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Olympus E-400
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10.00 Megapixels
2.5 inch LCD |
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When
Olympus announce the Four Thirds antenna and lens mount normal for
digital SLR cameras in 2003, one of its affirmed aims was to create
cameras and lenses that were lesser and lighter than the 35mm normal
used by all the other manufacturer. in spite of more than a few industry
partners amalgamation in the growth, other brand have been sluggish to
adopt the new normal, though Panasonics new L1 SLR does use it.
Undeterred, Olympus has remain committed to the standard, initiation a
series of well-liked and critically-acclaimed digital SLRs, counting the
E-300, E-330, and the E-550. Ive review the E-330 and the E500 here by
now, and I was very frightened by both of them, particularly the
entry-level E-500.
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Launch in September this day the E-400 is a 10 megapixel DSLR that is
rival in a straight line with the Nikon D80, Sony Alpha A100, Pentax K10
and the Canon EOS 400D, so its surely got its work cut absent for it.
It has a catalog price of £849.99 in a belongings with two zoom lenses
of 14-42mm and 40-150mm (equal to 28-84mm and 80-300mm in that order)
and though it is available for approximately £800 online, it is it seems
that not currently available body-only, which makes it considerably more
expensive to buy than any of those models apart from the Nikon.
The first obsession that strikes you about the E-400 is its very small
size and light weight. It is, at the occasion of writing, the smallest
and lightest digital SLR on the marketplace, measuring 129.5 mm x 91 mm
x 53 mm and weighing only 375g body-only. Contrast this with 126 x 94 x
65mm and 510g for the Canon 400D or 132 x 103 x 77mm and 585g for the
Nikon D80. It is the primary E-series SLR that I sense actually uses the
size benefit of the Four Thirds scheme.
It looks
even lesser since it lacks the large handgrip establish on the majority
other SLR cameras. Its thin body shape is additional evocative of an
early 1980s-vintage film SLR such as the Nikon FG or Canon A-1. It does
have a handgrip of sort; the body shape be somewhat sculpt on the right
hand surface both face and back with a textured rubber board on the face
and on the thumb grip, but anybody who is second-hand to the shape of
most contemporary SLRs will find that the E-400 feels extremely skinny
and perhaps a little ill at ease. Personally I quite liked the sense of
it, though I did find that the place of the right-hand strap lug was
also low and pushed into the side of my center finger.
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