Speed is an essential issue in photography. Not only is the optimal setting of aperture and shutter time important, but the focus needs to be in place when you release the shutter, and with today's high resolution sensors large amounts of data must be processed and saved to the storage media quickly. When the action picks up speed, so shall your camera - don't miss a shot with high-speed shooting.


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Processing

E-300/ E-500/ E-330/ E-400/E-420: TruePic Turbo
Developed by Olympus, the TruePic technology optimises the image information captured on the CCD before the data is saved. It uses the brightness and colour information of the neighbouring pixels when processing the pixel data. These calculations, only possible with the super-fast RISC and Olympus ASIC processor, lead to digital pictures that set standards for picture sharpness, contrast, true colours and gradation.
 
E-1: A triple chip system for rapid processing
A separate ASIC chip is dedicated to each the following three areas of camera operation, to ensure high speed processing:

ASIC 1: Image processing
ASIC 2: Interface processing
ASIC 3: Camera control
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Burst rate

In continuous shooting, you don’t want to miss a moment. With speeds of at least 3 frames per second, all current E-System cameras are equipped to do the job. In a professional camera, the expectations are even higher. That’s why the E-3 provides you with 5fps, capturing 16 RAW images in a row. The buffer for JPEG images is even higher and only limited by your card capacity. As you don’t like to wait on your camera processing before you can carry on shooting, Olympus further improved image processing with the new processing engine TruePic III, incorporated in the E-3, E-410, E-420 and E-510. It can cope with high data volumes, just as you can with pressing the release button.
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Shutter speed

With the E-System you enjoy high-speed and high-precision shutter control. High amateurs can vary their release time between 1/4000 and 60 seconds and 8 minutes in bulb mode. Photographers using the E-3 can shoot as fast as 1/8000sec. for at least 150,000 exposures.
In x-sync mode, the E-3 is as fast as 1/250sec., other E-System cameras warrant a speed of 1/180sec. In TTL modethe E-3 allows for 1/8000 sec.,the others for 1/4000 sec.
Image quality always has been the core competency of the Olympus E-System. Starting from the scratch, cameras and lenses were designed to capture the light perfectly. Many new inventions support this goal, so that you have not only a perfect set of digital lenses, but also find the latest in sensor and image processing technologies included in your camera. In the E-3 and E-510, Olympus managed to also include a virtual tripod against camera shake.
 

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