Sports and Fast-paced Event Photography with the Olympus CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM RS
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Foreword This technology paper is provided to illustrate the technical advances that enable fastpaced action and event photography with the Olympus’ CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM RS and to demonstrate how these technical advances can benefit professional and serious amateur digital photographers.
Digital Camera Overview The worldwide adoption of digital photography in the past and color science, all working in tandem to provide users four years has simply been astounding and dwarfs the adop- sharper, more accurate images. tion growth rate of other entrenched devices such as inkjet printers and scanners. By 2002, consumer digital cameras Olympus again led the third plateau of adoption with the intro- will surpass flatbed scanners in yearly adoption and this will duction of 1.
As digital cameras move well above the “photo-quality” bench- cameras that are produced to meet the specific needs of mark, resolutions are a driving attribute but not the principal photographers using “digital specific” processes. One of driver for adoption. Rather it is these aforementioned “digital these categories among professional and prosumers is ac- specific” attributes that will compel consumers and profes- tion, sports and fast-paced event photography.
Pre-capture Mode zoomed very smoothly and fluidly. One of the difficulties I’ve The pre-capture ability on the CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM RS is encountered when using other digital cameras is the short exclusively an Olympus technology and is one attribute that focal length zoom lens allows you to have tremendous truly sets this digital camera apart from any others. Like many depth-of-field.
ZOOM RS Sequential Image Cache) when you think the criti- pre-capture and capture altogether. This guarantees that you cal moment you want to capture is near. Five sequential im- will not suffer from missed opportunities due to shutter lag ages are then cached in the on-board 9 Mb buffer, and are and allows you to capture the precise moment you need. rolled over as long as the shutter button remains halfway depressed.
15 Frames per Second Frame Rate Capable Capture Just 5 years ago, if you had a professional film camera that could provide 7-8 frames per second with a motor drive, you had a top of the line camera. The CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM RS provides more than double that frame rate as part of its digital specific design attributes. This allows the user to capture subtleties in photo illustration, for example capturing a golf swing.
The Benefits of the CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM RS’s Progressive Scan CCD Most consumer and professional digital cameras are not and you want to stop the action with your digital camera with- designed to be “digital specific” like the CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM out causing blurring. Or the situation could be college or pro- RS is for action and sports event photography. The majority of fessional football, or your local children’s soccer game.
The Importance of Matching Lens to CCD More than 200 years ago, Newton showed that white light causes a digital form of chromatic aberration. Film emulsion was composed of multiple wavelengths, (RGB) which are layers are designed to read light from an oblique angle and now called photons. These waves of light pass through a the fall-off from the lens.
DualSlot Media Capability The dual slot media capability on the CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM RS is an exclusively unique Olympus feature that allows the user to simultaneously write to either a 2M, 4M, 8M, 16M, 32M, and 64M SmartMedia NAND flash card or a Type I or Type II CompactFlash card. Or, you can opt to use one type of media at a time. This capability allows the user more flexibility in their choice of flash media and allows the camera to be “media agnostic”.
The Criticality of Neutral Color Management One of the benefits of pre-selecting a black and white mode is to let the camera do the work to discard the unnecessary The CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM RS’s color management system color data before saving to the camera’s storage media. Sec- allows the user to capture with “neutral color” that is truer to ondly, after-capture converting takes up valuable time, a PC the intended values of the original subject.
Summation After reading about all the “digital specific” attributes that this innovative digital camera has to offer we hope that you now understand their practical applications and benefits for on-location sports, action and fast-paced event photography.
<< Specifications of the E-100 SLR << Model name Olympus CAMEDIA E-100 ZOOM RS Digital Camera Product Type Digital EVF SLR Camera with 4.5cm/1.8inch color TFT LCD monitor Memory 3V (3.3V) SmartMedia (SSFDC) Card (4M,8M,16M 32M and 64MB) One 8 MB card including Panorama function is supplied with camera CompactFlash Type II flash memory.
AF Illuminator Standard mode: 24”/0.6m-10’/3m (Can be turned off) working range User selectable on/off controls Viewfinder EVF (Electronic Viewfinder) SLR viewfinder 100% accurate image view, (Full Information/Mode AV,SV/Spot/CW/ESP/+/-/AF/Flash/Buffer) .55” Color LCD EVF (Low Battery Drain) LCD monitor 4.5cm/1.
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