Olympus 550WP vs Sony W530

Its time to look more closely at the Olympus 550WP and Sony W530, former being a Small Sensor Compact while the other is a Ultracompact by brands Olympus and Sony. There is a large difference between the image resolutions of the 550WP (10MP) and W530 (14MP) but both cameras have the identical sensor sizing (1/2.3").

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The 550WP was unveiled 24 months before the W530 making them a generation apart from each other. Both the cameras feature different body design with the Olympus 550WP being a Compact camera and the Sony W530 being a Ultracompact camera.

Before delving into a complete comparison, here is a concise summary of how the 550WP scores vs the W530 when it comes to portability, imaging, features and an overall grade.

This is a sample of the gallery pics for Olympus Stylus 550WP & Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W530. The full galleries are available at Olympus 550WP Gallery & Sony W530 Gallery.

For those who are looking to lug around your camera often, you're going to have to factor in its weight and measurements. The Olympus 550WP comes with outside measurements of 94mm x 62mm x 22mm (3.7" x 2.4" x 0.9") with a weight of 167 grams (0.37 lbs) whilst the Sony W530 has proportions of 93mm x 53mm x 19mm (3.7" x 2.1" x 0.7") and a weight of 113 grams (0.25 lbs).

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Take into consideration, the weight of an ILC will differ depending on the lens you have attached at the time. Here is a front view overall size comparison of the 550WP vs the W530.

Factoring in size and weight, the portability grade of the 550WP and W530 is 94 and 96 respectively.

Oftentimes, it is very hard to envision the difference between sensor measurements purely by reading specs. The photograph here might provide you a clearer sense of the sensor measurements in the 550WP and W530.

As you can plainly see, the 2 cameras feature the identical sensor size but not the same megapixels. You can expect to see the Sony W530 to offer more detail having an extra 4 Megapixels. Greater resolution will also allow you to crop images way more aggressively. The older 550WP is going to be disadvantaged when it comes to sensor innovation.