![]() Inside the Olympus XZ-10's metal body, and behind its optic, the 1/2.3-inch backside-illuminated CMOS image sensor has an effective resolution of twelve megapixels, the same as provided by the larger chip in the XZ-2. Enable the Stylus XZ-10's super macro mode, though, and you can get as close as 0.4 inches (1cm). ![]() Ordinarily, you can focus as close as four inches (10cm) at wide angle, and one foot (30cm) at telephoto. Macro-focusing performance is improved, compared to that in the XZ-2. The Olympus XZ-10 uses a 35-point contrast detection autofocus system, and includes an autofocus assist lamp to ease the job of focusing on nearby subjects in low ambient light. At wide angle the maximum aperture is f/1.8, and even by the telephoto position it falls to only f/2.7. The lens covers everything from a fairly generous wide angle to a moderate telephoto, and is unusually bright (especially by compact camera standards) across the whole range. Actual focal lengths range from 4.7 to 23.5mm. That lens offers a 35mm-equivalent focal range of 26-130mm, adding a little to both ends of the zoom range compared to the XZ-2. And by opting for a smaller sensor, Olympus has not only been able to slash size and weight significantly - the XZ-10 is 0.4 inches narrower, 0.2 inches shorter, a full half-inch shorter, and a third lighter than the XZ-2 - but to include a more powerful 5x optical zoom lens. There's a good chance that it's being purchased as a second camera alongside an interchangeable-lens camera, after all, so they've likely already got access to a much larger sensor. For the kind of photographer who buys a premium compact, that's arguably more important. Sure, the XZ-10's sensor is no larger than those of the typical fixed-lens camera, but that gives it an advantage over many of its premium compact rivals in terms of both size and weight. Experienced photographers look for things like a bright lens, physical controls, manual and priority exposure modes, and a raw file format when choosing a camera, and the XZ-10 ticks every one of these boxes. There are quite a few other features present on most premium compacts, besides the sensor size - and with the Olympus Stylus XZ-10, more than a few of these are present. It's an understandable point of view - photography is all about capturing light, after all - but it's perhaps a rather narrow definition. What, precisely, defines a premium compact camera for you? For many photographers, it's the presence of a larger image sensor than is typical of most compacts, the better with which to grab as much light as possible.
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