Olympus E-10 User Manual

Camedia E-10 SLR

4 million pixels

The digital camera for the serious photographer

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Why Olympus?

You’re about to make a decision. Olympus?

Or some other brand? Naturally, we think it should

be Olympus.

We could point out that in 1920, we gave Japan its

first microscope. Our long experience with optics has

resulted in the clearest, most distortion-free lenses

the world has ever known. And the quality of the

lens is the single most important factor in

determining the quality of your picture.

But it goes beyond that. It has more to do with the

all-consuming dedication to excellence that produced

those advanced optics in the first place. The dedication

that has driven the company from the very beginning.

Our dedication can be seen in the long string of

innovations we’ve introduced over the years. It can be

seen in the extreme level of performance, durability

and ease of use that’s in every Olympus product. And

most importantly, it can be seen in your pictures.

We suggest you research your decision carefully.

Consider what you’ll get for your money. Money's too

hard to earn to waste a single dollar. Then make a

good decision.

And of course, if you end up going with Olympus

this time, you’ll find that next time, you won’t really

have a decision to make.

Focus On Life

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The digital Camedia E-10 SLR was

designed from the very beginning to please

the most demanding photographer. It’s a

camera that was designed from the very

beginning to be digital.

The E-10 SLR was born out of our

desire to develop a truly digital camera.

One in which all components were

rethought from a digital perspective, and

designed to work together to deliver ultra

high-resolution digital photographs.

Very quickly, though, it became clear

that current technology could no longer do

what we asked of it. So we did what we’ve

always done. We developed new technology.

The most significant result is the E-10’s

The digital camera that

will change the industry.

digital lens. Never before has a lens been so

perfectly designed for digital photography.

Combine it with shutter release lag

times of under 60 milliseconds, full control,

our exclusive TruePic

™

technology and all

the flexibility of digital photography, and

you have a camera like no other.

Would you like pictures like no other?

Read on. Learn more about the Camedia

E-10 SLR. See what we’ve done with digital

photography. Then go out and see what you

can do with it.

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The E-10 SLR features a fully multi-

coated, 14-element, 11-group lens with ED

and aspherical glass and an f 2.0 – 2.4 4x

zoom. That alone tells you this is no ordi-

nary lens, digital or otherwise.

But the real story behind the E-10’s

lens is in the way it captures an image.

In a film lens, an image carried by

light is directed at a layer of silver halide

below the film’s translucent surface. Since

this layer is flat, light can expose the film

from any angle and still result in excellent

focus and resolution.

Our exclusive Olympus TruePic

™

technology uses every pixel to

make your image, at all resolutions. It then micro-smooths the

pixels to provide true continuous-tone images.

In a digital camera, the surface of the

CCD is made up of pixels. These pixels are

tiny wells that record the information car-

ried by light. In the E-10’s 4.0 million pixel

CCD, the pixels are so small that angled

light won’t fill them properly. So to take full

advantage of the E-10’s advanced CCD, we

The E-10’s lens refracts light directly into the pixel

wells, filling them with information properly.

developed a lens that would direct light

precisely into each pixel well, filling them

properly and resulting in exceptionally fine

focus and resolution.

Of course, there’s a much simpler way to

understand what this new technology means.

Just take a look at one of the E-10’s pictures.

Film lenses refract light at an angle. A good

technology for flat film.

The very latest in digital technology comes together in the Camedia E-10 SLR. Its many revolutionary parts
combine to give you exceptionally sharp, rich, large prints.

The E-10’s all-in-one lens design

allows us to perfectly match the

lens to the precision camera CCD.

It also lets us seal the camera

body, keeping damaging dust

away from the CCD.

A lens designed for true

digital photography.