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Summary: Solid digital camera at a decent price!
Review: I'll echo most of the other reviews here: like the D-450Z, the D-460Zis a great digital camera for the price. Though I disliked the switchto the cheaper plastic housing with this model, the increased ease of use when navigating the menus more than makes up for it. Like the previous camera, you still get high-quality digital pictures with a number of features including red-eye removing flash, television display of pictures, 3x optical (lens) and 2x digital (computer) zoom, and a host of other features which make this camera one of the best in it's class. But since the earlier releases in this line, digital camera technology has increased while price has decreased (thanks in a large part to earlier models in this line, which took the market by storm). You can now get cameras with a higher level of megapixels and resolution for about the same price as the D-460Z such as Nikon's Coolpix 800 and the Kodak DC280. You should go to your local. . . consumer electronics store and look at ALL of your choices before deciding on which model to purchase (and then purchase it on-line because it is cheaper ;). Even though the D-460Z is no longer "cutting edge," I still believe it has enough features and stunning quality to let it surpass many of the other choices in its class. Accessories: Expect to spend a few hundred dollars in additional accessories for this camera. I recommend at least 8 NiMH rechargable batteries for power (which you can buy on-line or at your local supermarket), a USB Smartmedia reader if your computer supports USB (this greatly decreases SLOW picture transfer times from the camera to the computer), and a "soft" protective case for the camera (the Olympus soft leather case is nice but over-priced unless you get it on sale). As well, 2 additional 32 meg or a 64 meg SmartMedia card is useful, and will allow you to take a vacation's worth of pictures without have to delete any (at least at the rate I take pictures). The camera lets you take a little more than 2x the SmartCard's megs in super-high quality, compressed images. You can buy these on-line at places like amazon.com... but the Olympus-brand accessories tend to go out of stock quickly. Note: the SmartMedia cards will eventually wear out, though you'll be able to take tens of thousand (or even hundreds of thousands) of pictures before this happens if you buy a decent-quality card.
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Summary: Wow was I surprised!
Review: D460 birthday gift...In 10 minutes I was foolng with it; made a few mistakes (picture of the sky, the ground, a fence)read the manual got it right the 2nd time, flash and all...showed my grandsons their picts, soon I was taking everyones picts. Solid construction (the noise from the zoom lens should be expected, don't know why that person didn't like it)Don't have to fool with dropping off that cassete anymore but I still love my regular camera too!
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Summary: The Olympus 460 is a good point and shoot camera.
Review: I bought the 460 because I wanted a digital camera that I could stick in my pocket but one that I could also expect to take respectable pictures. On the first count, with the built in lense shield, the camera is easy to 'bring along'. My expectations have been generally exceeded on the second count. The camera was purchased in time to document a fantastic mixture of daffodils at their peak. The camera's macro mode produces stunning pictures, the detail and contrast of a bloom that fills the frame is beautiful. My guess was and is that the apparent price premium for this camera goes towards premium optics that only a company like Olympus knows how to engineer. Color rendition is equally impressive, only flesh tones under flash seem to be a bit off, and fortunately in the warm direction. Otherwise, my expectations have been exceeded, it's comparable to 35mm negative film. And I haven't noticed any significant distortions either. My comparison shopping indicated that the flashes of all cameras in this range have a 13 foot range. I was hoping that the capability to quadruple the effective ISO to 500 would extend the usable range to 26 feet. So far, after 250 pictures, I have found the noise in a picture taken at ISO 500 renders low quality pictures. I haven't experimented much with ISO 250. The camera seems to be slow to focus, or I'm too impatient, one must wait for the green light in the view finder to confirm focus has been found or fuzzy pictures result. But this is no SLR, it's a point and shoot concept and one that, given good lighting, takes fantastic pictures. I printed a still life on a Textronix Phaser wax printer at 8x10 and was amazed that I got a frameable picture. I didn't expect this it at only 1.3Meg pixels! By the way, it runs just fine on AA NiMH batteries from Target or Radio Shack.
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Summary: Take these reviews with a grain of salt
Review: D460Z is very unlike the 450Z and it is made of cheap plastic. Ofcourse, the menu has improved but the overall quality has declined. I noticed the following: 1. Camera body is made of cheap plastic 2. The zoom lens makes an annoying noise when you turn the camera on! 3. Price is falling down like a rock....
