Harry Spatz
New member
Good news:
Weather resistant. (Had to replace my Canon S400 because the LCD got a little wet.)
Fast focus even in dim light without assist. Faster and more accurate than S400 with assist lamp.
Has fast ISO, up to 2500, for low light or stop action shooting.
Very good flash coverage(perhaps 12' at ISO 64 and f2.8. Over 40' at high ISO.
Has software to correct red eye which works pretty well.
Very good LCD gains up in low light. Visible in bright light.
Has aperture and shutter priority and tells both, as well as ISO. EV and live histogram in modes other than scene or antishake.
Good battery life
Guide explains each scene mode
Easy to erase 1 or all images. I don't know what the other reviewer who said it was difficult is talking about.
Menus easy to navigate. 1 press shows present setting for flash or macro mode, so if you press wrong button nothing changes on first push--a good thing!
No manual white balance, but auto settings are good. Color more natural than Canon S400 which makes everyone have reddish tint to faces.
Bad news:
High ISO comes at a price--noise and lower resolution images, good for net, computer screen, or small prints, but better than nothing. Good for "remembering the moment." Not for framing and putting on your walls at 400 or above.
No shutter, aperture, or ISO info. while taking shot in scene modes, so you better know what the camera does before you use them.
No auto image rotation as in Canons. You must rotate manually.
No 30 fps movie mode, but does have 640 X 480.
Changing exposure value in flash modes has no or minimal change. I have changed slightly overexposed flash pictures down -2EV and they are sometimes still overexposed.
Poor customer service from Olympus. Emailed about EV problem with flash pictures, got autoresponse that they received email, but never got back to me in over a week.
Only 4 sec. of voice recording per still picture (not settable)
Internal red eye software sometimes fixes 1 eye leaving other eye red. Easy to correct from computer though.
Not the greatest for nighttime scenes on tripod. Slowest shutter is 1/2 sec. in manual and 4 sec in scene mode.
Problems:
The only real problem is not being able to reliably change the EV with the flash although mostly exposure is good. Also disappointed that Olympus did not bother to answer my question about this. Would like to see shutter and aperture info. in scene modes, as well as ISO chosen when in auto ISO, so I can modify if don't like auto settings. For example "indoor mode" chooses ISO 2500 which gives lots of noise and low resolution, but the text does not tell you this. Another example is "night+portrait" which needs a tripod because it may choose a 4 sec. exposure, even with flash, to expose the nighttime background.
Weather resistant. (Had to replace my Canon S400 because the LCD got a little wet.)
Fast focus even in dim light without assist. Faster and more accurate than S400 with assist lamp.
Has fast ISO, up to 2500, for low light or stop action shooting.
Very good flash coverage(perhaps 12' at ISO 64 and f2.8. Over 40' at high ISO.
Has software to correct red eye which works pretty well.
Very good LCD gains up in low light. Visible in bright light.
Has aperture and shutter priority and tells both, as well as ISO. EV and live histogram in modes other than scene or antishake.
Good battery life
Guide explains each scene mode
Easy to erase 1 or all images. I don't know what the other reviewer who said it was difficult is talking about.
Menus easy to navigate. 1 press shows present setting for flash or macro mode, so if you press wrong button nothing changes on first push--a good thing!
No manual white balance, but auto settings are good. Color more natural than Canon S400 which makes everyone have reddish tint to faces.
Bad news:
High ISO comes at a price--noise and lower resolution images, good for net, computer screen, or small prints, but better than nothing. Good for "remembering the moment." Not for framing and putting on your walls at 400 or above.
No shutter, aperture, or ISO info. while taking shot in scene modes, so you better know what the camera does before you use them.
No auto image rotation as in Canons. You must rotate manually.
No 30 fps movie mode, but does have 640 X 480.
Changing exposure value in flash modes has no or minimal change. I have changed slightly overexposed flash pictures down -2EV and they are sometimes still overexposed.
Poor customer service from Olympus. Emailed about EV problem with flash pictures, got autoresponse that they received email, but never got back to me in over a week.
Only 4 sec. of voice recording per still picture (not settable)
Internal red eye software sometimes fixes 1 eye leaving other eye red. Easy to correct from computer though.
Not the greatest for nighttime scenes on tripod. Slowest shutter is 1/2 sec. in manual and 4 sec in scene mode.
Problems:
The only real problem is not being able to reliably change the EV with the flash although mostly exposure is good. Also disappointed that Olympus did not bother to answer my question about this. Would like to see shutter and aperture info. in scene modes, as well as ISO chosen when in auto ISO, so I can modify if don't like auto settings. For example "indoor mode" chooses ISO 2500 which gives lots of noise and low resolution, but the text does not tell you this. Another example is "night+portrait" which needs a tripod because it may choose a 4 sec. exposure, even with flash, to expose the nighttime background.
