2Wire E-100 Owner's Manual
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1. see the diagram entitled CAMEDIA E 100 Panning in low light using the CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS s image stabalization 2000 Walter Urie ZOOM RS Sequential Image Cache when you think the criti cal moment you want to capture is near Five sequential im ages are then cached in the on board 9 Mb buffer and are rolled over as long as the shutter button remains halfway depressed In the pre capture mode the sixth image overwrites the num ber one image number seven overwrites the number two pre captured image and so on until the shutter button is ei ther depressed fully moving the camera into the sequential capture mode or the shutter button is released stopping the pre capture and capture altogether This guarantees that you will not suffer from missed opportunities due to shutter lag and allows you to capture the precise moment you need Walter Urie comments going back to the motorcycle races shoot with the CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS wanted to catch the riders which were going very very fast at an exact spot on the curve using a panning technique was following the ac tion and as the riders entered the designated area started to depress the shutter button halfway down Out of 100 pans was able to capture accurately and with precision 95 pans CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS Sequential Image Cache Shutter Shutter Button Button 1 2 Released Depressed and overwrites the oldest images O1 gt2. coming through the lens into a straight ahead alignment to the 28 MHz high speed progressive scan CCD All CCD sen sors are very picky about how light is delivered to them and they don t like oblique angles of light hitting them which 8 CKA causes a digital form of chromatic aberration Film emulsion layers are designed to read light from an oblique angle and the fall off from the lens Olympus found that in order to get the best possible images from a digital camera the light coming into a CCD must be straight on The CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS Lens Elements and Interaction with the CCD Lens Elements Film Emulsion Layers Lens Elements Light Photons 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 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 Voice Annotation Capability Often professional photographers on the move need to have the with QuickTime File Capture New Accurate Electronic LCD Viewfinder ability to quickly jot down a subject s name or a notation of where the image was shot for publication In the good ol days pros
3. filters 49 gt 55mm Step up needed for thick filters Digital ESP Multi Pattern metering system Center weighted Spot meter and 8 area memorized multi spot metering S Program mode with Portrait Landscape Sports Night Scene and Custom setup modes Programmed auto exposure Aperture priority Shutter priority 2Ev by 1 3EV steps exposure compensation Auto Bracketing select able from 1 3EV 2 3 EV and 1EV 3 or 5 images Aperture priority Wide F2 8 8 0 Tele 3 8 8 0 1 3EV steps Shutter priority 2 1 10000 sec Electrical CCD and mechanical shutter 1 3EV steps Manual exposure shutter speed 16 sec 1 1000 sec Auto user selectable 100 200 400 equivalent ISO IESP TTL or spot system autofocus contrast detection system with focusing illuminator Focusing range 24 0 6 m infinity wide angle 79 2m infinity Telephoto 4 3 0 1m 24 wide angle macro 79 1m 79 2m telephoto macro stepless IESP off in rapid shooting mode Manual focus manual focus setting by gauge with focusing range 24 0 6 m infinity 240 steps AF Illuminator working range Viewfinder LCD monitor Flash modes External terminal Flash working range Battery charging time Sequence mode Pre Capture Cancel Shot Recording Selftimer remote controller Setting memorization Outer Connector Operating environment Power Supply Date Time Calendar Automatic calendar system Dimensio
4. gt gt Sports and Fast paced Event Photography with the Olympus CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS CAMODIA OLYMPUS OLYMPUS Olympus America Inc Copyright 2000 Olympus America Inc are registered trade marks of Olympus Inc Two Corporate Drive Melville N Y 11747 3157 Foreword This technology paper is provided to illustrate the technical advances that enable fast paced 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 The CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS SLR single lens reflex is specifically targeted by Olympus to professionals and serious amateur digital photographers and offers best of class features such as a 10x aspherical optical zoom lens equivalent to a 380mm lens a innovative pre capture image caching mode and 15 frames per second burst capability It also features image stabilization to steady the lens and a precision elec tronic viewfinder Up until now most digital camera manufacturers have tried to produce digital cameras that in many ways mimic traditional film cameras especially with pro or prosumer digital cameras The introduction of the CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS represents a unique cir cumstance in which Olympus has purposely pushed the technology envelope to provide features that specifically address the critical needs of sports and fast paced event digital photographers an
