The camera produced some very nice images, with relatively few flaws. Noise was surprisingly low, remaining a fine grain, even at ISO 800. At ISO 1,600, it became unsurprisingly problematic, with a sparkly, grainy layer softening details. We noticed little fringing or lens distortion, but some JPEG compression artifacts managed to creep into our photos. The automatic white balance produced very warm results with the tungsten lights in our lab, though the tungsten preset yielded much more neutral results--so if you're shooting in your living room with a bunch of lamps on, remember to switch to tungsten. Outside, in natural daylight, the auto white balance did a fine job.
The Olympus Stylus 750 is a very strong point-and-shoot camera, though its attractive images are hindered by mediocre performance. It has no manual exposure controls and isn't as responsive as we would like, but as a general snapshot camera, it's still a very good choice. If you want a Stylus but don't want to spend quite as much, the Olympus Stylus 740 is nearly identical to the 750. The Stylus 740 lacks image stabilization, and it performed a little bit quicker in flash recycle time, but otherwise is the exact same camera as the Stylus 750.
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Olympus Stylus 750:
$399.95
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