Today Olympus has announced the new low-end E-420 DSLR, the smallest DSLR in the market, yet packed with advanced features.
Some characteristics:
- 10 megapixels
- live view LCD with on screen aoutofocus - Olympus has been the pioneer of live view now adopted by all DSLR maker - congrats Olympus!
- 2.7" LCD with 230'000 pixels
- dust reduction
- focus: 3-point with phase-detection, 11 points with contrast detection (faste, can be less precise)
- 49-points metering
- +/- 5 EV exposure compensation! (Canon provides +/-2 EV compensation)
- shutter up to 1/4000 sec
- flash synch speed 1/180
The new camera will be available in May 2008.