Olympus E-420 dpreview.com User Reviews

I bought e420 one month ago and I'm very happy with it. Adding an 40-150 budget zoom makes me happy more ;) Light, compact, feature full. Good enough for hobbyis like me. Good battery life, even when using built-in flash. Very useful ultrasonic dust rem...

Some troubles in focusing in low light condition, AF assistance with built-in flash don't help if You're shooting with 80+mm focal length ; For full-featured creativity camera should be tuned, but it is not the problem, looks more like "hidden advantage",...

Love it ! Got the pancake lens and use it mostly for portraits, with excellent results. I'm still finding my way thru the settings. Owned the 410 a few months ago, but this one produced better pics in term of dynamic range and sharpness.

None yet ; Hate the opinions display that's messed up lately on dpreview

This olympus is very small reflex for trip and is very easy to use.Image quality in portrait is very good(Skin tones and soft lines).The building quality is ok,and price is amazing in value for money.Excuse for my english.

Battery life is short.I advise the second battery.And for maximun speed use Sandisk extreme IV or similar Compact Flash.

To balance out pirichov's stupidity

My first Oly, this lovely little 420 and 25mm pancake lens. Truly a go anywhere type of camera. Feels like nothing in the hand and yet very comfortable to grip, and hence shoot with. If you need a lightweight camera that gives very high IQ results, give t...

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A great little cam that is not obstrusive as my E-3 while I am attending social functions. With the Live View, Hybrid AF and Face Detection, I am very happy that my wife and friends are able to capture great quality pictures of me during the functions. T...

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this little camera is just awesome! i got the twin lens kit, at AUD9XX it's like a steal! the 2 kit lenses are both spectacular, and the 25mm pancake makes it a truly pocketable dslr.

small dim view finder ; a bit limited highlight dynamic range ; no in-body image stablization

I had looked at the Oly420 against the Nikon D60, Rebel XSI and Leica DLux3 (Panasonic Lumix LX2). After a comparison of head-to-head for noise against the XSI and D40 on cameralabs.com, the Oly holds it's own upto ISO 800. After that, ISO1600 is a little...

Slow CF write times for JPEG-FINE-LARGE ; Imager AF a bit slow (Live View) ; Made in China, although the quality is good

I am travelling a lot and until recently always carried around my Leica R-system which ment heavy weight, high insurance costs and still constant worries that something might break or get stolen. I had been thinking about switching to a completely digi...

Battery life seems rather short, so some additional batteries are definitely needed ; The E-420's raw output (ORF) is currently not supported by major editing programs ; like Aperture or Lightroom! (This will of course change over time, but for the moment...