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SP-100ee vs. Nikon B500

Started Feb 7, 2018 | Discussions thread
Enders Shadow
Enders Shadow Veteran Member • Posts: 3,604
Re: SP-100ee vs. Nikon B500

OzRay wrote:

One failure, without knowing much, doesn't really mean that every unit was rubbish. And looking in Google, the camera overall got pretty good reviews from all sites.

If you had been following Olympus compacts when the SP-100ee released, you would have seen multiple reports of the RDS getting stuck in the extended position. It happened to my friend in the first few weeks of ownership. The replacement camera did the same thing after a few months of use. He learned to live with the problem, but dumped it when the P900 became available.

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/54445985

The idea of a integrated RDS sounded like a good idea. But poor CDAF performance limited its usefulness with any sort of action photography. For whatever reason, it wasn't competitive against bridge type super zoom models from Canon and Nikon. About a year following its release, retailers began listing it as discontinued.

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