Olympus has long been a leader in digital photography, with a line of distinguished products stretching back to their original D-200L VGA-class compac

Olympus has long been a leader in digital photography, with a line of distinguished products stretching back to their original D-200L VGA-class compact digital camera. Recently, their focus (no pun intended) has been on "filmless photography", rightly recognizing that people buy cameras to take pictures with, not merely as jazzy adjuncts to their computer system. With the goal of making the filmless photography experience more like the film-based one, their recent product introductions (notably the compact-format D-400 Zoom, and the SLR D-620L) have incorporated many "real camera" features, such as spot metering, and more-rapid shot-to-shot cycle times. (A persistent bane of digital photography has been the long delay between shots, mandated by the camera's need to process the information from one shot before proceeding with the next.)