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Summary: Excellent pictures/improved menu and easy to use
Review: The D460Z is an improved D450Z with much better menu manuevering, easy to use and takes great pictures. If you buy accesories, get a battery recharger for AA batteries and 4-8 Nmh(Nickel Metal Hydride) AA batteries(Thomas Distributing- on the Internet for the batteries and the charger and adapter if you think you need a 120v adapter but should'nt if you have a USB card reader) PLUS the USB card reader....The pictures this camera takes are comparable to a 35 mm if printed out on a good printer such as the Epson 700 or 750. Lot's of fun, easy to use....
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Summary: Accessories to get more from your D460
Review: Having just picked up a D460 and really enjoying it, I was interested in how to shoot more and upload faster. Under the D450 reviews, several users recommend getting a flashpath floppy adapter and NiMH rechargable batteries (these accessories are also compatible with the D460). In reading the separate reviews for the Olympus brand products, several reviewer suggest buying non-Olympus products since they are both less expensive and have more features. The reviewers don't mention where to find these products. If you are considering non-Olympus products, with your favorite search engine... for the fastpath use "flashpath and smartmedia" (since there are three types of flashpath standards, "smartmedia" is what Olympus uses). For the NiMH batteries use "MAHA MH-C204F" (the very informative battery review had accidentially transposed the last two digits, which yields no hits).
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Summary: High quality and easy to use
Review: I did a lot of research on digital cameras before I purchased the Olympus 460 ZOOM and I am extremely happy with this camera. My criteria were picture quality, advanced features and a price under $500. After a week of taking over a hundred pictures, I'm very impressed with both the crisp quality and true to life colors of each picture. It automatically adjusts to florescent, incandescent, and outdoor light. The selectable ISO settings makes for very impressive low light pictures. The panorama stitching was easy to use and very accurate. This will be great for taking seascapes while on vacation. I'm still on my first set of batteries so battery life is great. I read a lot of reviews on the D450 ZOOM before I purchased the D460 and all the small things that owners complained about were fixed. Olympus really must listen to customer feedback. The menus are easy to use, it remembers settings when turned off, they even ship three manuals in each language instead of one in three languages. I recommend picking up a USB port SmartReader or Floppy adapter. Also get some NiMH batteries and a charger. You're in for some great pictures with this camera.
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Summary: Olympus D460 Zoom is best easy-to-use quality camera out
Review: After an detailed review of Internet comments about digitalcameras, I searched store to store all over NYC looking for the bestdeal on an easy-to-use quality camera. I wanted a megapixel device that was compact, simple to operate, but with a few advanced features (macro, timer, etc) so that I could completely replace my Olympus SLR zoom film camera. The best deal was at........ south of midtown, for the D460zoom. This camera has a nice menu-driven LCD interface in addition to the top-mount traditional LCD "frame counter" display, so you can use it for snapshots or serious framed-in, carefully composed recordings. I use the HiRes mode exclusively, with a 32Mb flash card. It's a dream come true -- I no longer need to use a film camera at all. I can print photo-quality 8x10s on my Mac and HP Desckjet 970Cse for less than the cost of prints. Now I'd like to find a flash-card printer that also can display on a TV. END
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Summary: Great
Review: I bought this camera and the pictures are great. The menu system is also a lot easier to use. The best part about it is that the batteries last longer. Not only do I like the way the camera looks (there are some ugly cameras out there), but I like all the features it has. There is no need to buy a real expensive camera, this one works great (even with little light).
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Summary: Olympus 460 - Great !
Review: This little camera is my first experience with digital photography and it is great. It fitted in with my requirements, it was under $500, it has an optical zoom and a standard "compact" camera format. I originally intended to use this as our "quick shot" camera, but is soon displaced my 35mm SLR. Things I like. The battery life is really good if you don't use the electronic view finder (I don't). It can quickly take a shot and get it right, and the fill in flash works well. The optical zoom and macro facilities are very useful. The photo quality is very good. I cannot pick the difference between my 35 mm. and the Olympus 460 on a standard 6 by 4 photograph Things I don't like. The serial down load to my PC is very slow; the standard 4 mb card is too small, the software for editing the photo's is pretty rudimentary and the lens retract can get tangled up in the front cover it your not careful. You will need to buy a camera case for it and a larger memory card is pretty useful. I do all my editing with a different software package. Would I buy it again?. You bet!!
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