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The Olympus E-1 incorporates an additional anti-noise feature, the noise filter.

Random pattern noise can occur, for example, when shooting with a high ISO setting and may also appear in dark areas of a photo. By intelligently analysing and processing the image information, the Noise Cancellation function helps remove some of this noise, smoothing the contours of the objects in the photo. Its benefits are particularly noticeable in lower contrast areas of the shot, such as a blue sky or person’s skin.

There are two colour space settings.
sRGB ensures images are saved with a standard colour scope used by the Windows operating system and similar to those of most ink-jet systems.

E.g. offset printing can be done with Adobe RGB as it supports this colour range and is therefore particularly suited to such applications.

Adjustment modes are on hand for when you want to experiment or obtain special effects on location and not wait until you get back to your computer.
There are five levels which can be chosen for general colour saturation.

Ranging from 1/4000 sec. to 2 sec. in the program, aperture or shutter modes and up to 30/60 sec (E-300/E-1 & E-500). in the manual mode, the Olympus E-Systems ’s focal plane shutter provides the versatility necessary for a wide variety of subjects, effects and situations. Exposures up to 8 minutes long may be taken in bulb mode.

The flash synchronisation of the Olympus E-System is outstanding. It offers particular flexibility when working with an external flash system. With the FL-36/ FL-50 flash synchronisation at all shutter speeds is possible – even 1/4000 sec.

• Single AF
• Continuous AF
• Manual focus

AF engine

‘Aperture Priority’ lets you choose the aperture and then automatically selects the best shutter speed. In ‘Shutter priority’, you determine the shutter speed and the camera sets the optimum aperture. In both of these modes, by using the preview button, you can see the depth of field in the viewfinder.
Naturally, full manual control of the aperture and exposure time is possible.

The E-300/ E-500 features additional scene programmes for easy access, automatic exposure and image parameter setting. Just choose one and you will be guided on the LCD how to use it.

With the E-1/E-300 the exposure settings as well as the AF settings can be locked with a press of the AEL button according to the setting made . You are then free to re-frame the shot. With the E-300 you can preset a special metering method for easy access.

Using the bracketing function, the camera shoots a number of pictures at different exposure values for each frame. In situations where correct exposure might be difficult to obtain, bracketing gives you more than one exposure so that you can choose the best result. It is possible to shoot 3 or 5 pictures of the scene in sequential shooting, but the shots can also be taken manually.