Blogs Posts in Olympus category; 22 blog posts

The New Olympus XZ-1 Digital Camera – Advantages and Disadva...

Whether you are an expert, or someone that likes to take an occasional picture, the new Olympus XZ-1 Digital Camera is a great point and shoot camera for all ages. If taking high-quality images is important to you, this camera can provide [...]

Posted On : Feb, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

OLYMPUS HALVES DIGITAL CAMERA OPERATING LOSS; SALES RISE (UP...

Olympus reported a 14.7% rise in digital camera sales over the nine months, reaching 94,557 million yen (£771m) at 31 December 2011. Operating losses fell to 3,802 million yen (£31m), from 7,732 million yen for the same period [...]

Posted On : Feb, 14 2012 | Comments : 0

Olympus wants you to take their new digital camera swimming

A camera for your next vacation, that’s exactly what Olympus proposes their newest compact Tough digital camera to be. The new Olympus Tough TG-320 is water-shock-freeze-dust-proof to certain limits (up to 10 ft. water, 5ft. shock, [...]

Posted On : Jan, 25 2012 | Comments : 0

Olympus TG-810 Digital Camera: It's Tough Out There

On the front of the Olympus TG-810 camera there is one word that stands out more boldly than the company logo: "Tough."As pocket-size point-and-shoot digital cameras go, this one is brawny. Olympus has a full line of "Tough [...]

Posted On : Dec, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Olympus PEN Mini E-PM1 Digital Camera Review (Watch Video)

When the offer came to look over the PEN mini E-PM1, it was an easy decision considering we’d previously reviewed the E-PL1 and E-PL3 and awarded them both Platinum medals. But when the newest entry to the PEN line up is announced a [...]

Posted On : Nov, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Olympus VR-310 digital camera

It is not often we find a camera like this: it's a metal-built £99 pocket model only 2cm deep, at its slimmest, but it fits in a 10x optical zoom lens. This lens starts out at a wide-angle 24mm (in old 35mm film terms) and goes [...]

Posted On : Oct, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Olympus PEN E-PL1 Micro Four Thirds camera and 14-42mm lens ...

Stepping things up in your photography and you don’t want to do point-and-shoot anymore? Or are you an experienced photographer looking for a good Micro Four Thirds camera at a good price? No matter which case fits you the Olympus P [...]

Posted On : Aug, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Olympus PEN E-PL3 interchangeable lens compact camera to shi...

Though it was announced last month along with two other new cameras in Olympus’ PEN series of interchangeable lens compact (ILC) cameras, the Olympus PEN E-PL3 is just now getting pricing and a ship date. Olympus announced tod [...]

Posted On : Aug, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Olympus SP-810 UZ: Boosted Zoom

The Nikon Coolpix P500 hasn't held onto its record-breaking status for long, as Olympus has just announced the second 36x superzoom camera to come to market in 2011. The SP-810 UZ is designed to replace the SP-800 UZ—which was o [...]

Posted On : Jul, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Olympus PEN Lite E-PL3 Micro Four Thirds Digital Camera

Olympus announced the 12-megapixel PEN Lite E-PL3 Micro Four Thirds interchangeable lens digital camera offering the same sensor and image quality of their flagship E-P3, but in a slimmer body with a swivel type 3.0-inch display that tilt [...]

Posted On : Jul, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Olympus VG-130 review

We hate stickers on cameras that advertise their features – if you've already bought it, you don't need to see an advert for it. Even worse are stickers that leave a residue to spoil your nice new purchase. Sadly, this taint [...]

Posted On : Jun, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Olympus XZ-1 Black Digital Camera

When you compare the Olympus XZ-1's features with those of the vast majority of point-and-shoot cameras, it absolutely blows them out of the water. We're talking about things like an F1.8 lens, full manual controls and manual foc [...]

Posted On : Apr, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Olympus SZ-30MR digital camera

When Olympus launched the SZ-10 in February, it was hard to believe the zoom in a compact camera could get any more powerful. The new SZ-30MR proves that it can. With a jaw-dropping 24x wide optical zoom (25-600mm*), this state-of-the-ar [...]

Posted On : Mar, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Olympus XZ-1 review

The 10-million-pixel Olympus XZ-1 enters a market in which compact and compact system cameras are becoming increasingly popular. In addition to the burgeoning collection of interchangeable lens hybrid models, the enthusiast phot [...]