The Stylus Epic has a great lens for the price, and generally gives very
nice results. I have actually done comparison shots between it and my
Pentax 40mm f/2.8, both at about f/5.6, and the Pentax was noticeably
sharper in the details (e.g., small letters on a sign).
Probably the most significant problem with the Stylus is the perverse
program that's built into it, which is very much biased toward fast action
(or photographers with really shaky hands). Until the light is enough to
give you a shutter speed over 1/200th, it shoots with the lens wide open at
f/2.8. This gives you very limited depth of field, and no lens is at its
best wide open. So you need to use ASA 400 or 800 film with it unless you
are always going to be in bright sunshine.
I do like its tiny size, and I use it for travelling when an SLR is just too
bulky (or I'm using the SLR for slides and the Stylus for prints). A few
shots I've taken with it can be found at
http://ca.geocities.com/spirope/photopage.htm
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