Olympus has established a tradition of offering very well specified cameras at the entry-level, and was one of the first to offer two cameras in this bracket – the little E-410 and its image-stabilized big brother, the E-510 (later upgraded to the 420 and 520 respectively). Now it has introduced the Olympus E-620, a model that will ’sell alongside’ the E-420 and E-520 (in the sense that we suspect it will eventually replace the E-520) as the company’s attempt at a ‘500D-killer’.
And, even by Olympus’s standards of entry-level generosity, it’s not short on toys – including an articulated screen to make full use of its live view system, which itself is one of the better implementations of this feature (from the company that got there first). It’s also got ‘Art’ modes and the ability to shoot in four different aspect ratios – adapted from the features of the more expensive E-30. There’s also in-body Image Stabilization and a level of configurability that is unparalleled in this class. In fact it’s astonishing how much Olympus has crammed into its small dimensions – it’s nearer to the size of the E-4X0 than the E-5X0 series (due in part to use of the small BLS-1 battery), and the E-420 was famously the smallest DSLR in the world.
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