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Summary: It hasn't let me down yet!
Review: I really like this camera - it's my first digital one and although I can't compare it to others, I have been very satisfied with the Olympus D-360L. I do suggest that you get rechargeable batteries and an AC adapter because the battery life isn't very long, especially if you're turning on the LCD screen a lot. The camera itself is easy to use and the manual that comes with it is helpful. I like the size and the design, but I do wish it came with a carrying case. The software that comes with the camera isn't all that great, but if you're just looking for basic tools then it will be fine. Overall, I highly recommend this camera - it's a smart purchase.
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Summary: A nice camera for the price
Review: I received this camera as a gift and was quite amazed at the quality of the photos. As stated in previous articles, the battery life is quite annoying. One set of normal batteries lasted one shoot/download and then died. I found that the new energizer batteries made specifically for electronics work wonderfully, providing me with 3 weeks and counting use of the camera. As far as bundled applications, they have a fine organizational and download tool, but their editing tool leaves a lot to be desired. You might want to get Photoshop LE (unless you have the money to buy the full blown version!). Also, the bundled cable left me a bit less than satisfied as far as download speed goes, so I purchased the Olympus Camedia SmartMedia drive (USB compatible). It is awesome! I highly recommend purchasing it if you intend to download a large amount of photos. Overall this is a great camera and I strongly recommend it (with the USB drive) for Mac or PC users.
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Summary: Great camera!
Review: I bought a cheap camera from Agfa, sent it back. I read a lot of reviews and decided on the Olympus D-360L. It takes great pictures for Web publishing. I haven't even used the maximum resolution setting on it yet, as only two photos will fit on the 8MB card, and I compress the photos for the Web anyway. I don't print pictures from it, since 35mm is so much cheaper, but I'd think 5x7 photos would look great with a good dye sublimation printer. I bought an inexpensive SmartMedia USB reader from Sandisk ($30), so transferring pictures is quick, painless, and doesn't eat batteries. As far as I know, the USB reader will work on a Mac, but I don't own a Mac. The only thing I wish is that I would have bought the D-460Z instead, as I really miss a zoom feature. The digital zoom on the 360 is not worth using.
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Summary: A Great Camera and a wonderful buy
Review: This is a great camera that is a low-cost but high quality product...This little camera holds 122 pictures at the lowest quality setting! It is very versitle and has many cool features, like panorama mode, digital zoom, etc. If you're looking for a good camera to start with, you can't go wrong with this. If you're looking to spend a little more, look at the next model up from Olympus -- it has an optical zoom (which maintains high quality, as opposed to a digital zoom).
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Summary: don't get if you have a mac
Review: I am still waiting for their adaptor so I can download the pictures I took in July! It has been 3 months now. They said it was mac compatible but failed to say you needed an adaptor which they send you for free. They fail to mention it will take months before you can receive it. Also it EATS batteries. I am very very unhappy.
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Summary: Not much to complain about here
Review: I'm one of those people who compares feature for feature before I buy, and end up picking the product that has the most features for my set budget. Well, this was an easy choice. It has all the features the competition had and more, for a very reasonable price. Quality resolution, nice LCD, adequate and easily expanded storage. Plus all the bells and whistles I never openly shop for, but secretly druel over. In fact, I only have one complaint, and that is that the buttons on top are not very self-explanatory. I'll get used to this though with some use, and even now, it's not much to gripe about.
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Summary: Worst $300 digital camera
Review: beside from its 2-way image output, and its easy-to-use features; this camera has to be my worst investment ever! first of all, this camera takes really really crappy pictures under the dark! my $40 digital web cam can take ever better pictures than this $300 under dark! secondly, it's slow! it takes a whole second for it to store to the smart media. and get this: it takes more than 10 minutes to store its included 8MB smart media! slower than floppy transfer! thirdly, as porbably all d-360l users know and are tired of-this camera consumps battery like crazy!! if you leave the lcd on, you'll use up your 4 AA batteries in no time! in order to get the full advantage of this camera, you must spend at least a few hundred more dollars for a bigger smartmedia card, a USB connector, and packs and packs of super-long lasting AA batteries(rechargeables last about one-half as long) why not reconsider an alternative?
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Summary: Great for the price.
Review: Whether you're new to digital or a pro, this camera is so easy to use. The software is easy as well as downloading them to your pc. I've taken some of the best pictures with this camera. The nice thing is that if a picture doesn't come out, you can erase and take it over. I will say that if you use the screen to take pictures, it will use the batteries much faster. So have many handy. Thanks....
