The Olympus Stylus 1 is a stylish looking digital camera that features a good 10.7x optical zoom lens, yet is still pocketable, even though the lens is a constant f/2.8. This should give better low light performance, and mean you can take it with you where you wouldn't normally be allowed more serious cameras. It's also noticeably smaller and lighter than the Sony Cyber-shot RX10, yet still features a built in electronic viewfinder with a good viewing size and high resolution of 1.44m dots.
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Am I the only one that likes this camera for its intended audience? It is geared towards the novice consumer that wants to take decent pictures with “Good enough for youtube” video quality. It has a great image stabilization and an excellent lens for low light.
Its depth of field is not great but you don’t want shallow depth of field with users that tend to zoom in way too close. Most users that buy super zooms tend to do that especially with video.
It is expensive but so are all of the other interchangeable lens kits with several lenses that cover this focal range.
The experts will complain that it doesn’t have 1080p @ 60 FPS video, a 1 inch sensor, and 24mm on the wide end. However, the people that would actually buy this class of camera will probably end up with very nice photos and watchable videos for about the same price as a comparable DSLR kit.
Its main competition is the Sony RX100 MKII. That is a fantastic camera. However, there are just some people that absolutely insist on having a super zoom camera as opposed to a normal zoom camera. I think those people might consider this camera and the Panasonic FZ200.
At least Olympus didn’t follow in everyone else’s path and make another 50x 1 / 2.3 “ sensor MEGAZoom camera. Nobody needs that.
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