Greg's Olympus E-30 documentation

This document is a work in progress. Please don't rely on it.

I bought an Olympus E-30 in May 2009. On the whole I'm very happy with it, but the documentation is pretty terrible, and some of the firmware gives me the impression that it was released in a hurry. I've spent a considerable amount of time trying to work out how specific functionality is implemented, and how to use it to its best. This page is (currently) a work in progress describing one aspect, the autofocus system. It draws on Olympus' documentation, a review by Andrzej Wrotniak, and my own experience and experimentation.

Resetting settings

There are three ways to reset values that you have set: a complete reset to factory defaults, which I consider dangerous, or reset to one of two pre-registered sets of values to reset. Setting these values requires two steps:

First, set the camera to the settings you want to save.
Select and use the cursor keys to select RESET1 or RESET2, then SET. This saves the current settings to the corresponding reset mode.

To reset the camera to the saved settings, press for 2 seconds, then, still holding down the two keys, somehow turn a wheel or press cursor keys to select the reset function you want. Then press OK.