Olympus E-30 Review

Olympus E-30: Performance
At the heart of every true DSLR is a dedicated processor just waiting to rush those images through to the memory card as quick as possible. Any camera worth its salt will have some sort of engine that is designed to improve images as they pass through it. It was decided years ago that because a processor will work everything that goes through it, this made it slower and consumed more power. Dedicated engines such as Olympus' Truepic Turbo are designed specifically for images making transfer speeds faster and the camera more economical.

Olympus are on the third generation of Truepic processors and the newest E-30 is fitted with the Truepic III. This helps to allow the camera to drive 5 frames every second onto the card which is pretty impressive as that's not even UDMA. The camera is dual slot and still takes the irksome xD picture card. I say irksome because of its limited capacity of 2Gb. Sandisk have recently announced a 64Gb CF card and new SDXC cards will allow up to 2Tb (2000Gb) space. Seems tiny in comparison but it's the only card that will allow you to use the panoramic mode.

Every modern DSLR has a dust reduction system and Olympus incorporate the SSW (Super Sonic Wave) filter which implements a filter in front of the sensor which dust will fall on. When the dust reduction facility is initiated it vibrates the filter shaking off the dust which then collects on an adhesive strip. The filter hermetically seals the sensor off from any dust which means that you won't get those annoying grey shapes from dust and the filter is as far away as possible to throw any remaining dust out of focus.

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