Olympus E-420 - anyone used one?

[JJ!]

Was just about to pull the trigger on a FZ28 for the misses when she saw a Olympus E-420.

Found it for under £400 inc 2 lenses which seems like a good deal. I noticed it has no image stabilizer, but she does not like the E-520's bigger grip.

I have never used or experienced Olympus so any user opinions would be grand!

Its going to be this or a FZ28.

Lenses are 14-41 & 40-150 iirc.

 

[Rhino172]

awesome camera, I use the E400 with kit lens 14-44 and and olympus 70-300 lens.

www.flickr.com/ryan172 for picture examples.

soooo simple to use for an SLR, nice and small, I get all my kit in a tiny camera cary case.

Only down side is the lens fitment being four-thirds so lens are limited and when you do find some they can be a little expensive compared to a connon or nikon equivelent

The crop factor of the sensor is quite high too which is a bonus in some cases but a set back in others...my 70-300 works out to be the equivilent of somthing like 140-600 in 35mm terms

Also check for some forums, the one i use (quite rarely tho) is something like fourthirdsforum.com, serach for it in google, plenty of infor on bodies and lens' on there..

 

[JJ!]

Wow - those motorcross ones are awesome! Cant stretch to the 70-300 for her but the 40-150 should be enough for general purposes!

May even get her the 25mm pancake at some point!

 

[Rhino172]

Wow - those motorcross ones are awesome! Cant stretch to the 70-300 for her but the 40-150 should be enough for general purposes!

May even get her the 25mm pancake at some point!

Thanks

Yeah, I like the looks of the pancake lens tbh, would like to have a play with one first before buying though. Good thing is it's so small it'll easilly fit in my bag I have at the moment along with all my other bits

 

[JJ!]

What bag do you use? She is bound to want a bag! lol

 

[theduck]

E420 is brilliant camera, I was lucky enough to be invited to a UK launch party for it and had a really good play with it.

Lens choice is smaller range than Canon or Nikon, but the lens quality is always awesome. Olympus don't do what you would normally think of as a 'kit' or 'entry level' lens. All of the lenses are quite frankly superb quality.

 

[theduck]

Oh and I can probably get you a deal on one

 

[Rhino172]

What bag do you use? She is bound to want a bag! lol

lol, I forget what it's called now, I'll post up when I get home later...

 

[JJ!]

Oh and I can probably get you a deal on one

Deal??? Talk to me! lol

 

[theduck]

yhpm

 

[theduck]

http://www.digitaldepot.co.uk/ speak to Stuart Boston, he owns the place, tell him Ken Thomas - my dad - has recommended you, as he has bought a lot through him and sent him a lot of referals, so he should look after you.

 

[JJ!]

Cheers

 

[Rhino172]

bag is

LowPro Apex 140AW

 

[Vish]

An upgrade version is out in May so the E-420 might be cheaper then if they stop production.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0903/09033101olympuse450.asp

 

[matttr6]

Arrrgh!! Got me looking at DSLR's now!! Must resist!!

Tbh, can't really afford and don't want to spend much more then £250 so the FZ28 fits in nicely when including a spare battery an d maybe a bag.