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Our Olympus E-300 review and ESP exposure findings revisited

Published by: DCViews       08-17-2005        Read Complete Article
Article Summary

You may recall that we reviewed the Olympus E-300 digital camera in February of this year. We found the E-300 to be an excellent camera, apart from a somewhat unpredictable behavior when ESP metering mode was selected. We investigated the problem further and found that an extreme bias towards the center of an image was the culprit. Olympus has recently released firmware version 1.03 for the E-300, to address this and some other problems. So we repeated our test to see whether the problem was really fixed. Here's what we found.......Read Complete Article



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