Olympus E-420 portable & great value for money: review by LetsGoDigital
The new E-420 baby DSLR from Olympus is the world’s smallest one -by a tiny margin- but that’s of course not all. If size is the main deciding factor compacts are preferable, but for DSLRs we are talking performance before anything else, right?
LetsGoDigital reviews the E-420 and results are pretty impressive. The review even describes performance to be almost as good as that of the E-3, a very heavy statement since we talk about bodies many categories apart in terms of price, size and target group.
The only complaints have been about a slightly limited dynamic range and more than expected noise at high ISO. Otherwise, we are talking about a great walk-around, hike-everywhere, do-what-you-want camera that will please those of us that want to snap photos with a DSLR without worrying about size, weight and performance limitations.
[...] increasingly look at DSLR cameras for high profit margins. With cheap DSLR cameras like the Olympus E-420 and the expected Canon 1000D/Rebel XS around the €500 mark, there is hardly any room left in the [...]
June 11th, 2008 at 12:02 pm