Olympus Stylus 1200

12.00 Megapixels   3.00X optical zoom lens   2.7 inch LCD

We feel affection for the all-weather Stylus 1200's case, which prevents usual everyday spills and accident from murder the camera. Olympus' software is huge, and the boundary was handy, even including a few enter features like grin Shot and the show mode. We'd still like to see some suppleness from Olympus on storage space card format, as xD isn't as everyday as SD, and require an Olympus-branded certificate to unlock skin is downright bullying. For the top of the line, the images didn't approach out as huge as we'd like. let go: November 2007. Price: $200.

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Design & Interface

The all-weather Stylus 1200 follow the normal Stylus plan that has been approximately for a while; the lop-sided lines don’t do a great deal for ergonomics, but it does create for a sleek, good-looking look. It has defensive seals and gaskets to keep dirt and irrigate out, but it isn’t wholly waterproof like the Stylus SW series.

We like how the control button was approximately recessed into the body, creation it hard to by chance push the button except not difficult to deliberately depress. The other buttons seem a modest cheap and weak, which isn’t standard for Olympus, except we do like the new rear light, which makes the manuscript glow green. It looks immense and makes the buttons a large amount easier to see. The 2.7-inch, 230,000 color LCD looks huge, a nice exit from the matte screen we saying on Olympus’ FE-300. Much of the Stylus 1200’s skin are proscribed by outside buttons as different to menu options, which takes a short as to make known you with, but is much more expedient.

We respected the show mode, which helped us regulate settings based on straightforward imagery of what we sought to do, allowing us to modify shots without have to be anxious about what settings in the direction of change. There is too a display key that provides imagery for menu selection.

Shooting Features

The Stylus 1200 packs a 12-megapixel antenna and a 3x ocular zoom, placing it at the pinnacle of Olympus’ Stylus line. Declaration on video footage tops out at VGA (640x480), and there is no zoom throughout video footage. ISO setting get up to 6400 at reduced decree of (2048x1536), 1600 at full decree The 47 MB of internal reminiscence can take 2:18 of video and 7 shots at occupied decree. There are 11 dissimilar resolution settings, except only one widescreen, the 16:9 1920x1080 that uses each pixel on a 1080p HDTV. The assertion modes variety from VGA (640x480) to 12 megapixels (4000x3000).

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