OLYMPUS E-420

Compact Size Makes It the Ultimate DSLR to Take Anywhere, Next-Generation Live View Ensures It Performs Better When You Get There

CENTER VALLEY, Pa., 5 March 2008 - Olympus has today announced the highly portable E-420 - ideal for those who walk in the power and the power of a digital SLR (single lens reflex) for use of the time, ease of use and performance to compose the images on the LCD screen for the point-and-shoot cameras. Weight of 380 grams a simple (13.4 ounces), the E-420 is equipped with 20 to 40 percent lighter than the competition of digital SLR cameras. The good things come in this small package, including the visualization in real time, so that the user the unit too far away from their faces and the interaction with their subjects - ideal for the inclusion of photographs of children, ZB.

The slight 10-megapixel SLR camera offers heavy technologies, including a larger, more visible 2.7-inch LCD and a user-friendly fast on the screen, auto focus, the recognition of the face, technology and the adaptation Shadow Perfect Shot preview for the best from the Live View experience. Moreover, when it comes to live-view, LCD screens are not all created equal. About 2.7 inches, portable LCD E-420 is big enough to the users in a position to the test images, and without squinting. The small camera on the LCD screen is not only larger, it is a camera, with the technologies intelligent enough to benefit from the experience of real-time visualization in photography. These innovative technologies:

• On-screen autofocus works seamlessly as a point-and-shoot issues in the LCD screen focus at the moment the shutter button is pressed halfway;

• Technology for the detection of the face and lock in the target groups of up to eight faces, in order to ensure that they are consistent with the clear and astonishing portraits;

• New and Improved Hyper Crystal II ™ technology offers twice the contrast and a better display in the extreme lighting conditions, a wider range of colors and greater detail angle on the LCD for you and your friends can look it up to 176-degrees-off -- Center;

• Shadow Adjustment Technology detail in the light absorption of a framework and opens retailers in the shade, the other cameras or too dark;

• Perfect Shot Preview allows the view and select your favorite is right on the LCD screen, and to see how the image is captured before the air, you know that what you see is what you get.

"The Olympus E-420 provides the template professional image quality of a digital single lens reflex camera with the execution of a simple point-and-shoot camera," said John Knaur, senior marketing manager - reflex cameras, Olympus Imaging America Inc. "With the small size of the camera and the lightness of the body, the user can E-420, and so they never miss, because the other photos from the camera to easily control. Moreover, our innovative technologies to help consumers get more Live View ".

World Wide smallest digital SLR camera
A camera stand, from the surface allows large photos without weighing you down. The E-420 is small enough to put in a handbag or jacket pocket, and light to film, with quite comfortably all day. It measures 5.1 inch to 3.6 inch to 2.1 inches (without tabs), is the smallest digital SLR camera. And at a feather 13.4 ounces, only its predecessor (E-410) weighs less. The E-420 from the new ergonomic grip on the front of the body can be easily with one hand and ensures safe operation are in the most difficult situations recording.

One of the World's nest thin lenses Meets the World's Most Compact DSLR
The smallest digital SLR camera deserves a compact lens, and it has Olympus: the ultra-compact digital Zuiko 25mm f2.8 specific goal. This strength of 0.9 tariff offers a fixed-angle 50mm equivalent angle. With the E-420, the Zuiko 25mm f2.8 provides the ultimate combination of user-friendliness and portability.

The photographers can also buy the E-420 in a compact kit with Zuiko Digital 28-84mm equivalent (ED 14-42mm Four Thirds) f3.5-f5.6 lens, the perfectly in the imaging, proposes to light sensor directly to ensure Reich, color fidelity and sharpness of the edges. The two goals (25mm f2.8 and Zuiko 28-84mm f3.5-f5.6) include Olympus' expansion of the line 100% digital lenses - especially for digital photography. Unlike other firms Olympus camera not on the old film of lenses, often through images of soft lips or other defects.

Experience Live View
Olympus was the first to view live with a consumer SLR (E-330 of 2006) and Live View revolutionized the digital SLR photography. Any person who photographed by young children know that you are the best reactions when you come into the camera away from your face and one eye contact and a smile. If you tried to take photographs of the head in the middle of a crowd or bass near the bottom, you will understand that it is easier, an LCD screen, or the top of a scale, on the belly.

The E-420 solves these problems with its screen visualization in real time, so that the photographers hold the camera away from their faces and in the corners, they can simply do not need the assistance of the optical viewfinder alone. The E-420 with the new "Live View autofocus now simplifies the process of working on the one point, and they destroy. By simply pressing the shutter button halfway, your subjects together on the LCD screen, so that Admission at the perfect moment, it is easy to capture clear images.

