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Olympus Stylus 1010 Digital Camera
Leave it to Olympus to constantly impress us with their state-of-the-art cameras. From one of the world leaders in imaging technologies that enrich people’s lives comes the Olympus Stylus 1010 Digital Camera.
The Stylus 1010 Digital Camera from Olympus showcases outstanding performance in a sleek design. If you want to own a digital point-and-shoot camera that stands out with its amazing array of features as well as cool design, this may be a perfect choice for you.
Measuring 3.9″W x 2.2″H x 0.99″D, it is just slightly larger than a deck of playing cards. You can easily keep the Olympus Stylus 1010 Digital Camera in your pocket and practically take it with you anywhere you go. It is definitely one of the handiest digital cameras I’ve used! And while being small and lightweight at only 4.8 oz, it boasts of a 10.1 Megapixel image sensor as well as a 7x optical zoom lens that is capable of producing stunning images and detail even during close-ups.
Along with the other new models of in the Stylus compact camera range, the Olympus Stylus 1010 Digital Camera incorporates a groundbreaking sensor-shift image stabilization technology coupled with high ISO sensitivity and fast shutter speeds which Olympus calls Dual Image Stabilization. Through this technology, you can take flattering photos and prevent blurred pictures even when you’re shooting under lowlight conditions. And with its 2.7” HyperCrystal LCD screen that provides great contrast ratio and better color reproduction, viewing your pictures is bound to get more enjoyable.
To add the fun factor in digital photography, the Olympus Stylus 1010 Digital Camera also features 27 shooting modes, 23 of which is collectively known as Scene Modes. Now with this cool camera, you get to take pictures in various settings and environments.
It comes with 14.7MB of built-in memory and an xD-Picture Card slot for further expanding its storage capacity. For added versatility, an adapter is included in every Stylus 1010 package so that you can use MicroSD cards if you want to. The Olympus Stylus 1010 Digital Camera also comes with the extremely light and ultra-slim LI-50B rechargeable battery that has an increased lifespan of 25% allows you to shoot up to as much as 260 high resolution images on a single charge. That means you get great shots without having to stop and recharge often.
What’s more is that this point-and-shoot camera has Olympus’s signature Perfect Shot Preview, which lets you see the effects of adjustments, like exposure compensation, in a multi-window screen before capturing the image. That means you will surely get the perfect picture you expect.
As if those were not enough, the Olympus Stylus 1010 Digital Camera is also capable of in-camera panoramic stitching of up to three images. The included Olympus Master software allows panoramic shots composed of up to ten images. It is also capable of recording video clips in AVI format at a resolution of up to 640×480 at 30 frames per second (however you can only record up to 10 seconds as noted in one of the comments, using the internal memory). While other cameras have moved towards using higher compression file formats such as MP4, the AVI file tends to provide a higher quality at the cost of larger file size.
Get the chance to express yourself with all the features we’ve detailed, and start taking bright, blur-free pictures with the purple Olympus Stylus 1010 Digital Camera today.
Updated 4-3-08 by Editor Ryan Mock
Related Link: Olympus Stylus 1010 Digital Camera at CompUSA
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4 Responses to “Olympus Stylus 1010 Digital Camera”
March 31st, 2008 at 4:42 am
Having bought my wife this Olympus Stylus 1010, I am a little bit familiar with it and must respond to some of the review points above.
First, why is she “gushing” over “an amazing 10.1 Megapixel sensor” that at least 20 other cameras already have (admittedly, the 7 Xs zoom is very good), and what is so “groundbreaking” about “the Olympus Stylus 1010 Digital Camera incorporates a groundbreaking sensor-shift image stabilization technology”.Again, many cameras already have the sensor shift technology, it is hardly ground breaking, and according to some professionals, not as good as the optical stabilization used by Canon and some others. Furthermore, many commentators on digital camera sites are bemoaning the fact that manufacturers are promoting the hype that more pixels are better (they are not necessarily, particularly when they are placed on the same size CCD as the prior model).
She comments that the camera can record video clips in AVI format at a 640X480 resolution at 30 FPS. What she doesn’t mention is that there are better, less memory intensive modes such as MPEG4 now AND the Olympus will only record 10 seconds of video at this resolution at a time.That is right, only 10 seconds!
She also indicates that the 14.7 MB of built in memory and XD card is another great thing. NOT! First the 14.7 is a pitiful amount of built in memory.(Other cameras have as much 40-50 MB). Furthermore, about 90% of the users of XD have commented about the slowness of the Card and its higher price. Maybe that is why Olympus has provided this camera with a Micro SD to XD adaptor.
Having said all that, the 1010 is still a very good camera with some very good features but also has drawbacks that almost took it out of my consideration for purchase. (I may still return it for a camera that has better Video capabilities.)
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:47 am
I’m really getting tired of these “reviews” sounding like puff-pieces written by the camera companies’ marketing people. Which they likely are.
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Fred, Barry,
I wanted to thank you for your comments. Here at CompUSA News our editors are very excited about their new columns and readers and sometimes may be a bit gushy about a new product they were able to play with for a little while. They are like kids in a candy store.
Barry, I want to assure you these are not written by manufacturer’s, their PR departments or marketing people. These are truly written by fair minded individuals who are attempting to inform and provide overviews of features and benefits of ownership and basic commentary.
I have made several edits to the original post and added additional material based on your input.
It is through this ‘community’ aspect of interaction that we here at the All-New CompUSA hope to allow a constant evolution of our content and forums to best serve what you, as our site visitors, perhaps customers, want.
I am also intrigued about your note Fred regarding XD performance, which I haven’t heard about before and I’ve never had a camera which uses XD cause I didn’t want another format I needed to have around. Now that there is a Micro SD to XD adapter (which I have seen and never thought anything of before) I guess I need not be afraid!
I still must admit one thing about MicroSD - I have no idea how they get all that memory on a 8 or 16GB chip on that tiny little card. Wow.
Once again guys - thanks for your feedback - and we hope you continue to do so in the future!
April 4th, 2008 at 6:09 am
Re the Olympus Stylus comment I made about only 10 seconds of 640X480 resolution movie recording. That is still true, for now, but a recent conversation with the Olympus people informs me that they are releasing a new Xd card called the ” XD M Plus” which, according to Olympus, will allow the 1010 to record in the higher movie resolution up to the capacity of the card. Yeah!
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