Olympus’ E-300 EVOLT The Second In The Olympus Digital SLR Line-
Up  sorcadmin's picture  During Olympus' sneak preview for their
E-1 at photokina 2002 emphasis was placed on the digital SLR's
Four Thirds imaging system. At the high-fashion product roll out
in New York's Bryant Park, so much importance was made of the
company's medical imaging accomplishments I expected the ghost
of Albert Schweitzer to start playing the organ in the
background. Because of all this, I didn't take a hard enough
look at the camera and give it the perspective it deserved.
Overlooked in all the hoopla was what the E-1 really is: the
digital successor to the OM-1. It's a small, precision SLR that
makes wonderful photographs.  If the E-1 is an Olympus OM-1,
what does that make the new E-300 EVOLT? It's a digital Pen F.
If you don't know what that is, the Pen F was a small,
precision, half-frame SLR that, much like the new E-300, uses a
side swing mirror to lower its profile and a porrofinder,
instead of a prism (see sidebar). Studen