Olympus SZ-12: Coat-pocket friendly ultrazoom debuts

Olympus announced no less than eleven camera models for this year's Consumer Electronics Show, and we kick off the list with the Olympus SZ-12. Perhaps the most interesting of the five models that are currently slated to arrive in the US market this spring, the Olympus SZ-12 boasts a more powerful zoom lens than the SP-620UZ in a smaller body, providing 35mm-equivalent focal lengths from 25 to 600mm. Of course, there's a compromise to be made, and that comes in the maximum aperture, which varies from f/3.0 at wide angle to a rather dim f/6.9 at telephoto. Other features include mechanical... (read more)

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