| Camera #1 – Capture Menu Part A | Card Setup | All Erase | Format | The use of these options will apply only to the media type you have selected be it CF (CompactFlash) or xD-Picture Card Note: ‘All Erase’ will only appear if there are existing images in the memory card |
| Custom Reset | Reset | Reset 1 | Reset 2 | Three options are given to accommodate standard system based reset (‘Reset’) as well as resets for the two MyMode sub-modes (‘Reset 1’ and ‘Reset 2’) you have customised |
| Picture Mode | Vivid | Natural | Muted | Portrait | Monotone | Custom | These modes all provide further custom setting options to determine Contrast, Sharpness and Saturation In the case of ‘Monotone,’ further settings include Contrast, Sharpness, B&W Filter and Picture Tone ‘B&W Filter’ provides further selectable in-camera filter applications such as Neutral (N), Green (G), Red (R), Orange (Or) and Yellow (Ye) ‘Picture Tone’ provides additional settings you can further customise such as Neutral (N), Green (G), Purple (P), Blue (B) and Sepia (S) When using ‘Custom,’ there are five more settings to choose from – Picture Mode (same subset), Contrast, Sharpness, Saturation and Gradation ‘Gradation’ helps to define shadow and highlight detail control with settings like Auto, Normal, High Key and Low Key (note: ‘Auto’ activates the E-30’s advanced Shadow Adjustment Technology feature) All three - Contrast, Sharpness, Saturation – have ±2 whole step adjustments |
| Gradation | Auto | Normal | High Key | Low Key | ‘High Key’ provides protection against highlight blowups while ‘Low Key’ offers greater shadow details ‘Auto’ leaves the control to the E-30 to determine anywhere between (and inclusive of) High and Low Key parameters ‘Normal’ provides no SAT-based technological interventions * SAT is Shadow Adjustment Technology |
| Image Quality | RAW | LF | LN | MN | SN | Any of the settings that include the use of JPEG will also come with selectable compression ratios that will affect captured file sizes Note: LF (Low Fine), LN (Low Normal), MN (Medium Normal), SN (Small Normal) Take note that to select Super Fine (SF), you need to do so elsewhere within the E-30’s menu but not here! |
| White Balance | Auto | Daylight | Shade | Cloudy | Tungsten | Fluoro #1 | Fluoro #2 | Fluoro #3 | One-Touch | Custom | The following are settings offered by White Balance in terms of their respective colour temperature settings: Daylight (5300K), Shade (7500K), Cloudy (6000K), Tungsten (3000K), Fluoro #1 (4000K), Fluoro #2 (4500K) and Fluoro #3 (5500K) CWB (Custom) provides a range from 2000K to 14000K in the following 56 steps: 2000, 2050, 2100, 2150, 2200, 2250, 2300, 2350, 2400, 2450, 2500, 2550, 2600, 2650, 2700, 2750, 2800, 2900, 3000, 3100, 3200, 3300, 3400, 3500, 3600, 3700, 3800, 3900, 4000, 4200, 4400, 4600, 4800, 5000, 5200, 5400, 5600, 5800, 6000, 6200, 6400, 6600, 6800, 7000, 7400, 7800, 8200, 8600, 9000, 9400, 9800, 10000, 11000, 12000, 13000, 14000 In typical Olympus fashion, all Fluoro based modes are numerically catalogued as in Fluoro 1 (White), Fluoro 2 (Keyless White) and Fluoro 3 (Daylight White) Each of the WB options allow for incremental colour tint adjustments in the Amber-Blue and Green-Magenta axes |
| ISO Sensitivity | Auto | 100 | 125 | 160 | 200 | 250 | 320 | 400 | 500 | 640 | 800 | 1000 | 1250 | 1600 | 2000 | 2500 | 3200 | Notice that the E-30 extends the ISO sensitivity range from the E-520’s maximum of 1600 to 2 stops over at ISO 3200 with two incremental settings in between Furthermore unlike the E-510/520, there are more in-between ISO settings, offering finer control over sensitivity |
| Noise Reduction | On | Off | Auto | Auto will automatically be enabled by the E-30 during long-time exposures, which inevitably will also (substantially) increase the write time to the memory card even for JPEG captures This is because the feature will scan the image pixel by pixel (left to right, top to bottom) and apply the reduction algorithm while it writes the image to the card |
