Olympus E-520 Expert Reviews

The best-selling E-510 Digital SLR now morphs into the E-520. The updated E-520 borrows heavily from the Pro E-3. Does it live up to its promise?

The Olympus EVOLT E-520 is a 10-megapixel entry-level SLR that features the best Live View in its price class and noteworthy color accuracy. It delivers a range of useful features, good automatic controls for those new to SLR photography as well as ...

Solid comfortable construction ; Good color accuracy test results ; Auto focus in Live View mode ; Large number of image presets ; High level of control and customizability for advanced users

Very poor white balance scores ; Noisy images ; Live View auto focus problematic and slow ; Proprietary port instead of standard USB and AV

The E-520 is a camera that manages to package a significant number of excellent features and solid controls into a great body, but really let itself down in our performance testing. There's one of the best Live View modes on the market (with auto ...

The new 10 megapixel Olympus E-520 DSLR camera is an evolutionary upgrade to last year's popular E-510 model. It boasts some notable advancements including wireless TTL flash control, Shadow Adjustment Technology, improved image processing, two extra ...

I personally enjoyed using the E-520 very much, and doubt it would disappoint anybody who decides to buy one after careful weighing of its strengths and weaknesses. The Olympus E-520 is a camera that I can recommend to beginners and enthusiasts ...

The Olympus E-520 is a lightweight 10 Megapixel DSLR with built-in Image Stabilisation and Live View facilities. Announced in May 2008, it's the successor to one of the best-selling models of last year, the popular E-510

Built-in stabilisation which works with any lens., Very effective anti-dust system., Live View with contrast AF and face detection., Quick handling and broad customisation., Built-in stabilisation which works with any lens., Very effective anti ...

Smaller viewfinder than rivals., Can't see stabilisation in optical viewfinder., Relatively basic 3-point AF system., Screen doesn't flip-out., Smaller viewfinder than rivals., Can't see stabilisation in optical viewfinder., Relatively basic 3-point ...

Testing notes: we tested a final production Olympus E-520 with the standard 14-42mm kit lens, both of which were running firmware 1.0 when supplied; we updated the lens firmware to v1.2 in order to support the E-520's contrast-based 'Imager' AF in ...

Has the Olympus E-520 found the secret recipe for cooking up the perfect all-around consumer DSLR?

Image colors awe without overwhelming ; Nifty, powerful wireless flash controller ; When the AF's fast, it's very fast ; Powerful custom options make it feel more expensive than it is

When the AF's slow, it usually just gives up ; Shots are noisy next to those from competition ; Interface can be confusing, lots of dedicated buttons ; Tries to do too much

has focused its efforts on tricking out the previous model's baseline performance. From this, the E-520 returns with more options and soft features than ever in hopes, it would seem, of making the new 500-series model the camera for everyone - novices ...

In the beginning of March Olympus has officially released their compact entrylevel digital SLR camera - Olympus E-420. Shortly after, there were some rumors that has been inspired by some information leak on the official Olympus site, about E510 ...

Olympus launches the E-520, an updated version of the E-510 digital SLR camera released in June last year. Thanks to a powerful built-in image stabilizer with a compensation effect of up to 4 EV steps, image stabilization shooting is available at ...

Replacement for E-510 adds revamped in-body image stabilization and Live View with autofocus.

The Olympus E-520 Digital SLR will be available in July 2008. It includes: E-520 Body, USB Cable, Video Cable, Li-Ion Battery Pack (BLM-1), Li-Ion Battery Charger (BCM-2), Shoulder Strap, OLYMPUS Master Software CD-ROM, Manuals and Warranty Card

Olympus has launched the E-520, an update of its E-510 digital SLR camera released in June last year. The key new features in the Olympus E-520 include in-body image stabilizer with a compensation effect of up to 4 EV steps allowing image ...

Olympus introduces an update to the best-selling E-510 Digital SLR. Faster Processing, Improved Image Stabilization, and the addition of Contrast-Detect AF are all promised.