Olympus E-620 DSLR Reviewed

by Sze | Filed under Camera and Camcorder

Olympus E-620 Entry-Level DSLR

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)