Olympus VG-140 Review

The new VG-140 point and shoot from Olympus is the middle child in their ‘Smart V’ series. This camera is designed for a beginner or for someone who wants a basic shooter for those weekend trips to the beach. It packs in quite a decent feature set as well like 720p video recording, 5x optical zoom and plenty of scene modes to play around with. Let’s see if its performance matches up to its trendy looks. Design and Build Available in three colour trims, the VG-140 sports a full metal body making it quite sturdy and durable. The camera was still working fine after being dropped a few times (accidentally, of course!). The camera is fairly slim at just 9.3mm in depth and quite light as well at 125g, even with the battery. The design and aesthetic is trendy, which will definitely appeal to the fairer sex. There’s quite a bit of chrome bits all over as well, which makes it lean more towards looking a bit cheap, but that’s just my personal taste. In the front, we have the xenon flash, along with the AF assist light. The microphone is placed towards the bottom along the rim of the lens.

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