Olympus E-330 vs Sony H70

Lets take a more detailed look at the Olympus E-330 versus Sony H70, former being a Advanced DSLR while the other is a Small Sensor Compact by brands Olympus and Sony. There is a noticeable difference between the image resolutions of the E-330 (7MP) and H70 (16MP) and the E-330 (Four Thirds) and H70 (1/2.3") come with different sensor size.

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The E-330 was released 5 years earlier than the H70 and that is quite a sizable difference as far as tech is concerned. Both the cameras come with different body type with the Olympus E-330 being a Mid-size SLR camera and the Sony H70 being a Compact camera.

Before diving through a thorough comparison, below is a concise summation of how the E-330 scores against the H70 in the way of portability, imaging, features and an overall grade.

The following is a sample of the gallery pictures for Olympus E-330 & Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H70. The complete galleries are provided at Olympus E-330 Gallery & Sony H70 Gallery.

For anybody who is intending to lug around your camera regularly, you will want to factor its weight and proportions. The Olympus E-330 comes with external dimensions of 140mm x 87mm x 72mm (5.5" x 3.4" x 2.8") and a weight of 616 grams (1.36 lbs) and the Sony H70 has measurements of 102mm x 58mm x 29mm (4.0" x 2.3" x 1.1") accompanied by a weight of 194 grams (0.43 lbs).

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Do not forget, the weight of an ILC will change depending on the lens you are using at that moment. Following is the front view overall size comparison of the E-330 vs the H70.

Taking into account size and weight, the portability score of the E-330 and H70 is 65 and 93 respectively.

Usually, it's hard to picture the contrast between sensor measurements simply by reading through a spec sheet. The visual below will provide you a greater sense of the sensor sizes in the E-330 and H70.

As you can see, both of the cameras have got different megapixel count and different sensor measurements. The E-330 because of its larger sensor is going to make shooting shallow DOF easier and the Sony H70 will resolve greater detail as a result of its extra 9 Megapixels. Greater resolution will allow you to crop images much more aggressively. The older E-330 is going to be disadvantaged with regard to sensor technology.