| Noise Filter | Off | Low | Standard | High | The Noise Filter setting you select here will ultimately govern how the Noise Reduction (see above) will be applied. If you set the Filter to High, the NR will work at its maximum on each captured image, which also means it will take longest to write to the memory card |
| Camera #2 – Capture Menu Part B | Metering | ESP | Average | Spot | Spot-Hi | Spot-Shadow | ESP has two sub-settings – ESP and ESP+AF, the latter of which confines ESP metering to the area within the nominated AF target ‘Average’ in Olympus parlance is actually Centre-Average metering, meaning that the key light measuring emphasis is based on the centre of the image frame radiating outwardly to cover approximately 78%. However this does not mean that the remaining 12% is ineffectual. If any portion of the 12% contains an intense core source of lighting, it can override what is measured by the 78% portion of the area. |
| Flash RC Mode | On | Off | When set to ‘On,’ it will only come into affect when the E-30 is used with either the FL-36R, FL-50R or the UFL-2 including future RC-equipped FL-series flash units |
| Flash Intensity | 0.0 | ±0.3 | ±0.7 | ±1.0 | ±1.3 | ±1.7 | ±2.0 | ±2.3 | ±2.7 | ±3.0 | | You can tailor the E-30’s built-in flash output in 30% steps under or over the nominal intensity (0.0) for greater individual control |
| AF Mode | S-AF | C-AF | MF | S-AF+MF | C-AF+MF | For those new to Olympus DSLRs, both S-AF+MF and C-AF+MF are modes that provide autofocusing but they also offer manual focus override for you to finetune |
| AF Area | Auto | Spot | Cross | | ‘Auto’ will deploy all 11 AF targets for the system to freely decide which to use ‘Spot’ enables the discrete selection of a single AF target out of the available eleven ‘Cross’ enables the selection of a single AF target including its immediate surrounding points to form either a cross or a T configuration Note: ‘Cross’ is also referred to as ‘Selective-Spot AF’ |
| Anti-Shock | Off | 1-30 (sec) | You can choose anywhere between 1 and 30 secs inclusive as the duration you want the E-30’s reflex mirror to stay locked up and out of the way during exposure. Obviously the longer the duration setting, the more likely that internal harmonics (resonances) are effectively dampened. Actual steps available within the range include 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 seconds |
| AE Bracketing | Off | 3 frames/0.3EV | 3 frames/0.7EV | 3 frames/1EV | 5 frames/0.3EV | 5 frames/0.7 EV | 5 frames/1EV | AE Bracketing requires you to make two decisions – the number of frames to capture sequentially and the degree of EV step that separates each of these frames For example, ‘5 frames/1EV’ means one frame at ‘correct’ and four, which are 1EV apart from each other. Of the four, two are over and the other (two) are under exposed. |
| WB Bracketing | A-B | G-M | For each of the two colour shifts (‘A-B’ for Amber-Blue and ‘G-M’ for Green-Magenta), the available settings to choose include Off as well as 3 frames in 6, 4 or 2 steps Setting change made to one is independent of the other colour shift |
| Flash Bracketing | Off | 3 frames/0.3EV | 3 frames/0.7EV | 3 frames/1EV | Flash Bracketing works with the E-30’s built-in flash or an external FL-series flash unit mounted on its hotshoe and it offers sequential flash output in three selectable settings other than ‘Off’ Each of these settings allow the user to determine how much flash output intensity to use for the three frames that will be fired For example the first option – ‘3 frames/0.3EV’ – will fire at frame #1 (null), frame #2 (-30%) and frame #3 (+30%) |
| ISO Bracketing | Off | 3 frames/0.3EV | 3 frames/0.7EV | 3 frames/1EV | ISO Bracketing offers the same choices of settings as those for Flash Bracketing, providing custom sensitivity control over a range of 3 frames For example the second option – ‘3 frames/0.7EV’ – will produce frame #1 (null), frame #2 (70% more sensitive) and frame #3 (70% less sensitive) ISO Bracketing works at all sensitivity levels except the lowest (100) and highest (3200) although it includes the use of ‘Auto’ |
