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Olympus CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM RSOlympus CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM RS

Olympus CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM RS

Olympus CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM RSOlympus CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM RS

Olympus America, Inc.

Two Corporate Drive

Melville, N.Y. 11747-3157

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This technology paper is provided to illustrate the technical advances that enable fastpaced action and event photography with the Olympus’ CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM RS and to demonstrate how these technical advances can benefit professional and serious amateur digital photographers.

The CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM RS SLR (single lens reflex) is specifically targeted by Olympus to professionals and serious amateur digital photographers and offers “best of class” features such as a 10x aspherical optical zoom lens, (equivalent to a 380mm lens), a innovative pre-capture image caching mode and 15 frames per second burst capability. It also features image stabilization to steady the lens and a precision electronic viewfinder.

Up until now, most digital camera manufacturers have tried to produce digital cameras that in many ways mimic traditional film cameras, especially with pro or prosumer digital cameras. The introduction of the CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM RS represents a unique circumstance in which Olympus has purposely pushed the technology envelope to provide features that specifically address the critical needs of sports and fast-paced event digital photographers, an industry first.

The E-100 ZOOM RS includes a bevy of “digital-specific” features that go well beyond the capabilities of traditional professional quality film cameras. After all, why go digital if you aren’t allowed to utilize the efficiencies of digital processes to their fullest extent?

We invite you to read further about the uniquely “digital-specific” features of the CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM RS SLR and how it allows fast-paced event and sports photography to be even better.

John Knaur Olympus America, Inc.

For More Information about the CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM RS SLR go to: http://e-100rs.olympus.com For More Example Photographs for the CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM RS go to: http://www.camediagallery.com

Digital Camera OverviewDigital Camera Overview

Digital Camera Overview

Digital Camera OverviewDigital Camera Overview

The worldwide adoption of digital photography in the past

four years has simply been astounding and dwarfs the adop-

tion growth rate of other entrenched devices such as inkjet

printers and scanners. By 2002, consumer digital cameras

will surpass flatbed scanners in yearly adoption and this will

have taken just 7 years in comparison to 12 years for flatbed

scanners to reach this equivalent adoption rate. The world-

wide forecast now puts consumer digital camera shipments

at over 50 million units by 2005. It took PC’s over 14 years to

reach this level of penetration. By comparison, digital cam-

eras will reach this same penetration in 9 years.

In 1999 alone, worldwide consumer digital camera shipments,

excluding toy cameras exceeded 5.8 million units and repre-

sented over $2.9 billion in street valued revenue. In the U.S.,

unit shipments exceeded 2.5 million representing over $1.3

billion in street valued revenue with a projected five-year com-

pound average growth rate, (CAGR) out to 2005 of 39.8%. (All

sources: Imerge Consulting Group - 2000)

and color science, all working in tandem to provide users

sharper, more accurate images.

Olympus again led the third plateau of adoption with the intro-

duction of 1.3 mega-pixel resolution in a consumer digital

camera. This resolution would later become the industry

benchmark for representing “photo-quality”. Photo-quality

images are simply the equivalent in image quality to a con-

sumer film camera when output to a 4” x 6” print on photo-

grade paper. But resolution alone cannot provide photo-qual-

ity images. It is the resolution provided by the CCD sensor in

tandem to the camera’s internal opto-electronics and entire

optical path.

The Move to Digital Specific Attributes

Currently the state of digital camera development is entering

a new era driven by higher resolutions and advanced feature-

sets which move digital cameras beyond the capabilities of

film cameras by using “digital specific” attributes. In-fact, from

Plateaus of Adoption

Unit shipments and revenue only tell part of the dynamic story

of digital cameras. The adoption of digital cameras has oc-

curred in stages or plateaus, driven entirely upon technical

advances. The first plateau occurred with the introduction of a

viewable color LCD, providing instant gratification to consum-

ers in 1995.

With the second plateau of adoption in 1996, Olympus set

out to move digital cameras away from being just novelty

products for viewing images, to products people could actu-

ally benefit from, by providing the industry’s most regarded

“optical path”. The optical path is a combination of lens qual-

ity, internal opto-electronics, image processing (algorithms),

1995, (the first year consumer digital cameras were intro-

duced) until present, digital camera resolutions have in-

creased at a phenomenal average rate of 45.8%.

As digital cameras move well above the “photo-quality” bench-

cameras that are produced to meet the specific needs of

mark, resolutions are a driving attribute but not the principal

driver for adoption. Rather it is these aforementioned “digital

specific” attributes that will compel consumers and profes-

sionals to purchase digital cameras over film cameras.

Olympus again is among the first to recognize this shift and

has begun a new phase of design and development of digital

New 10x Optical Zoom LensNew 10x Optical Zoom Lens

New 10x Optical Zoom Lens

New 10x Optical Zoom LensNew 10x Optical Zoom Lens with Image Stabilizationwith Image Stabilization

with Image Stabilization

with Image Stabilizationwith Image Stabilization

The CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM RS’s optical lens and image

stabilization is designed to be digitally specific for action,

sports and fast-paced event photography. The new 10x

photographers using “digital specific” processes. One of

these categories among professional and prosumers is ac-

tion, sports and fast-paced event photography. As you will

see by reading further, the CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM RS and its

unique capabilities specifically address the needs of this

category of photographers like no other digital camera on the

market, at any price point.

create compactions of foreground to background and con-

trol selective depth-of-field that would be otherwise impos-

sible with shorter focal length lenses.

optical zoom, which is a 6.4-70mm in digital lens terms,

(equivalent to 35mm-380mm in traditional 35mm film pho-

tography) is one of the industry’s first 10x zoom lens in an

affordably priced digital camera. The CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM

RS’s back-saving weight is just over 1-1/3 lb. compared to

a professional film camera and lens assembly of equiva-

lent focal length weighing in at about 25 lb.

Expanded Focal Length Means More

Creativity, Greater Control

This extension of the focal length out to an equivalent 380mm

allows digital photographers to compose images that were

impossible in the past. In many circumstances, a sports

photographer cannot be right next to the subject matter.

This new expanded focal length lens allows the photogra-

pher to pull the subject into range, shoot tighter images,

Walter Urie, a southern California commercial photogra-

pher for 20 years recently used the CAMEDIA E-100

ZOOM RS for a series of on-location shoots in Moab, Utah.

Walter specializes in annual report and advertising pho-

tography on-location and has used a number of digital and

film cameras for his work. Walter’s award winning images

have been featured in Communications Arts Magazine and

he currently teaches photography at Orange Coast Col-

lege. He has worked with Mercedes Benz, Isuzu, 3Com

and many others.

Walter Urie talks about his experiences with the CAMEDIA

E-100 ZOOM RS on location, “This camera and lens com-

bination allowed me to compose images that would other-

wise have been impossible. I’ve never used a still camera

with this kind of zoom range. It was incredibly useful. It

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