Olympus Stylus 810 Review At DP Interface

Updated - Saturday, 29th April 2006

DP Interface has finished a new review for the 8 megapixel Olympus Stylus 810 and here’s the good and bad.

“Strange enough, the Olympus Stylus 810 has dropped the few manual controls (aperture and shutter priority) that were found on the Stylus 800 and the lower end Stylus 710 has more scene modes - four extra to be exact - so is this the flagship Stylus? I don’t think so - at least for me.”

What’s hot: * 8 megapixels in an all-weather body * Average battery life * Large high-resolution LCD which is sharp and visible * Fairly powerful flash * Extremely high-speed continuous shooting (though at 3 MP only) * A great big collection of scene modes * Camera guide and help built-in (useful for beginners) * Unlimited VGA 30 FPS movie mode What’s not: * No manual controls (The Stylus 800 had priority modes) * Good low-light viewing but bad low-light focusing * Slow (for “normal” continuous shooting) and limited continuous shooting * No real optical image stabilization * Not-even-close 10 cm macro mode * Performance lagging behind competition; could be faster and better * Just average image quality; noise is an issue, soft photos * Movie mode is basic and too bare: no zoom, focus when recording * Album feature not well implemented - ought to use internal memory


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Geoff 05.08.06 at 3:29 am

Have the camera for a week now and cannot agree to most of the bad points stated:

  • It’s a point and shoot, so manual mode is not what was paid for - so not getting it is fair
  • Never had any issue with low light focusing
  • Continuous shooting is not used often, and 3mp for the fast mode is good enough for me
  • The reviewer totally missed the other half of the digital image stabilisation feature: the gyro-assisted image correction; increasing ISO is, as pointed out, a very bad thing; the 810 has over the 700/710 this special gyro-assisted adjustment feature.
  • 10cm for macro for a 8mp camera is good enough for me; just crop the bits you don’t want
  • Where is the numbers that justify the statement “performance lagging behind competition”?
  • Noise is pretty bad, but I think it’s just average. It IS 8mp all squeezed into a tiny body.
  • The reviewer didn’t mention the industry average is that digital cameras cannot zoom/focus mid-movie. It CAN digitally zoom mid-movie.
  • Album feature is over and above the competition that doesn’t offer it

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