On 29 Oct 2002 at 23:36, Iren & Henry Chu wrote: > E-10/E-20 is a completely different technology from D-SLRs like D100 or D1X. > > The major power consumption in digital cameras come from their image sensor and > the preview/review LCD at the camera back. > > E-10/E-20, like other consumer DCs, use Interlaced CCD which is simpler and > cheaper to manufacture. These CCDs have very fast shooting rate, allowing you > shoot 10-20 images continuously at 1 second. That's why you can use the DC to > shot short movies and turn on the LCD at the back at all time to review/preview > the image. Therefore, DCs based oon Interlaced CCD are battery-eaters.
E-10/20 have no movie modes and can only shoot up to 4fps, they have a true optical finder however they use a splitter not a mirror like conventional SLRs. Preview is available however I seldom use it however I do occasional review and display histograms of stored images. Whist they are undoubtably different technology and class my E-10 eats batteries at a similar rate to my friends fully fledged DSLRs, my batteries are high capacity AA NiMH cells and are well maintained. If you check this document you will see that in fact the mechanical systems involved in focussing and also flash charge consume the most power in the E-10 http://oly-e.com/pdf/power.pdf Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html
