The Olympus E-10 is a

digital single-lens reflex A digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that combines the optics and the mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a digital imaging sensor. The reflex design scheme is the primary difference between a ...

camera with a 4.0-

megapixel In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest point in an all points addressable display device. In most digital display devices, pixels are the smal ...

CCD image sensor that was introduced in 2000. Unlike most digital SLRs the camera is not a

system camera A system camera or camera body is a camera with interchangeable components that constitutes the core of a system. Early representatives include Leica I Schraubgewinde (1930), Exakta (1936) and the Nikon F (1959). System cameras are often sin ...

– its lens is fixed to the body. It has a

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optical viewfinder, and a 4× optical zoom lens with lens

aperture In optics, an aperture is a hole or an opening through which light travels. More specifically, the aperture and focal length of an optical system determine the cone angle of a bundle of rays that come to a focus in the image plane. An opt ...

f/2–2.4. Instead of a moving (reflex) mirror a beam splitting fixed (non-reflex) prism is used to split the image between the optical viewfinder and CCD. Thus it was possible to have a live view on the

LCD A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display or other electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals combined with polarizers. Liquid crystals do not emit light directly but in ...

and in parallel see the image in the TTL

viewfinder In photography, a viewfinder is what the photographer looks through to compose, and, in many cases, to focus the picture. Most viewfinders are separate, and suffer parallax, while the single-lens reflex camera lets the viewfinder use the main ...

. The E-10 has a strong metallic case that weighs in at approximately . It was succeeded by the 5-megapixel

Olympus E-20 The Olympus E-20 (available under the names ''E-20N'' and ''E-20P'', depending on whether it had NTSC or PAL Phase Alternating Line (PAL) is a colour encoding system for analogue television. It was one of three major analogue colour televis ...

, announced in 2001.

References

External links

Product reviews

DPReview.com's review of the E-10

Sample photos from an E-10
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