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Olympus E-1


The Olympus E-1 was the first DSLR designed from the ground up for digital. This contrast with many of its contemporaries which offered systems which reused parts from previous 35mm film systems. It uses the Four Thirds lens mount and imaging system. This design choice means that because the CCD is smaller than a 35mm negative, Four Thirds lenses and camera bodies can be made smaller and lighter than those of preceding SLRs. Characteristics:
  • Lighter/more compact than conventional SLR bodies.
  • 5 megapixel CCD.
  • Good dynamic range and exposure.
  • Magnesium-alloy body.
  • Environmental sealing (splash proof).
  • "Supersonic Wave Filter" cleans CCD at each camera start-up (dust is shaken from CCD).
  • Dual USB 2.0 and Firewire connectivity.
  • Continuous shooting 3 frames per second up to 12 frames.
  • Hybrid white balance sensor (on external surface of camera and using CCD).
  • User upgradeable firmware.

    Features

    Sometimes the user experiences bright spots in long (greater than a few seconds) exposures. This is called long exposure noise. By turning on the "Noise Removal" (not "Noise Filter"), the E-1 will do a "dark frame subtraction" to get rid of these ugly little bright spots. Category:Digital cameras

    Mount Olympus


    ''This article refers to a mountain in Greece. For other meanings, see Olympus (disambiguation).'' Mount Olympus (also transliterated as Mount Olęmpos, and on modern maps, Óros Ólimbos) is the highest mountain in Greece, at 2,911 meters high; it is situated at . The name means "The Luminous One" in Classic Greek language. Mount Olympus is noted for its very rich flora, possibly the richest in the whole of Europe, with several endemic species. In Greek mythology, Mount Olympus is the home of the Twelve Olympians, the principal gods in the Greek pantheon. The Greeks thought of it as built up with crystal mansions wherein the gods dwelt. It is the spiritual analogue of the Upper World of shamanic cosmology. Category:Greek mythology Olympus, Mount ca:Olimp da:Olympen de:Olymp el:Όλυμπος es:Olimpo fr:Olympe ko:올림포스의 12신 it:Olimpo (Grecia) he:אולימפוס la:Olympus nl:Olympus (berg) ja:オリンポス山 no:Olympos pl:Góra Olimp pt:Monte Olimpo ru:Олимп sv:Olympen uk:Олімп zh:奥林匹斯

    Olympus Mons


    thumb|Olympus Mons Olympus Mons (Latin, "Mount Olympus") is the tallest known mountain in our solar system, located on the planet Mars at approximately . In the days before space probes revealed its identity as a mountain, Olympus Mons was known to astronomers as the albedo feature, Nix Olympica ("Snows of Olympus").

    General description

    The central edifice stands 27 kilometres (88,600 feet) high over its base (about three times the height of Mount Everest above sea level and three times the height of Mauna Loa above its base); it reaches 25 km above the mean surface level of Mars, since it stands in a two-kilometre-deep depression. It is 540 km (335 miles) in width, flanked by steep cliffs, and has a caldera that is 85 km (53 miles) long, 60 km (37 miles) wide, and up to 3 km (1.8 miles) deep with six overlapping pit craters. Its outer edge is defined by an escarpment up to 6 km (4 miles) tall unique among the shield volcanoes of Mars. The size of Olympus Mons is so great (roughly the size of the American state of Missouri) that a person standing on the surface of Mars would be unable to view the profile of the volcano even from a distance as the curvature of the planet would obscure such detail. The only way to view the mountain properly is from orbit. An occasional misconception is that the top of Olympus Mons is above the Martian atmosphere. The atmospheric pressure at the top is about 2% that of average Martian surface pressure; by comparison the atmospheric pressure at the summit of Mount Everest is about 25% of that at sea level, even so airborn martian dust is still present and high altitude carbon dioxide-ice cloud cover is still possible at the peak of Olympus mons, though water-ice clouds are not. Although the Martian average atmospheric pressure is less than 1% of that seen on Earth, the much lower gravity on Mars allows its atmosphere to extend much higher.

    Volcanism

    Olympus Mons is a shield volcano, the result

    Olympus Company


    ''This article refers to a Japanese camera maker. For other meanings, see Olympus (disambiguation).'' Olympus Corporation (オリンパス株式会社 ''Orinpasu Kabushiki-Gaisha'') is a Japanese company specializing in optics and imaging. Olympus was founded in 1919, and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is named after "Olympus", the home of the gods in Greek mythology; see: Mount Olympus. Olympus has a history of groundbreaking camera and lens design. Their famous Zuiko lenses, first produced in 1936, were often years ahead of their time. Their camera designs have often been revolutionary. The first highly successful camera system from Olympus was the PEN system, which were very small and used a half-frame format, meaning you could take 72 shots on a standard 36 exposure roll of film. The PEN system design team was led by Yoshihisa Maitani. The design ethos behind the PEN system led to the creation of the OM system, a full frame professional 35mm SLR system designed to compete with Nikon and Canon's best sellers. The OM system took the camera world by storm, being much more compact than its competitors and boasting a string of innovative design features. Eventually the system included 14 different bodies and approximately 60 lenses. However, Olympus did not move into the autofocus market in the way their competitors did, and this ultimately led to their decline as a maker of professional camera systems. Their compact cameras have retained their great popularity, though, and in recent years their digital cameras have won great acclaim. Olympus is a supporter of the Four Thirds System standard for digital SLR camera design and development, and the Olympus E-1 is currently very highly sought-after.

