Olympus FE-250 is highly sensitive camera at ISO 10.000

If you’re a professional photographer you know that consumer cameras will be as good as DSLR ones when hell will freeze.

Olympus has a different opinion because it just launched the FE-250, a consumer product, with ISO 10.000 capability, way more than DSLR counterparts.

High Sensitivity is written with RED chars, so even Olympus knows it’s dangerous

Why I say ISO 10.000 it’s just marketing? Well, for that kind of ISO you need a bigger lens with a wider aperture, a bigger sensor, so that the light falls on a bigger pixel surface, a highly capable image processing chip. And guess what, those things don’t come for free. This doesn’t think that Olympus FE-250 isn’t a good camera. What I’m saying is that you shouldn’t run to get one because of it’s ISO 10.000 function, which is available only at 3 megapixels resolution, not it’s maximum 8 megapixels one.

Rear LCD display has 6.4 cm (2.5″) and 230k pixels

Other “remarkable” features are 3X optical zoom, Super Macro for under 10 cm shooting distance, 15 presets shooting modes, movie recording and a boring XD-picture card extension slot.