The Olympus Stylus 1s, and last year’s model, the Olympus Stylus 1, are the only cameras on the market today to combine the following features:
• 14 oz. weight -- including the lens
• 28-300 mm f2.8 constant aperture lens
• Huge, bright EVF eye-level viewfinder
• Touch-sensitive 3” LCD monitor
• Split-second focusing and exposure control
Some might say this combination of features approaches the ideal travel and street-shooting camera.
I bought my Stylus 1s as a back up for my $5,000+ interchangeable lens camera the day the camera was released. This happened a few days before I left on a cruise that included three ports in Japan, one in Siberia and five in Alaska. I was looking for a very light, relatively inexpensive camera with a fast lens and good telephoto capabilities that I could use if anything went wrong with my more expensive and heavier camera.
However, after shooting more than 300 photos the first day in Tokyo, I found myself using the Stylus 1s nearly all of the time. It was lightweight, versatile and completely reliable.
Unfortunately, I was really disappointed with the Olympus Stylus 1s Instruction Manual. I found myself losing valuable vacation time searching through the manual for the controls and settings I needed. Worse, the manual had neither a detailed table of contents nor an index.
These issues led me to write this book. This book does not replace the manual, but makes it much easier to use. Within this book, you will find suggestions related to the settings you may try and why I am recommending them. These suggestions are based on taking more than 1,600 photos with the Stylus 1s and having it as my constant companion for the past three months. All the photos included in this book were taken by me with the Stylus 1s.
• 14 oz. weight -- including the lens
• 28-300 mm f2.8 constant aperture lens
• Huge, bright EVF eye-level viewfinder
• Touch-sensitive 3” LCD monitor
• Split-second focusing and exposure control
Some might say this combination of features approaches the ideal travel and street-shooting camera.
I bought my Stylus 1s as a back up for my $5,000+ interchangeable lens camera the day the camera was released. This happened a few days before I left on a cruise that included three ports in Japan, one in Siberia and five in Alaska. I was looking for a very light, relatively inexpensive camera with a fast lens and good telephoto capabilities that I could use if anything went wrong with my more expensive and heavier camera.
However, after shooting more than 300 photos the first day in Tokyo, I found myself using the Stylus 1s nearly all of the time. It was lightweight, versatile and completely reliable.
Unfortunately, I was really disappointed with the Olympus Stylus 1s Instruction Manual. I found myself losing valuable vacation time searching through the manual for the controls and settings I needed. Worse, the manual had neither a detailed table of contents nor an index.
These issues led me to write this book. This book does not replace the manual, but makes it much easier to use. Within this book, you will find suggestions related to the settings you may try and why I am recommending them. These suggestions are based on taking more than 1,600 photos with the Stylus 1s and having it as my constant companion for the past three months. All the photos included in this book were taken by me with the Stylus 1s.
