The E-620 has made it to Melbourne. I had a walk round the City for an hour or so to see what it handled like. I have an E-3 and an E-30 and, except for the placement of the buttons, the E-620 handled pretty much the same. The lens on the camera was the 14-54 mark II. In my view, this is a very good lens for this camera. With the new grip the camera felt very well balanced with this lens. I was able to walk around with the camera held by my side just holding on to the grip. The camera is not slow at focussing with this lens. The dynamic range seems to have been improved and IMHO is better than the E-3. The noise at higher ISO’s, however is not good. It appears less film grain like than other Olympus models, and looks more like Panasonic noise. As with all Oly cameras, colour is very good straight from the camera. Here are 3 pics taken with the E-620.
Taken at 100 ISO.
Taken at 320 ISO.
Taken at 800 ISO. Note the details that were able to be retained in the skylights. With the E-3 I have trouble keeping all the details in the window frames here. But noise is very noticeable.
