Olympus E-620 DSLR Reviewed
by Sze | Filed under Camera and Camcorder
Update: You can get the E-620 from Buy.com for $571.99.
Olympus E-620 is an entry-level digital SLR camera that is the world’s smallest and lightest to have built-in image stabilization. E-620 has 12 Megapixel Live MOS image sensor and sports the TruePic III+ image processor. It offers 7-point auto focus, ISO 3200, sensor-shift image stabilization, Four Thirds lens mount, Supersonic Wave Filter dust reduction filter and a swivel display.
PhotographyBLOG has reviewed the Olympus E-620:
The Olympus E-620 offers the most effective combination of features, ease-of-use and price of any Olympus DSLR camera to date, and it’s also a real contender for the Best Mid-Range DSLR crown.
The icing on the cake is the inclusion of built-in image stabilisation, ensuring that every lens that you use with the E-620 benefits from this system, and the free-angle LCD screen which makes image composition much more versatile than with a fixed screen. Dedicated buttons for changing the focusing mode, ISO sensitivity, white balance and metering mode, the 7-point auto-focus system and relatively large, bright viewfinder are also very welcome features that the E-450 notably lacks.
It’s not all good news though – that old bug-bear of Four Thirds cameras, namely easily visible noise at higher ISO settings, rears its ugly head once again. The E-620 is no better or worse than its stable-mates in this respect, but it doesn’t compare well to its main rivals from the likes of Nikon, Canon and Sony, which all offer better low-light performance from their bigger APS-C size sensors.
Ratings (out of 5)
- Design 4.5
- Features 5
- Ease-of-use 4.5
- Image Quality 4.5
- Value for money 5
Tags: Digital-SLR, DSLR, E-620, E-620 review, Entry-Level DSLR, Four Thirds DLSR, Four Thirds system, Olympus, Olympus DLSR, Olympus E-620, Olympus E-620 review
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