Olympus mju Mini Digital - Expert Reviews

Review summary: The Olympus Stylus Verve is chic and compact, but will really pay (and sacrifice) for style. If good-looking pictures are more important to you than looking good, look elsewhere.

Pros: Small and compact ; stylish

Cons: Optical zoom only goes to 2x ; no optical viewfinder ; confusing menus ; cramped navigation pad ; limited manual controls ; poor video quality

Verdict: The 1.8-inch LCD is small and suffers from a ghosting effect when you move. There's no optical viewfinder, the menus are confusing, and the navigation pad feels slow to respond and cramped

Award: DIWA Silver Awards!

Review summary: With the µ-mini DIGITAL, Olympus has proven that making an unconventional camera design without sacrifising handling comfort is not an impossible task. This unique digital lifestyle icon is an exciting high quality product that proves the sceptics ...

Award: Recommended!

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Pros: Good resolution for a camera of this class, Bright, vivid and generally pleasing results, Weatherproof, Excellent build quality, Attractive design and remarkably good handling, Lots of scene/subject modes, Generally reliable exposure, Fast, reliable ...

Cons: Images over-sharpened and too contrasty for some tastes, Tendency to under-expose in bright high contrast scenes, Slow flash recycling, Images shot at over ISO 64 fairly noisy, No exposure information in record or playback modes, Some basic controls ...

Verdict: As a straightforward point and shoot camera the Stylus Verve does a perfectly good job at a competitive price point.

Review summary: The 4-megapixel Olympus Stylus Verve provides more form than function. Its colorful case is unique and weatherproof, but its performance is so-so.

Verdict: As for image quality, this camera performed in the bottom third of our currently tested point-and-shoots. The Stylus Verve received its worst scores in our sharpness and distortion tests and performed squarely in the middle in our exposure tests. In ...

Review summary: Presenting the Olympus Mju Mini Digital / Olympus Stylus Verve: on paper, a compact digital camera with 4 megapixels, 2x optical zoom lens that's equivalent to 35-70mm on a 35mm camera, 1.8 inch LCD monitor, all housed in a weather-proof metal body. ...

Verdict: Olympus have made a bold move with the Mju Mini Digital by designing a camera that is completely different to any of its competitors and more stylish than most of them. From the 6 different anodized colours to the curvy design features, the Olympus ...