Dust Reduction System
No matter where you shoot, in your living room, on the soccer field, or in the desert, you can be sure dust is in the air. This poses a huge problem to digital SLR users because of the ability to change lenses. With each swap of a new lens comes a new opportunity for dust and other debris to settle on the camera’s image sensor where it can significantly impact your pictures. Anything from smudges to specks can appear on photos, and usually in the most undesirable of locations such as on a subject’s face, and would require a considerable amount of time to remove using an image-editing program, if it can be edited at all. The Olympus dust reduction system is an industry first and a proven technology. Every time you turn on your Olympus digital SLR, our Supersonic Wave Filter — located between the shutter and the image sensor — silently vibrates an amazing 35,000 times per second. Dust is flung away and collected so it can’t come back.