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Olympus E-420
Olympus E-420
Olympus E-420

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5_0 stars out of 5 Olympus E-420 Reviews

Specifications

Brand: Olympus
Megapixels: CCD - 4/3" Live MOS sensor 11.8 megapixels including 10 effective 17.3 x 13 mm RGB filter TruePic III engine
Optical zoom: Optical Zoom - 3x with the ED 14-42mm 1:3.5-5.6 lens
Aperture and Shutter Speed - Fast shutter range: 1/4000th - 60 secs Auto mode: 1/4000th sec - 2 secs P, Ps shutter speed: 1/4000th - 60 secs (up to 30 mins in pose mode) A-priority shutter speed: 1/4000th - 60 secs (up to 30 mins in pose mode) S-priority shutter speed: 1/4000th - 60 secs (up to 30 mins in pose mode) Manual shutter speed: 1/4000th - 60 secs (up to 30 mins in pose mode) Scene mode shutter speed: 1/4000th - 4 secs Self-timer: 2/12 seconds
Flash (built-in) - Internal flash: auto, red-eye reduction, slow sync, 2nd shutter slow sync, fill in, slow sync with red-eye reduction, off Guide number: 12 Flash compensation: +/- 2 IL / 1/3 EV steps
Other features - Fixed LPF filter Hybird IR cut filter Supersonic wave filter Image processing: colour space, 5 sharpness and contrast settings, 5 saturation settings, colour filter, black and white filter and 4 gradation levels TTL phase-difference detection system, contrast detection system Focusing point: 3 points / 11 points, automatic and manual selection of AF contrast detection system TTL open-aperture metering system Face detection Noise reduction AE bracketing Burst mode
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What the Crowd say about the Olympus E-420

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Amazon Reviews [2]

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Very Handy!

by knoflik on 08/17/08

Author: knoflik My main camera is a Nikon D80 which I use with heavy lenses and a battery pack. I love it to bits, but found I was in need of something I could have with me at all times to capture those "moments" that always crop up when you DON'T have a camera to hand. I...

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benkamorvan (benkamorvan) via Twitter

submitted 20 hours ago

i'm looking for a very light reflex : olympus E-420 maybe ? do you know another one for less than 500 g ?

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ekutoru (H. Llera) via Twitter

submitted 5 days ago

Properly tweaked, Olympus E-420's in-camera rendering (raw to jpg) is perfect. Utterly impressed. Timesaver for web publishing. Ahem, Nikon.

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smptoday (smptoday) via Twitter

submitted yesterday

Olympus E-420 is the world's smallest digital SLR. (10 megapixels -$540) http://tinyurl.com/29ajgv

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