Review Digital Camera World 01-29-2014

Digital Camera World

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Olympus OM-D E-M10: price, release date, specs revealed Jan 29th 2014, 06:00, by jmeyer Olympus has introduced a new camera to its OM-D range, launching the OM-D E-M10. The Olympus OM-D E-M10 price tag will be £529 body only, or £699 for the camera + a new 14-42mm collapsible pancake zoom lens. An OM-D E-M10 release date is set for mid-February 2014. The Olympus OM-D E-M10 price tag will be £529 body only, or £699 for the camera + a new 14-42mm collapsible pancake zoom lens kit. The new Olympus OM-D E-M10 incorporates the OM-D E-M1′s TruePic VII image processor and WiFi technology and the 16-megapixel Live MOS sensor found in its other sibling, the OM-D E-M5. What’s more, the OM-D E-M10 measures 63.9mm from the viewfinder to the rim of the lens, giving the E-M10′s metal casing about the same total depth as the casing of "slim" DSLRs on the market – before adding a lens. Yet within its compact body the Olympus OM-D E-M10 incorporates a high-speed , 1,440,000-dot electronic viewfinder and a 3-inch tiltable LCD screen. The EVF – inherited from the E-M5 – offers a “considerably” larger display than other viewfinders in this camera class, Olympus says, and uses Adaptive Brightness Technology to reproduce both dark and bright scenes as they are perceived by the naked eye. Equivalent rival systems typically overcompensate for extreme lighting situations, Olympus claims, while photographers can use the OM-D E-M10′s Creative Control feature to adjust composition, focus, tone and colour in the viewfinder and check the effect of changes on-screen prior to taking the shot. Other key features include Olympus’ FAST AF system, which employs 81 target areas and encompasses both the Small AF Target and Super Spot AF modes, enabling you to zoom in and focus accurately on minute sections of a frame. An in-body 3-axis image stabilisation system helps counteract yaw, roll and pitch with both still shots and HD movies, irrespective of the lens attached to the camera. Olympus says the system will work in poor lighting conditions or even when using shutter speeds slower than 1/15sec. The Olympus OM-D E-M10′s built-in WiFi also allows for remote shutter release, Live View mirroring, P, A, S and F control, remote zoom with electronic lenses, Live Bulb preview and image sharing directly on compatible smartphone touchscreens. Other features of the Olympus OM-D E-M10 include 8 fps continuous shooting and Fine Detail II Technology that adapts processing to the characteristics of individual lenses and aperture settings. Another strength is a moiré removal feature that is specially suited to digital cameras that don't incorporate a low-pass filter. SEE MORE: How to set up a camera for the first time – 11 things you need to do first OM-D lens compatibility The Olympus OM-D E-M10 is compatible with all 35 of Olympus' specialist mirrorless lenses. Olympus has also announced two new Micro Four Thirds models. The M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 14-42mm 1:3.5-5.6 EZ pancake zoom lens, which at 22.5mm deep is the world's slimmest standard zoom kit lens, Olympus says. Also unveiled is the M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 25mm 1:1.8 lens, which can shoot close-ups from as close as 25cm. Olympus OM-D E-M10 price and release date Available in black or silver, the Olympus OM-D E-M10 price tag will be £529 for the body only, or £699 as a kit which includes the camera and the M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 14-42mm 1:3.5-5.6 lensM.ZUIKO DIGITAL 14-42mm 1:3.5-5.6 EZ pancake electronic zoom lens. The Olympus OM-D E-M10 release date is set for mid-February 2014. READ MORE What camera should I buy: pros and cons of each type (and what they’re best at) First camera crash course – simple solutions for mastering your new DSLR 10 common camera mistakes every photographer makes How to use a camera: exposure modes made simple Pentax K-3 review Jan 28th 2014, 14:00, by jmeyer Pentax K-3 review: will the weather-proof K-3 be enough to tempt photographers away from Nikon and Canon? Find out in our Pentax K-3 review video. The Pentax K-3 comes just a year after the Pentax K-5 II was launched, which arrived two years after the Pentax K-5. Pentax says that the K-3 is not intended to replace the K-5 II, but instead the Pentax K-3 sit alongside it in a higher position as the company’s flagship DSLR. Among the Pentax K-3′s key features is a 24-megapixel, Sony-designed sensor, which has had the anti-aliasing filter removed to help increase sharpness. However, unlike some other recent cameras offering this feature, the Pentax K-3 incorporates an optional anti-aliasing simulator that you can turn on to reduce moire patterning. Is also offers a new SAFOX 11 AF module, featuring 27 AF points – of which 25 are cross type. The Pentax K-3 is competing with the likes of the Canon EOS 70D and Nikon D7100… but is this enough to lure photographers away from Canon and Nikon? Amy Davies of our testing team takes a look at how this new Pentax DSLR performs in her Pentax K-3 review video. SEE MORE: How to set up a camera for the first time – 11 things you need