| Multiple Exposure | Frame | Auto Gain | Overlay | Use ‘Frame’ allows you to decide if you wish to create the composite image using 2, 3 or 4 exposures Switch ‘Auto Gain’ ON if you prefer the E-30 to work automatically out the brightness compensation required for each additional exposure Turn ‘Overlay’ ON so that all the captured multi-exposures become visible so you can line up your subsequent images correctly via the LCD monitor |
| Edit Menu | Slideshow | 1 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 25 | 49 | 100 | When too many thumbnails are displayed, the E-30 will resort to the use of the E-30’s arrow buttons to scroll up and down to identify, select and view the images With Slideshow, you can have a single (1) image displayed one by one or a thumbnail album format where you can preview 4, 9, 16, 25, 49 or 100 images (via scrolling of course) |
| Auto Rotate | On | Off | When set to ‘On,’ vertically-oriented (portrait format) images will rotate so you can view them on the LCD monitor without turning the camera upright If you have this option off, you can manually do the same thing by pressing the +/- button – each press turns the image 90% clockwise |
| Edit | Shadow Adjustment | Redeye Fix | Crop | B+W | Sepia | Saturation | Resize | The E-30 offers a range of in-camera tools that the user can use to edit the images and then have the changes saved as copies in the memory card, leaving the originals intact |
| DPOF Print | One | All | With the E-30 connected directly to a PictBridge-compatible printer, this feature allows you to print single images (‘One’) or every image (‘All’) found in the memory card |
| Copy All | CF to XD | XD to CF | In-camera image transfers is possible either from the CF to xD memory card or vice-versa Note: It makes sense to ensure that both cards are of the same storage capacity for the copying to work successfully |
| Reset Protect | On | Off | When set to ‘On,’ the E-30 will prevent unwitting (or otherwise) reset of all system settings that you have performed including those applicable to one or both the MyMode sub-modes Note: A ‘reset’ will revert all E-30 settings to factory defaults |
| Wrench #1 – Utility Menu Part A | AF/MF | AF Illuminator (On | Off) | All these options point to how you can optimise and/or customise the way the E-30’s autofocusing system works, taking advantage of or disabling its advanced technologies Most of these are common to users of the E-1 and E-3 such as the [---] Setup, which is a standard feature shared with the latter’s 11-point AF system Of particular interest is the ‘LiveView AF’ selectable mode feature where you can determine which of the three built-in autofocusing methods to use Of these (three), the E-30’s default setting is Imager-AF (displayed as ‘I-AF’) but be aware that the E-30 will force a change to Hybrid-AF (‘Hybrid’) if a non-supported lens is used Note: ‘Non-supported lens’ is a lens that does not work with the E-30’s contrast-detection AF system |
| Focus Ring (Counter-clockwise | Clockwise) |
| C-AF Lock (On | Off) |
| AF Area Pointer (On | Off) |
| AF Sensitivity (Normal | Small) |
| [ --- ] Setup (Off | Loop | Spiral) |
| Reset Lens (On | Off) |
| Bulb Focusing (On | Off) |
| LiveView AF (AF Sensor | Hybrid AF | Imager AF) |
| [Dial Function] | P (Program) | (1) MD: Program Shift; SD: Exp Comp; (2) MD: F-value ; SD: Exp Comp; (3) MD: Shutter speed; SD: Exp Comp; (4) MD: Shutter speed; SD: F-value; (5) MD: Up/Down, SD: Left/Right Note: MD (rear Main Dial), SD (front Sub Dial) These four options allow you to decide the working relationship between the E-30’s main dial and the sub dial |
| A (Aperture-AE) |
| S (Shutter-AE) |
| Manual |
| Menu |
