Review on Olympus Digital Camera Wide Angle Black by Darrell Shreves

It's amazing how far digital cameras have come. And how many cameras can you get for money these days. And that's exactly the problem camera manufacturers face today: when prices are falling, it's difficult to make a profit. And to make matters worse, almost all of today's smartphones already have built-in, increasingly powerful, high-resolution photo/video cameras. ). Things like hard cams that can go underwater or, in the case of the Olympus SZ-12, a very long optical zoom. Most inexpensive cameras have an optical zoom of 3x to 5x. The SZ-12 has 24X. This means you can get very close to distant subjects, and unlike digital zoom, which greatly expands the capabilities of most digital cameras, optical zoom produces better, clearer images. And the SZ-12's fairly sophisticated image stabilization works surprisingly well. The SZ-12 has other nice features too, like a bright and sharp 3-inch LCD, and it's not only capable of taking high-resolution 14-megapixel images, but also very respectable 720p HD videos. It's not quite the 1080p resolution that today's large HDTVs take full advantage of, but you can usually barely tell the difference between 720p and 1080p. In terms of equipment, the SZ-12 has almost everything that some of the much more expensive Olympus cameras have. (e.g. Tough TG-810 for about $350). The controls are simple and easy to understand. While the camera is described as "stunningly slim and elegant," the SZ-12 is actually 1.5 inches thick and a whopping 3.5 inches when the lens is fully extended. It's still very comfortable though, and the film camera-like bump on the right gives it a good grip. cheap side. And a couple of shortcomings: the battery doesn't last as long as we'd like and the camera tends to have color oversaturation. All in all, the Olympus SZ-12 offers a lot for little money and the good outweighs the bad. a few questions. I would buy this again.