I did a quick one on this. There are various ISO settings adjustable in the hidden menu such as:

As previously discussed:

Value 1 = ISO 50 ...

18 = ISO 3200
19 = ISO 4000
20 = ISO 5000
21 = ISO 6400
22 = ISO 8000
23 = ISO 10,000 (yes, 10,000 not 1000)

The samples below were developed from RAW, one each with and without NR for comparison. The EXIF info are gone when I developed from RAW.

ISO 3200 with/without PP NR:





ISO 10,000 with/without PP NR:





Olympus, there's always something more ... :D

Note : Use it at your own risk :oops: (I have not tested on other models)

cool! yk. this is really cool!

thanks for sharing this... but, i still don't know how to manipulate the hidden menu yet. would find a chance to learn from you next time...

YK,
thanks for the fantastic info. Keep the R&D going :)

shchow wrote (View Post): › cool! yk. this is really cool! thanks for sharing this... but, i still don't know how to manipulate the hidden menu yet. would find a chance to learn from you next time...

Its better not to use the higher iso at slower shutter speeds.

well here is the link telling how to get to the secret menu http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1022&message=17584112

The shutter speed actually doubles up when I switched from ISO 1600 to 3200. So, it's actually increasing the sensitivity.

You have seen 1/8000th shutter speed? This is awesome! This means that there is more to the camera than we think... everything has been "hidden" and "locked" from us all this time... this is getting interesting... "unlock codes" in real life, not only in games... ha ha ha...

I should have been more specific. What I mean is pointing at the same subject in the same evironment with the same metering mode and aperture, by changing the ISO from 1600 to 3200, I got double the shutter speed to give me the same exposure.

It was say, from shutter speed 1/120 to 1/250.

Not increasing the max shutter speed from 1/4000 to 1/8000.

oh I see... thanks for clearing this up...

The key combo to get into the debug screen is changed in the latest E-330 firmware update (v1.1).

Anyone one found a way to view the firmware a shuttercount in a updated E330? The combination don't work anymore. :(

No, not yet.

reduced size images always look ok wrt noise.
can you post 100% crops maybe? (e.g. from the toys' head)

edit: woops.. this is an old thread, rght?

Hi marcof,

This thread is just about exploring the hidden feature in this cam, not really about boasting low-noise, and usability.

It also tells us that the Livemos sensor can indeed be pushed higher than the current specified limit. It's there for the R&D engineers, I suppose.

Usability of such pictures are also very subjective, depending on how we want to use them. Posting them on the web like this? Printing them in in 4R size? Or 12R or even A0?

I would say, shrinking them down to VGA resolution it's perfectily usable. Printing them in 4R or even 6R are OK, but more than that not very good and needless to say about A0.

Usually, we don't see many people shares '100% crop' photos on web and mainly resized pictures. So in this context, they are perfectly usable (at least to me). We may also use noise reduction in post-processing to improve them further.