| [Dial Direction] | Dial 1: Left | Right Dial 2: Left | Right | This feature allows you to decide the direction of control for each of the E-30’s two dials Note: Dial 1 (Main Dial), Dial 2 (Sub Dial) |
| [AEL/AFL Button] | S-AF: Modes 1 | 2 | 3 C-AF: Modes 1 | 2 | 3 MF: Modes 1 | 2 | 3 | The E-30’s AEL/AFL button can be customised based on which focusing mode you are set to use it with Each of the three modes for each exposure operation type provides specific assignments as to how AEL/AFL is to be evoked For example, for ‘S-AF,’ here are the three mode options: ‘Mode 1’ requires half-press of the shutter button for AEL while full-press allows you to shoot ‘Mode 2’ requires full-press of the shutter button for AEL (and shoot) but half-press to lock the focus ‘Mode 3’ requires half-press of the shutter button for AEL to take effect while full-press allows you to shoot |
| [AEL/AFL Memo] | On | Off | When set to ‘On,’ the E-30 will place your focus lock and exposure measurement settings into memory (Memo) so you can reuse it for subsequent shots |
| [Fn Button] | Preview | Fn Face Detect | Off | Level Gauge* | My Mode | Test Picture | RAW | MF | […] | HOME | One-Touch WB | Live Preview | The E-30 offers as many as ten different functions that the Fn button can be used for * Also known as ‘Digital Leveller’ |
| [MyMode Setup] | My Mode 1 | My Mode 2 | Like the E-1, E-3 and E-510/520, there are two memory patches that allow you to set your own custom settings and commit them for reuse, making the E-30 adaptable to two dramatically different shooting conditions where you can shift and respond very quickly back and forth Each My Mode allows you to ‘Set’ (to commit) or ‘Reset’ (to clear) Once ‘Set,’ the display for the selected My Mode changes to ‘Current’ For example if you have set ‘My Mode 1’ to ‘Current’ and then customise the Fn button to recall, then all you need to do to use it is to hold down the button and shoot |
| [Button Timer] | Off | 3 | 5 | 8 (sec) | Hold | You can set the E-30’s buttons to hold its option display (via one or the other LCD panels) for a duration of 3, 5 or 8 secs or alternatively put on manual Hold until the button is pressed again to release |
| [AEL/AFL] | Fn Button Swap | You can swap the Fn button function for the AEL/AFL Available options are ‘On’ and ‘Off’ |
| [Arrow Pad Lock] | Off | […] | If you are one of those people who tend to accidentally nudge the arrow buttons unknowingly during shooting, you can now disable them by selecting the ‘On’ mode to render them inoperable while shooting This lock is automatically disabled when you decide to make setting selections via the MENU button or directly off the LCD monitor’s Super Control Panel Choosing […] will allow the AF AREA to be selectable while the shutter button is pressed |
| Release Priority | Release Priority S | For each of the two ‘Release Priority’ modes, the E-30 allows you to turn On or Off – turning one on will automatically disable the other and vice-versa When selecting ‘Low FPS’ mode, you can choose anywhere from 1 to 4 fps in four separate settings when using the E-30 in Low (L) Continuous mode |
| Release Priority C |
| Low FPS |
| Display/Sound/PC | Beep (On | Off) | Many of the basic utility settings for the E-30 are found here where you can decide how its global system behaviour should be You can go silent by disabling system audio (‘Beep’), save power by selecting a shorter activity lapse (‘Sleep’) or cutting down the LCD backlight timer (‘Backlit LCD’), determine what mode to select when connecting via the USB cable (‘USB Mode’), improving viewing brightness when in LiveView (‘LiveView Boost’), enabling auto face detection so you can see the visual effects via the LCD panel (‘Face Detect’), turning off the panel’s information display (‘Info Setting’) or turning on the Digital Leveller so you may see it via the monitor (‘Level Gauge’) Note: ‘Info Setting’ provides ‘Info during Review’ and also ‘Info during LiveView’ Adjustments for ‘Info During Review’ can be made to Image Only, Overall, Histogram and Highlight&Shadow options and each of these require only an ‘On’ or ‘Off’ selection Adjustments for ‘Info During LiveView’ can be made to Histogram, Zoom, Multi View, Image Only, Full Album Index, Medium Album Index and 4-Album Index and each of these require only an On or Off selection * Also known as Digital Leveller |