5. had to carry a notepad and pencil in their breast pockets ready for taking quick notes of who what and where Again the digital specific features allow the user to annotate an image with useful information Why have new world capture technology with old world notations The CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS solves this problem by allowing up to 5 seconds of voice annotation per image and saves it as a QuickTime audio file so the user has a digital notation to go with the image file Viewfinders on most digital cameras use TTL through the lens viewing and because some digital camera lenses are slightly over sized compared to the size of the CCD give an inaccurate view of the area that is actually being captured This misrepresen tation on a professional level can mean the difference between having an acceptable image or not This is especially true with professional photographers since many pros choose to strategically place important elements of composition on the outer fringes of the image to keep overzeal ous picture editors from cropping their images too much The new EVF Electronic Viewfinder on the CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS represents the area being captured with 100 accuracy since it is reading directly from the CCD not through the lens What you see really is what you get gt o The Criticality of Neutral Color Management The CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS s color management system allows the user to capture with neu
6. industry first The E 100 ZOOM RS includes a bevy of digital specific features that go well beyond the capabilities of traditional professional quality film cameras After all why go digital if you aren t allowed to utilize the efficiencies of digital processes to their fullest extent We invite you to read further about the uniquely digital specific features of the CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS SLR and how it allows fast paced event and sports photography to be even better John Knaur Olympus America Inc For More Information about the CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS SLR go to http e 100rs olympus com For More Example Photographs for the CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS go to http www camediagallery com gt 7 Digital Camera Overview The worldwide adoption of digital photography in the past four years has simply been astounding and dwarfs the adop tion growth rate of other entrenched devices such as inkjet printers and scanners By 2002 consumer digital cameras will surpass flatoed scanners in yearly adoption and this will have taken just 7 years in comparison to 12 years for flatbed scanners to reach this equivalent adoption rate The world wide forecast now puts consumer digital camera shipments at over 50 million units by 2005 It took PC s over 14 years to reach this level of penetration By comparison digital cam eras will reach this same penetration in 9 years In 1999 alone worldwide consumer digital camera shipment
7. to handhold the camera at full Zoom with the on board image stabiliza tion while panning and got sharp crisp images This would have been impossible to do with a 35mm film camera The lens would be far too heavy at this focal length to handhold With image stabilization you can shoot at slower shutter speeds to compensate for low light and still produce a sharp image Pre capture Mode The pre capture ability on the CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS is exclusively an Olympus technology and is one attribute that truly sets this digital camera apart from any others Like many other features it was designed with action sports and fast paced event photography in mind Previous Work around An inherent attribute of any digital camera is the slight time lag from when the shutter button is depressed and the time the image is actually captured One method digital photogra phers have used to counter this is to try and anticipate when the precise moment of capture will occur and start depress ing the shutter button well before the moment of intended capture This has been a hit and miss proposition for nearly all photographers The CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS s pre capture capabilities alleviate the need for this clumsy technique and completely removes the anxiety of missing the critical moment for digi tal photographers Caching to a 9 Mb Buffer The pre capture process begins by holding down the shut ter button halfway
8. E 100 ZOOM RS is for action and sports event photography The majority of digital cameras have a maximum shutter speed of 1 500 of a second due to their incorporation of an interlaced CCD sensor The CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS incorporates a pro gressive scan CCD with 1 10 000 of a second capability Why does this matter An interlaced CCD digital camera has a fast enough shutter speed for most typical applications but falls short if you are trying to capture lateral movement in sports or event photography A progressive scan CCD refers to a very simple and intuitive operation of the sensor when all lines are output in ascending order In order to accomplish this progression a digital camera must not have a frame store within the CCD sensor or have a frame transfer CCD or a full frame interline transfer CCD The full frame interline transfer CCD sensor incorporated in the CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS with an interlined frame store has the same resolution as the sensor area Simpler inter laced cameras with a standard interline transfer CCDs have frame stores with only half the vertical resolution The line scan order is really not the most relevant issue Whether a digital camera is able to capture a moving object with full resolution is There is no mechanical shutter in a CCD sensor and so the term progressive scan has been used instead of the term full frame shutter Let s concen trate on what this means in an actual shoo
