The Lumix DMC-L1 is Panasonic 's first DSLR camera, and was announced in February 2006. This camera adheres to the Four Thirds System lens mount standard, making it the first non- Olympus Four Thirds camera, and thus confirming that the Four Thirds System is a semi-open standard such that compatible camera bodies can be built by different companies.
13-506: The Lumix DMC-L1, together with the Olympus E-330 (with which it shares some technology), were the first ILCs that featured live view , a capability later copied by other manufacturers. Live view makes it possible to preview the image on the LCD screen while composing the picture, and is particularly useful for high- and low-angled shots when it is uncomfortable or not feasible for the user to bring
26-522: A Micro Four-Thirds system that, with an available adapter, can still accommodate the three Four-Thirds Leica lenses developed for the Lumix DMC-L1 and the Leica Digilux 3 . A fairly wide selection of Olympus standard Four-Thirds Zuiko lenses remains available, however. [REDACTED] Media related to Panasonic Lumix DMC-L1 at Wikimedia Commons Olympus E-330 The Olympus E-330
39-451: A picture, it is very well suited for exact manual focussing, for example in macro photography . Unlike many other digital SLRs, the E-330 used a second sensor in the viewfinder chamber which was fed by splitting 20% of the light from the viewfinder. The advantage of this implementation is that the camera's autofocus and exposure systems are fully functional and there is no shutter lag. This mode
52-513: A rangefinder camera rather than an SLR, and features a shutter speed dial on the body and an aperture ring on each lens, also similar to pre-digital 35mm film rangefinders and SLRs. Another design feature is the built-in flash which has a two-position operation: the first push of the open button puts the flash pointing 45 degrees up to provide bounce flash, a feature that was mentioned in The New York Times in an article on brilliant ideas, and
65-564: A second push of the button has the flash point directly away from the camera for full flash effect. The Leica Digilux 3 , was presented in September 2006 and is based upon the same design as the Lumix DMC-L1. The Lumix DMC-L1 was succeeded by the Lumix DMC-L10 , announced in August, 2007. Panasonic no longer supports the Lumix DMC-L1 and has abandoned the standard Four-Thirds system in favor of
78-519: Is a DSLR launched on 30 January 2006, using the Four Thirds System lens mount standard. Its main feature is its live image preview functionality, permitting an image to be previewed on the LCD screen . While live image preview is not new in compact digital cameras, the E-330 is significant because it was the first digital SLR to offer this feature. With the ability to digitally zoom in 10× before taking
91-463: Is known as Live Preview A. The E-330 also offers a liveview mode using the main sensor known as Live Preview B or Macro Live Preview; however on initial release, autofocus in this mode was disabled, but firmware update 1.2 released on 22 June 2006 allowed autofocus to take place on pressing the AEL/AFL button, dropping the mirror briefly to allow AF lock to be acquired. There is additional shutter lag due to
104-523: The Leica Digilux 3 are both built using the same basic inner mechanism from the Olympus E-330, and thus also share the live preview function. Unlike the E-330 however, neither the L1 or Digilux 3 incorporated the second sensor in the viewfinder chamber and could only produce the liveview output from the main sensor. They still suffered from the same darker viewfinder as they shared the same mirror to divert 20% of
117-494: The extra close/open at the beginning and the end of the exposure cycle. Sony have adopted a similar liveview implementation in their digital SLRs which also place a second sensor in the viewfinder chamber although a moving mirror to allow all light to go to this sensor avoids the dark viewfinder problem the e-330 suffered from. The E-330 also offers a 7.5-megapixel image sensor, and has an articulated LCD monitor which tilts up and down for waist-level and over-the-head photography. It
130-483: The eye to the viewfinder. The camera was introduced with a new Leica D Vario-Elmarit 14–50mm f/2.8–3.5 lens (a 28-100mm 35mm equivalent), the first Leica lens for the Four Thirds System, and the first Four Thirds lens with image stabilization . The image stabilization can allow 2–3 stops lower shutter speed, and the quality of the lens is such that its value may exceed that of the camera body, and helps explain
143-440: The light for the non-existent secondary sensor. However, they were able to use AF on the main sensor by briefly dropping the mirror from their launch, and offered live histogram, live white balance preview and live metering during main sensor Live Preview, which the E-330 did not. On the other hand, all three manufacturers suggested that the eyepiece should be blocked during main-sensor live preview to prevent light ingress affecting
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#1732869464336156-482: The relatively high combined introductory price of US $ 2000. Panasonic introduced two additional lenses under the Leica brand name for the camera and Four Thirds System, being a 25mm f1.4 Summilux (50mm 35mm equivalent) without image stabilization) and an extended version of the kit lens out to 150mm (28-300mm 35mm equivalent) with image stabilization. The Lumix DMC-L1 has an overall shape and viewfinder location reminiscent of
169-655: Was the first interchangeable lens DSLR to offer this feature. The E-330 uses Olympus' patented Supersonic Wave Filter dust reduction system to shake dust from the sensor during startup and when requested by the user; this largely eliminates the problem of dust accumulation on the surface of the image sensor. The camera offers the following "scene" modes: Portrait, Landscape, Landscape + Portrait, Night Scene, Night + Portrait, Children, Sport, High Key, Low Key, D Image Stabilization, Macro, Nature Macro, Candle, Sunset, Fireworks, Documents, Panorama, Beach & Snow, Underwater Wide, Underwater Macro. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-L1 and
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