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Summary: Kool Kamera!
Review: My name is Tyler and I live in Washington State. I got this camera for Christmas and it is my first DigiCam. You will NOT be dissapointed!!! Everybody who says that the cam doesn't save your settings is right, but most of the time you don't even mess with the settings and if you do, it's really no big deal to change them. I love the way you can hook this cam up to your computer with just a USB port without installing any annoying drivers (unless you have Windows 98 or Windows 98 SE).
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Summary: great camera, great deal
Review: think about what you are going to be using this camera for...is it to make gigantic murals that are as big as a wall this is not the camera for you, but if you are just taking normal pictures to show on your computer and want up to 11 X 14 printed pictures this is the best thing going for the money. you don't need a big expensive camera for everyday pictures. be ready to buy a bigger memory card the 16mb will only hold about 30 pictures and you will need batteries too, the ones that come with it are not really meant for a digital camera, rechargable batteries are best especially if you can find nickel metal hydride at 1800 milliamps. radio shack has them for about [...]. the software that comes with it is fantastic...get this camera. no one hould be without an Olympus Digital camera espically the d-390!
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Summary: Great camera
Review: This camera is absolutely great. It takes very sharp and non-grainy pictures.The batteries last very long on this camera (around 4 hours with the screen at low brightness), especially considering it only uses 2 AA batteries. The 16mb xd card won't be enough for most users, so I recommend the Olympus 128mb xd memory chip to go along with this camera. (Other brand cards will not support the panaromic feature) The camera uses USB mass storage, making it very compatible with every OS. This means that when you plug the camera in on windows, it creates a virtual drive and you can simply drag the pictures out of the camera. (Avoiding the horrid software all together). You can also store non-image files on the camera if you want to. The Olympus D-390 also saves very complete EXIF image information, which includes things like shutter speed, light source, date/time, flash on/off embedded into the .jpg. Many image viewers support EXIF tags and you can see these details. The manual is very complete, the only thing I found missing was tips for creating panoramas. The software included assembled the panoramas adequetly, but further cropping is needed in an image editing program. Disadvantages:
- doesn't rotate images automatically, even though it detects orientation
- underexposes images slightly, requiring a photoshop 'levels' change
- no AC adapter
- no optical zoom
- flash sometimes fires in bright outdoor conditions
- sometimes requires going through long menus to access a basic option (for example, macro mode)
- movie mode is low quality and without sound I'd greatly recommend this camera to anyone that's looking for a cheap digital camera that takes sharp pictures.
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Summary: Great camera for the price
Review: This camera is perhaps the easiest, most user friendly I have ever seen. I didnt even read the manual, and I have figured out how to navigate the menus, change picture resolutions, do video capture, work the zoom, and review photos. Transferring files to your computer and managing the flash disk is just as simple, as the USB mass storage lets you connect w/out drivers or software. Maybe one day they'll start making blue tooth ready cameras in digital SLR formats. Very easy to use. Great for internet based applications like ebay photos, propery viewing, and general photo taking. I love it. I bought mine for $50 from an online classified, and the camera came all the way from Antarctica. For those of you that complain that it resets to the default settings at power off and eats batteries, you're right. however, if you read the manual, or even search the on screen menus, it gives you the option to turn that off, and why in God's name would you not use a lithium battery?! Thats what all cameras should be using, and they last forever. Think people. Train smarter, not harder.
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Summary: Very good except for the zoom
Review: This is a great digital camera but forget completly about the zoom. Whenever (any condition) you use the zoom, you get a blurred picture. The higher the zoom factor, the blurrer the picture. The problem is so important that I would say the zoom function doesn't exist on this camera (I would had like to know it before I got it). All the other features are great but I'm quite disapointed anyway.
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Summary: Olympus has done better
Review: This is my 3rd olympus camera, the previous ones are 35mm, so this is my first digital. I have always liked this brand cause for the price you pay you get a great camera. My sister has the D-380 and I was very impressed with it. I decided to upgrade and buy the D-390. Kind of dissapointed to find out that halfway the fun the two AA batteries run dead (you wont survive a party without an extra set), the time lapse between one shot and when the camera is ready for another shot is too long, almost 10 seconds. Is hard to catch good images with kids because once you push the button it doesnt take the picture for another 2 seconds, and the timer is harder to program than in other cameras. My recomedation is to purchase de D-380, the previous model, is more user friendly, it holds 4 AA batteries and cheaper. Good Luck
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Summary: you get what you pay for
Review: This was my first digital camera and for the two monthes or so, I really enjoyed it. It's really simple and easy to use. Taking pictures of people? Forget it. It washes out faces and makes you look like a ghost. It also eats batteries. A new set of batteries once lasted me 5 minutes... or about 8 pictures. That is PATHETIC. I would reccommend spending a little more money on a better camera. Or else buy lots of rechargables.
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Summary: its not newbie friendly - default settings unreasonable
Review: well, I have an older olympus camera and I love the way it works and takes pictures. I bought this camera for my mom and the most annoying thing about this camera is it DOES NOT store your settings. If I change it to 640x480 resolution, it won't stay after I turn it off and back on. It defaults to 1600x1200, which is nice and all but not for my very newbie mom who will never be able to change it to the lower resolution. I mainly bought it so she could simply take the pictures, plug it into her iMac, and email up pictures. With the default resolution settings, she would be sending us 1 MB of pictures with 2 pictures. Not being able to store my setting is annoying and unacceptable. All of my other cameras did it just fine. For this reason, I have to return this camera and find one that can store settings or default to a lower resolution.
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Summary: you get what you pay for
Review: You can use the USB port for Windows 98 or 98 SE to e-mail photos.
Even if you are using AOL. Merely go to my album, right click on photos and place in My Documents or where ever you want your photos stored.STOCK UP ON BATTERIES! Or purchase a battery recharger.I know of several realtors that use this camera to photograph homes to list in the newspaper. This Olympus D-390 Digital Camera is a good starter camera.
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