Olympus Stylus 730 First Impressions Review

Picture Quality / Size Options
The Olympus Stylus 730 has an almost unmanageable amount of image sizes, although some of the options were not available on the pre-production model. Images sizes could be changed on the initial blue menu screen and consisted of the following: 3072 x 2304 (fine and normal compression choices, 2048 x 1536, 1920 x 1080 (16:9 formatted), 2560 x 1920, 2304 x 1728, 2048 x 1536, 1600 x 1200, 1280 x 960, 1024 x 768, and 640 x 480.

Picture Effects Mode
This digital camera has lots of picture effects, perhaps to enhance images before printing directly from the camera. It has the standard black-and-white and sepia choices, the more advanced brightness and saturation scales with +/- 5 options, and a host of frames and labels to make pictures and cards. There is also a button atop the camera that activates the Perfect Fix function. This is slated to reduce blur and red-eye, while fixing any exposure problems. On the pre-production model, the first two functions didn’t work but the exposure part of the function did.