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| Olympus Stylus Epic Black Camera with 35mm lens (requires #123 lithium battery) |
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Our Price: $154.87
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Manufacturer: Olympus
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Olympus
EAN: 0050332122444
Label: Olympus
Manufacturer: Olympus
Minimum Focal Length: 35
Model: Epic
Publisher: Olympus
Studio: Olympus
Warranty: 1 year warranty
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Precision-crafted and styled for success, the Stylus Epic has an ultra-compact, all-weather body so it's easy to carry and easy to hold, and a high-resolution 35mm f2.8 lens to help you capture high-quality images. Fully automatic operation, intelligent variable-power flash, and lots more of the advanced features that have made Stylus cameras famous worldwide are included. The powerful six-mode flash lets your pictures come out just the way you saw them. Auto color-balancing fires automatically when your subject is backlit or under artificial light so your pictures display more natural color tones. And red-eye reduction helps the subject's eyes adjust to the light level of the flash to minimize the red-eye effect. There's also Variable-power flash, Night Scene Flash, Fill-In Flash, and Flash Off to help ensure your pictures are properly lit.
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Summary: Great little camera with two important flaws
Comment: The Olympus Stylus Epic is nearly a perfect point and shoot camera. It has a very sharp, wide-aperture (f2.8) lens, it has a spot meter, it is tiny, it is quiet. With fast film, a handheld light meter (more on this below) and that great lens (which is quite sharp wide open), the camera can be used indoors without a flash with great results.
Here are the two key drawbacks.
1. The camera needs a warning light to let the user know when the shutter speed goes below 1/30. The camera's shutter can open for as long as 4 seconds, which is great -- but the user needs to know if he or she can get away with available light handheld. Without a camera shake warning, you really need a handheld light meter to make sure you're OK before you turn off that flash indoors.
2. The camera's minimum aperture is only f/11. Given the camera's fastest shutter speed of 1/1000, this means that ISO 800 film cannot be used in full sun. You would need one more stop (f/16). Why is this a problem? This creates a dilemma: for indoors you want to use ISO 800 film to take maximum advantage of the fast lens, but if you do that, you now can't take the camera outside on a sunny day. If you put ISO 400 in the camera, you give up a precious stop indoors.
In sum, if the lens aperture went to f/16, and if the camera had a blinking light to warn you when the shutter speed was longer than 1/30, it would be a perfect, go-anywhere camera. You could put ISO 800 film in it and take it with you everywhere you went.
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