've shot sporting events with mine, and there are no problems to report. You just have to make certain allowances. All in all, you buy this camera, You Won't Regret It! Five Big Fat Stars!
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