New APS 4/3 challenge? SLR E420 first non-sample

From the E400 to E420, OBA an affidavit made the lightest DSLR

No matter how you look at Olympus and it advocates of 4/3-inch medium format digital SLR, which in fact meet the 70 years Olympus camera to your own location.

The pursuit of "unique" has become a habit of Olympus: from Indy OM-series SLR family, to the advanced concepts of hybrid cameras (both many domestic users are familiar with IS series), and finally the combination of several well-known brand publicity of 4/3 medium format SLR.

Mounted on the exquisite leather case Olympus E420, in OBA hope gives new additional selling points

Olympus E400 E4XX series of Weimar, most basic technical specifications to the latest E420 did not carry out large-scale improvement so far

Careful observation of the E410 and E400, look at the appearance of the number of differences between them?

Not only is positive appearance of completely similar, even the number of pixels of the sensor are the same, but the early E400 is a Kodak manufacturing of 4/3-size sensor, but later E410 and 420 is used from Panasonic's latest results, 1000 megapixel Live MOS sensor, this sensor Let 410 from 510 performance is not far away.

The above two pictures read, I believe you have felt the strong similarity of appearance and they E420 compared to the same there is no significant change

In fact, still not configured IS the fuselage optical anti-shake function Olin 100, E420, its biggest improvement is still reflected in the Live View: This OBA E-420 LV function on over to support similar Sony A300 that half press the shutter release button operation of auto focus function.

In Live View on using E-410, half-press the shutter of the camera AF will fail to start, you need to press the AEL/AFL button lowered reflectors for autofocus, autofocus automatically fail during LV (similar to Canon's EOS40D), focusing reflectors lift to continue after the LCD viewfinder.

On the left is when the scene for LV PIE2008 presentation of OBA E420; compared to the figure to the right of the machine back E410, OBA E420 more black coating is composed of many

But unfortunately, Olympus still adopt similar Nikon D300 "contrast detect AF" programme for the LV AF — and testing components used imaging sensors play a "guest", and therefore its practical performance LV than A300/350, probably obvious is still a gap between!