There's a generous viewfinder and both the viewfinder and the LCD preview update the focus along with the zoom. The zoom switch is a little rocker switch right next to the shutter release, with a very positive feeling for zooming. In many of the others the zoom is a little difficult to understand, or easily confused with other controls. Here, you rock it back to pull out and rock it forward to zoom in. . . . Close-ups worked very well too, with clear lens performance right down to nearly touching.
Picture quality is all there.
In fact in the type test there was virtually no difference in image quality. . . . I can recommend the 400z to anyone who is looking for a super, all-round quality digital camera in the intermediate range. Nice work, Olympus. Doug is the webmaster for the ACE Indexes , an annotated directory of North American photo commerce web sites, and a well respected member of the creative online community. This is a Spam-Free web site.