Olympus E-410 Review

Review Date: July 23rd 2007
Author: Gavin Stoker

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Conclusion

Ratings (out of 5)
Design	4
Features	4.5
Ease-of-Use	4
Image Quality	4.5
Value for Money	4.5

The Olympus E-410's portability is perhaps its biggest boon, and certainly one of its greatest sales assets - although in truth there is not a great deal of difference in terms of dimensions with the likes of Nikon's 10MP D40x. It's also, for me, less reliable than Nikon's baby DSLR when it comes to the likes of white balance, and the 14-42mm lens suffers from more pronounced distortion at extreme wideangle, but other than that the E-410 has much to recommend it. It's intuitive to use, it - mostly - takes sharply focused, crisp, colourful shots, with plenty of options to tweak the latter just how you like it. Some may feel that its size doesn't make it look like a 'serious' camera despite its otherwise fairly traditionalist styling, but at times that too can be a bonus. But perhaps the biggest leaps in comparison with its E series predecessors are in the areas of image noise - or now, rather, lack of - plus operational and processing speed, arguably the two areas that really matter and on which you should be crucially basing any purchase decision. With more to praise about the E-410 than criticise, this DSLR comes with a recommendation from us. If you've got small hands, don't want to lug around a brick, or simply want to get a good value camera bundle like the twin lens kit, then the Olympus E-410 is definitely worth further investigation.

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