3.0 to 6.9 / 25-600 mm Zoom 24x
For Olympus Stylus is again very important, fine metal housing and yet small, thin and light, with a lot of zoom. Since the Pen Retro design is still in demand. Were forgotten only a movable monitor and the small electronic viewfinder, as it is now holding its revival at Panasonic. This trip cameras to be flat and small for the holiday photographer, so handle and light intensity on the lens are unfortunately also saved. Because the camera is quick to high ISO speeds, because the aperture of f: 6.9 in practice is very faint and f: 3.0 is only in the extreme wide-angle range of advantage. Who's photos, look at critical or even compares Maybe following will be noted:
The 16 MP sensor with special technology is only fingernail size, as long as good light or flash is used, the pictures come out pleasantly strongly colored and relatively satisfactorily resolved. But when photos are taken indoors or in the morning / evening hours, can the image quality to be desired.
This, however, applies to all these small sensors of all camera brands and then cuts Olympus by its color reproduction compared relatively pleasing from. Color rendering is simply a real strength of all Olympus digital cameras.
I was with some amateur photographers in town and country excursions with the camera and have all the photos of Olympus particularly liked. However underbelly are recordings in rooms, halls, churches, since the small flash is not sufficient and the sensitivity should not exceed 400 ISO it is because the pictures look like very torn. The less light the higher the sensitivity is, unfortunately, a bad formula, especially if the sensor is small.
The high sensitivity is about to 1600 ISO easily available in good light and helps to sharper pictures with the small camera.
The resolution of the monitor is not really high, the focus on difficult assessable and I lack a hinge to flip it over. Even with close-ups I have with a lot more exciting cameras photographed distance of 5 cm can only be photographed with zoom with 25mm wide-angle. A minimum distance of 40 cm must be adhered to in order to realize effective tele-macro photos already.
After all, the SH-1 is much quicker in their reactions and the image acquisition as it had all the cameras 1-2 years ago.
For cameras with as much telephoto zoom and even on cameras more than 300 mm or 10 x zoom beyond, I hope always in addition to the 5-axis image stabilization a viewfinder, a right handle and considerably more light intensity and then it becomes a significantly larger and heavier Panasonic FZ200, which provides noticeably better photos and also makes more pleasure when taking pictures. But that fits in any pocket and costs a little more.
For me, the camera is not the right, I am more than a Panasonic FZ1000 because the size (smallness) of the camera does not play the first role for me. Who is size important who gets the SH1 much modern technology and focal length to more fair price.
LIGHT particularly positive
+ 5 axis image stabilizer
+ Metal housing
+ 25-600 mm focal length for many a compact camera
+ Exposure & Scene programs
+ 3 monitor with only 460,000 MP resolution
+ Relatively fast reactions
Installed + Graufilter
+ Touch screen function
+ 12 images per second
+ Can be operated even with good thin gloves
+ RAW images possible (only 14 bit)
+ Learns fast
270g + easily
+ WiFi on board
SHADOWS - lugubrious:
- Very high price and without accessories
- No folding Monitor
- One-handed operation due to the weight almost impossible
- No wrist rest makes back operation difficult
- In Teleberiech only f: 6.9 = very faint
- No mobile Monitor
- Exposure compensation in 1/3 increments only & only +/- 2 EV
- Image edges in the WW less well resolved
- Details suffer from ISO 800
- Small Accu with 1350 mAh
- Accu can be easily plugged in backwards
- Not really a charger included
- Not a viable short-range 5cm WW 40 cm Tele
- Close only from a very short distance in WW
- Only video HD resolution
- Not backed up menu wheel
- Outdated, annoying webbing
- Made in Indonesia
Achievable image quality up to 800 ISO: ***
Achievable image quality above 800 ISO: **
Viewfinder / Monitor: / ***
Speed: ****
Lens zoom range: ****
Perceived quality: ****
Creative Potential: **
Height Weight: ***
Price-Performance: ****
