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Serious photographers can finally peel their eye from that tiny viewfinder. The 7.5-megapixel E-330 is the first DSLR that shows whatever you’re pointing the camera at on its LCD, just like point-and-shoot cameras do. SLRs typically can’t offer this so-called live preview because a mirror and shutter block the sensor. The E-330 gets around this, literally, by reflecting light off a series of mirrors until it hits a second sensor near the camera’s viewfinder, which processes the image and sends it to the LCD in back. $1,000; olympusamerica.com















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