DPreview - Mju 800 review out!

[hammer_400]

DPreview just posted thier review of the stylus 800...
Starting from page one his comments seemed quite good, n he seemed to
like the output, design,the large LCD , he even commented that noise was well controlled,
one of the best in recent times, and that detail was very good, though as
usual for camera'a of it's class it's overprocessed (over contrasty and sharpened),
also has aperture and shutter priorty modes, and a strong built in flash... etc..
the comparison with the ixus 750 and f10 it did very well compared to them
he seemed to like it so much i thought it would get 'highly reccomended'!!!

but sadly and surprisingly it only got an 'above average'


http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/olympusstylus800/

[chancy]

Hi Hammer,

Although one should respect the right of a reviewer's opinion, I certainly find his thumbing down the Mju800 as being unsuitable for the "a pixel-peeper, purist or post-processing junkie" as forgetting who the intended user of this class of compact weather-proof P&S is targeted at.

Cheers,

[hammer_400]

Originally Posted by chancy Hi Hammer, Although one should respect the right of a reviewer's opinion, I certainly find his thumbing down the Mju800 as being unsuitable for the "a pixel-peeper, purist or post-processing junkie" as forgetting who the intended user of this class of compact weather-proof P&S is targeted at. Cheers,

yeah...
but the rest of their review is pretti good n if u would read through you'll find the mju 800 quite a good camera especially for it's class and intended targets...

[tao]

Originally Posted by hammer_400 yeah... but the rest of their review is pretti good n if u would read through you'll find the mju 800 quite a good camera especially for it's class and intended targets...

Aiyah... is it because Olympus didn't give him an E-500 sample when it was announced, leading to his delay in showing the preview compared with all the other popular camera websites?
He was quite sore about it from what I gathered in his forum.

Anyway, from some reason or the other, Olympus' cameras usually don't get a good review from his website so don't have to take it to heart.