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Originally Posted by Joe
Hi James.
i echo what has already been posted here.
The results you are getting are typical of a compact/bridge digital camera.
Your images have all gone through the in-built cameras jpeg processing. Noise (grain) reduction and artificial sharpening are pretty much evident in most compacts now. unfortunately, most are also still suckered in by the high megapixel counts now showing on all but the cheapest digital cameras.
To be honest with you, even very early digital SLR cameras like the Fuji S1 or Nikon D1, now selling online secondhand for only about £100 (+ a few more £ for the lens of your choice) would blow your Olympus results away.....and on paper the Nikon and Fuji are both 'only' shooting about 3megapixels pictures (so no one wants them....as they can't possibly put up with only 3 mp! lol)......I use to get very frustrated at the shop when epople would still go blindly buying the cheapest camera they could that had the highest mp count......though the manufacturers do 'promote' the mp counts, and of course retailers take advantage of this ignorance to the whole story too.
James, your experience is unfortunately not uncommon.
Your graphics might even benefit from the different file options a DSLR can deliver too?
good luck
cheers
Joe
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Thank you for that Joe. Great post!
I was originally looking at SLRs on Amazon and saw a couple of good cameras for around the £250 mark - I then got sidetracked and ended up on a camera specific site and saw that the Olympus had a high spec for a similar price and that the SLRs on this site were well into the £300 mark. For some reason I forgot about the Amazon SLR prices and thought that DSLRs were too expensive and bought the Olympus. I usually research heavily into new purchases but as I had just been buying new top-end PC components, a new monitor and printer, I must have gotten bored with the massive process of researching into prices/reviews etc and settled too early.
I think I'll have to end up selling this camera on eBay for a loss and put it towards the camera I should have bought originally - I'll buy a better lens separately when I can afford it.
I've done well really, this is the first time I've ever been upset by a wrong purchase and I'll be sure to never make the same mistake.
Thanks you all again for the great help!