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Issue 5/ Summer 2006
The contents of the summer issue of Olympus User magazine are shown below. Click on the available links to download PDF versions of sample articles. To open the PDF format you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader, available free of charge from the Adobe website.
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Inside
News from Olympus, forthcoming events, plus a review of the Olympus Inheritance Exhibition
News flash…
Flash guns aren’t just for low-light situations, they can also be used to create different effects and enhance photographs. Steve Hynes introduces us to the secrets of flash including fill-in, slow-sync and high speed FP flash....
Best of the crop
We often take cropping photos for granted, merrily chopping off the bits of our images we don’t like, but, as Helen Harris explains, cropping techniques can have a massive visual impact on your photographs
Turning over an old leaf
New England in the autumn is one destination guaranteed to provide a photographic portfolio with a difference. With vibrantly coloured leaves, plump orange pumpkins and dapper whitewashed houses it’s easy to see why your camera should be the first thing you pack.
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Portfolio: trading places
Fashion and music photographer Cleveland Aaron explains why he traded in his city briefcase for an Olympus E-1 and a life of professional photography
RAW – what is it good for?
Shooting digital photos in RAW file format offers many advantages. Helen Harris explains why
The big cut-up
We often think of image manipulation as something that can only be done with the aid of a PC; however Olympus User tracks the evolution of photomontage from its origins in the 19th century, while reader David Dunnico offers a few tips on combining several images into one on the computer
Innovation
Olympus User takes a look inside the innovative
E-330 to discover how it can offer continuous live view when all other SLR’s can’t
Diary
The ideal photo story to cool us down if the summer gets too hot – the E-500 takes a tour of Sweden’s famous Ice Hotel
Mastering the menu
In this issue we take a closer look at the mode dial, Scenes, Macro, Self-timer and Flash controls of the C-8080 WideZoom, though many of these controls will be familiar to the owners of other model cameras
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Gallery
Win a copy of John Swannell’s book, Twenty Years On, if your image is exhibited in the Readers' Gallery
Competition
See the winning images in our competition entitled ‘Upon Reflection’, plus details of our new competition
Product watch
With summer upon us, Olympus has a great range of cases and housings designed to protect your camera from sand and sea
Letters
Readers have their say; we take a look at what’s coming in the next issue, plus some photographic-related web sites | 