| Sleep (Off | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 min) |
| Backlit LCD (8 | 30 | 1 min | Hold) |
| 4-Hour Timer (Off | 4-hr) |
| USB Mode (Auto | Storage | MTP | Control | Easy DPOF | Custom DPOF) |
| LiveView Boost (On | Off) |
| LiveView Frame Rate (Normal | High) |
| Face Detect (On | Off) |
| Info Setting (Normal | High) |
| Level Gauge* (On | Off) |
| Exposure/Metering/ISO | EV Step (1/3 | 1/2 | 1 EV) | Three optional increments allow you to determine how fine or coarse the EV increments are when you use the E-30’s Exposure Compensation feature |
| ISO Step (1/3 | 1 EV) | There are two increment options here for defining how divisible the ISO sensitivity range is when bracketing is used |
| ISO Auto Set (100-1600) | This is for you to decide what the uppermost (HIGH) limit for selecting the highest ISO sensitivity setting when the ISO option is set to ‘Auto’ as well as what ISO should be used to define the Default setting |
| ISO Auto | If you’re into using Auto ISO, then you’ll also need to decide which exposure mode you want this feature to apply to Select either ‘P/A/S’ or ‘All’ P (Program-AE), A (Aperture-Priority AE), S (Shutter-Priority AE), All (all exposure modes) |
| AEL Metering (Auto | Average | Spot | Spot-Hi | Spot-Shadow) | If you select ‘Auto,’ then AEL will work on any of the E-30’s metering options |
| Bulb Timing (1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 20 | 25 | 30 min) | You can set a time limiter to the use of the Bulb setting or you can just leave it at 30 mins so you have near to unlimited use |
| Flash Custom | X-Sync | If you prefer to use a slower hotshoe-based flash sync speed than 1/250 sec, here is where you can set it all the way down to 1/60 sec Available settings include 1/60, 1/80, 1/100, 1/125, 1/160, 1/200 and 1/250 sec |
| Slow Limit | For slow flash sync modes, you can choose anywhere from 1/30 to 1/250 sec Available settings include 1/30, 1/40, 1/50, 1/60, 1/80, 1/100, 1/125, 1/160, 1/200 and 1/250 sec |
| Flash Intensity with Exp Comp | Set to ‘ON’ if ‘Flash Intensity’ is allowed to work together with the E-30’s Exposure Compensation feature |
| Auto Pop-Up | If you don’t wish the E-30’s pop-up flash to come on automatically, you can turn it ‘Off’ here |
| File/Aspect/Colour/WB | All WB Compensation | The E-30 offers up to ±7 mired steps for White Balance compensation that you can set globally across all the available WB options available ‘All Set’ allows for adjustments in the A-B and G-M colour shifts Note: ‘A-B’ (Amber-Blue), ‘G-M’ (Green-Magenta) When ‘All Reset’ is used, selecting ‘Yes’ will force all WB settings to return to default levels |
| Colour Space | Select the usual industry standards for Colour Space here, namely ‘sRGB’ or ‘Adobe RGB’ |
| Shading Compensation | If you want to take advantage of the E-30’s Shadow Adjustment Technology (SAT), this is where you go to enable it Note: SAT is also referred to as ‘Auto Gradation’ Select ‘On’ in order to enable Shading Compensation |
| Image Quality Set | This setting will enable you to determine the actual captured size of your image files, which in turn implies the number of megapixels in the E-30’s sensor you will end up using You can also decide on the compression ratio you wish to use keeping in mind that the higher (the ratio), the finer the image quality but at the same time, the larger the size of the resulting file In terms of ‘Pixel Count,’ Large (L), Small (S) and Middle (M) settings are available Compression options include Super Fine (SF), Fine (F), Normal (N) and Basic (B) |
