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Olympus E-400 Review

Author	Cliff Smith
Published	24th Nov 2006
Manufacturer	Olympus
Price	£694.78 (Exc VAT)
as reviewed	£799.00 (Inc VAT)
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A range of test shots are shown over the next few pages. Here, the full size image has been reduced for bandwidth purposes, and a crop taken from the original full resolution image has been placed below it in order for you to gain an appreciation of the overall quality.

1/100th, f6.3, ISO 100
At the lowest ISO setting the image is completely noise-free and also devoid of compression artefacts. You can clearly see the grain in the wood of this old door.

1/60th, f7.1, ISO 200
At the 200 ISO setting the image is completely noise-free and also devoid of compression artefacts. You can clearly see the grain in the wood of this old door.

1/200th, f9.0 ISO 400
At the 400 ISO setting the image is completely noise-free and also…hang on, this sounds familiar.

1/320th, f10, ISO 800
At the lowest ISO setting the image is completely noise-free and…no, wait, I think I can see a tiny hint of colour speckling in the mid-tones. Maybe.

1/500th, f11.0 ISO 1600
At the highest ISO setting there is a faint fuzz of image noise across the whole image, but the image is quite printable. I’ve seen far worse than this from other cameras at 400 ISO.

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