Jan. 22, 2008 – Olympus today added to its trendy all-weather Stylus lineup of digital cameras with the new 1020, 1010, and 840 models. Previous Stylus cameras have come with digital image stabilization, but today’s additions mark the series’ first foray into mechnical image stabilization. The Olympus Stylus 1020 and 1010 come with 7x optical zoom lenses while the 840 comes with a 5x optical zoom lens.
The Olympus Stylus 1020 takes over as the new flagship of the series with its 10.1 megapixels and optically stabilized 7x zoom lens. The older Stylus 1200 has 12 megapixels but only a 3x optical zoom lens and digital image stabilization. The new cameras come with a system that combines the digital stabilization found on older models (where the camera increases the shutter speed and increases the ISO to sharpen the image) with newer and more effective sensor shift image stabilization technology, where the camera moves the image sensor to compensate for camera shake. Read the whole article here