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 A great compact digital camera April 1, 2008
J. Baskett (Auburn, WA USA)
30 out of 32 found this review helpful
This a great compact digital camera. The pictures are clear and crisp. Images are not blurred and are vry good quality. Took it with me to the opening day of baseball season and I have had numerous folks comment on the quality of pictures this camera took and these comments were from folks that could care less about the game but were more amazed at the quality of the picture. There many different modes you can use to enhance your picture or correct red eye.
I did a lot of research on the camera I wanted. Even bought another camera and took it back after having it for one day. I'm glad I went with the Olympus because it is our second Olympus after about 8 years and
our prior Olympus is still a very good camera.
I did find it less expensive at Office Depot($149.99) and bought it there.
I love this new LCD monitor! March 24, 2008
Alfred Voytek (Lake Worth, Florida)
19 out of 22 found this review helpful
Olympus FE-340 8MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Zoom (Silver)
This is my third Olympus camera. I love them all. The previous camera, a Stylus 600, is a good camera. However,in sunlight, the LCD monitor was not easy to see. The FE-340's monitor is much improved. Also, this camera has many new features, like the 5X optical zoom that the other cameras do not have. This is the best camera I ever had.
Alfred Voytek, Lake Worth, Florida.
 Cool features but bad photo quality May 18, 2008
K. Rousseau
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
I recently bought this camera after testing it in several different stores. I was drawn to the many different options avaiable to choose from, including the one that automatically takes the photo as soon as the subject smiles. The colours on the large LCD screen were beautiful and extremely close to the items I took pictures of. So I bought the camera, thinking I would be very happy with it.
That night, I took quite a few photos indoors and, the next day, took some shots outside. I also experimented with the macro and supermacro modes and finally uploaded all the pictures to the computer. I thought there was some sort of error in uploading when I saw how most of the pictures looked. I deleted them from the computer and reloaded them, hoping that that there had been some sort of error the first time. Unfortunately, that was not the case.
The photos were very washed out once on the computer as well as when they were printed, though they had appeared beautifully on the screen. After checking around, I found that this seems to be a major plague of this camera. Also, though the macro mode produced some good phtots (despite the colouration), the supermacro mode produced photos of very poor quality.
I give this camera 3 stars mainly because of how easy it is to use and the many different settings available, as well as the decent speed of taking photos. However, the fact that the actual pictures are not of very decent quality knocks off a star and the other lost star is due to the fact that many of the available settings don't really add much to the camera overall. For instance, the mode that takes a photo instantly once the subject smiles does not operate that well. The subject must stay still for a few seconds and, if they move even slightly, the camera will have to reposition and reset itself before it takes the picture, wasting quite a bit of time in the process. However, since the actual picture quality is more important than the bells and whistles, I returned this camera shortly after purchasing it.
 I did not like this camera. April 26, 2008
Joyce Awramik (San Diego, CA United States)
16 out of 23 found this review helpful
I am a fan of Olympus products, and have owned 5 previous Olympus digital cameras. I was hoping this model would become my new primary photo machine. The price was right, I was attracted by the nifty BLUE color: But dissappointment set in after I took it out of the box. The two features that caused me to return the camera are:
#1) the telephoto control is awkward, a pin head sized ball on the front of the camera. I don't know why Olympus decided to get away from the eminently sensible toggle switch on the back which the right thumb could toggle while holding the camera steady with two hands.
#2) was the killer though. Whenever the camera was turned off, when you turn it back on it resets itself to the AUTO setting. It didn't hold my setting of FLASH OFF. That resulted in an embarrassing moment in a very solemn situation where expressly there was NO FLASH ALLOWED.
At that moment, I knew the camera was going back to the store.
I want a camera that holds MY settings, not reverts to the default.
 So Much Bang For The Buck! April 5, 2008
A. Ramos (USA)
14 out of 18 found this review helpful
After 26 years of being in the hobby of photography, I have already outgrown the stage where I thought that the best cameras were simply the ones with the most number of bells and whistles. There was a time when I wouldn't even consider something inexpensive, thinking that surely it's features weren't the latest. Maturity has given me the wisdom of realizing that as far as my point and shoots were concerned (and I've had so many of these through the years), I have never really availed of much of these whatchamacallit features! The point of having a point and shoot, after all, is to be able to just point and shoot (and leave all the adjustings with your SLRs)! A few days ago, I ordered the affordable (inexpensive, not cheap) Olympus FE-340 and FE-290. Yes, I ordered both of them! I was attracted by the 5x optical zoom of the FE-340 and the 4x (with wide-angle) optical zoom of the FE-290, and I couldn't decide which one I wanted more. Well, it turns out that the combined price of both units were still less than the price of one comparable unit of another brand. More importantly, I simply trust the lens of the Olympus since I know that it is a long-time optical company that created an optical product, not just an electronics company that decided to dabble in cameras.
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