| Prices |
• E-520 body only £479.99
• E-520 + 14-42 mm lens £529
• E-520 + 14-42 mm + 40-150 mm lenses £629.99
• E-520 + 14-42 mm + 70-300 mm lenses £759.99 |
| Body material |
Plastic |
| Sensor* |
4/3 type Live MOS sensor
17.3 x 13.0 mm
11.8 million total pixels
10.0 million effective pixels
RGB color filter array
Fixed low pass filter (anti-alias filter) |
| Dust suppression |
Supersonic Wave Filter |
| Image stabilization* |
Three-mode (On + two panning modes), sensor shift IS |
| Image processor |
TruePic III |
| Image sizes |
3648 x 2736
3200 x 2400
2560 x 1920
1600 x 1200
1280 x 960
1024 x 768
640 x 480 |
| File formats |
RAW (12 bit)
RAW + JPEG
JPEG |
| Lenses |
• 4/3 standard lens mount
• Range of ZUIKO DIGITAL lenses available
• Multiply focal length by 2 for 35 mm equiv. FOV |
| Auto focus* |
• 3-point TTL phase difference detection
• Contrast detection system (selectable in Live View)
• Detection range: 0 to 19 EV (ISO 100)
|
| Focus area selection |
• Automatic
• Manual |
| Focus modes |
• Single shot AF
• Single shot AF + MF
• Continuous AF
• Continuous AF + MF
• Manual focus |
| AF assist lamp |
Yes, flash strobe (flash must be raised) |
| Shooting modes |
• Auto
• Program AE (with shift)
• Aperture priority AE
• Shutter priority AE
• Manual
• Portrait
• Landscape
• Macro
• Sports
• Night Scene
• Scene |
| Additional scene modes* |
• Landscape & Portrait
• Night scene and portrait
• Children
• Sports
• High Key
• Low Key
• Digital Image Stabilization (High ISO)
• Nature Macro
• Candle
• Sunset
• Fireworks
• Documents
• Panorama
• Beach and Snow |
| Sensitivity |
• Auto (ISO 100 - 1600)
• ISO 100
• ISO 200
• ISO 400
• ISO 800
• ISO 1600 |
| Metering system |
• 49-zone multi-pattern
• Range: 1 to 20 EV (50 mm F2, ISO 100) |
| Metering modes |
• Digital ESP
• Center-Weighted Average
• Spot (2% of viewfinder)
• Highlight based spot
• Shadow based spot |
| AE Lock |
• AE/AF lock button
• With shutter release half-press |
| AE Bracketing |
• 3 frames
• 1/3, 1/2, 0.7 or 1.0 EV steps |
| Exposure compen.* |
• -5.0 to +5.0 EV
• 1/3, 1/2 or 1.0 EV steps available |
| Shutter speed |
• 60 - 1/4000 sec
• Bulb: up to 8 min. with limiter |
| White balance |
• Auto
• Daylight
• Shade
• Cloudy
• Lamp
• Fluorescent 1
• Fluorescent 2
• Fluorescent 3
• Flash
• Manual 'one-touch'
• Kelvin (3000 - 7500 K, 7 steps) |
| WB fine tuning |
+/- 7 steps in each A-B/G-M axis (in Auto WB/Preset WB mode) |
| Color space |
• sRGB
• Adobe RGB |
| Image parameters* |
• Color mode (Natural, Vivid, Muted, Portrait, Monotone)
• Saturation (5 levels)
• Contrast (5 levels)
• Sharpness (5 levels)
• Monochrome (B&W, Sepia, Purple, Green, Blue) - filter (Ye, Or, Re, Gr)
• Gradation (Auto, High Key, Normal, Low Key) |
| Drive modes |
• Single
• Continuous |
| Continuous* |
• 3.5 fps
• JPEG: Unlimited (Large, Normal) with fast memory cards
• RAW: 8 frames maximum |
| Self-timer |
• 2 sec
• 12 sec |
| Flash* |
• Pop-up
• TTL auto/manual
• Guide no. 12
• 1/180 sec X-sync speed, Super FP up to 1/4000 sec
• Sync modes: Auto, Red-eye reduction, Slow syncro with red-eye reduction,
Slow syncro, 2nd curtain slow syncro, Fill-in, Off
• Flash power: Up to +/- 2EV in 1/3 EV steps |
| External flash* |
• Hot shoe
• Wireless |
| Viewfinder |
• Eye-level optical single-lens
• Field of view 95%
• Magnification 0.92x with a 50mm lens and -1 dioptre
• Eye point 14 mm at -1 dioptre
• Dioptre adjustment -3 to +1 dioptre
• Focusing screen: Fixed type (Neo Lumi-Micron Mat Screen)
• Mirror: Quick return mirror
• DOF preview: can be assigned to Fn button |
| Viewfinder info |
• Aperture value
• Shutter speed
• Record mode
• AF confirmation mark
• Flash
• WB
• AE lock
• Number of storable still images
• Exposure compensation value
• Metering mode
• Battery warning
• Exposure mode
• AF frame (super impose) |
| Orientation sensor |
Yes |
| LCD monitor* |
• 2.7" TFT LCD monitor (wide viewing angle)
• 230,000 pixels
• Live View available |
| Live View* |
• 100% field of view
• Pre-view of Exposure compensation, White balance,
Gradation,
Face detection and Perfect Shot
• Grid line displayable
• 7x/10x magnification possible
• MF/S-AF
• Display of AF frame, AF point, Shooting information, Histogram, Heat warning |
| Playback functions* |
• Single
• Magnify (2 - 14x)
• Index (4, 9, 16, 25, 49, 100 frames)
• Calendar view
• Rotation
• Slide show
• Histogram (Lum/RGB)
• Highlight & Shadow point warning |
| Playback information |
• Exposure mode
• Metering mode
• Shutter speed
• Aperture value
• Exposure compensation level
• ISO
• Color space
• White balance mode
• White balance compensation level
• Focal length
• Focus area
• File type
• Picture mode
• File name
• Image size
• Recorded card type |
| Editing |
• RAW development
• JPEG editing (B&W, Sepia, Red eye reduction, Gradation, Color saturation, Resize, Trim) |
| Menu languages |
• English
• German
• French
• Spanish
• Italian
• Russian
• Czech
• Dutch
• Danish
• Polish
(Other languages can be downloaded) |
| Storage |
• Compact Flash (Type I and II)
• xD Picture card |
| Connectivity |
• USB 2.0 (Hi Speed)
• Video Out (NTSC/PAL) |
| Vertical/portrait grip |
No |
| Power |
BLM-1 Li-ion battery (rechargeable) |
| Dimensions |
136 x 92 x 68 mm (5.4 x 3.6 x 2.7 in) |
| Weight (no batt)* |
475 g (16.2 oz) |
| Weight (inc batt)* |
490 g (17.3 oz) |