9. avelengths RGB which are now called photons These waves of light pass through a lens on a camera and are supposed to be imaged at the same point onto film emulsion for example When the pho tons are not imaged properly onto the film plane chromatic aberration occurs and is most commonly caused by using single lens construction Incorporating two lenses made of different materials can solve chromatic aberration with film camera lenses The net effect of chromatic aberration is un intended color artifacts such as halos and wild colors The marriage between lens and CCD is critical to delivering the best possible images Post imaging processing can only do so much to help a poor image Remember the old axiom garbage in garbage out The same holds true for uncorrected lenses made for digital cameras and the net effect it causes are unwanted artifacts noise and a degraded image Unbeknownst to many in the industry digital camera lenses require different construction than film camera lenses If a manufacturer and some do tries to place a lens designed for a film camera onto a digital camera the net effect is chromatic aberration and only a small portion of the lens will actually throw light onto the CCD This gross under utilization also causes a loss in edge to edge sharpness that could be delivered to the CCD The digital camera lens construction of the CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS contains a concave element that forces photons
10. ce NO actived Beate starts records data in the memory buffer Shutter Shutter Button Fully Button Depressed Released Auto focus After shutter button is 1 2 depressed pre capture After shutter button is fully depressed Auto focus image data stored into buffer until the buffer is full DE a e e r A e a actived ew Lea is read ea buffer and eee on Memory Card au alot BF efi ol o Ei EIES O1 j gt cS Total memory allocation Image captured instantaneously Images cached Capturing a golf swing at15 FPS with the CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS 2000 Walter Urie 6 a 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 subtle ties in photo illustration for example capturing a golf swing According to pro shooter Walter Urie when you re photo graphing action this camera gives you the opportunity to cap ture the exact moment wanted and capture the action every single time The Benefits of the CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS s Progressive Scan CCD Most consumer and professional digital cameras are not designed to be digital specific like the CAMEDIA
11. ch could mean the dif ference in a missed deadline Lastly wouldn t it be better to check the black and white image in comparison with real life values while its there in front of you rather than visioning what it should have looked like afterward Photographer Walter Urie adds I specialize in black and white photography and I m very picky was extremely im pressed in the way this camera translated color to black and white tonal values 90 Image Rotation in Play back Shooting in a vertical format is an absolute necessity for pro fessional and prosumer photographers The problem is most digital cameras don t rotate the images on playback for you to see them properly and users are forced to accomplish this basic task on a PC with image editing software Not any more Again Olympus overcame this problem with a digital specific feature on the CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS that al lows you to rotate your images 90 on playback so there s no need to use a PC or editing software 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 The CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS has many other attributes not mentioned but the areas where this camera is specifically differentiated from other digital cameras include the 10x op
12. ional and prosumers is ac tion sports and fast paced event photography As you will see by reading further the CAMEDIAE 100 ZOOM RS and its unique capabilities specifically address the needs of this category of photographers like no other digital camera on the market at any price point New 10x Optical Zoom Lens with Image Stabilization The CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS s optical lens and image stabilization is designed to be digitally specific for action sports and fast paced event photography The new 10x optical zoom which is a 6 4 70mm in digital lens terms equivalent to 35mm 380mm in traditional 35mm film pho tography is one of the industry s first 10x zoom lens in an affordably priced digital camera The CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS s back saving weight is just over 1 1 3 lb compared to a professional film camera and lens assembly of equiva lent focal length weighing in at about 25 Ib Expanded Focal Length Means More Creativity Greater Control This extension of the focal length out to an equivalent 380mm allows digital photographers to compose images that were impossible in the past In many circumstances a sports photographer cannot be right next to the subject matter This new expanded focal length lens allows the photogra pher to pull the subject into range shoot tighter images create compactions of foreground to background and con trol selective depth of field that would be otherwise impos sible with shorter f
13. lay 2 sec after optional remote controller operation E 10 Remote Cable Bulb won t work Possible DC input terminal Data input output USB interface Storage Class Audio Video Output terminal NTSC external flash terminal for FL 40 5 pinn TTL or PC sync with optional cables and bracket Operation 32F 0C 104F 40C 30 90 Humidity Storage 4F 20C 140F 60C 10 90 Humidity 4 x AA Ni MH batteries and charger included 2 x Lithium battery CR V3 LB 01 Optional 7AU AC adapter 4 x AA Lithium batteries Use only high capacity AA Alkaline batteries Manganese batteries cannot be used Simultaneous recording onto image data Up to year 2030 4 25 10 8cm W x 3 25 8 25cm H x 5 6 14 23cm D excluding projections 21 802 603g without batteries and SmartMedia Card All products indicated by trademark symbols are trademarket and or registered by their respective companies Specifications and equiptment are subject to change without any notice or obligation on the part of the manufacturer 2000 Olympus America Inc D gt 13 www olympusamerica com or http e 100rs com
