Olympus VR-340 vs Panasonic S1H

Lets look more closely at the Olympus VR-340 vs Panasonic S1H, former being a Small Sensor Compact while the other is a Pro Mirrorless by rivals Olympus and Panasonic. There exists a substantial gap between the image resolutions of the VR-340 (16MP) and S1H (24MP) and the VR-340 (1/2.3") and S1H (Full frame) posses different sensor measurements.

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The VR-340 was released 8 years before the S1H and that is quite a big difference as far as technology is concerned. Both the cameras have different body design with the Olympus VR-340 being a Compact camera and the Panasonic S1H being a SLR-style mirrorless camera.

Before we go straight to a thorough comparison, here is a quick synopsis of how the VR-340 scores vs the S1H with regard to portability, imaging, features and an overall grade.

Here is a sample of the gallery pics for Olympus VR-340 & Panasonic Lumix DC-S1H. The complete galleries are available at Olympus VR-340 Gallery & Panasonic S1H Gallery.

For those who are going to lug around your camera often, you'll have to consider its weight and proportions. The Olympus VR-340 offers outer dimensions of 96mm x 57mm x 19mm (3.8" x 2.2" x 0.7") having a weight of 125 grams (0.28 lbs) and the Panasonic S1H has measurements of 151mm x 114mm x 110mm (5.9" x 4.5" x 4.3") having a weight of 1052 grams (2.32 lbs).

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Remember that, the weight of an ILC will differ depending on the lens you are utilising at that moment. Following is a front view measurement comparison of the VR-340 compared to the S1H.

Factoring in dimensions and weight, the portability score of the VR-340 and S1H is 96 and 52 respectively.

More often than not, it's difficult to visualize the gap between sensor measurements merely by checking specs. The visual here will provide you a greater sense of the sensor sizes in the VR-340 and S1H.

All in all, each of the cameras have different megapixels and different sensor measurements. The VR-340 due to its tinier sensor is going to make getting shallower depth of field trickier and the Panasonic S1H will resolve more detail as a result of its extra 8 Megapixels. Greater resolution will also allow you to crop images a bit more aggressively. The older VR-340 is going to be disadvantaged in sensor tech.