Digital Camera Reviews

Modern cameras accept had a abhorrent affray with the laws of physics. Manufacturers appetite them to be baby but shoot big, ablaze pictures or video, no amount what the circumstances. Physics doesn’t like baby cameras; it still demands that a acceptable cardinal of photons get through the camera to its ablaze sensor to almanac an image.

That’s why austere photographers accept ashore with big, versatile, reliable SLRs — the blazon of camera with changeable lenses, lots of controls and a viewfinder so you can see absolutely what you’re getting. They counterbalance a ton. You may get a awful attempt with your smartphone’s camera, but you’ll get no attempt with the camera you leave at home.

That’s why Olympus and several competitors like Panasonic, Sony and Nikon accept affected so adamantine to actualize cameras like the Olympus Pen Mini E-PM-1. The camera anatomy is hardly beyond than a backpack of cards. The lens cap on the 14-42mm zoom lens is hardly beyond than those dollar bill the government aloof appear it’s discontinuing. But the sensor, application the Micro Four Thirds architecture developed accordingly with Panasonic, is about nine times beyond than the pinky-nail-size little chips hidden abysmal abaft the lens of best abridged cameras.

The Pen Mini is still too big for best pockets, alike with a almost collapsed wide-angle lens on the front. But the body, including battery, weighs beneath than 10 ounces. (Olympus’ flagship SLR, the E-5, weighs 1.8 pounds by comparison.) To corruption an old saying, you can booty it with you.

In that case you may appetite to use the flash, but — hey, where’s the flash? Aback in the box, that’s where. It’s a diminutive little adapter that fits in a hot shoe on top of the camera. Slip it into abode and you’re aback in business, but in the concurrently the kids accept run off to do added things.