It’s easy to look at the Olympus 7010 and see some flimsy little camera that looks like it’s not carrying much of anything at all.  It’s even easier to look at its somewhat high price tag and scoff and walk away, muttering blackly to yourself about overpriced garbage.  But you’d be making a grave mistake, because the Olympus 7010′s got a whole lot more under the hood than its simple looks would lead you to believe.

The Olympus 7010 is a twelve megapixel digital camera that comes with a 2.7 inch LCD, a 7x optical zoom (with a 5x digital zoom), image stabilization, face detection, white balance modes, built in auto flash, panorama mode shooting, various special effects, and compatibility with microSD and xD-picture cards.

It’s definitely a noticeable–and downright sizable–flaw that a camera that costs a whopping two hundred bucks comes with not so much as a meg of onboard memory but is instead reliant on external memory.  However, it’s somewhat made up by a terrific design and a lot of interesting touchscreen kind of features.  For instance, there’s this really neat application where the camera’s photos are displayed in a flip-book fashion, and you can thumb through them as you could through any other book.

Despite the lack of onboard memory, the Olympus 7010 will prove to be all the camera you could ever need, and plenty more.  Even at its surprisingly high price tag, it still presents lots of useful features for most any level of photographer.

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