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Table of Contents01. E-420 Home Page |
New Button Color SchemeOlympus has released a new button color Scheme. It may have the potential to help out those who maybe color blind, to possibly read the back playback options better. On all previous cameras when you entered playback mode Olympus had different colored button's to help you navigate the camera easier. However, the older buttons especially green may not be easily read by people who might be color blind. I would also say that the new color scheme does a better job matching the blue ring around the lens barrel, and helps the camera fit as a system better.
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Portrait | Camera selects maximum apertures, minimizing the depth of field to soften the background and to emphasize the subject. Camera controls the sharpness to -1 to optimize skin tone with its present gamma. AF frame:Auto, S-AF, ISO: Auto, WB:AUTO, Flash:auto pop-up |
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Landscape | Optimized for landscape shooting. Camera selects smaller aperture to maximizing the depth of field. AF frame: AUTO, S-AF, ISO:Auto, WB: 5300, Sharpness +1, Contrast +1 |
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Landscape & Portrait | Optimized for commemorative photos. Camera selects the aperture so that both people and background are in focus. AF frame: Auto, S-AF, ISO:Auto, WB:5300, Sharpness +1 |
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Night Scene | Camera controls the sharpness to -1 and contrast to -2 with its preset gamma. Also selects widest aperture and the fast possible shutter speed to reduce noise. AF Frame:Auto, S-AF, ISO:Auto, WB:5300, Flash:OFF |
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Night Scene & Portrait | Similar to the Night mode, camera controls the sharpness to -1 and contrast to -2 with its preset gamma. Also selects widest aperture and fastest possible shutter speed to reduce noise. AF frame:AUTO, S-AF, ISO:Auto, WB:5300, Flash:Auto pop-up |
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Children | Camera selects C-AF as possible to chase children. AF frame:AUTO, C-AF, Continuous shoot, ISO:AUTO, WB:AUTO (TBD) |
| Sports | Camera selects as fast a shutter speed as possible to freeze moving subjects. AF frame:Auto, C-AF, Continuous AF, ISO:Auto, WB:Auto | |
| High-Key | Camera Sets the enhanced brightness to emphasize the bright subjects. AF:AUTO, C-AF, ISO:Auto WB:Auto | |
| Low-Key | Camera sets the enhanced brightness to emphasize the dark subjects. | |
| DIS mode | ISO sensitivities is automatically boosted (to ISO 600) to reduce blurring caused by camera shake or subject movement | |
| Macro | Camera selects the aperture as small as it can get from widest aperture to smallest. By using the mode, the out-of-focus images are diminished with narrow depth of field. AF frame:AUTP, S-AF+MF, ISO:AUTO, WB:AUTO, flash:auto pop-up | |
| Nature Macro | Ideal for close-up shooting' ensures that flowers and incest's are vividly captured. +1 Sharpness; +1 Contrast, +1 Saturation |
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| Candle | Camera sets the image quality to SQ and the images size to 1600x1200 to reduce noise and instability. Also sets the WB to Exposure compensation: +0.3, AF frame:Auto, S-AF, Sharpness -1, Contrast -1, flash:OFF | |
| Sunset | Camera sets the WB to 6000, Saturation to +2 and exposure compensation to -0.7 to emphasize vivid sunsets and sun rises. Also selects the aperture for the wide depth of field. AF frame:AUTO, ISO:Auto, flash:off | |
| Fireworks | Camera selects the shutter speed to 4 seconds and the aperture to within the range of F4 to F8 to capture fireworks display. Also sets the exposure compensation to -1 for the very black sky. MF, ISO:AUTO, flash:OFF | |
| Documents | Optimized for shooting documents. Camera controls the Exposure compensation to +0.7, Sharpness to +2 and Contrast to +2 to increase contrast. AF frame:AUTO, S-AF, ISO:AUTO, WB:AUTO | |
| Panorama | For creating panorama images; flash is automatically disabled | |
| Beach & Snow | Camera selects as fast shutter speed as possible to freeze moving subjects. Also sets the WB to 6000 to avoid being affected by ultra violent rays, Sharpness to +1 and Saturation to +1 for the vivid scenery. AF frame:AUTO, C-AF, Continuous shooting, ISO:AUTO |
Please note that the E-420 is missing the 2 under water modes that the E-410 had. No exact word on why, but with the larger LCD on the E-420, the existing E-410 underwater case will not fit the E-420.
One the E-420 the Function button has been moved off the rear of the body, and placed into the 4 way control panel. Which helps to save room, and simply makes since. You can program the Fn button to various settings such as Face Detection, Preview (depth of field), Test Picture (without saving), Live Preview (depth of field on the LCD), One touch WB, and OFF .
As with the E-3 Olympus changed the naming structure of the files to be more "universal". Basically it has been slightly simplified. (But personally, it seems like to many options to me).
The only Magazine dedicated to the system
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