The big problem with Olympus is that the full reference manual only appears
on the CD with the camera, you have to pay extra to get a printed manual. Poor
behaviour as the full reference manual is essential to everyday operation. The
multi language starter manual is very basic and doesn't mention many essential
features.
New as at March '07 is the availability of Olympus Master V2 as a free download with no serial number required to install it. Works with jpegs and ORF files and is a cleaned up and Vista friendly version of Master that apparently does work a little better and faster than v1.42. Find it at..... http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/oima_softwareMaster.asp
Finding Digital Camera Manuals: To make this page easier to maintain as new models arrive, I've found the two best links for finding literature. One is for USA and one is for Asia/Oceania but you will find the manuals are the same.
Try www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/cpg_download_manuals.asp
or www.olympus.co.jp/en/support/imsg/digicamera/download/manual/ to search for manuals and other brochures.
For E-1 Literature.... Open www.olympus.com then choose USA region, then select Digital Cameras in the Consumer Products, then select E-1 System. In the E-1 window select Q&A Support-Literature and you will get to the page of PDFs for all E-1 System components.
The latest Olympus E-330 has a manual found at
Olympus Software Upgrades.... As they become available (and that now includes camera firmware) they all appear here. USA readers may like to look here for the same sort of information. The Camedia software (March 04) updated from V4.1 to 4.2 and I only knew it because I happened to be checking the update page looking for something else. There's also V4.3 at the USA site but evidently there's not much need to change from 4.2 to 4.3 but I did anyway with no ill effects.