An LCD is visible, where a great deal of experience in real-time visualization begins. Few things are boring, that a photographer squinting to see an image on an LCD screen or in the sun into an area with low brightness. The E-420 solves this problem with its large and bright 2.7-inch Hyper Crystal LCD monitor, the new technologies II This screen offers twice the contrast for a better advertisement in the extreme lighting conditions (ie, when the sun on your return), a wide range of colors, a wider range of colors retail, a 176-degree angle.

Always find a face in the crowd
An easy-to-use camera for consumers is perfect, the portraits of friends and family and everything. The E-420 for the detection of facial feature distinguishes the faces in the background. It follows up to eight faces in the area of the image and concentrated and automatically optimizes the chance for sharp, glossy portrait photos. Even if your subjects are in motion, the camera continuously plays their faces.

Bright Day or Deep Shadow, never missing detail
Shooting scenes with shadows can be a little difficult because of the extreme contrast between light and dark. The E-420 responds to this challenge with Shadow adaptation of the technology, which compensates for extreme contrast, if the areas are, in the shade and the lack of detail visible. Now, users can record and a preview of the images with the same penalty contrast they see with their own eyes.

Overview of all possibilities
With 18 scene pre-select for every conceivable scenario shooting fully and manual controls, the E-420 offers a world of possibilities for the photographers. In addition Perfect Shot Preview allows users to preview and select various photographic effects to a live, multi-window on the LCD screen shot before the break. This feature shows you what their images by photographers such as in the previously under different parameters, exactly what they cover, what they want. It is an ideal means to the users to learn the effects of different techniques of photography, as the issue of compensation, white balance and counted.

Maximize your photos
The admission, extension and the presentation of the amazing pictures on your wall is a breeze thanks to the E-420 with 10 million pixels for photos in high resolution. The 10-megapixel sensor provides users with the flexibility to increase the size of the prints in support of the many printers today, or the image to print only a portion of the image, which is important for them. The high-Live MOS image sensor for the E-420 offers an excellent selection of color fidelity dynamic and accurate a new state-of-the-art amplifier circuit reduces the noise and the image fine details in the shadows and light.

Improving the automatic white balance
Many users of digital SLR cameras want their attention to other things that the white balance, while they are underway. Consequently, the E-420 has an improvement in the automatic white balance performance with a new algorithm for accurate color reproduction.

TruePic III clarity image quality and speed
Olympus' TruePic III processor product images crystal clear images with all the information for each pixel of the image on the best ways to enhance digital images with each image the exact color, the real life, skin tones, bright blue sky and accurate in the presentation of keys . TruePic III also reduces the image by the noise of a non-for the reduction of granulation pictures in the fire at the high ISO settings, which are among the major findings in situations with low lighting.

Worried miss for the winner playing soccer? The processor of the images on the E-420, which enabled it to film up to 3.5 frames per second in the recording mode in a row, which means that the photographers are in a position to grasp the fast action can be Passiert .

System for reducing dust for spot-free photos
Life goes too fast to time to care for the dust to ruin your pictures. Olympus out of the Dust Reduction System Product spot-free photos with the exclusive Supersonic Wave Filter ™. The patented technology of ultrasonic vibrating, for the removal of dust and other particles from the front side of the image sensor and the fishing on a special adhesive membrane for each time the device is switched on. These spot-free photos release, the users of hours for the processing of the images on the computer or on the broadcast their cameras back to the manufacturer for the removal of dust in the horns of a dilemma.

Versatile Media
Accept that both CompactFlash Type I and II, Micro Drive and xD-Picture Cards, the E-420 offers a range of options for storing data, to improve flexibility, and it is possible the transfer of image files with a on the other card inside the camera.

Wireless Flash Capability
If you decide that you like yourself in the adventure of the progress of the arena lighting, the E-420 is ready for the challenge. The E-420 is compatible with the Olympus FL FL-50R and 36R wireless electronic bursts that have been designed exclusively for digital photography. If these flash devices used in conjunction with the E-420, Wireless Multi-Flash is possible. The E-420 can control up to three groups of Flash wireless independent, with several flashes per group.

Availability
The Olympus E-420 digital SLR will be available in May 2008. It includes: E-420 Body, USB cable, video cable, Li-Ion Battery Pack (BLS-1), Li-Ion Battery Charger (BCS-1), Shoulder Strap, Olympus Master Software CD-ROM, manuals and maps guarantee.