Olympus SZ-14
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14 years ago
Olympus SZ-14 review
The travel zoom compact is still proving popular and Olympus is building a raft of small-bodied, big-zoom, low-cost cameras for 2012. Setting sail in the wake of the SP-620UZ ‘Ultra Zoom' we reviewed a few weeks back (16 megapixels and 21x optical zoom) comes the more slender SZ-14 ‘Super Zoom'.
Pros:
- Broad focal range
- relatively compact dimensions
- good value pricing
- reasonably consistent performance from shot to shot
Cons:
- Scroll wheel at the back is very slippery and it's hard to arrive at the setting you want without much back and forth
- battery life is so-so
14 years ago
Olympus SZ-14
The SZ-14 is a fun camera to shoot with, offering a long, 24x optical zoom lens and plenty of creative filters to boot. Image quality is not good enough to make this a wholehearted recommendation, however, as there are some serious noise problems as the sensitivity climbs, and the...
Pros:
- 24x optical zoom
- Lightweight construction
- Fun magic filters
Cons:
- Screen not particularly colour accurate
- Image stabilisation can't compensate for camera shake when shooting video at the telephoto end
- Very noisy images over ISO 200
14 years ago
Olympus SZ-14
The Olympus SZ-14 is likely to appeal to you if you are looking for lots of lens power without paying out for one of the top of the range cameras in this sector. By dropping some of the more advanced features Olympus have kept the price down.
Pros:
- Lots of zoom for the price
- USB battery charge
- movie image stabilisation
Cons:
- Picture quality
14 years ago
Olympus SZ-14 review Review
The SZ-14 isn't perfect. The automated panorama mode is too fiddly compared to the sweep panoramas that are cropping up on its rivals. And there was a little more fringing than there ought to have been in some of the test results above.
Pros:
- Good colours under all lighting
- Great zoom
- Inexpensive
Cons:
- 720p maximum video resolution
- Some minor noise and fringing on images
- Fiddly panorama mode
14 years ago
Olympus SZ-14 Compact Digital Camera Review
The Olympus SZ-14 was released in January 2012 alongside the SZ-11 to expand the Olympus SZ range of cameras and combines a 24x optical zoom lens in a compact body. It is available in red, black and silver for £194.00.
Pros:
- 24x optical zoom lens
- Compact metal body
- Magic filters are unique to Olympus
- Fast high-speed shooting modes
- Decent image quality
- In-camera panoramic stitching
Cons:
- Video recording is limited to 720p HD
- Lots of noise at ISO 800 and 1600
- No rubber grip on front of camera
14 years ago
Olympus SZ-14
Sitting mid-way up the Olympus range of travel-friendly compact cameras, the Olympus SZ-14 sports a good range of features for a pocket-friendly price. A 14-megapixel CCD sensor should provide ample resolution, even for large prints.
Pros:
- 24x zoom range
- Effective image stabilisation
- Easy to use
- Thin
Cons:
- Proprietary USB connection
- No manual exposure
- Only 720p HD video
- Slippery finger grip
13 years ago
Olympus SZ-14: Incredible Camera
Impressive zoom with high quality
Pros:
- High Quality
- Large Zoom
Cons:
- Software takes getting used to
13 years ago
Olympus SZ-14: Incredible Camera
This camera is Amazing. The zoom is incredible. 24x optical mean that unlike most digital cameras that claim a large zoom using digital zoom, you have opotcal resolution, so no clever stuff guessing what colour extra pixels should be.
13 years ago
Sitting mid-way up the Olympus range of travel-friendly compact cameras, the Olympus SZ-14 sports a good range of features for a pocket-friendly price. A 14-megapixel CCD sensor should provide ample resolution, even for large prints.
13 years ago
Overall I like it, especially the long zoom (the longest I've found in a compact) and portability. I also sometimes use the long zoom as a sort of telescope to work out what things are that are too far away for me to see otherwise I previously owned a DSLR and although it had more manual options...
Pros:
- Good long optical zoom
- easy to hold and operate
- nice and compact
- some editing functions such as the useful in-camera cropping
- plenty of picture viewing modes
- incorporated complete help with button specific help as well
- some effects options in one mode
- incorporated automatic panorama mode as
Cons:
- no manual focus or manual exposure
- sometimes get silhouetting effect unintentionally but that may be fixable by tweaking the settings
- not as slim as some cameras if that's what you want (doesn't bother me)
- sometimes skies look lighter than they are on a sunny day
- no foldering system that I can
3.8
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