PMA 2009: Olympus E620 preview by What Digital Camera

[map537]

What camera do you recomend to take pictures of basketball and scenery?? Please help! Nice video by the way!

[YungGBone124127134]

WHAT CAMERA IS GOOD TO RECORD A MUSIC VIDEO ANY1 GOT ANY INFO??? OR IDEAS?

[WhatDigitalCamera]

@YungGBone124127134 If you're looking at the best still digital cameras for shooting videos, you don't say a budget but the best is the Canon EOS 5D Mk2, followed by the EOS 7D then probably the Panasonic Lumix GH2 and Canon 60D. The Nikon D7000 is pretty good too.

[YungGBone124127134]

@WhatDigitalCamera THANKS FOR THE INFO, DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE MIC RECORDING MUSIC VIDEO HOW DOES REKORDING A MUSIC VIDEO WORK??? WITH ANY OF THE KAMERAS YOU MENTIONED TO ME???

[tataycarding]

how much now the e-620..i hope it will around 100 dollars..lol

[mafiajimmy]

pentax k-x or this? which is biger?

[ophelieyo]

:bave:

[paul1000397]

lg viewty jaja

[buddylee1983]

Fuck I need this camera!!

[Frosteexmex4]

@buddylee1983 i have this camera i would recomend it... if you know what all of the settings mean ha.

[mohajer22]

I have a question;

Is it possible to apply art filters and monotone picture mode at the same time, thus for example; taking a picture that applies both the soft filter and sepia monotone picture mode.

Thanks,

[Jamirofan89]

I know high ISO / low light situations is not so good but for overall image quality should I choose the E620 or Pentax K2000? (Kit lens only!!!)

lol i've only seen samples comparing Canon 500d and Olympus E-620 and I was stunned!Olympus kills that Canon!!!

[vrcraft]

wel aps-c sensors are wider while the lenses are still round. what that does telling you ? well on aps-c you got a lot more corner distrortions than you will ever have in 4/3 format. what that says again ? well it says that you will have to do a lot of cropping anyway so on an 15mp aps-c you'll end up using 10 mp. Plus to tell you something, the Zuiko Olympus glass can only be matched by leica. The others are a match for one another, ZD is other league.

[blkunity2]

Oh please! 4/3 sensor is small and cannot take any more pixels. Not that I advocate more pixels but yes it can. Canon T2i and 7D have 5.4MP per squared centimeter, E620 is just 5.1MP. Regular P&S have loaded up to 10X with even smaller sensors.

Yes it can take more pixels but no they should not do it.

If you like Nikon/Pentax/Canon stay with your format. Olympus/Zuiko glass is some of the best in the industry.

[davidtheguitarman]

I don't like the 4:3.... I like the traditional 2:3

[JOAQUINCHW]

oe es una camara vacan

[efrette]

and nikkon p90 is a bad choyce or a good one compare with this camera????

[yyyy2999]

DUDE ARE YOU KIDDING? LMAO small ugly peice of shit dslr, a d90 is a great feel and its so comforatable in your hand

[yyyy2999]

woah, sorry kid i thought u said d90, btw p90 is shit

[GreaseMonkey360]

Should I get the E-620 or Xsi??

[lsmith1981]

im stuck between the two as well....

[PreviewHD]

E620

[davidcharlesbaker]

I have both the 510 and 520 and I LOVE them. I would buy two of the 620s the day it came out if they had just kept the battery the same. Since they changed it, and I have 7 batteries for the 510/520 (same batter), I'll wait until I break one again before upgrading. I don't know why companies don't keep the batteries the same longer - it would help sell the new cameras. But don't forget the lens. Get the 12-60 for truly stunning pictures. The two tiny lenses that came with 510/520 were crappy.

[shingami24]

I am thinking about e620.What do you think ? Is it good camera ?

[ebay1951]

Good choice

[LTF85199]

Love the swivel LCD with Live View, Can someone tell me which telephoto lense he was demoing?

[WhatDigitalCamera]

it was the zuiko 70-300mm f/4-5.6

[LTF85199]

thx

[bogan001]

why do Olympus keep making small DSLR's,

[bfflon8]

they're making small SLRs because it's a great option if you don't want to carry a big camera, especially with the 25mm pancake. Except for not having HD video the 620 seems like the best easy-travelling, everyday camera: IS, live view, SLR sized sensor, manual focus and interchangeable lens, all good things.

[lsmith1981]

lol...the next one is gonna be a nano Dslr, and the only live view is your eyes..and the shutter is going too be planted in your thumb and index finger..the memory is stored in your brian with WiMax, Wifi, and Bluetooth connections from the brain too any device...no need for the mega pixel count. you see is what you get lol..

[WithinSymmetry90]

@lsmith1981 what if ure myopic? haha great idea nevertheless..

[xmeda]

because they have small 4/3 mount.. there is no way how to put bigger sensor there. Now they stated, that 12Mpix is the edge...

few years before they boasted, that 20Mpix on this sensor is not a problem... heh

[dvamateur]

The 4/3 sensor is still ten times larger than a compact camera sensor, so there's space for more pixels. However, I think that the best olympus camera was the E-1 with 5 megapixels, because it had the largest pixels of all Olympus cameras. In addition, it also had a CCD, which is less noisy then MOS. But general public thinks that the more pixels the better, so they have increase number of pixels so that they stay in mainstream business. I'd take E-1 or Panasonic LC-1 or Leica Digilux 2

[xmeda]

There is no space for more pixels because of difraction physical limits.. 4/3 - 10Mpix sensor is limited at F6.3.. more pixels = worse score.

