Olympus E420 and E520 review by What Digital Camera magazine

Matt Golowczynski of What Digital Camera magazine compares the Olympus E420 and E520 DSLRs.

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Science & Technology

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• Olympus
• E420
• and
• E520
• What
• Digital
• Camera
• DSLR
• Four-Thirds

[glydeuserhelp]

why is the olympus so unappreciated compared to canon and nikon this is a perfect competitor to them and it might be better

[twindesigner]

go with the E- 520 ..its better.

[mrimproviser]

@gercast82 this was really helpful, i might download the manual. Thank you very much :)

[gercast82]

@mrimproviser I just bought the E-420 last week. Awesome piece of camera. And the quality of the photos are just great. I wasn't so sure to buy it at first, but after downloading the manual from the internet and check what the camera can do (e-420) I decided to buy it. For me, it's my first DSLR and I'm more than happy.

[mrimproviser]

would this be to outdated to buy now?

[FudgeNuggets2009]

I regret getting my nikon

[blackghost1094]

does this camera have shutter speed priority, apeture priority, iso... ect. i need shutter speed for light photos, so a speed of about 15 secs. thanks, can someone please get back

[ophirdog]

I've been very happy with my Olympus 510. I'm also impressed with how light and compact the new Olympus 4/3 lenses are..

[vrcraft]

@mooseling1

I printed buss size prints with the output from this camera. You can always super sample and with the current software is more logic to do it, than having a 25MP camera who takes 25MB raw pictures. Just as example, for what you can do and how much crap is in the market.

[vrcraft]

@glydeuserhelp

Because of the Canon/Nikon marketing machines who throw crap at everybody trying to channel the buyers to them, the only two options ! That's what they try to do on the market to make you believe that if it's not a canon, then is a Nikon, when you buy a camera and vice versa.

I played with Nikon and Canon and ended up using Olympus as it is truly a better camera and a better system, better lens, better built, cheaper, lighter, better colors, better users, not mediocre fellas.

[bLitz72]

the 420 is better when you're smoking marijuana 420 aww yeeee

[mooseling1]

I have a panasonic tz10 and am thinking of buying this. Ignore his at 0.44 about A3 size prints. I have printed with a 10mp photo not saved in RAW up to 33 inches, by 24 inches. And it looks fine.