Olympus E-10
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The Olympus E-10 is a digital single-lens reflex with a 4.0 megapixel CCD
image sensor that was introduced in 2000. Unlike most digital SLRs the camera is not a system camera
– its lens is fixed to the body
. It has a TTL optical viewfinder, and a 4× optical zoom lens with lens aperture
f/2–2.4. Instead of a moving mirror a beam splitting prism is used to split the image between the optical viewfinder and CCD. Thus it was possible to have a live view on the LCD-Display and in parallel see the image in the TTL viewfinder.
The E-10 has a strong metallic case that weighs in at approximately 37 oz. (1050 g). It was succeeded by the 5 megapixel Olympus E-20
, announced in 2001.
Charge-coupled device
A charge-coupled device is a device for the movement of electrical charge, usually from within the device to an area where the charge can be manipulated, for example conversion into a digital value. This is achieved by "shifting" the signals between stages within the device one at a time...
image sensor that was introduced in 2000. Unlike most digital SLRs the camera is not a system camera
System camera
A system camera is a camera with interchangeable components that constitutes the core of a system. Early representatives include Leica I Schraubgewinde , Exakta and the Nikon F...
– its lens is fixed to the body
Zoom-lens reflex camera
A Zoom-lens reflex camera is a low-end Single Lens Reflex camera having an integrated zoom lens rather than the interchangeable lenses found on other SLR cameras.The term was coined by Olympus for the film cameras....
. It has a TTL optical viewfinder, and a 4× optical zoom lens with lens aperture
Aperture
In optics, an aperture is a hole or an opening through which light travels. More specifically, the aperture of an optical system is the opening that determines the cone angle of a bundle of rays that come to a focus in the image plane. The aperture determines how collimated the admitted rays are,...
f/2–2.4. Instead of a moving mirror a beam splitting prism is used to split the image between the optical viewfinder and CCD. Thus it was possible to have a live view on the LCD-Display and in parallel see the image in the TTL viewfinder.
The E-10 has a strong metallic case that weighs in at approximately 37 oz. (1050 g). It was succeeded by the 5 megapixel Olympus E-20
Olympus E-20
The Olympus E-20 is a 5-megapixel non-interchangeable lens DSLR manufactured by Olympus of Japan, as a successor to its E-10 model....
, announced in 2001.