Editorial Review:Product Description:The EVOLT E-330 is the world's first digital SLR to offer 'Live' viewing through the Color LCD, making it easier to compose and capture the perfect shot. This big 2.5' LCD also features HyperCrystal technology and is designed with advanced swivel capability so you can capture one dramatic result after another from up top, down low, and everywhere in-between. With innovations like these - combined with world-class optics and Olympus patented Dust Reduction System - the E-330 lets you shoot like no other digital interchangeable lens SLR before.
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Everything I needed in a DSLR
I began looking at DSLRs when it became time to step up from an old Nikon Coolpix. I have owned Olympus 35mm SLRs in the past and was comfortable with the brand and I read some good reviews of them. The Olympus cameras seemed to offer good value for the dollar, especially the 2-lens kits. The thing that sold me on the E-330 was the live view with tilting LCD screen. I often want to take low angle shots and my knees don't care much for bending and stooping anymore, so the ability to flip out the view screen and use it to frame the shot rather than the viewfinder was of major interest to me. It works every bit as well as I'd hoped it would.
As for picture quality, I use the camera mainly to illustrate articles for a regional motorcycle magazine and the E-330 provides everything I need. The camera handles well and I don't feel I lack for anything, with the possible exception of ISOs beyond 1600 (I don't like using flash). That being said, I have used the camera for interior shots at ISO 1600 with good results. The photos look very similar to pictures taken with ISO 1600 film, and I can certainly live with that.
Olympus has since come out with their pro model E-3, which also has live view and a tilt screen, and I'm sure it's a much more advanced camera. But the E-330 does what I need at less than half the price of the E-3. I'm satisfied with the E-330 and consider it a very wise purchase.
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Olympus E330
Olympus Evolt E330 7.5MP Digital SLR Camera with 14-45mm f3.5/5.6 & 40-150mm f/3.5-4.5 Zuiko Digital Zoom Lenses I got this camera Olympus E330 about a month ago and i love it. The tilting screen on the back is very hady for hard to get shots. I bought from Cameta Camera. It was shipped fast and packed great. I would highly recomemend this camera for your main camera or a back up.
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A very good choice
The E 330 is an outstanding camera. If it only had the possibility of cable remote control, it should have been almost perfect
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Best Deal Available for $600.oo
Olympus E-330 is an excellent camera. Camera itself has no problem/issues for normal users. It provides that Olympus quality and feature that no user should be shamed of. At its price point there simple is no competitor.
Having praised it and acknowledging that it is a well made camera, there are issues for people with more budget than $600.oo. I purchased the camera 3 weeks ago. I have been enjoying the camera but I got lens envy real fast.
Kit lens cover the range very well. And for most of us, it should suffice. But lack of choice of lens makes Olympus owner get lens envy real fast. It is a disease where you know you don't have the money for but keeps on envying that $1000 lens that Canon and Nikon, even Pentax users have choice of. It's a very serious disease. I have been having stomachache from it. Envy.. It kills...
First lens you envy is the 50mm f/1.8 lens which can be had for about $100 with Canon and Nikon. They become 75/80mm equivalent of 35mm but their fast f/1.8 and superb optics at such low cost makes you drool.
Second lens you drool over is the 50mm equivalent. They will be like 28mm-35mm lenses which is about 50mm equivalent on digital camera. They can be had for about $350.
Everything else is very expensive so if you can get over above two Envies. E-330 will be sufficient. But I am having aches all over my envy is killing me now. I order e-bay OM mount adapter to use manual focus OM 50mm f/1.8 lens. But it just isn't same as being able to use AF and full metering.
I thought $600 was all I had but I realize I can come up with $100 for nice 50mm f/1.8 and $350 for 28/35mm lens as prime standard lens. I really miss it. Really really miss it that my stomach is churning.
In fact, Olympus camera has option of using Zuiko 50mm f/2.0 lens for $430.oo and Sigma 24mm f/1.8 but Zuiko is too expensive and Sigma's image isn't on par for prime lens.
I suggest you dig up your pocket real hard. Look under the couch if you have to and get Nikon or Canon. But then you may have iron stomach. My hatred toward Canon Rebel and Love toward OM camera got me here. It will take a decade for Olympus and rest of Four-Third group to make a decent line-up of lenses, if they survive.
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Olympus Evolt 330 - this is the one!
I have owned and loved Olympus film-SLR cameras since 1982, my favorite being the OM2. I have used digital cameras since 1997, but nothing before now came close to the experience of the OM2. From the first minute I used the Evolt 300 I knew that "this is the one". It is a beautiful camera in every respect, and the images it produces are spectacular. The "live view" feature (where the screen reproduces exactly what you see in the viewfinder - a new feature for a true SLR) is very useful. The camera is fast. It feels great to hold. And I love the sound of the SLR mechanism.
I can understand why other reviewers found that it takes a while to learn all the controls and menus. If you are not a former film-SLR user, you first need a bit of background in SLRs -- which the manual does not really supply. But the problems with the manual go way beyond this. Frankly, the manual is awful. It seems to have been translated from Japanese to English by a translator who was neither very good at translating nor had used the camera -- or indeed any camera. For example, on the subject of the 'Live View A/B button' the manual has the following to say: "Press the A/B button to display the menu. Turn the control dial to select, then press the OK button. When using A mode, as accurate metering may not be obtained, close the eyepiece shutter. During operation in A mode, settings will not be displayed in the viewfinder. When using B mode, if there is a high-intensity light source within the screen [I think he means 'scene'], the image may be displayed darker but will be recorded normally."
What all this really means is (I think): "'A' mode is the normal full SLR mode for this camera. If you are looking at the screen, rather than through the eyepiece, we recommend closing the eyepiece shutter in order to prevent light feeding through the eyepiece into the image path and affecting accurate metering. If you plan to use only the eyepiece, turn off the screen to have the settings displayed to the side of the image in the eyepiece. 'B' mode causes the camera to operate like a non-SLR camera. The eyepiece does not work in this mode and the display is not as reliable an indicator of how the image will be recorded as in 'A' mode. If you really want to play with 'B' mode, press the A/B button to display the A/B selection the menu. Select 'B' using the navigation buttons, then press OK. If you like 'B' mode then maybe you should have bought a cheaper camera."
I suggest you use the manual only as a rough guide, and then just play with the camera to figure out how each feature actually works. Or maybe you can track down the original Japanese manual and ask a Japanese-speaking friend to translate it for you.
Anyway, in summary, setting aside the quality of the manual, this is a really beautiful camera that I recommend unreservedly.
