The 1010 has a smaller - 1/2.3" CCD sensor with 10 megapixels. More pixels on a smaller area means that a pixel size must be much smaller which results into a lower picture quality, and yet the manufactuers own website states "Better low light shooting thanks to BrightCapture Technology".

After taking some very poor quality pictures, and contacting Olympus, their own words of advise being "to set the ISO value manually and keep the ISO settings as low as possible". Not very good from a company that states of this model the "ultimate in modern compact photography". If I wanted to set the ISO manually I would have opted for an SLR.

The face detection has also been a real disappointment. My camera, since the day I purchased it, has been set up in face detection mode. I have seen it in action once, only never to be seen again!