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115 of 115 persons found the following review helpful.
Great camera for value
By J Sae
I own 2 other cameras a Nikon Coolpix point and shoot 12MP and a 15.1 Rebel T2i DSLR.
For a 200 dollar camera, it in truth isn’t all too bad. 14MP and 5x optical zoom. Lens[ 4.7-23.5mm 1:2.8-6.5 ]
OVERALL feeling: (4.8 of 5)
It has pretty clear picture taking capabilites and is very USER FRIENDLY. Panaramic function works amazingly well. The camera itself is a outstanding size and looks pretty slick, it doesn’t look like a cheap camera. I think anybody would be happy with this purchase. It has a HDMI port and may take SDHC memory cards. You charge the camera battery with the battery in the camera, and the power cord is plugged into the camera itself, that is a nice feature, to not have to pull the battery out all the time to charge(like the coolpix i have). The buttons light up when touched momentarily and the camera has a nice power save option; all nice features.
HD VIDEO: (4.8 of 5) Not too shabby, volume is a little low, but im beauteous sure there is a speaker option. I noticed it today. It unquestionably is always a nice feature to be capable to capture video, in High Def no less. Only downside is that you can’t take pictures while video recording, i like that option on my DSLR.
Lighting: (4.3 of 5) you have a few dissimilar choices depending on location: sunny, cloudy, what type of indoor lighting i.e 3 dissimilar flourescent settings and 1 incandescent. Weird thing is cloudy works better indoors under flourescent light better than all the flourescent settings. Very slight exageration of the yellow hue. Cloudy whittens things up and makes the room look as if it were underneath regular incandescent bulb lights. All in all, you may place it on WB auto, and the setting the camera automati selects works better than fine.
I am rather satisfied and feel any individual else would be as well..and i expended 250 buying from an overpriced Postal Exchange lol.
51 of 51 people found the following review helpful.
Near perfect
By Old Jim in TX
I have employed cameras of one type or another for close to 50 years. Had my own darkroom back in the days of film. Have had digital models since 1M was as big as they got. Wanted a little one to carry around. Cell phone cam is just too much trouble and too limited.
Read all the reviews for all the little Olympus, Cannon, Panasonic, et al. Used my girlfriend’s Cannon. Decided that since an old Olympus E100RS Sports Photographers model was the best I have EVER employed I would stay with the brand.
I love this little thing! It is hard to hold still on long tele shots and I doubt I will ever get used to not having a viewfinder but I still love it. Have used it in Program mode largely and played with galore programed Scene shooting. Love the Super Macro best of all. Have a lot of outstanding close ups of my honeybees.
Does everything it is supposed to and does it well. People who have had difficulties using it just didn’t Read The F****** Manual. I downloaded the manual from Olympus’s web page as soon as I ordered the camera. I enjoyed reading in regards to it while I waited for it. Didn’t wait long. Amazon got it to me in record time. Ordered late Monday, used free delivery, still had it on Friday. Thanks Amazon!
I don’t like the software that came with it. Uninstalled it on day two.
74 of 77 persons found the following review helpful.
Good results for a reasonable price
By S. J. Bennett
This camera takes mainly good photos straight out of the box. There’s no real need to play with the settings which I like. My main use for this camera is photographing people, and I preferent using the ordinary Auto setting as opposed to the portrait scene setting – in portrait, the pictures were largely a little too pink. The frequent automati setting reproduces skin tones nicely. It does seem to be a little soft on detail indoors even though – you can’t genuinely tell it’s 14mp unless you’re outdoors on a sunny day.
One gripe is the processing speed – even with a quick card, after you take a photo it takes a good 8 seconds before the camera is ready to take another one. That’s annoying if you just missed ‘the’ shot, and then the next probability happens while you’re waiting for the camera to sort itself out.
The video quality could likewise be better – specially on the sound front, and it suffers seriously from over exposure in sunny outdoor settings. So don’t buy this camera if you’re looking for the best of both worlds, but if you just want good pictures for a reasonable price this is a contender.
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