I've had the E-620 for a few weeks now and am utterly pleased. Other options I considered were the Nikon D5000, Canon T1i ; XSi, Panasonic G1, Sony A300 ; A350, and Pentax K200D ; K20D. Some comments with comparison comments:
1) SIZE ; WEIGHT -- There's no time in having a camera that is so colossal that it doesn't get much use. Only the Panasonic G1 is minor than the E-620 but not by much. There is a more dramatic difference in the volume of the lenses, with Olympus being much minor than all but Panasonic. Making for a very compact furnish. For someone worn to the array of films SLRs, the E-620 is very like. My partner also found it the most comfortable for her to enfold.
2) BUILD QUALITY ; HANDLING -- Very impressed with Olympus here. Solid, dense and with much sensibly sited buttons for straight access to settings. The other cameras had a minus safe, plasticy feel, and their bigger grips still weren't large enough for a comfortable handgun grip with my normal range hands. The Sonys, in particular, had gauche fasten situation. The E-620 has a different comfort of grip where you persist the camera in the same way as old tape SLRs, and is more appropriate to such a small camera. I stock the camera comfortably in my *left* hand, covetous the body and lens barrel with my fingers on the zoom encircle; the frees my right hand from having to defense the camera while effective pedals, and foliage my good hand open (I'm a righty).
3) LENSES -- The kit zooms from Olympus are alleged to be of superior attribute than the others, as well as being more compact. So far I have been very impressed. I didn't want to buy a camera only to feel the kit lenses required replacing; I'd pretty consume on lenses that submit new capabilities, like prompt primes or committed macro lenses. For somebody interesting in with heritage physical focus lenses, inexpensive adapters are free to screw virtually any MF SLR lens to Olympus bodies; worn lenses can be totally inexpensive on eBay. Panasonic is limited by a very small range of lenses. For a two lens kit, the E-620 was the cheapest choice.
4) IMAGE QUALITY -- I wanted to finish my time pleasing pictures, not fiddling with them in mail-processing; Olympus has the best out-of-camera JPGs of the bunch (Canon and Pentax, in particular, descend squat here). Although the lesser Olympus sensors are alleged to be a bit noisier, what sound there is primarily luminance blast, bountiful similes a tape-like grain, instead than the decorated blotches of chroma blare. I've found noise very well controlled through ISO1000, even with noise cutback set to LOW. For printing up through 8x10 and watch present, I don't think noise is an alarm up through ISO1600 (surely with noise lessening set to emblem). One caveat: be confident to keep stage set at NORMAL (the evade), not AUTO, save you genuinely penury it; using AUTO gradation will noticeably augment noise.
5) IN BODY STABILIZATION -- I fancy in body stabilization to lens-based stabilization for two reasons: in body factory with all lenses, and lenses can be more compact. You only move one body but you are possible to store various lenses, so it pays to keep them small.
6) LIVE VIEW ; LCD -- Olympus has the best live aspect implementation (perhaps attached with Sony) with quite shrewd autofocus. This is very important if you want anyone, e.g. my husband or haphazard bystanders, who's used to compact cameras to use your SLR for snapshots or the like. The angle & twirl LCD is very practical and seemed more open than Nikon or Sony's implementations.
Overall, I found the E-620 to be the best merit for a two lens kit.
Here are a few comments on the other cameras I considered:
Nikon D5000 -- Good size ; managing, but a bit bulky. Living picture isn't great. Much more dear for a two lens kit than the Olympus.
Canon T1i -- Not impressed by the size value, felt plasticy. Not comfortable for me to take. Out of camera JPGs not so good. Inferior kit lenses. Much more costly for a two lens kit than the Olympus.
Canon XSi -- Not impressed by the develop class, felt plasticy. Not comfortable for me to hold. Out of camera JPGs not so good. Bulkier than the Olympus. Inferior kit lenses.
Panasonic G1 -- Limited lens range; will take heritage MF lenses but doesn't proffer copy stabilization with them since it isn't in the body. Plasticy. Not much smaller than the Olympus. More exclusive than Olympus for a two lens kit.
Sony A300 ; A350 -- Hated the button situation--ruled them out on that lonely. Live consider is very good while.
Pentax K200D ; K20D -- Poor out of camera JPGs. Great handling and build feature. Short on features. Kit lenses aren't great. No live picture / live view inept.
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