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Any opinions on the Olympus 8080W?
Hello all,
I'm still a point-and-shoot type of person but would like to slowly venture out into more manual controls. I want to avoid a full SLR since I don't think I'll need all those features. I was looking at the Olympus 8080 and I thought it looked pretty good for my needs. The question is the quality of the image. Any comments one way or another? Thanks Paula |
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Paula Sims wrote: Hello all, I'm still a point-and-shoot type of person but would like to slowly venture out into more manual controls. I want to avoid a full SLR since I don't think I'll need all those features. I was looking at the Olympus 8080 and I thought it looked pretty good for my needs. The question is the quality of the image. Any comments one way or another? Thanks Paula It's a very good camera; image quality is top-notch, probably the best available in the "prosumer" category; rivalling dSLR's quality at lower ISO's (50-100). Of course, sensor noise is an issue at higher ISO's (200-400) as it is in all the fixed-lens cameras right now; if you need noise-free ISO 400 or more you need a dSLR. It's a bit slower than a dSLR to store images, and it's not as responsive - there's a small but noticable shutter lag. Some users have been complaining about AF problems in low light, but it's all relative - I've had trouble with a Canon dRebel searching for focus in dim light, too. The lens is reasonably fast (F/2.4-3.5), but it's not F/1.4 or anything. 28-140mm equivalent is a reasonable range; you'd spend a LOT to get an F/2.4 28mm eq. wide-angle without fish-eye on a dSLR. There's been lots of discussion of the C-8080 at http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1008 . It's on for fire-sale prices right now, it's a really good time to buy it. Unfortunately, it's discontinued, and it doesn't look like there's going to be another camera like it in the future - low-end dSLR's are taking over the market, for better or worse (worse, IMHO). ECM |
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Sims says... Hello all, I'm still a point-and-shoot type of person but would like to slowly venture out into more manual controls. I want to avoid a full SLR since I don't think I'll need all those features. I was looking at the Olympus 8080 and I thought it looked pretty good for my needs. The question is the quality of the image. The lens is *great*, even better than some DSLR lenses. Low light focusing is no problem, if you use iESP focus with P-AF (this way, you can focus in almost complete darkness). Picture quality is great, if you use RAW: http://www.molon.de/galleries/China/ http://www.molon.de/galleries/India/Rajahstan/ The only issue would be the painfully slow card write times (12 seconds to write a RAW image, and no buffering, meaning that you have to wait until the camera finishes writing to the card until you can take the next image). Noise is not an issue if you shoot at lowest ISO (50) - this is not a camera designed to operate at ISO 400. For more information, see the online resource (link below) and the Olympus 8080 users group (link below). At http://myolympus.org/ we have a photo sharing site for users of this camera. -- Alfred Molon ------------------------------ Olympus 4040, 5050, 5060, 7070, 8080, E300 forum at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/ Olympus 8080 resource - http://myolympus.org/8080/ |
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