Expert: John Oliverio - 3/1/2006

Question
Hi John,
I'm looking into purchasing a digital camera and Costco has an Olympus SP700 coming up for sale. I've been looking at digital camera websites such as dpreview and steves digicams but neither has in depth reviews on camera performance or reviews by customers.  I am not very familiar with Olympus, my current (broken) camera is a Canon 75(?).  Although it was a good camera, it was very heavy and bulky for my purposes.  

Do you know anything about the SP700 and are there any other websites that you can recommend for customer reviews?

Answer
I've never seen an SP700 myself.  It is a fairly typical 6mp point and shoot camera and not one likely to gain the attention of a full review.  Plus, the camera only came out last October, so I could find no customer reviews.

Olympus is a good company and I've never known them to make a bad camera.

John