When pressed against the mirror it’s 1.3 meters. Even though, the manual focus is cumbersome (as it will always be in P&S) its benefits greatly overweighs its limitations. It will shift the lens in place when the shutter is depressed completely further adding to reaction time.

It’s not a camera for quick street shooting style. The focus mode reverts to the auto after a picture is taken.

The focus modes of DL Super include auto, infinity focus (this also turns of the flash – YAY!), SNAP – everything from about 1 meter to 3 meters should be covered by depth of field with flash on auto and manual focus with reasonable steps from 0.35 m to infinity. In either case it is hit’n’miss with more miss than hit. They either have active IR focus, that will many times focus on the glass itself or it is a slow passive focusing. Most AF cameras have troubles focusing through the glass (also they don’t want to focus on oiled latex, a common theme in my photography☺). You see I quite often want to take picture through a window of a bus, of a train, of plane. What also was a big turn on for me is that is has a four focus modes including a manual focusing. I have a picture from the very same mirror with mju and it’s garbage.Drug store brand 400 print film. Maybe it is partly because you can have Mju for next to nothing. I am also still a little bit too careful when carrying it as even though that is made of metal, it feels less rugged and more delicate than plastic Mju. While we are on the topic, the outer shell is completely made from metal except for the battery door that is plastic and can be felt protruding a little bit when the battery is inserted.

That is probably the price you have to pay for its size. Now I feel that much more secure grip holding the camera. What helped me, was putting a large ¼ in screw in the tripod mount. Compared to the Mju II, the Olympus is clear winner in the ergonomics department. It is so unbelievably small, that holding it is little weird and I don’t feel that I am gripping it firmly. This eye candy form factor is also maybe one of its drawbacks. Together with the sleek metal finish it created a really one gem of a camera. Tiara (the first one) had no eye for the strap and the strap was screwed in the tripod hole. There were in fact two iterations of this camera Tiara and Tiara II (Tiara II, if I am not mistaken is also known as the DL Super Mini in Europe) with the only difference being the eye for the hand strap. Such buttons are now on all my P&S straps. With the button on the strap, I feel much more secure.

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