Olympus EVolt E-620 Comparative Crops

The Olympus Evolt E-620 is one of the smallest DSLRs available and is not even much larger than the mirror-less E-P1 which offers a slightly more advanced feature-set which includes ISO 6400, 2-axis digital level and movie-recording but no flash and much slower autofocus performance. Here we compare the Olympus E-620 to the Pentax K-7 which is a much more advanced DSLR and the Olympus E-P1, to see how the E-620 fits in terms of image quality. All images below are 100% crops at each available ISO setting. The camera was set to maximum image quality and aperture priority.

The crops below show that the E-620 produce very usable results up to ISO 400 whereas the other two manage this up to ISO 800. There is more softness and more noise in the E-620's images, probably due to a stronger anti-alias filter. Still, ISO 800 can be used for a mid-sized print and the higher ISO work for small prints as well.

Olympus E-P1	Olympus Evolt E-620	Pentax K-7
ISO 100	ISO 100	ISO 100
ISO 200	ISO 200	ISO 200
ISO 400	ISO 400	ISO 400
ISO 800	ISO 800	ISO 800
ISO 1600	ISO 1600	ISO 1600
ISO 3200	ISO 3200	ISO 3200
ISO 6400		ISO 6400