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 I had was at a flat- track motorcycle race at dusk. Light levels were low and I was forced to shoot without a tripod. I was able 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.”
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, (see the diagram entitled CAMEDIA E-100
Panning in low light
using the CAMEDIA
E-100 ZOOM RS’s
image stabalization
© 2000 Walter Urie
