Olympus Stylus 730
Digital Camera Review
Aug 22, 2006
- By Emily Raymond
The Olympus Stylus 730 is the baby of the manufacturer’s new fall lineup of stylish digital cameras. Still, this baby comes with a lot of enticing features. It has 7.1 megapixels, a tiny 3x optical zoom lens, and an enormous 3-inch LCD screen. This display screen is Olympus’ first to reach the massive 3-inch plateau. The Olympus Stylus 730 doesn’t have the shock proof designation of the earlier Stylus 720 SW, but is still considered “all weather” with its metal body and rubber sealants. The Stylus 730 is being touted as “the perfect first camera” with its sophisticated look and its ease of use features. While industry analysts contend that the digital camera industry has matured beyond the introductory level, Olympus is banking on the 730’s large screen, adjustable font, and perfect fix functionality to entice remaining entry-level consumers to purchase the camera, when it becomes available in September for $399.
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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.
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