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Rolf Bertram Reviews the Olympus E20
European Readers buy the Olympus E-20P here
The Olympus E20 has plenty of buttons everywhere, which are very intuitive for all everyday functions. The menues are only needed for general settings. Adding one of these microscope eypiece rubber things on the viewfinder makes it very comfortable to use without daylight spilling in. Manual zoom makes it very fast. Optional manual focusing is good for fireworks photos.
A DigiPower DPS9000 LiIon battery fits under the camera and attaches to the tipod thread. This allows around 200-400 RAW shots. A 512MB CF card + a 128MB SM card hold a total of 64 RAW pics, which will fit on one single CDR for backup. The CCD sensor has an additional dead pixel every few months (in my camera at least). So you have to run the dead pixel detection routine, which memorizes the dead pixels.
An additional Raynox DCR-FE180PRO add on lens gets you nearly fisheye wide angle with still excellent picture quality. One annoying thing is the slow write speed. The internal memory can only buffer 3 RAW pics, and writing to me! The memory card takes around 40 seconds per picture. This is very very slow for action and portrait photography, but does not matter much for still life or landscape. Long term exposure gives excellent pictures up to 1 minute and still o.k. pictures at the maximum of 8 minutes. The Olympus E20 is packed with so many functions that I still did not try all of them, but once in a while I use a new function and I am always amazed how intuitive this camera was designed.Submit your own Digital Camera Review here.
Posted by Darren in our Olympus category on December 15, 2003