Olympus E-5 Pro DSLR Camera Preview

Submitted By: Mark Hayward

On the eve of the digital photography festival Photokina at Colyone, Germany Olympus have announced there new edition to there professional DSLR camera the Olympus E-5 DSLR camera and here is our preview of the camera that is on general release on October 2010 replacing its three year old predecessor the E-3 with this new model the company refreshed its flagship product with professional photographers love of olympus pro range cameras.

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It was the 14th of september 2010 in CENTER VALLEY,Pa. That olympus announced the E-5 a new dslr camera that has built on olympus tradition to meet the needs and demands of the professional photographer and experienced amateurs. The E-5 built to meet the demands of more upto date DSLR as said upgrades from the E-3 of about 3 years ago and 3 years before that the E-1 with this model being olympus flagship cameras olympus are determined to not loose there way to meet there professional users needs olympus have It is perhaps indicative of where Olympus's priorities lie - or the way the market is headed - that whereas the E-3 took the E-1 back to the drawing board and introduced several new features, the E-5 is probably best described as a warm over of its predecessor. It's also interesting to note that it benefits from a 'trickle up' of technology from the latest developments in the company's Micro Four Thirds cameras - a situation unusual for what is, effectively, the hero product in the E-system range.

Let's have a look at the main changes:

* New sensor (12MP vs 10MP Live MOS)
* New TruPic V+ processor (E-3 was TruPic III)
* Large 3.0" 921k vari-angle screen
* Fast Sensor AF (inc Face Detection)
* 720p movie mode (AVI M-JPEG) + Audio recording
* HDMI and Stereo Mic connections
* Art Filters (10, including new Dramatic Tone Filter)
* ISO 6400 top sensitivity (vs E-3's ISO 3200)
* More customization options
* Redesigned color-coded menu system
* New features including Level Gauge in the viewfinder, Multi-exposure, i-Enhance, 7 frame AEB
* SD / CF slots (E-3 was xD / CF)

The thing Olympus is really pushing with the E-5 is image quality. It's not a new sensor (from what we can tell this is almost certainly the same as the one in the E-PL1), but it does sport a redesigned (for which read lighter) Low Pass Filter (with moiré removed by the processor) and a new 'professionally tuned' Image Engine (The TruPic V+). The combination of Zuiko Digital lens, the new sensor and the new processor is claimed to offer image quality better than any 12MP APS-C camera, and, according to Olympus, many with even higher pixel counts.

With Olympus committed to high quality images they have designed the best cutting edge technologies to deliver the highest image quality in the Olympus range.Together with its 12.3 Megapixel High-speed Live MOS image sensor, the cameras processor the olympus TruePic V+ image processor generates clear colourful photos by processing every pixel individualy were as in the past groups of pixels were processed at a time to save on memory and process time in older cameras, this way of a sophisticated olgorithm delivers all information from each pixel this notes accurate colour in great detail and better photos than from other cameras of the same amount of mega pixels.The image processor is noted for accurate natural color, true-to-life flesh tones, brilliant blue skies and precise tonal expression; it also lowers image noise in photos shot at higher ISO settings (ISO 100 to ISO 6400), enabling great results in low-light situations.

Camera shake is one of the most problems cameras have to deal with through no fault of there own but we humans are not perfect so Olympus and the E-5 camera have to deal with this problem that make cameras blur when shaking so the E-5 has been fitted in body a mechanical image stabilizor that compensates this movement up to 5 steps EV and produces no image blur with any of the ZUIKO digital lenses available for the camera. Built in stabilization work with not only long focal lenses, but with wide, ultra-wide and fisheye lenses, there are consessions with this as long as your not using long exposure during low-light and night exposers.

Head turning High Definition Video
Shooting video is as easy as ever with the new Olympus E-5 camera. The camera captures all the action in crisp 720p HD video at 30 frames per second. With more than 20 Four Thirds® lenses, people can shoot video with a selection of lenses ranging from an extreme wide-angle fisheye lens to a super telephoto lens for a variety of expressive options. Photographers can capture great stereo sound quality by plugging any microphone with a standard 3.5mm jack into the camera’s stereo microphone terminal. A built-in microphone also records clear monaural audio.

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