New Review of Olympus Stylus 810

A few months back, we have given you a review of the Olympus Stylus 810. If you are still shopping for a new camera and the review still has left you undecided, here’s a few more things to consider before you dish out the $330 or so to own this camera.

The 810’s sleek, 6-ounce, less than an inch thick stainless steel body makes it easy to store in your pocket. It is also great for one-hand shooting as its controls can be easily manipulated with your right thumb.

You’ll surely love the high ISO settings and the electronic image stabilization in this Olympus camera. However, the ISO settings (1,600 and 3,200 for extreme low-light or high-speed shots) are done via Bright Capture “which uses clusters of sensor pixels to capture a each single image pixel, rather than individual ones (a process known as supersampling), effectively creating bigger pixels, each of which is more sensitive to light”. This means that your final image will result to fewer pixels, where ISO 3,200 shots are taken at only 3 megapixel resolution.

The burst mode best displays the Olympus Stylus 810’s performance with 12 shots in about 2.6 seconds. However, continuous shooting works at only 3 megapixels resolution. Although this Olympus baby result to solid image quality, its LCD washes out in bright light limiting its use in sunlight. Another problem of the Stylus 810 is noise.

So all-in-all, if you can stand a bit of noise and you’re not going to use it much under the sun, let this Olympus camera take care of your low-light and high-speed shots. Otherwise, you might want to shop around for other cameras (you might want to try the 810’s brother, Olympus Stylus 710).

A few months back, we have given you a review of the Olympus Stylus 810. If you are still shopping for a new camera and the review still has left you undecided, here’s a few more things to consider before you dish out the $330 or so to own this camera.

The 810’s sleek, 6-ounce, less than an inch thick stainless steel body makes it easy to store in your pocket. It is also great for one-hand shooting as its controls can be easily manipulated with your right thumb.

You’ll surely love the high ISO settings and the electronic image stabilization in this Olympus camera. However, the ISO settings (1,600 and 3,200 for extreme low-light or high-speed shots) are done via Bright Capture “which uses clusters of sensor pixels to capture a each single image pixel, rather than individual ones (a process known as supersampling), effectively creating bigger pixels, each of which is more sensitive to light”. This means that your final image will result to fewer pixels, where ISO 3,200 shots are taken at only 3 megapixel resolution.

The burst mode best displays the Olympus Stylus 810’s performance with 12 shots in about 2.6 seconds. However, continuous shooting works at only 3 megapixels resolution. Although this Olympus baby result to solid image quality, its LCD washes out in bright light limiting its use in sunlight. Another problem of the Stylus 810 is noise.

So all-in-all, if you can stand a bit of noise and you’re not going to use it much under the sun, let this Olympus camera take care of your low-light and high-speed shots. Otherwise, you might want to shop around for other cameras (you might want to try the 810’s brother, Olympus Stylus 710).