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SP-100ee vs. Nikon B500

Started Feb 7, 2018 | Discussions thread
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Re: SP-100ee vs. Nikon B500

Henry Falkner wrote:

OzRay wrote:

I think overall Olympus is beginning to reduce the number of options available and rationalising what products sell and what do not.

In my opinion, Olympus is rationalizing a little too much. They dropped the EVF on their SP bridge cameras when they still did them, the SP100 was the exception.

There were complaints about the fragility of the red dot sight on the SP100. Instead of re-designing that (since nobody else did a red dot sight), they dropped the model.

They dropped the SH-series. In my opinion it was a better small-sensor compromise than the Panasonic ZS series is now.

They Toughs are 3x zoom wonders. I have not touched a digital camera with less than 10x zoom after 2005.

Henry

The SP100 was never really popular on this forum even from the people who bought it. From what I remember there were some pictures with very smeary foliage in the distance. It could have been depth of field but the images seemed very heavily processed where blur was turned in to a less pleasant smear.

The TG5 is a 4x zoom and I think that bit of extra reach over 3x does actually does make a difference in any compact.

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