Olympus E-510 SLR Review

When you turn the Mode Dial to the SCENE position you will be shown a menu of the available scene presets. First you see a large sample image which then shrinks down to make room for the text explanation of the mode. There are 18 Scene modes available: Portrait, Landscape, Landscape & Portrait, Night Scene, Night Scene & Portrait,Children, Sport, High Key, Low Key, DIS (compensates for a moving subject such as a sporting event) Macro, Nature Macro, Candle, Sunset, Fireworks, Documents, Panorama and Beach & Snow.

"Camera 1" menu, accessed from the Menu Direct Button, options:

• Card Setup - All Erase or Format
• Custom Reset Setting - When powered up the camera will be reset to one of two custom settings
• Picture Mode - Vivid, Natural, Muted/Monotone
• Gradation - High Key, Normal, Low Key
• Resolution - RAW, SHQ, HQ, SQ, RAW+SHQ, RAW+HQ, RAW+SQ
• White Balance - Auto, Sunny, Cloudy, Shade, Tungsten, Fluorescent 1/2/3, One-Touch or Custom (2000-14000°K)
• ISO - Auto, 100, 200, 400, 800 or 1600
• Noise Filter -Off, Low, Standard or High
• Noise Reduction - On or Off

"Camera 2" menu, accessed from the Menu Direct Button, options:

• Metering - Digital ESP, Center-weighted average, Spot, Hi Spot (highlight control), SH Spot (shadow control)
• Exposure Intensity Control -2 to +2
• Auto Focus Mode - Single AF, Continuous AF, Manual Focus, Single AF + MF, Continuous AF + MF
• Auto Focus Frame Selection - Auto Multi (all 3), Left, Center or Right
• White Balance Bracketing - Off, 3 frames, 2 steps, 4 steps or 6 steps
• Flash Bracketing - Off, 3 frames 0.3EV, 3 frames 0.7EV, 3 frames 1.0EV
• Anti-Shock - Off, 1 sec to 30 sec

"Setup 1" menu, accessed from the Menu Direct Button, options:

• ISO Limit - 100, 200, 400
• EV Step - 1/3, 1/2 or 1 EV for shutter speed, aperture, exposure compensation
• ALL WB - Clear All or Set All white balance compensation
• HQ - Set JPEG compression for HQ: 1/4, 1/8 or 1/12
• SQ - Set JPEG compression for SQ: 1/2.7, 1/4, 1/8, 1/12
• Flash Compensation + Exposure Compensation - On or Off
• Speed Sync - 1/60 to 1/180
• Auto Flash Popup - On or Off
• Dial - Control dial function in P mode (Exp Comp or Program Shift) and M mode (shutter speed or aperture)
• AEL/AFL - AEL button function in S-AF, C-AF and MF modes
• AEL/AFL Memo - AEL Memory On or Off
• AEL Metering - AEL metering mode: Auto, ESP, Center, Center HI, Center SH
• Quick Erase - On or Off
• (RAW+JPEG) Erase - JPEG / RAW / RAW+JPEG
• Function - Off, White Balance Value, Test Picture, My Mode, Preview, Live Preview
• My Mode Setup - My Mode 1 or My Mode 2
• Focus Ring - Select direction of the focus ring action
• AF Illuminator - Focus-assist: Off, On = use flash pulses
• Reset Lens - On or Off
• Live View Boost - On or Off
• Release Priority S - Release shutter in S-AF mode before focus lock or flash ready
• Release Priority C - Release shutter in the C-AF mode even while adjusting focus
• Beep Sounds - Button sounds On or Off
• Frame Assist - On or Off
• Arrow Pad Lock - On or Off

"Setup 2" menu, accessed from the Menu Direct Button, options:

• Time and Date - Set the camera's clock
• CF/xD - Select memory card
• File Name - If Auto it will continuously increment, Reset will reset the numbers
• Edit Filename - Selects file naming convention (RGB, sRGB, month/date/year)
• LCD Brightness - Adjust LCD back light (Low/0/High)
• Language - Menu language
• Video Out - NTSC or PAL format
• Rec View - View on LCD after capture: Off, 1 - 20 seconds
• Sleep - Auto off time: Off, 1 min, 3 min, 5 min, 10 min
• Back lit LCD - How long till LCD dims: 8 sec, 30 sec, 1 min, hold on
• 4 h Timer - 4 h or Off
• Button Timer - 3 sec, 5 sec or Hold on
• Priority Set - Yes or No
• USB Mode - Auto, Storage, MTP, Control, Easy Print (PictBridge) , Custom Print (PictBridge)
• Color Space - sRGB or Adobe RGB
• AEL/AFL - Function button switch - On or Off
• Shading Compensation - Compensate for dark areas at the edge of image caused by wide angle lenses: On of Off
• Pixel Mapping - Map out bad CCD imager pixels
• Cleaning Mode - Manually initiate ultrasonic CCD filter cleaner, raise mirror and opens shutter curtain
• Firmware - Display firmware revision number