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3.0 stars
"Go with an entry level DSLR over this"
Pros: Great look, comfortable to handle, smart controls, great features, amazing zoom range, promising macro mode, promising burst mode functions, much less weight and size than DSLR kit
Cons: You pay for this all-in-one zoom range and small factor with image quality - loss of shaprness and noise. Auto Focus is hit or miss and tends to hunt for a while. I have a lot of slightly out of focus pictures with this camera. Long shutter delay.
Summary: Macro mode is a tease because AF in macro mode is hit or miss and manual focus is almost impossible for me to use well. When I set AF on area mode, sometimes it doesn't focus on the object in the brackets, but focuses on the background or something else instead (not only macro mode is affected by this), especially if the lighting is not the brightest. I suppose it would be less of a problem if you mostly take pictures of people in really good light (because the camera has face detection focus mode) or distant objects and landscapes. The camera has autoexposure bracketing, but exposure compensation range is too small for HDR (from -2 to +2 only).
For the price of Olympus I strongly suggest going with an entry level DSLR for a big difference in precision of autofocus and much better image quality. This camera requires you to learn just as much as you would with DSLR to take good pictures and is of the size of smaller DSLR minus the size of long telephoto lens.
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I wish I had read this before I bought the camera. The comments that are most haunting are ''a lot of slightly out of focus pictures' and 'This camera requires you to learn just as much as you would with a DSLR to take good pictures'. I didn't want to earn a degree in photography, I just wanted a good camera that could adapt as my skills grew. What I ended up with was a camera that gives me 2 bad photos for every good one, and a certainty that if I spent a lot of time with the manual I could improve that ratio, but why bother when there are great cameras that don't require that?
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