{"id":1952,"date":"2009-09-01T08:17:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T22:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2009-09-01T08:17:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T22:17:25","slug":"olympus-announce-a-great-entry-level-dslr-the-e-600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=1952","title":{"rendered":"Olympus announce a great entry level dSLR – the E-600"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olympus has just announced a new entry level Four Thirds dSLR<\/a> which has nearly all the features of the superb E-620 that you need but at $US100 cheaper price point – which in my mind makes it the best entry level dSLR on the market – assuming you don’t need non-AF movies.<\/p>\n

It seems the only features you miss out on compared to the E-620 are a few creative art filters (you still get 3 of the fun ones – pop art, soft focus and pin hole), illuminated buttons, and the ability to change image aspect ratio (but this was via cropping anyway, unlike the GH-1’s aspect ratio functionality).<\/p>\n

New features include the Live thumbnail preview button which was first shown on the E-P1, and which allows you to preview the effects of various settings such as white balance on the LCD screen before taking the shot.<\/p>\n

Thus for $US600 you get a great compact dSLR with in-body image stabilisation<\/strong> which will work on all lenses, and a very nice flip out, swivel LCD screen<\/strong> and up to 4fps burst rate<\/strong>, and one of the nice Olympus kit lenses, in this case, the 14-42mm f\/3.5 lens<\/strong> which gives 35mm coverage of 28-84mm, and don’t forget, perhaps the best in-camera jpeg processing engine on the market which gives arguably the best looking jpegs straight from the camera<\/strong> – at the end of the day, most users of entry level dslrs will be relying on the camera to make jpegs rather than process RAW files – and this camera is one of the best for doing that (assuming Olympus hasn’t changed their TruePic III+ engine).<\/p>\n

Finally, Olympus have some of the best lenses available specifically designed for a cropped sensor dSLR rather than forcing you to go to lenses optimised for full frame cameras for the high quality, wide aperture lenses as Canon and Nikon do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Olympus has just announced a new entry level Four Thirds dSLR which has nearly all the features of the superb E-620 that you need but at $US100 cheaper price point – which in my mind makes it the best entry level dSLR on the market – assuming you don’t need non-AF movies. It seems the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[17,14],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras","tag-four-thirds","tag-olympus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t