Curious Drake » E-520 http://curiousdrake.com To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:33:18 +0000 en hourly 1 Playing with Olympus E-520 http://curiousdrake.com/playing-with-e-520/ http://curiousdrake.com/playing-with-e-520/#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:01:14 +0000 Vince http://curiousdrake.com/?p=270 Continue reading →]]> Olympus E-520 is a really neat little dSLR. It is all plastic, but does not feel flimsy. In addition, Olympus has great menu structure. It is easy to navigate, contrary to the most of the reviews that I have read. It does have highlight clipping problem, but it is still manageable. I would readily carry this camera with me over my bulky Canon 7D. Oly’s image quality is not as high, but it is good enough when you choose between convenience and quality.

Pretty good performance, RAW supports and all bells and whistles possible in a dSLR at a price point and convenience of a prosumer Point and Shoot. Here is a couple of shots made with this camera.  Judge for yourself:


Outdoors, low light, on-camera flash
Outdoors, low light, on-camera flash

Indoors, off-camera flash
Indoors, off-camera flash

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]]> http://curiousdrake.com/playing-with-e-520/feed/ 0 The search is over http://curiousdrake.com/the-search-is-over/ http://curiousdrake.com/the-search-is-over/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:01:47 +0000 Vince http://curiousdrake.com/?p=267 Continue reading →]]> Why bother with a prosumer P&S camera if you can get an Olympus E-520 dSLR for $329 refurbished at B&H? I decided to go with a two lens kit that a managed to buy for 400 dollars. You cannot buy a used Canon G10 for that amount of money. Olympus offers so much more value! I am looking forward to playing with the camera more. This is my first digital Oly. I used to shoot an OM10 a little bit. The 520 is not much bigger than the OM10.

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