14. ns Weight Standard mode 24 0 6m 10 3m Can be turned off User selectable on off controls 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 4 5cm 1 8inch wider angle color TFT LCD monitor with 113 500 pixels made from Low temperature poly silicon 100 accurate image view Built in Flash Auto Flash low amp back light Read Eye Reducing Flash Off Fill in External terminal Off Auto Forced activation Slow Synchronization First Curtain Synchronization effect Second Curtain Synchronization effect 5 pin TTL connector for FL 40 or PC sync Optional Bracket and cable needed Wide approx 30 0 8 187 5 6m telephoto approximately 8 0 2 9 2 8m ISO 100 Less than 6 sec at normal temperature with new battery for flash SHQ JPEG 1368 X 1024 15 7 5 5 3 frames per sec up to 10 frames HQ JPEG 1368 X 1024 15 7 5 5 3 frames per sec up to 16 frames SQ1 SQ2 1280 X 960 15 7 5 5 3 frames per sec up to 21 7 frames SQ1 SQ2 JPEG 1024 X 768 15 7 5 5 3 frames per sec up to 27 17 frames SQ1 SQ2 JPEG 640 X 480 15 7 5 5 3 frames per sec up to 47 123 frames less than 1 2 second shot to shot at all times unlimited quantity Begins capturing image before shutter release User adjustable from 1 5 photos Cancels recording to Memory Card Preparing camera to immediately start shooting 12 second de
15. ocal length lenses Walter Urie a southern California commercial photogra pher for 20 years recently used the CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS for a series of on location shoots in Moab Utah Walter specializes in annual report and advertising pho tography on location and has used a number of digital and film cameras for his work Walter s award winning images have been featured in Communications Arts Magazine and he currently teaches photography at Orange Coast Col lege He has worked with Mercedes Benz Isuzu 3Com and many others Walter Urie talks about his experiences with the CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS on location This camera and lens com bination allowed me to compose images that would other wise have been impossible I ve never used a still camera with this kind of zoom range It was incredibly useful It gt s zoomed very smoothly and fluidly One of the difficulties I ve encountered when using other digital cameras is the short focal length zoom lens allows you to have tremendous depth of field Conversely if you want or need a selective depth of field it s difficult to get that with other digital cam eras With this lens ability to zoom out so far selective focusing becomes easy Image Stabilization Sharper Images at Slower Shutter Speeds Walter continues another situation had was at a flat track motorcycle race at dusk Light levels were low and was forced to shoot without a tripod was able
16. on sumer film camera when output to a 4 x print on photo grade paper But resolution alone cannot provide photo qual ity images It is the resolution provided by the CCD sensor in tandem to the camera s internal opto electronics and entire optical path The Move to Digital Specific Attributes Currently the state of digital camera development is entering a new era driven by higher resolutions and advanced feature sets which move digital cameras beyond the capabilities of film cameras by using digital specific attributes In fact from 1995 the first year consumer digital cameras were intro duced until present digital camera resolutions have in creased at a phenomenal average rate of 45 8 Consumer Digia Camera Maximum Aesolution History and Forecast ED 6 0 135 1006 1997 19968 1990 Z000 2001 A JEH berg Goring Geoue LLE As digital cameras move well above the photo quality bench mark resolutions are a driving attribute but not the principal driver for adoption Rather it is these aforementioned digital specific attributes that will compel consumers and profes sionals to purchase digital cameras over film cameras Olympus again is among the first to recognize this shift and has begun a new phase of design and development of digital cameras that are produced to meet the specific needs of photographers using digital specific processes One of these categories among profess
17. s excluding toy cameras exceeded 5 8 million units and repre sented over 2 9 billion in street valued revenue In the U S unit shipments exceeded 2 5 million representing over 1 3 billion in street valued revenue with a projected five year com pound average growth rate CAGR out to 2005 of 39 8 All sources Imerge Consulting Group 2000 Plateaus of Adoption Unit shipments and revenue only tell part of the dynamic story of digital cameras The adoption of digital cameras has oc curred in stages or plateaus driven entirely upon technical advances The first plateau occurred with the introduction of a viewable color LCD providing instant gratification to consum ers in 1995 With the second plateau of adoption in 1996 Olympus set out to move digital cameras away from being just novelty products for viewing images to products people could actu ally benefit from by providing the industry s most regarded optical path The optical path is a combination of lens qual ity internal opto electronics image processing algorithms 2 CA and color science all working in tandem to provide users sharper more accurate images Olympus again led the third plateau of adoption with the intro duction of 1 3 mega pixel resolution in a consumer digital camera This resolution would later become the industry benchmark for representing photo quality Photo quality images are simply the equivalent in image quality to a c
