Digital SLR Cameras > 8 - 10 Megapixels Digital SLR Cameras > Microdrive > 2.7 > $300 - $500

Advantages: inexpensive, DSLR, light
Disadvantages: none

My colleague just bought Olympus E-520 and the price is about USD700 with two lenses. One is Y angle lens and the other is zoom lens. This is very good as you can also take photos for the scenery and portrait. Of course you can also buy other lenses for it. It is easy to use and especially good for the D SLR beginners. Besides, this D SLR isn't so heavy. The design is good. It can remove the dust automatically. It uses both X D and CF card. So you ... Read review

Advantages: LCD 2.7 "larger and bright (vs. E-510), TTL Wireless Flash control on the camera, Very responsive
Disadvantages: Small viewfinder, There is no option VG original

Olympus EVOLT E520 is the SLR camera with a 10 megapixel resolution, similar to the shape of the Olympus E510 predecessor, but of course with some added features and larger LCD. E520 camera using the CMOS sensor. SLR Camera Olympus E-520 design has a good body and is made from black plastic. Like other family Olympus, the camera Olympus EVOLT E-520 uses the open format of the Four Thirds lens mount and sensornya sized slightly smaller. This resulted ...
...installed in the camera mount Olympus E520, some features may not be used. The camera is able to produce a beautiful picture and the response fast enough with the TruePic III image processor. Olympus E520 is equipped with LCD to review and preview of the size of 2.7 inches, has a resolution of 230,000 pixels with HyperCrystal II technology, which allows the results of the image can be seen more clearly and in the light of any condition, and also ... Read review

Advantages: great camera
Disadvantages: price

...most jaded reviewer. The new Sony DSLR-A350 is one of them. I've watched for months as Sony tantalized the press with promises of a Live View for D-SLRs that actually works like the "live view" of point-and-shoot digicams where you pick the camera up, frame your shot through the LCD screen and snap the shutter. As DT readers well know, I feel Live View as implemented by other makers (Canon, Nikon, Olympus et al) is a joke. To work properly, the camera ...
...Power Sellers? Six, 16, 60? Sony felt the same way and decided to create a Live View for the rest of the world. Not only that, the new DSLR-A350 has a 14.2-megapixel imager, built-in sensor shift stabilization and loads of other goodies such as an articulating 2.7-inch screen. When this one arrived, the battery was quickly put in the charger so a test drive was just a few short hours away. ... Read review

Advantages: great camera
Disadvantages: price

...sure the pop-up flash will cause a few raised eyebrows), and gets you the full pro service from Nikon. And the pricing (around $2999) reflects this; anyone hoping for an 'affordable' semi-pro full frame Nikon SLR will have to wait until the cost of producing such large sensors falls considerably. ... Read review

Advantages: great camera
Disadvantages: price

...D40 (which replaced the first Nikon 'starter' model, the D50). The original D40 was a hugely important camera for Nikon and can be given a lot of the credit for the resurgence in Nikon's fortunes at the volume end of the SLR market (which had been totally dominated by Canon since the launch of the EOS 300D / Digital Rebel). The D40's success (which continued long after the D40X made its swift appearance only 6 months later) isn't hard to explain; ...
...of excellent results. It was also a camera that proved cameras do not sell on megapixels alone (even at launch its 6MP resolution was far from 'class leading'). As with the D40 and D40X, the new D60 doesn't have an built-in focus drive motor which means it can auto focus only with lenses which have their own drive motor (AF-S and AF-I lenses). The lack of a drive motor can be seen by the missing mechanical focus drive pin on the lens mount (see ... Read review