| Pixel Count | This feature enables the Middle (M) and Small (S) pixel count options to be individually defined in actual pixel dimensions For ‘Middle,’ the options include 3200x2400, 2560x1920 and 1600x1200 pixels For ‘Small,’ the options include 1280x960, 1024x768, 640x480 pixels |
| Image Aspect | Unlike before, this is the first time that Olympus has offered selectable cropped image ratios in their DSLR camera All in all, there are eight options in addition to the 4:3 default standard including 3:2, 16:9, 6:6, 5:4, 7:5, 6:5, 7:6 and 3:4 Take note that permanent masking effects when using a cropped aspect ratio are possible when using JPEG while in RAW, the retention of the base 4:3 ratio means white spaces for areas that are cropped are retained as well as file sizes that are also no smaller For each Image Aspect option, the menu provides pixel dimensions for RAW, Large (L), Middle (M) and Small (S) settings In 4:3, pixel dimensions are 4032x3024 (L), 3200x2400 (M), 1280x960 (S) pixels In 3:4, pixel dimensions are 2272x3024 (L), 1824x2432 (M), 720x960 (S) pixels In 7:5, pixel dimensions are 4032x2880 (L), 3248x2320 (M), 1232x880 (S) pixels In 6:5, pixel dimensions are 3632x3024 (L), 2880x2400 (M), 1152x960 (S) pixels In 7:6, pixel dimensions are 3536x3024 (L), 2800x2400 (M), 1120x960 (S) pixels In 5:4, pixel dimensions are 3776x3024 (L), 3040x2432 (M), 1200x960 (S) pixels In 6:6, pixel dimensions are 3024x3024 (L), 2400x2400 (M), 960x960 (S) pixels In 16:9, pixel dimensions are 4032x2272 (L), 3200x1800 (M), 1280x720 (S) pixels In 3:2, pixel dimensions are 4032x2688 (L), 3216x2144 (M), 1296x864 (S) pixels * L, M and S settings are only applicable for JPEG shooting * pixel dimensions for RAW for all Image Aspect options remain the same at 4032x3024 pixels * The use of Image Aspect options other than the native 4:3 does not affect the RAW file |
| Aspect Shooting (All | LiveView) | Shooting using cropped aspect ratios is possible via the LCD monitor, where the cropped areas are displayable in LiveView mode (‘LiveView’) Selecting ‘All’ will mean that the choice of Image Aspect option will be visible in both LiveView and viewfinder mode |
| Record/Erase | Quick Erase | Two options are given – ‘On’ and ‘Off’ When set to ‘On,’ there standard final warning prompt will no longer apply when you decide to erase an image |
| RAW+JPEG Erase | When you decide to capture your image in both JPEG and RAW format simultaneously, the E-30 also allows you to decide which of the two – or both – you wish to delete if and when you choose to Options include ‘JPEG,’ ‘RAW’ and ‘RAW+JPEG’ |
| File Name | Two options are given – ‘Auto’ and ‘Reset’ When ‘Auto’ is used, Olympus’ standard conventions for sRGB and Adobe RGB file naming systems will be used ‘Reset’ will clear the default naming conventions so that you can determine what to use to build the filename |
| Priority Set | Two options are given – ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ |
| dpi Setting | Two options are given - ‘Auto’ and ‘Custom’ If ‘Custom’ is selected, the user may determine the print resolution by configuring each of the four digits separately to form the actual dot specification (as in 0-0-0-0) For example, if you select 0-3-0-0, it means you are defining the print resolution to be 300 dpi (dots per inch) For ‘Auto,’ the E-30 will set the print resolution according to the Image Quality and Aspect Ratio settings you have defined in other parts of the menu |
| Utility | Cleaning Mode | Use this setting to manually proceed with cleaning Only the ‘START’ option is provided Note: Normally the E-30 will activate the SSWF feature during each start-up |
| Ext WB Detect | When set to ‘OFF,’ the E-30’s external White Balance sensor will be disabled, meaning that it will not detect the ambient colour temperature This is a helpful option when you are in a situation where the light source nearest to your subject is different in colour temperature to the one closest to the E-30 thus the reading off the White Balance sensor may be inaccurate/incorrect |
