Olympus E-420 360 view
This is a 360° view of the Olympus E-420 with the the 14-42 mm kit lens. Music by DR.
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Olympus E-420 Kit
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2.7-inch Live View HyperCrystal II LCD screen
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Enhanced in-body Image Stabilization with Supersonic Wave Drive technology
Face Detection and Shadow Adjustment technologies; Perfect Shot Preview
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10-megapixel CMOS sensor captures enough detail for photo-quality 18 x 24-inch prints
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Kodachrome 21: Olympus E-420 Backfocus, it's on its way back to ...
Taken on the forest floor at Sharon Woods in Columbus, OH, I would have obviously had to lay on the floor of the forest to get that shot to compose through an optical viewfinder. LiveView made it easy, though. I have tended to use LiveView only when I had to, not all the time. But this weekend I decided to try out the Face detection in LiveView, as I had read that the Olympus would deal with challenging interior light in portrait situations in LiveView w/FD as it would optimize exposure for the detected human. Little did I know what else I would discover... I wouldn't use it for serious calibration, but it absolutely verified the backfocus problem on my E-420. I did two tests; in the first, I placed the E-420 about 5 feet from the target, and in the second, about 25 feet. I shot first using the viewfinder, and then LiveView with CDAF turned on. I repeated the test 3 times. In each case, CDAF nailed focus and TTL phase-detect backfocused. In fact, in the "long" test, it backfocused so much that the back wall of my kitchen was in perfect focus (about 7 feet behind the target). Really, perhaps the E-420 isn't as "soft" as I think it is. Certainly, the AA filter is stronger than many competing cameras. And when focus is generally decent (even a backfocusing body will give good photos at smaller apertures), the photos are softer than some would like. But it does have a very "natural" look to it when you have decent DoF/focus. I'm actually very HAPPY to figure out that...