Olympus E-520 Review

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Olympus E-520
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BobTech's Review of Olympus E-520

3rd Sep 2008

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    4 stars
  • Image Quality
    4.5 stars
  • Features
    5 stars
  • Time Digital Camera Owned
    1 - 4 Weeks
  • Battery Life
    4.5 stars
  • Ease of Use
    3.5 stars
Good Points

It's got excellent ergonomics (how it fits in your hand, the location and operation of the controls, etc.) There's a bit of a learning curve involved in understanding how to drive it, mainly because it can be customised in so many ways. Once you get past that and start taking photos of good subjects, it will turn out extremely natural-looking sharp properly-exposed photos which will make some Canon and Nikon users green with envy. It operates for a very long time on a charge of its battery and is just generally nice to use. The image stabliser is very effective.


Bad Points

Live View. It's very handy for getting manual focus exactly right, but it's not a good mode to operate the camera in. The Live View autofocus is woefully slow even in sunlight and it gets even worse as the light level drops. If you're thinking of upgrading from a Sony DSC-H1 and expect the same kind of imager-based autofocussing performance from the E-520, forget it! To be fair, reviews of the competing Canon EOS-450D say its version of Live View is pretty bad too.


General Comments

Olympus E-520 Review - If you're looking for a DSLR with image stabilisation which works with any lens you put on it, which has excellent kit lenses and which gives you a lot of performance for a very good price, the E-520 might just be the camera you're looking for. I'm certainly happy with mine.

Be prepared to sit down and read the manual so you'll understand all the many functions available to you, and so you won't be caught by surprise by the strange image stabliser noise when you turn it off!

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