Funky

So I'm playing with an old Olympus E-300, which was Olympus's first consumer-grade DSLR, way back in 2004. Price-wise it was designed to go head-to-head with Canon's original EOS Digital Rebel, as an interchangeable lens DSLR available in a kit with a lens for under a thousand bucks (well, $999) which was a big deal back then.

It looks unusual for a DSLR because it lacks the prominent viewfinder hump that normally contains the pentaprism or pentamirror that bends and flips the light from the mirror into the eyepiece.

Instead, the E-300 uses a thing called a Porro finder, where the mirror swings sideways rather than up and down...

Alas, if you're used to the big, bright viewfinder image offered by the pentaprism on a full-frame pro body, the multi-mirror Porro finder on the Four Thirds E-300 is a little cramped and dim.

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