Just as with the XZ-2, a function can be selected for each shooting mode and assigned to the control ring.
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The control ring and Touch AF Shutter made popular on the XZ-2 are still available on the XZ-10, providing spectacular performance and the ability to capture every photo opportunity.
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Users can easily call up or switch between functions assigned to the Fn (Function) button and control ring and change setting values as needed, allowing them to quickly set up their preferred style.
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Because settings such as the aperture value or exposure compensation can be quickly adjusted with a twist of the control ring, users can capture photos exactly the way they want without missing a shot.
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The Olympus XZ-2 is equipped with the world's first hybrid control ring, built around the lens, which allows users to easily assign function settings to their preferences as well as switch between analog and digital operation of the ring.
Otherwise, it's aimed more at the casual carry-around crowd with a 40 percent smaller body, touch-screen focus selection, control ring exposure adjustment, a 3-inch 920k dot TFT LCD, art filters (in the smartphone app), image (or film) stabilization and 1080P 30 fps HD video.
The Stylus XZ-10, which launched just this week, includes a small arsenal of features that you wouldn't normally find on a pocketable cam, including incredibly fast autofocus, a control ring around the lens, a dedicated mode dial and a very sharp (920k-dot) 3-inch LCD.
The camera also includes features that should appease more-advanced users, such as a dedicated mode dial, a versatile lens ring control, a top ISO sensitivity of 25, 600 and a 6 frames-per-second burst mode.
We're glad you asked, because here's the good news: CamcorderInfo enjoyed the cam's strong colors and even saturation, gave it bonus points for the multi-purpose ring control, and noted the respectable battery life, which topped out at barely over two hours.
Brian Krebs has detailed those U.K. charges, which point to a more direct control of the cybercriminal ring, at KrebsOnSecurity.
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Besides clean-up of materials, the company plans to remove unused utilities in the shaft, repair any damaged structures, install a water ring to control entry of water into the shaft and prevent ice from forming in winter, install a new power cable and a metal brattice between the eastern and western half of the shafts to provide a physical barrier, improving safety and functionality, company officials said.
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When the Fn 2 lever next to the lens is placed downward, the ring around the lens switches to analog control so it can be used as a focus or a zoom ring.
In 1998, after a legislative battle, King signed a law granting, for the first time, island dwellers legal control of a three-mile ring of water around their island.
Boxer Michael Norgrove has died several days after collapsing in the ring, the British Board of Boxing Control (BBBC) has confirmed.
If the lever is placed at an angle, the ring around the lens switches to digital control to change exposure-related settings quickly and easily.
Mr Halliday steers an informed path between the myth of pervasive external control, trumpeted in fundamentalist rhetoric and anti-imperialist literature, and the illusion of a ring-fenced Middle Eastern independence.
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