Olympus mju 1010 and 1020: Spot the difference

By Rich Trenholm on 08 April 2008, 12:20pm

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The Olsen twins. Thompson and Thomson. The Mitchell bruvvers. History is littered with double acts that are near impossible to tell apart. This august line-up is joined by the Olympus mju 1010 and 1020 cameras, and frankly we just can't tell the difference.

A few manufacturers stuff their ranges with cameras so incrementally different from each other we wonder what the point is -- we're looking at you, Samsung -- but this is ridiculous. To see if we can tell these two apart, let's take a look at the specs.

Both are 10.1-megapixel point-and-shoots. Each has an equivalent 35mm focal length of 37mm, which isn't expecially wide. But this is redeemed by the fact that both zooms stretch to 260mm, which a quick calculation on both hands reveals to be a 7x zoom.

So far, so similar. Both boast face detection -- we wonder if it could tell the difference between Matt and Luke Goss? It probably couldn't tell the difference between the 1010 and 1020. Scene modes? 23 each. Panorama stitch function? BrightCapture Technology? Video at VGA resolution and 30 frames per second? Check, check, check -- twice.

So seriously, what is the difference between these two cameras? Click through the links to find out... -Rich Trenholm

Update: Read our full Olympus mju 1010 review here.