18. tical zoom lens with image stabilization pre capture modes 15 frames per second frame rate capture capabilities the fast progressive scan CCD matching lens to CCD for accuracy the dual slot media capability the accurate electronic LCD viewfinder Olympus neutral color management voice annotation capabilities the black and white presets and 90 degrees of rotation in playback capabilities Hopefully you also have an understanding of the positioning of this digital camera in the marketplace as a whole To quote professional photographer Walter Urie there is no doubt that this camera was designed specifically for action sports and events and is even easy enough for parents to use It provides all the tools anyone would need for this type of application and be successful at it It had everything needed to be successful in my location photography No digital camera is complete without quality print output The CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS is designed to produce professional quality prints on the new Olympus P 400 dye sublimation A4 printer All you do is plug your media card in and you can use the printer s controls to crop and print Ron Tussy Principal Imaging Analyst Imerge Consulting Group LLC Olympus P 400 dye sublimation A4 printer gt 11 lt lt Specifications of the E 100 SLR lt lt Model name Product Type Memory Recording system Number of storable pictures with 8MB SmartMedia card Image pick
19. ting situation Imagine that you are about to photograph an event where there are World class athletes running laterally in front of you and you want to stop the action with your digital camera with out causing blurring Or the situation could be college or pro fessional football or your local children s soccer game Un less the action is coming straight to you the chances that blurring will occur when following fast action are great Ask any professional NFL football photographer and they will tell you that they would prefer to shoot at higher shutter speeds than 1 500 of a second light permitting At 1 500 of a sec ond there is a risk that some of their images that show lateral motion will be blurred and unusable In summation cameras with a full frame shutter such as the CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS are designated as progres sive scan cameras and have the ability to capture moving objects with full horizontal and vertical resolution This allows them to capture at much higher shutter speeds than stan dard interlaced CCD digital cameras which can only capture moving objects with half the vertical resolution but full horizontal resolution The CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS allows the user to capture the fastest action possible without blurring even shooting 200 MPH race cars while panning The Importance of Match ing Lens to CCD More than 200 years ago Newton showed that white light was composed of multiple w
20. tral color that is truer to the intended values of the original subject The camera s post processing provides advanced algorithms that keeps the image from being too warm on the Kelvin scale or too cool 3200 K represents tungsten light 5500 K represents high noon daylight Often adjusting an image in either direc tion causes unwanted noise which often effects image qual ity With Olympus s Neutral Color Management you can color correct the image in either direction without negatively effect ing the image quality Shooting with Color or Black and White Preset Previously digital photojournalists and sports photographers haven t had the option to preset the mode they wished to shoot in i e black and white or RGB color The E 100 RS solves this problem in camera In many cases digital pho tographers are forced to shoot in color and later convert im ages to black and white There are a few reasons why this is not acceptable to most professionals First color images take up much more storage on the camera s memory card s than black and white images which could mean the differ ence between having enough storage or not on a shoot One of the benefits of pre selecting a black and white mode is to let the camera do the work to discard the unnecessary color data before saving to the camera s storage media Sec ondly after capture converting takes up valuable time a PC and an image editing application whi
21. up element White balance Lens Filter Size Photometric system Exposure control ISO Focusing 12 lt lt Olympus CAMEDIA E 100 ZOOM RS Digital Camera Digital EVF SLR Camera with 4 5cm 1 8inch color TFT LCD monitor 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 Micro Drive not recommended Still image JPEG DCF Design rule for Camera File system TIFF non compress DPOF support 10 Bit A gt D Converter QuickTime JPEG Motion VGA and 1 8 VGA 4 TIFF 1368 X 1024 28 SHQ JPEG 1368 X 1024 84 HQ JPEG 1368 X 1024 96 SQ1 1280 X 960 68 SQ2 1280 X 960 152 SQ1 1024 X 768 104 SQ2 1024 X 768 328 SQ1 640x480 264 SQ2 640 X 480 16 sec 30 fos Motion JPEG 640 X480 32 sec 15 fps Motion JPEG 640 X 480 32sec 30 fos Motion JPEG 160 X 120 64 sec 15 fos Motion JPEG 160 X 120 1 2 inch CCD solid state images pickup 1 51 Million Pixel effective 1 4 Megapixel Image RGB Progressive Scan 28MHz High Speed CCD iESP full auto TTL Preset Manual Daylight Cloudy Florescent and Tungsten One Touch Manual Olympus lens 6 8 70 mm 2 8 3 5 Glass Aspherical Zoom Lens Equivalent to 35 380 mm lens on 35 mm camera Image Stabilized System with 2 7x Digital Super Telephoto Optional 0 8x B 28 Wide Angle or 1 7x B 300 Telephoto E series lenses can also be used 49mm To attach accessory lens an
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