Olympus E-30 brief hands-on (flag)

www.dpreview.com — We've had a quick chance to have a look at the new Olympus E-30, so have put together a brief hands-on report. This mid-level DSLR offers many features of the more expensive E-3, with a host of new functions pulled together in slightly smaller format. So what does the E-30 offer to entice the ...

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Olympus E-30 Mid-Range DSLR Given First Quick Groping [Olympus]
Gizmodo — ... and now the camera's had its first hands-on over at DPReview. And it seems ok: the team liked the fact that it had many of the features of the pro E-3—like the 2.7-inch 230,000-pixel viewscreen and 1/8000th seconds shutter speed—while being a little smaller and having those "art filters" for real-time image manipulation. The pitch/roll correction system got a thumbs up too, as did its nine aspect ratio options. We'll have to wait for a bigger hands-on to get the full skinny, but it looks promising for now. [ ...

The Olympus E-30 gets a brief hands-on - existence still questioned
CrunchGear — The digicam gurus at dpreview.com got their hands on an Olympus E-30 DSLR and still didn’t reveal how the $1,500 prosumer cam will stand out from the crowd. Sure, it sports a new 12.3 megapixel Live MOS sensor, a new processing engine, and some in-camera software editing functions, but are those enough to sway potential buyers away from similar priced, but far superior, Canon 50D or Nikon D90 - I don’t think so. Maybe when reviews are posted, it will review that the camera is some sort of wunderkind.

Olympus E-30 midrange DSLR
Gatzet.com — ... -the E-30 sounds like it might be a really nice camera. It has the same extremely fast AF system as the E-3, which I increasingly appreciate. It also incorporates a flip-and-twist LCD, which makes Live View a lot more useful and which none of its big competitors offer. While the viewfinder isn’t as big as the E-3’s, it still sounds better than most of the others. It has a built-in electronic level, like the Nikon D3, DPreview’s review on Olympus E-30 writes : The E-30 is considerably larger than the E-520, both is width and height ...