Live guide
To reduce the fear factor of playing with more advanced settings, Olympus' iAuto live guide mode lets you use sliders to adjust background blur (aperture), exposure compensation (brightness), express motions (shutter speed), saturation, and image warmth with live preview.
Though the concept is relatively solid, and one that other manufacturers have been playing with as well, I'm not crazy about the execution; it takes too many button presses. For instance, to change brightness, you must do the following: press Start/OK; arrow down to brightness; press OK; arrow up/down to adjust; press OK. And you can't have multiple settings adjusted simultaneously--in order to get into the saturation settings, for instance, you have to cancel the changes you've made to brightness. Nor does it work with the flash.
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