{"id":1086,"date":"2008-05-25T03:30:53","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T03:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2008-05-25T03:30:53","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T03:30:53","slug":"mountin-olympus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1086","title":{"rendered":"Mountin’ Olympus"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nTaken from a very cool camera – the Olympus E-420! 2000 Kelvin.<\/p>\n


\nOn the other end is 12000 Kelvin.<\/p>\n


\nYep, the Olympus E-420 is out! Unfortunately, they didn’t have the Olympus Zuiko Digital 25mm F2.8 pancake lens I was so looking forward to, here. I love pancakes when can I have one?<\/p>\n


\nKelvin WB in Live View. You have to hold down the EV button while rolling the dial though. The Sony A300\/A350 puts their WB on the left of the screen so you get a clear view of the scene, while the Nikon D300\/D3 puts it at the bottom if I remember correctly. Either way, it’s great to be able to set Kelvin WB in Live View.<\/p>\n

The Live View Imager AF mode is AWESOME!<\/p>\n

I used the camera exclusively in Live View, because Imager AF was pretty alright for a contrast-detect AF system! This was a lot faster than the trodding, misfocusing tripod-mode Nikon D300, or the slightly faster Canon EOS 450D. It felt like an old, slow point-and-shoot… but this was still ages beyond the D300 or 450D.<\/p>\n

The lens used was the Olympus Zuiko Digital 14-42mm F3.5-5.6, a compact little wonder.<\/p>\n

I didn’t even have time to check if the optical viewfinder showed all the settings inside, which Olympus has never failed to do, and I salute them for that.<\/p>\n

Of course, the tilting-mirror system that is in the Sony A300\/A350 gives phase-detect AF which is still the fastest AF in Live View, but this comes pretty close! I can only imagine if a 12-60mm F2.8-4.0 SWD was mounted on this…<\/p>\n


\nOf course, there was a downside – the mirror had to go down before going up to release the shutter. ARGH! When I pressed the shutter in Live View, the screen darkened while freezing the image (which said 0:00:09.00). By the time the mirror went down and came up, the image recorded 0:00:10.07. 1.07 second shutter lag.<\/p>\n


\nWhen I shot it, it said 0:00:34 ST 05. It recorded at 0:00:35.32. A variable shutter lag?<\/p>\n

If not for this shutter lag in Live View, which was a bit too long, I’d already be dreaming about this camera all night. The E-420 with 25mm F2.8 pancake is something that would be appreciated very much by casual shooters who want a little pocketable buddy. Get a waist pouch and a FL-36R and you’re set for anything. And maybe a grappling hook, should foot zoom only get you so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taken from a very cool camera – the Olympus E-420! 2000 Kelvin. On the other end is 12000 Kelvin. Yep, the Olympus E-420 is out! Unfortunately, they didn’t have the Olympus Zuiko Digital 25mm F2.8 pancake lens I was so looking forward to, here. I love pancakes when can I have one? Kelvin WB in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}