Compact P&S are not serious photographic machines, those are just some special sort of toys. 1/2.5 sensors from P&S are limited by difraction even with lens wide open + those zoom lenses are quite bad. They can put 20mpix at 1/2.5 sensor, but real captured resolution would be same as on 5-6Mpix sensor of same size. Only more image points, no more details.

[dvamateur]

Well, that's why I am not upgrading my Olympus E-500. There's no point. Why would I need more pixels on the same sensor size? I can't even print larger image than 13x19" on my printer, and 8 megapixels is plently for that size. I never saw any pixelation. I see noise, for sure, but never seen any pixelation. In fact, with a 4 megapizel Nikon D2H you can make fantastic letter size prints. It's clear, that since the megapixel is an exponentially growing number, it makes great for marketting

[Dominant23Concept]

I totally agree with you... I'm a graphic designer and we have photography classes too... nowadays all the compact digital cameras have 10MP, that doesn't mean that the quality of the picture is very good. The quality and the size of the pixel is the thing that makes the difference

[spankrider93]

They dont wand 20 Mpix...

Who the hell need this?

now its the fight arount ISO...

[CAMCOMR]

there is a e-450 coming soon for those who are not looking for the the e-620, or e-420

[theundefined18]

rofl damit , and i just bought a e-420 grrr rofl

[persiancl]

I want one so bad.

[EJWolff]

I've currently got an E410, mainly for the size and it's the only dslr series without a grip as such. I look forward to seeing the 620 in real ilife. Just a shame the grip's been enlarged, (I prefer the good old SLR style body for handling.) The extra metering points and slightly enlarged viewfinder (over the 400's) sound like positive improvements, and the swivel screen too

[tobearockstar0706]

OVF smaller than what was already small E 530, grip doesn't look very comfortable to hold. I had such high hopes for this cam.

[sapporo84]

I shoot with olympus, and i also hated the e-4x00 series for that reason it was too damn small, hated the lack of a grip, 620 is just a bulked up 420 with IS, the 420 should just get booted for the 620.

But i just hate small slr's with no grip.

[PSYL]

Anyone know which 600mm telephoto lens he put on in this video?

Stores here in Canada already put out the price of $799.99 for the body only. But still have to wait until May.

[sapporo84]

olympus zuiko digital 70-300mm f4-f5.6

[xiongba]

Hoya has a long way to go in "fixing" Pentax`s problems.

swivel lcd, 600mm tele, actually useful realtime live view and so on.

and maybe borrow Nikon`s 51 AF points..hahaha.

Good job Olympus.

[xmeda]

Pentax has the best APS-C sensor in terms of real resolution in K20D, 4/3 system is simply not capable to do usable ISO3200 at 14,6Mpix :D

btw.. those 51pts are not cross type, its just stupid marketing, there are just 15 reliable cross type AF points in Multi-CAM3500FX (D700,D300)... Pentax uses 11 cross type sensors for a long time.. and K20D costs less and performs better than D90 with 11pt AF..

But ok, E3 and especially E30 are for sure interesting cameras.

600mm? What about wide!?

[2009zigi]

7-14mm zuiko, 9-18mm zuiko, 11-22mm. Wider than what pentax offers and surely better. Olympus has the best lenses of ANY DSLR system.

[xmeda]

7-14/4 (14-28eq) is only one wide lens + 8mm fisheye (16eq) and look how much that zoom costs - more than E30!.. and then check DA10-17(15-25,5eq) or sig 10-20(15-30eq) or tamron 10-24(15-36), DA12-24.. 2-3 times cheaper

you have to multiply 2xcrop on oly lenses, but aps-c nik/pentax has 1.5x

Another big pain on olympus are fast lenses.. only sigma 30/1.4 and 50/1.4 are usable.. they need to build something like 25/1.4 or 20/1.4 to have at least usable DOF on normal range.

[2009zigi]

The real pain is getting a decent telephoto on "big" crops. You can get 600mm at F4-F5.6 with a light and cheap zuiko.

[silverandcold1028]

nicceeo- ditto

[nicceeo]

Umm, exciting camera ;) I think I must buy one xD

[drapz77]

yes it takes xD :)

[ultrafrances]

ouch....i just bought my E520 last December....and here we anticipate E620 which is really cool...!

[julianphilp]

BUT IS IT ANYGOOD

[kuwabolo]

Great camera!

[jonragnarsson]

Me likey.... My E-3 is too big and cumbersome, I might 'downgrade' it one day...

[yashrg]

wow, he has giant hands.. or the camera is really tiny!

[WhatDigitalCamera]

The camera is pretty tiny.

"The world's smallest DSLR with built in image stabiliser" says Olympus.

[2009zigi]

Yes, but it's still a DSLR which means it's BIG compared to p&s.

[RDraGon2179]

Kool camera. If the economy comes around I may one day afford to get one.

[fallenembers08]

same. i hope. :S