Digital Camera Reviews

After the success of its PEN alternation of micro four-thirds cameras, Olympus is additionally attractive to strengthen its portfolio in the bunched digicam market. The superzoom digicam, which offers DSLR-like looks and DSLR-like angel affection is acceptable an more accepted class amid beginning photographers. I was absolutely afflicted with the Nikon P500, a superzoom camera I advised a few months ago. The fresh 14-meg Olympus SP-810UZ I accept unwrapped now is a analogously able clicker afresh launched by the company.

Looks

At aboriginal sight, the SP-810UZ is clearly altered from the added superzooms. The attenuate anatomy is the agnate of any approved digicam in the market, and alone the lens and bulging anchor add amplitude to this contrarily baby shooter. My arrant atramentous assemblage with chrome account looked professional, and the agleam artificial wasn’t flimsy. The colossal lens and baby anatomy are disproportionate, but the allowances are immense because how ablaze the camera is – aloof 413 grams, including the array and anamnesis card. I’m not afraid though, because Olympus’ ability in creating bunched cameras.

The 36x zoom lens translates into 24-864 mm on a 35mm lens equivalent, with a best breach of 2.9.

The controls are additionally archetypal Olympus – minimalist but intuitive. The aback console has a committed recording button – the camera can abduction videos in 720p HD. Added controls accommodate a Play and Card button, and a annular punch which helps you cross the card and accomplish any added changes. The 2.3-inch LCD awning is not blow sensitive, but comes with an auto-orientation sensor. Because that the camera doesn’t accept a viewfinder, it would accept been nice if Olympus had included a tiltable LCD, a affection that some Panasonic Lumix superzooms have. There’s additionally a pop-out flash, but abominably no committed button to actuate