to do first Pentax K-3 Review Video Transcript Hi, I’m Amy Davies from Future Publishing’s photography portfolio and today I’m going to take a look at the Pentax K-3. The K-3 sits at the top of Pentax’s range of cameras, but it has an APS-C sized sensor. This puts it roughly in line with the likes of the Canon EOS 70D and the Nikon D7100. The body of the camera is quite boxy, but it has this nice protruding grip here which really help it feel secure in the hand. The body is also weatherproof, with a number of weatherproof lenses also available, making it useful as an outdoor camera. There are quite a lot of buttons on the K-3, which traditionalists will probably enjoy. The majority of the buttons can be found on the back of the camera, but there are some useful ones up top here, and some on the side of the camera near the lens here. On the top left here is a mode dial for quickly switching between exposure modes. This lock here can be switched on or off, which is useful if you often find yourself accidentally knocking it while in a bag, but want to keep flexibility at other times. This screen on the back of the camera isn’t touch sensitive, but the display orientation automatically switches if you tilt the camera on its side, which is useful. To change the autofocus point, you’ll first need to activate the autofocus point selection mode by changing the mode using this button on the side of the camera here. You can then use the arrow keys to scroll around to the point you need. Pressing this button here takes you in and out of the selection mode so you can access other settings, such as white balance. SEE MORE: 2014 predictions for photographers: new camera technology to expect in the new year The optical viewfinder is bright and clear, and unlike some other DSLRs at this price point offers 100% field of view, so you can be sure that stray artefacts won’t creep into the frame. If you want to switch to live view, you simply hit this button here when the camera is in stills mode. When the camera is in video mode – which is activated via this switch here – this button acts as the video record button. This green button here is also useful as a kind of reset control, for example, when adjusting settings such as sensitivity – simply hold down the ISO button and tap the green button to quickly return to the automatic setting, saving you scrolling through a range of settings. Similarly, if you press the exposure compensation button, you can use the green button to quickly bring it back to 0EV. Opening up this flap here reveals that the K-3 has two memory card slots, both for SD cards. You can customise the memory cards to work in a number of different ways, such as using one for JPEGs and one for raw format files, or creating duplicates of every file. The K-3 doesn’t have wireless connectivity built into the body itself, but a Flu card, which slots into one of the SD ports can be purchased separately to give it this functionality. Images from the K-3 are bright, punchy and packed with detail, although the metering tends to err towards under exposure – we have also found on occasion that chromatic aberration can be a problem, especially when examining images at 100%. READ MORE What camera should I buy: pros and cons of each type (and what they’re best at) First camera crash course – simple solutions for mastering your new DSLR 10 common camera mistakes every photographer makes Canon EOS cameras: 100 things you never knew they could do 100 Nikon DSLR tips you need to know right now Fuji X-T1 hands-on review Jan 28th 2014, 11:44, by anicholson Fuji X-T1 Hands-on Review: Fuji’s new SLR-style CSC is like the Fuji X-E2 but with more dials and a better EVF. Find out more about this new Fuji camera in our Fuji X-T1 hands-on review video. The Fuji X-T1 is the latest compact system camera release from Fujifilm, and while the specifications are similar to the recent Fuji X-E2, the design of the camera’s body, increased speed and weather resistance down to -10C make this latest Fuji X-Series release an interesting option for both high-end enthusiasts and professionals. Internally, the Fuji X-T1 shares the same 16.3-million-pixel X-Trans CMOS II sensor and EXR Processor II as its sibling the X-E2; however, the external shape of the camera’s body is different, offering more control dials on the top-plate and a new 0.5-inch 2.36-million-dot OLED electronic viewfinder, which Fuji claims offers the world’s highest magnification (0.77x) for a digital camera. There’s also a tillable 3in, 1,040,000-dot LCD screen on the back of the X-T1, and when you rotate the camera to shoot portrait format images, the interface automatically rotates along with it. Here our head of testing Angela Nicholson takes a look at what else this new Fuji camera has to offer in her hands-on Fuji X-T1 review video. Fuji X-T1 Hands-On Review READ MORE What camera should I buy: pros and cons of each type (and what they’re best at) First camera crash course – simple solutions for mastering your new DSLR 10 common camera mistakes every photographer makes How to use a camera: exposure modes made simple New camera anatomy: 12 key camera settings to get you started right

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