Olympus SH-50 vs Pentax K-70

Its time to look closer at the Olympus SH-50 and Pentax K-70, former being a Small Sensor Superzoom while the latter is a Entry-Level DSLR by brands Olympus and Pentax. There exists a sizable gap among the sensor resolutions of the SH-50 (16MP) and K-70 (24MP) and the SH-50 (1/2.3") and K-70 (APS-C) enjoy totally different sensor sizing.

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The SH-50 was announced 4 years before the K-70 and that is a fairly significant difference as far as camera technology is concerned. Both of these cameras come with different body type with the Olympus SH-50 being a Compact camera and the Pentax K-70 being a Compact SLR camera.

Before diving in to a in-depth comparison, below is a short summary of how the SH-50 matches up against the K-70 for portability, imaging, features and an overall grade.

Here is a preview of the gallery images for Olympus SH-50 & Pentax K-70. The whole galleries are provided at Olympus SH-50 Gallery & Pentax K-70 Gallery.

If you are going to lug around your camera, you'll need to consider its weight and size. The Olympus SH-50 has got outer dimensions of 112mm x 63mm x 42mm (4.4" x 2.5" x 1.7") accompanied by a weight of 269 grams (0.59 lbs) while the Pentax K-70 has specifications of 126mm x 93mm x 74mm (5.0" x 3.7" x 2.9") having a weight of 688 grams (1.52 lbs).

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Take into consideration, the weight of an ILC will vary dependant on the lens you are utilising at the time. The following is the front view size comparison of the SH-50 compared to the K-70.

Considering dimensions and weight, the portability score of the SH-50 and K-70 is 88 and 62 respectively.

More often than not, its hard to envision the contrast in sensor measurements simply by researching specs. The visual below will help offer you a far better sense of the sensor dimensions in the SH-50 and K-70.

As you can plainly see, both cameras have got different resolutions and different sensor measurements. The SH-50 having a smaller sensor will make getting shallow depth of field more difficult and the Pentax K-70 will provide you with greater detail with its extra 8 Megapixels. Higher resolution will also make it easier to crop photographs much more aggressively. The older SH-50 will be behind with regard to sensor innovation.