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Olympus EVOLT E-330

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June 09, 2006 By Patrick Singleton
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Auto Mode (7.5)
The EVOLT E-330 offers a Program mode with shift for full exposure, auto ISO, and auto white balance. The camera also offers a range of scene modes for casual users. As noted in the testing section of the review, the E-330 delivered an excellent performance when set to auto ISO.

Movie Mode (0.0)
Any camera with a live preview seems to have the technology for a movie mode, but Olympus representatives told digitalcamerainfo.com that a movie mode would have added $50 to $100 to the EVOLT E330's cost. They did not rule out the possibility of adding it to subsequent DSLRs, but the E-330 does not capture video. 

Drive / Burst Mode (5.25)
The burst modes for the Olympus EVOLT E-330 turned in results that improved upon preceding models manufactured by Olympus while falling slightly short of the competition. Our testing returned results of 3 frames-per-second when the live preview turned off, but slowed a bit when the feature was engaged. Also disappointing is the four image limit placed on the burst mode.

According to Olympus, the E-330 should offer a 3 fps rate with a 4 frame maximum for RAW, TIFF; SHQ JPEG while JPEG HQ and SQ have a 15 frame minimum, with its maximum amount dependent upon card size and compression ratio.

For more speed and timing info, refer to the Testing/Performance section of the review
Playback Mode (7.75)
The E-330's excellent LCD is a serious benefit in playback as well as shooting. Playback enlarges images up to 14x, enough to judge focus, and can show up to 25 thumbnail images at a time. Even the smallest thumbnails are clear enough to be useful. The display can also show a range of shooting data, as well as  histograms for red, green, blue and luminance channels.
 
The EVOLT E-330 also displays images in a calendar mode, allowing users to track down images by date rather than simply by the order in which they were shot. For those who shoot relatively few images and leave them on memory cards for a long time, the calendar function should be very useful.
 
Custom Image Presets (8.0)
The EVOLT E-330 offers a range of image presets appropriate to an ambitious hobbyist's camera. They are: Portrait, Landscape, Macro, Sports, Underwater Macro, Underwater Wide, Landscape with Portrait, Night Scene, Night Scene with Portrait, Children, High-Key, Low-Key, Reducing Blur, Macro, Nature Macro, Candle, Sunset, Fireworks, Documents, Beach & Snow, and Panorama.
 
These settings handle exposure pretty typically, limiting depth-of-field for portraits, expanding it for landscapes, speeding up shutter speed for sports and so on.
 
Presets also control picture mode, and many of them boost the color setting to vivid. Because this setting can over-saturate color, the results will be familiar to users who have experience with compact cameras, but they aren't likely to produce accurate images or ones that can be easily color-adjusted after shooting.

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