Olympus D-520 Zoom

A typical record mode screen showing icons for selftimer, SHQ quality, the position of the zoom is shown briefly whenever it is changed, and there's space on the SM card for another 82 pictures.

When the Macro mode is enabled the color LCD automatically turns on so you can use it as a viewfinder. The optical viewfinder suffers from parallax at extreme close range so it is best to use the LCD for framing.

Record screen in movie mode, HQ quality (320 x 240), flash is disabled and there is enough memory left for a total recording time of 410 minutes but the maximum length of each clip in HQ mode is 15 seconds (60 seconds for 160 x 120 SQ mode). No sound is recorded as the camera has no microphone.

Pressing the MENU button while in Record mode brings up this onscreen menu with four options: DRIVE, MODE, FUNCTION and RESOLUTION.

DRIVE options:

SINGLE - Normal single-shot exposure mode

SEQUENCE - 1.2fps burst up to 8 frames in HQ mode

MOVIE - Motion video capture at 15fps

CAMera options:
Exposure Compensation - Override metering +/- 2EV in 0.5EV steps

Digital Zoom - Enable/disable digital zoom

Metering - ESP or Spot

PICture options:

White Balance - Auto, Sunny, Cloudy, Incandescent, Fluorescent

CARD:

Format - Format the SM card

SETUP options:

All Reset - If ON it resets all setting to default at power down

Sounds - Enable or disable camera beeps

Rec View - If ON then immediately view image after capture

LCD Brightness - Adjust the color LCD backlight

Time/Date - Set the internal clock

FUNCTION options:

2 in 1 - Capture 2 images side-by-side in one frame

Portrait - Portrait mode

Panorama - Captures up to 10 images using the Stitch Assist mode on the LCD which is combined later on the computer.

RESOLUTION options:

SHQ - 1600 x 1200 low compression

HQ - 1600 x 1200 high compression

SQ1 - 1024 x 768

SQ2 - 640 x 480