Issue 9 / Summer 2007

The contents of the Summer 2007  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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Smile

Friends and family are the backbone of any photographer’s portfolio. We explain how you can turn your snapshot memories into memorable images.

ISO info

Olympus User sheds light on the subject of ISO and shows what an understanding of it can do for your photography.

Silent witness

Nick Danziger, one of the UK’s foremost documentary photographers, was been given unprecedented access to Number 10 during the ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair’s last weeks in office. His photos give a rare insight into life within the corridors of power.

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One for the album

Photographs can be stored and presented in many different ways. Olympus User explores some of the options.

Portfolio

Paul Seraphim Sika talks to Olympus User about how still photography is simply a unit of the moving image

In the lab: histograms

In this issue, we look at how your camera and software can help you get perfect exposure and colour balance

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Menu for change

Olympus expert Perry Lewis explains how to set the correct colour balance using the Olympus E-400 D-SLR

Innovation: E-story

In the second part of our interview, the designers of the E-system digital SLR’s discuss its potential development for the future.

Diary: American dream

Olympus User reader, Johnny Jetstream’s road trip from Las Vegas to Pheonix took him through some of the most monumental landscapes in the USA, he shares them with us.

Readers’ gallery

Take a look at what readers of Olympus User have been up to with their cameras.

Productwatch

We explore new Shadow Adjustment Technology, and welcome new DSLRs, the E-510 and E-410 with Live View.

Competition

View the winning entries in our portraits competition, and discover what the latest challenge we are setting our readers is!

Photofacts and letters

We hope we can unravel a few mysteries in our new Photofacts column, plus see what other readers have to say