Olympus E-420 digital SLR

It’s dinky and it delivers good pictures

By George Cole • Get more from this author

26th August 2008 11:02 GMT

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That said, the large LCD screen is superb and we also liked the E-420’s grandly titled "super control panel". Press the OK button and you're presented with a cornucopia of shooting information, including ISO, white balance, flash mode, shooting mode, image size, metering, picture mode, face detection details and image adjustment options.

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The E-420’s continuous shooting mode shoots at 3.5f/s, and if you’re taking JPEG images, it'll continue shooting until the card is full

The E-420 can take nice macro shots, although it can struggle at times to focus on close-up objects

You can adjust a number of parameters with the E-420, including the contrast: left to right, normal, low and high