Many digital imaging industry experts thought consumer demand for long zoom digital cameras would disappear once affordable digital SLRs hit store shelves, but there are now more monster zoom digicams available than there were when the world’s cheapest dSLR cost three grand. Today’s long zoom digicams are smaller, faster, more powerful, and cheaper than those famous Olympus long zoom digital cameras from a few years back. Once upon a time Olympus was the long zoom digicam king, but as more and more OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) have jumped on the monster zoom bandwagon, Olympus has fallen behind the competition (Canon S3 IS, Panasonic FZ5 & FZ7, Sony H2 & H5) in this popular digicam niche market..
