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Summary: I have been absolutely pleased with this camera!
Review: I went from a Ricoh 35mm...to the Olympus 360. I LOVE THIS CAMERA! My five-year-old gets to take pictures uninhibited with my supervision and without dollar signs going through my head in regards to all of the film being used. I love being able to take any and all pictures that I want, downloading to my pc, and erasing them from the disk in the camera. It comes with an 8mb (allows 36 pics) camedia card but I did end up buying an additional 16mb (allows 72 pics) because I just wanted an additional card in case of a big event. The camera has probably already paid for itself because of all of the money saved in film development. I love being able to immediately e-mail pictures once they have been downloaded to the pc. I always carry a spare set of AA batteries because the camera does go through them quickly. I have been very happy with my purchase.
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Summary: need help
Review: i love my olympus 360--but i have a big problem i have lost my cd that hooks my pc.(had work done on pc and they took off my camera. some how i have managed to loose my book on how to use the camera with pc. do not know how to contact olympus can anyone help me please
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Summary: Not worthy of the trash heap!
Review: This camera has a very log shutter lag (meaning it takes several seconds from the time you press the button until when the actual picture is taken). Within 6 months of purchase, it suddenly stopped working. After getting it repaired from this still mysterious malady, it never took as good of pictures. My second D-360L exhibited the same weird shutdown withing 2 months of purchase. I would never recommend this as a purchase!!
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Summary: Great Camera, but eats up batteries
Review: This is a great camera if you are just starting off... but I must say, beware of using the LCD screen too much, it will eat up your batteries. I personally like to view the my pics right away and use the LCD screen to take pics so the short battery life was getting on my nerves. But all in all, it is a good camera.
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Summary: A review from a Macintosh user
Review: Our IT vendor ordered this for me 3 years ago (yes, the camera has been out that long... makes you think, doesn't it) when I told him I didn't know anything, but I needed a digital camera in a hurry.Having been new to the world of digital cameras at the time, I was easily impressed when I opened the package. They advertise the camera as being Mac compatible via a serial port. Well, Macs haven't shipped with serial ports for YEARS. Why not USB?! I had to buy a [price] adapter by Belkin (about the only one in existance that would connect this camera to my G3 at the time). The images download SLOOOOOOOW via a serial port. USB is a much faster architecture. Of course, firewire is 100 times faster than USB, but since Windows hasn't caught up to the technical advances of Mac yet, USB would have been sufficient for a cross-platform market. When you're using Olympus's proprietary software to download the images from your camera, you can't do anything else... it does not function in the background. Very sloppy programming... no need for such a simple process to take up so much of the system heap. The camera uses 4 (four) AA batteries, which add to the weight of the camera significantly. If you use the LED screen in the back of the camera, prepare to carry an additional 12 AA batteries with you for a day-long shoot, because you're going to be changing batteries at least 3 times in order to shoot a single day on a vacation... this camera eats batteries for breakfast. This also applies if you use the flash. There is very little warning that the batteries are low... when there is almost no juice left, a pitiful battery icon will flash briefly in the view finder and then that's it. This camera does not use rechargable batteries.... About 8 months after owning this camera, I started noticing a delay in response time. I'd click on the shutter release and a full second and a half would pass before the picture would be taken. This is too much of a delay! The picture should take immediately... just like it does on a 1955 Brownie Hawkeye. If I'm trying to shoot an action shot or an animal or a child, every split second matters... when I click, the picture should be taken immediately, not a week later. Fresh batteries don't make a difference in the delay. The camera does take some half-way decent 640x480 JPEG shots, but the camera is slow in writing them to disk, which means you can't take the photos quickly in succession. You also can't delete a bad shot on the camera, so even if a shot is awful, you're stuck with it until you load the disk into the computer to delete the shot... which means you have to wait for the ENTIRE roll of shots to load into the program and download in order to even delete them. There are some great bargains to be had in the computer world.... This is not the case with digital cameras. You truly get what you pay for. After being exposed to some very nice digital still cameras and digital camcorders, I can confidently say that this little Olympus is one of the worst I've ever used, and should definitely be a last choice for anyone using a Macintosh.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: If you are looking for a great little digital camera, get this. Not expensive, easy to operate and using the super high quality feature, very good photos...
Battery life could be longer, but simply do not use the screen to take the photos and the batteries will last much much longer.
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Summary: Excellent value for money
Review: This camera is not state-of-the-art any longer, by any means, but it's an excellent buy, anyway. I have been able to get GOOD images of everything from Christmas lights at night to extreme close-ups of flower blossoms. I have one picture of a flower 3/4" across that fills the frame! It will do a fair, but not GREAT, job of stop-motion, as well...good enough to get cats playing. The flash is extremely adjustable, and recycles reasonably quickly (less than 2 secs.). As others have said, though, it does eat batteries! A charger, and two sets of metal hydride rechargeable batteries, are well worth the investment, as one set of them will last about 100 pics worth. I dearly love having this camera available, and highly recommend it as an everyday digital camera for everyone except the serious or professional photographer.
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Summary: For Mac owners, total regrets
Review: If there were truth in labeling, this camera would have a warning label: "Mac Owners Beware." The fact is that this camera is not Mac compatible and after spending another couple hundred dollars on smart cards and a Reader-Writer, I've replaced the camera. First of all when you buy the product, they ask you to send in a card for an adapter to a Mac. Then they don't send it. When you call, they act as if you are the only Mac user on the planet and can't understand what you want. Finally, you give in to buying one of their Reader-Writers. Weeks later you receive it and then try to use it. It doesn't work and your Mac continually freezes and has to be restarted. You still can't down-load your pics. Customer service from Olympus is a joke. A major joke. When after a half hour you get through the system, they don't know the product and continually misunderstand what they're telling you. Don't waste your time trying to get any substantial help. This camera is not for Mac owners. This camera was a gift from my daughter. I'm sad that she wasted the money. I keep it because I can download it on to a friend's PC. But frankly without a zoom, the pictures are very ordinary and the camera operation is counter-intuitive (at least to Americans). This is a company in desperate need for some market research.
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Summary: USES LOTSA BATTERIES!!
Review: I love the camera and the software, but it uses batteries up WAY to quickly. If you buy this, be sure to get some rechargeable batteries, too.
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Summary: A fun little snap shot camera
Review: I love it!. Easy easy easy to use and the picture quality is quite good. I just wish I could figure out how to use the digital zoom. The menu option could be easier to navigate. The battery life is very good and the picture capacity is good. All in all I am quite pleased with it and glad I bought it.
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