Olympus E 510 Review

The e 510 boasts a built in image stabilizer in the camera body which will help to counter act the effects of camera shake in conjunction with all olympus e system lenses.

Olympus e 510 review. Although the e 510 has much in common with its little brother including an all new matsushita live mos image sensor that can provide full time live view on the lcd monitor and an updated truepic image processor it is a considerably more sophisticated tool with some important extra features. This is a bold and confident design that has enough features to make it well worth a closer look. The e 510 represents a big shift in the outlook for olympus. This can make the difference when trying to catch the quick smile or facial expressions of my child.

The e 510 is fast in autofocusing in good lighting shutter lag and it also has an excellent 3fps continuous burst mode. It s a lot better balanced than its predecessor the e 330 to. Olympus e 510 weighs 490 g 1 08 lb 17 28 oz and has external dimensions of 136 x 92 x 68 mm 5 35 x 3 62 x 2 68. Considering that the average weight of dslr type cameras is 774g olympus e 510 is a remarkably light camera for its class.

The e 510 is a superb photographer s camera offering superb handling outstanding performance a huge degree of control and first rate. The olympus e 510 delivers nothing short of impeccable performance. With a thickness of 68mm it has an average thickness for its class. The olympus e series continues to get better and better.

Although the e 510 has much in common with its little brother including an all new matsushita live mos image sensor that can provide full time live view on the lcd monitor and an updated truepic image processor it is a considerably more sophisticated tool with some important extra features. The olympus e 510 is less attractive than the e 410 but it s more about getting good photos comfortably than looking good doing it. Olympus thinks of the e 510 as a small step above the e 410 and thinks that it should appeal to slr newbies or possibly former film slr owners that want more of a traditional slr design than its.