  • List of Olympus products
  • List of digital camera brands
  • xD-Picture Card

    References

  • http://www.zuikoholic.com Olympus Mailing List Category:Companies of Japan Category:Photography

    Olympus Mons


    Height of Olympus Mons is given in this article as 27 km, but was given as 25 km in the Mars (planet) article. I have adjusted to make both articles read the same. BUT there is no mention of how these different heights are calculated. As there is no "kiwiinapanic 09:18 12 Jul 2003 (UTC) :According to the Mars Team Online the measurement of elevation is from the mean. Just as you suspected. I would go with that until somebody has a more authoritative answer. :http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/ask/terrain-geo/Lowest_Elevation_on_Mars.txt :mirwin My copy of ''The New Atlas of the Universe'' lists the height as 25 km above surface level. --Dante Alighieri 10:06 12 Jul 2003 (UTC) : Average surface level or local surface level? ;) -- Oliver P. 10:18 12 Jul 2003 (UTC) :Hehe, I forgot to type that in. Mean. --Dante Alighieri 20:01 12 Jul 2003 (UTC) ---- So - how big is Olympus Mons?! I found a variety of answers: The bit about Olympus standing "in a two-kilometre-deep depression" is wrong - see the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MarsTopoMap-PIA02031_modest.jpg topo map o' Mars - though it makes a difference if you measure the "height from the base" on the east or west side. --wwoods 08:14, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

    First ascent

    In the style of the Wikipedia:Million pool, in which participants attempt to name the day on which the English Wikipedia reaches one million articles, I suggest we all place bets on the timing of the first ascent of Olympus Mons, so that future generations of Wikipedians will be able to laugh at our comically inaccurate predictions. The competition closes to new entries on the day the first manned mission reaches Mars. Nearest person wins eternal fame and a Mars Bar. — Trilobite (Talk) 06:53, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • 29 May 2053 — Trilobite (Talk) 06:53, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • 9 July 2078 — same day Wikipedia reaches 5 million articles :) Worldtraveller 12:46, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Never — The

    Olympus (Disambiguation)


    Olympus can refer to:
  • a Japanese optics company: see Olympus company
  • Rolls-Royce Olympus, a jet engine and marine turbine
  • a codename for version 3.0.0 of phpBB
  • Olympos is a town on the Greek island of Karpathos
  • several mountains:
  • * Home of the gods in Greek mythology: see Mount Olympus
  • * An extinct volcano on Mars and the largest known mountain in the solar system: see Olympus Mons
  • *Mount Olympus (Cyprus) in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus
  • *There are also as many as 18 other mountains by the same name, including ones in the Greek islands, Asia Minor, New Zealand, Tasmania and 8 peaks in the United States (see table).
    Name State County Coordinates USGS 7.5' Map
    http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.GetDetail?tab=Y&id=272795 Mount Olympus CA San Diego Pechanga
    http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.GetDetail?tab=Y&id=1659303 Mount Olympus CA San Francisco San Francisco North
    http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.GetDetail?tab=Y&id=204946 Mount Olympus CO Larimer Panorama Peak
    http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.GetDetail?tab=Y&id=362805 Mount Olympus HI Honolulu Honolulu
    http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.GetDetail?tab=Y&id=514354 Mount Olympus KY Bath Olympia
    Mount Olympus UT Salt

    Mount Olympus


    ''The name means "The Luminous One" in Classic Greek language.'' Is there any secure etymology of "Olympos"? Wetman 10:27, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC) :Yes I wonder about this too. I found a source which claims it is "a pre-Greek word, unrelated to anything in the language of the ... Hellenes." (The New York Review of Books, October 21st, 2004, pg. 19, column 2). More research is needed. JesseW 08:33, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC) ---- This article is explicitly about the mountain in Greece. Other peaks named Mount Olympus have their own articles, e.g., Mount Olympus (Washington), Mount Olympus (Utah). Please don't mix the material up: that is what the disambiguation page Olympus (disambiguation) is for. -- hike395 05:49, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC) ---- I understand what disambiguation is for. However, some Wiki users don't know what that means. It would be much clearer if the disambiguation page was combined but cordoned off from the original Mount Olympus article. It is ideal to have ALL Mount Olympus' in the same place due to the fact that many people may be searching for information on a non-Grecian Mount Olympus and completely overlook the disambiguation link. Hell, most people don't even know what "ambiguous" means, much less "disambiguation". I stand by my position and would like to refer to a higher authority than yourself, Hike. --Piewalker 18:22, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC) :Hi, Piewalker. I think there may be a misunderstanding. I'm following Wikipedia custom (which is what passes for a "rule" around here). Check out Wikipedia:Disambiguation if you would like. I claim what we have here is a "Primary topic" disambiguation (see type 3 in Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Types of disambiguation --- Mount Olympus in Greece is the predominant meaning in the world. As evidence, do a Google search for Mount Olympus: 9 of the top 10 pages are about the Greek mountain. :I think it is important to maintain consistency across the 'pedia, otherwise readers have a hard time navigating through the chaos. As


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