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Summary: Highly Recommended, but not yet 35 mm
Review: Bought the camera a couple of months ago, as we wanted a camera that our 9 year old son could use to learn to take pictures, and we were wincing at the $7-10/roll cost of 35 mm film, including developing. Very good camera, with some limitations Pros: - Excellent images within the 1.3 Megpixel limits - Very good sensitivity in dark/ shadowed areas -- but contrast can swamp subtle shadings. - Easy to use for most settings. I had it up and taking pictures within about 5 minutes, although figuring out all the bells& whistles took a while. Panoramic pictures are very nice, although you have to be careful in how you compose the set of pictures to get good splicing in the computer. - Camedia software is pretty good, although there are better image processing software available. - Downloading is easy although somewhat slow with the serial connection. Cons - Eats batteries. Buy some rechargable NiMH batteries and a charger on your way home from the store. I keep a set charged at all times and swap them out every time I take the camera out. Works great that way. Very very seldom run out of power when using the camera. LCD works very well, but will drain your batteries. - Viewfinder does *NOT* show accurate depiction of what the image to be captured. Use the LCD for proper image composition (but doesn't work in direct sunlight), or be willing to crop the pictures on the computer - At low light levels is very sensitive to movement and blurring of images (not unexpected). - It's not 35 mm resolution; there are limits on enlarging pictures before running into pixel limitations. For point and shoot though, it's great. - 2x digital zoom is a feature of very limited usage. Figure you're buying a camera without zoom, and you won't come in with adverse expectations. Almost never used. Tips & Comments - We're getting almost 35 mm photo quality outputs from a HP Inkjet printer (PSC 500) and HP premium photo paper. The pictures look good on white bond paper, but the difference with high quality photo paper is amazing. - We've only filled the 8 MB card a couple of times and wished we could download the pictures to take more. A few minutes editing using the thumbnail display on the LCD can delete bad pictures and reduce the number of images on the card to take more pictures. We do download the camera every night and clean the images off the card. - Our breakeven was an estimated 30 rolls of film -- if we used the camera more than 1000 images we would have found it worth it. We took 400+ pictures alone on a cruise to Alaska, and then listened to a friend complain about the $150 developing cost they had from their 35 mm film rolls. - We had the policy of not taking "scenery" shots with the 35 mm since we didn't want to waste money taking pictures without a person in the picture. With the digital camera we just take pictures. The change in attitude to taking pictures is striking. We find the marginal cost per picture is near zero -- unless you print them out. That cost is around $0.10-0.25 per 1/4 page picture. Overall - Very happy with this camera, once we've learned its foibles. Its not perfect, but very good. When we're going out on a family outing, we now just slip the camera in a pocket and take it along. We take 10x as many pictures due to the simplicity of digital imaging and the quality of this camera. - We highly recommend it.
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Summary: There is no better camera at the price!
Review: After reading every review we could find, we ventured for the first time into the digital photographic world purchasing the Olympus 340-R digital camera last year. We were definitely not disappointed. The D-360L was the next step up from the D-340R. Then and today you cannot find a better quality camera at this price, outside of the Olympus family. The 360 has all the same features of the 340-R, but adds capabilities to adjust white balance, and tinker with spot metering, ISO and exposure settings. It also adds a nifty little zoom function in the preview screen, as well as multiple flash and file compression settings. If you want additional zoom power you'll have to step up to the D-460 zoom for about $100 more. It adds a 3x optical zoom to the 2x digital one and a higher quality preview screen. If you want to save more money and drop a few feautures try looking for a D-340R. They are still around at onine shops andit is a great camera on the cheap! All three of the camera have the same lens, megapixel size etc. Our journey with the Olympus started just a few days owning the camera when it accompanied us to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and Seoul, S. Korea, while we nervously left our Canon SLR at home. The camera performed marvelously. We found the optional 16MB flash memory card more than adequate for our needs, as we easily downloaded photos each day into our laptop. We were amazed at the quality of photos even in low light settings. We took shots at our conference including a multimedia presentation where surprisingly the projected image on the screen was readable! While staying in the countryside in a traditional Mongolian "ger" (tent), we shot an incredible photo of the predawn sky-- even the morning stars are clearly distinguishable! Arriving home we were completely satisfied with the photos shot at the low resolution setting when printed out on our HP Deskjet 895 using an Epson photographic paper. I doubt that most people would be able to tell the difference between the prints and a standard developed snapshot. The enclosed Olympus and Adobe software is easy to use and functional for most home use. You will absolutely love the Quickstitch utility that simply creates oversized and panorama shots! One of the only weaknesses we found a little frustrating was the variance between the optical viewfinder and the digital one. If you frame... say, a head and shoulders shot in the optical viewfinder, you will discover that digitally the camera sees a much broader area. Olympus should do a little better job calibrating the two viewfinders. Apart from that, you will want to invest in the NiMH charger and at least 8 batteries-- shop around for the best price. Also, picking up a 3.5 inch floppy adapter for the flash memory card will be a big time saver. You simply pull out the flash memory card, slip it into the adapter, and then slide the floppy into any computer. You'll save time and frustration over having cords laying all around your table, plus a significant download time. One last item-- Do you think a 16MB memory card will be too small for your needs? The 360 will use up to a 32MB smart media card, enough for 400+ shots at low resolution.
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