SZ-10 photo.

I was hanging out for a SZ-31 but realised it had way more features than I needed so I grabbed a bargain SZ-10, there's not much posted anywhere about this camera so I'll pop this one in from a visit to the wetlands yesterday.

The water may have been too cold for the tortoises.

I can't say it's a great camera, the sensor is too noisy for that, but it does have that Olympus look I wanted and it came at a great price.

....was it really cold out there? Looks like the cormorant had been swimming. LOL

I like the shot!

The SZ-10 still has a 14MP CCD (same as in my Stylus 9010?), but also an exceptionally bright 18x zoom lens for a pocket camera (f4,4 at the far end).

I was looking at the SZ-20 until the SZ-30MR came out, and I got it last Septermber. I do use the extra sensitivity from the BSI CMOS sensor and the dual-processor facilities.

But, particularly at a reduced price, the SZ-10 holds its own, as demonstrated by the examples shown in two posts so far in this thread.

Henry

Henry Falkner wrote:

The SZ-10 still has a 14MP CCD (same as in my Stylus 9010?), but also an exceptionally bright 18x zoom lens for a pocket camera (f4,4 at the far end).

The lens was a major factor in the purchase, words aren't my strength but despite the less than stellar sensor the SZ-10 performs fine, especially for the price. I also have a TG-610 which likely uses the same sensor and it doesn't get as good a result as the SZ-10, same noise but lens not as good IMO but like any camera, when resized for web use they're all good these days, pixel binning (or whatever it's called) takes care of the noise and still leaves plenty of size.

That shot was a straight crop but was too good not to post somewhere, I didn't see the tortoises till I got home.

It was only about 18C when that was taken, a coolish winter morning, way too cold for humans to even think of swimming.