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As a professional photographer that has thousands of dollars in Nikon top of the line camers, I still have and use my E20. First it does close up photography of things like rings, dress lace, flowers. It's easy to use and does the job. Yes I have a close up lens, and a Macro lens. But I find using this camera easier than those. Another use is for on line camera work, where you take photos to post on line. The E-20 and the E-10 produce superb photos at low file sizes with no conversions or resizing. I love doing jewelry and small objects with this camera. It makes doing object photography for posting on line so easy and the of great quality.. I have to admit that thsee camera's are outdated by all the new options available in the new cameras, Yes these cameras have been passed up by the new and better cameras but, if your doing product photograph for on line options, you can not get a better camera for the price.Read full review
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The Olympus E-20n camera in its time about 8-10 years ago was wonderful, but now it completely fails in performance and features compared to Digital SLR cameras that can be purchased for $400 new. A SLR style inexpensive camera, with the LCD through the viewfinder, such as a $200 Nikon just completely blows it away. As electronics advance, the price goes down. Buying this camera for more than $25.00 is not rational if you're a pro shooter as I am, although it appears to be muscular. Would you buy a 486 processor powered laptop, although it appears (just looking at its exterior) that it appears to be like the latest high powered lap top? ...of course not. Ok, here's the specifics of poor performance compared to either a $200 or $400 digital camera today, although 8-10 years ago this level of performance was fine, but not now for today's demands. (1) The maximum exposure speed (sensitivity to light) of this camera is ASA 300. Today's cameras shoot go up to 1600 ASA to 3200 ASA. This means with a slower ASA speed you get "blurred pictures" from camera shake in low light. Also you can't take decent sharp pictures in lower light conditions. (2) This camera has no "anti-camera shake" feature. Even cheap newer cameras do. This means if you jitter a bit when taking a picture, it might be blurred or out of focus. (3) This camera uses add-on lens adapters to the existing lens (cannot be removed) and not inter-changeable lenses as even the cheapest DSLR cameras these days. These add-on lens adapters take poor quality pictures and do not really perform like the inter-changeable lens they were made to poorly imitate. Plus they "screw on" with very fine threads, which is easy cross-thread in mounting them. The cheap newer cameras us "bayonet mount" lenses, which change in a flash and you can't break in putting them on by cross threading them. (4) This camera takes about 5-10 seconds to process just one shot depending on the what image quality you select. Even cheap new cameras these days take shots as fast as you can press the shutter button. This means if you're trying to take multiple shots at a sporting event or just want to take a second or third shot if you're walking through a museum -- you're going to slow down your walking and wait. (5) Image size is 5 mega pixels. Cheap cameras these days shoot 10 to 16 mega pixel images. This means if you to blow up a section of the picture you took with your PC photo software, you won't have as crisp a picture to crop or blow up. Plus lower mega pixel levels yield not as sharp pictures if you intend to blow them up for printing purposes. (6) The camera is very heavy and bulky to keep around your neck while walking around, for example, a museum. Your neck will ache. You won't want to take pictures as often due to the burden. This styling was done to make it impressive looking for pro photographers who were used to using older big,bulky cameras like the Nikon Photomic FTN of decades ago. Today, Nikon for example, has cameras that a far lighter and more compact. (7) The automatic single point focusing system is long outmoded. It takes multiple times to try to focus quite often. Today's cameras have superior automatic focusing systems that get it right the first time with far less effort. (8) The manual focusing system just doesn't work properly as you would expect if you're used to using a focusing system on a traditional SLR film camera. Former E-20 user.Read full review
I was an old film photography guy and got out of it for a long time. I decided to try digital and looked at Olympus because I had SLR accessories. It says body only but don't be fooled, it is a complete camera with the zoom lens fixed to the body. When it arrived I was a bit disappointed but once I tried it I was hooked. Picture quality is excellent. Operation is a bit complicated at first but the 216 page manual is available for free online. Software is not needed to view and transfer images. Both types of memory cards are readily available online and inexpensive. It is a bit slow during startup and memory store. In general if you're not a professional it will fit most needs and more.
I am currently on ebay looking for another digital SLR camera to replace the Olympus E-20 digital SLR I purchased. I've had it for awhile now and I am totally disappointed with the Olympus E-20 camera and accessories I purchased. The camera is beautiful, but it's just too old to be practically useful. I bought it, because it had a flash unit, several lenses, case, etc and it appeared to be a bargain as I only wanted to spend about $100-$150. It was a fool's bargain. I wasted my money! Stay away from it! I should have sought the advice of a person with knowledge than my casual knowledge in these things before hand. I wish the ebayer who wrote an expert very accurate negative review I just read of this camera had posted it awhile ago. It would have saved me wasting some money! He was absolutely right in every way as I found out after using the camera awhile, so I need to find something more modern and functional. He failed to mention that this camera has no video capture mode as I see the majority of inexpensive digital SLR's in the $400-$500 have. In my searching, for anyone who doesn't wish to spend $400-$500 for an inexpensive digital SLR that will totally bury the Olympus E-20 I have some suggestions. Being wiser now, I found a couple of new cameras for around $300 brand new you can find on ebay that are light years ahead of the outdated Olympus I bought and crammed with features that any user would love. The cameras are: ** Nikon Coolpix P100 10.3 Megapixel Digital Camera ** Olympus SP-800UZ 14 Megapixel Digital Camera If you have your heart set on an Olympus digital SLR, the least expensive one can be had for $400-$500 on sale that is superior to the old E-20 I wasted my money on. This camera is good to give a child who is interested in photography as you don't have to worry if the kid breaks it, because it's not worth anything these days.Read full review
While this camera's electronics are old and slow, and the sensor is fairly low resolution and has very noticeable noise in low light, it has some of the best glass you'll likely ever purchase (short of Canon "L" series lenses). Speed of the camera in some types of photography is critical - but not in all types of photography. For still life (macro or otherwise), landscape, architecture, and some forms of portraiture the quality of the lens and the skill of the photographer are much more important than how quickly one can "shotgun" hundreds of photos to try to get a good shot. For those who want to expand their composition and technique this camera is a steal for the $100-$200 it is going for on eBay now. Something to think about...