| AF Focus Adjust: Set AF Data (Off | Default Data | Lens Date) Default Date Lens Data Data List | The E-30 offers a unique registration feature where you can commit as many as 20 different Four-Third lenses (or 20 different readings called ‘AF Data’) into a memory database (‘Data List’) where you can set each of their autofocusing characteristics to suit your custom needs Note: ‘AF Data’ basically refers to a data point concerning a lens’ autofocusing index and because of this, the 20 registers can actually house not just data from 20 lenses but different pieces of AF data from lesser number of lenses
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| Exposure Shift | The E-30 allows you to deliberately distort the exposure readings by way of adding EV shifts of up to ±1EV in 1/6 incremental steps to apply to the ESP, Average and/or Spot metering modes |
| Batt Type (1 | 2 | 3) – check level is Alkaline | Despite the different type offerings, the one you’re likely to use here is already the default setting |
| Batt Warning Level (High | Low) in 5 steps at ±2 step range | You can set the battery warning level to ‘High’ or ‘Low’ in 5 steps at ±2 incremental steps (including 0) |
| Level Adjust (Reset | Adjust) | Two options are provided – ‘Reset’ and ‘Adjust’ |
| Scene Mode Swap | Two options are available – ‘Sport’ and ‘Night Portrait’ as well as ‘Underwater-Wide’ and ‘Underwater-Macro’ – making them quickly interchangeable |
| Wrench #2 – Utility Menu Part B | Date Time | DD/MM/YY | MM/DD/YY | YY/MM/DD HH:MM | hh:mm | Nothing unusual here – you have three date displays available for British (DD/MM/YY), American (MM/DD/YY) or Japanese (YY/MM/DD) standards while the recordable time data is offered in both 12 (HH:MM) and 24-hour (hh:mm) formats The YEAR range is from 2000 to 2099 |
| CF/xD | CF | XD | Use this option to decide which of the two – CompactFlash (‘CF’) or xD-Picture Card (‘XD’) – you wish to use This feature basically confirms that the E-30 is not equipped to write simultaneously to both cards |
| Edit Filename | Adobe RGB sRGB | You can make changes to the filename convention when using either ‘Adobe RGB’ or ‘sRGB’ colour space For both, you can change the prefix alphabetically (‘A-Z’) or numerically (‘0-9’) in ascending order The ‘P’ prefix at the start of the filename represents an ‘sRGB’ image file The ‘_’ (underscore) prefix on the other hand represents an ‘Adobe RGB’ image file Note: Both these prefixes can be changed and customised |
| LCD Brightness | ±7 steps including Colour Balance | Unlike the E-3 that offers auto-sensing LCD monitor luminance, the E-30’s is manual, offering up to a total of ±7 steps to improve legibility under almost any lighting conditions This option also allows adjustments to be made to the LCD monitor’s ‘Colour Balance’ |
| Language | Offerings based on region | The languages available for the E-30’s menu option and setting labels are defined based on the geographic region in which the particular model is distributed In some regions, Olympus allows one additional language to be downloaded and installed into the E-30 |
| Video Out | NTSC | PAL | | You may select either ‘NTSC’ or ‘PAL’ to reflect the right video signal standard for the country of use |
| REC View | Off | Auto Play | 1-20 sec | In most cases, the ‘Auto Play’ mode is what most users will like but you can also decide how long you wish the image to stay visible on the LCD monitor anywhere from 1 to 20 secs inclusively |
| Pixel Mapping | - - | Olympus’ pioneering effort in allowing the user to remap or map out malfunctioning pixels (in the sensor) continues here but be forewarned – a map out is permanent and that means it is irreversible Only ‘START’ is the option available |
| Firmware | Body | Lens | This option will display the current firmware version number for the E-30 camera body (‘Body’) and the attached Four-Thirds lens (‘Lens’) |
