Bij DPreview hebben ze de Olympus E-20 digitale camera eens op de testbank gelegd voor een uitgebreide review. Deze semi-professionele 5 megapixel camera beschikt over een 4x zoom objectief en kan voor de opslag van foto's gebruik maken van SmartMedia en Compact Flash. Door middel van een knopje op de camera kan gewisseld worden tussen de twee verschillende opslagmedia. De grotendeels op de Olympus E-10 gebaseerde camera beschikt verder over een volledig spectrum van handmatige instellingen en wordt naast de standaard accessoires geleverd met een kleine afstandsbediening waarmee de zoom en de sluiter geregeld kunnen worden.
Bij de vergelijkende foto's ontbreekt vooralsnog één van de belangrijkste concurrenten. De Nikon Coolpix 5000 waarmee deze camera vergeleken had moeten worden was ten tijde van de review nog niet gearriveerd. De eindconclusie is overwegend positief, met als grootste nadelen het trage wegschrijven van foto's en de hoge prijs:
Take for instance one of the most frustrating issues when using the E-20; storage write times. The E-20's write speeds (SmartMedia or Compact Flash) are no better (and in some cases worse than) the Nikon Coolpix 995. The difference? The Coolpix 995 is a a sub-$900 prosumer camera which only needs to write 1 MB or sub-1 MB images, the E-20 is aimed at professionals with JPEG images (SHQ) which range between 3.5 and 2.5 MB.
Waiting 9, 11 or 15 seconds for these five megapixel images to be written to the storage card is no joke. Especially when you consider that the E-20 only has a 4 image buffer; that it does not allow you to change certain settings, enter the menu system, display an image or return the LCD to live view mode until it has finished writing the buffer contents. It's not clear if this problem is down to the speed of the E-20's "dual format" storage interface or the speed at which it's generating the final image as it's written out.
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