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Summary: Functional and Affordable!
Review: I originally chose the D-340R because it listed more features than others in its price class. Now that I've used it a bit, I'm glad that I chose this as my first digital. Easy to set-up, easy to use and great resolution! Plenty of memory too! Great camera.
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Summary: Muy buena c?mara digital!
Review: La Olympus D-340R ha sido mi ?nica c?mara digital, la he tenido por m?s de 3 a?os y no tengo queja alguna excepto por dos cosas: 1. Si se utiliza la pantalla LCD para tomar fotograf?as panor?micas o con el zoom incorporado, las bater?as no van a durar casi nada. 2. El transferir las im?genes a la PC puede tardar una eternidad ?nicamente para ver el contenido de la tarjeta de memoria, luego viene el proceso de bajarlas al disco duro. Consejo: hay que comprar el adaptador AC de lo contrario las bater?as se consumir?n velozmente! Respecto a la calidad de las fotos, no me puedo quejar de nada. Excelente calidad y si quieren tener m?s espacio para almacenar... compren la tarjeta SmartMedia de 16MB mientras duren existencias!
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Summary: Great Vacation Camera!
Review: The D-340R is a great camera for the time it was created and marketed. Granted, it uses a serial port, but that was the standard a few years ago. I bought a multi-card reader, no problem with downloads now! It does use batteries, but only if you are foolish enough to try to run the LCD display window a lot. I bought a quick charger and a couple of sets of rechargeables at Radio Shack, and have had no problem. The controls are useable, although I've never been able to make the "Delete All" function work, it involves pressing two buttons at once. To noevilpeople: it DOES have a telephoto function, if you want a zoom, spend the money. It's rugged enough - I dropped it from a picnic table to the ground once with no ill effect. Again, this is an older camera, newer digitals offer more features. I bought mine in 1999, that was dog's years ago in the electronic world! I've used an Olympus camera for film, now this D-340R, when I upgrade to a newer digital, I'll get another Olympus digital camera.
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Summary: This is the worst digital camera i have ever seen, EVER.
Review: After a family member purchased this Olympus D-340R 1.3 MP camera, i will never again buy any product from olympus. The first problem about this camera is that it has no zoom. i cant stand a camera without zoom. that might be enough to throw it in the trash right off the bat. But theres more! This camera eats batteries like crazy. That is to say you put batteries in, take pictures for 2 minutes, and then it says the batteries are dead and wont let you take any more pictures. If you take the batteries out, you can use them in another device for hours, but the camera says they are dead. This seems to happen with only non-rechargeable batteries though, but still, thats another 10, 20$ you have to spend on rechargeable batteries and a charger, plus it takes 4 AA's when it should only take 2. The camera is also very cheap. The whole thing is made out of the lowest grade plastics i have ever seen. If i ever dropped it i am sure it would break. When you turn the camera on, the display on the back doesnt go on like it should. The shutter button is often reluctant to snap a photo. These features make it very hard for me to teach my not-too-savvy family how to use this camera. The flash also makes pictures come out terrible for some reason, and i always find myself shutting it off to save the photo. Not that the photos look anything better than terrible without it. This is a 1.3 MP camera, and a terrible one at that after all. Now we come to the worst feature, the software. This is the most poorly designed software anybody could make. Only a monkey could design software that was any less quality. First off, IT USES A SERIAL PORT! That might have been the height of technology in 1985, but anything less than USB is INEXCUSIBLE! This software is very picky and choosy about when it wants to see that your camera is connected to the computer. And it takes about 30 seconds to detect if it is. Then it takes forever to download just a thumbnail of all the images on the camera. And if you try to transfer more than oh, say, 5 pictures at a time, you risk having the software close on you. Now this might happen before you wait the 10 hrs it takes to transfer the pictures over the rediculously slow serial port, or after. I have it happen to me often after the pictures have supposedly transfered, but then the pictures are nowhere to be found on the hard drive, and i have to spend the 30 min re-transferring them. The people at olympus are obviously not your friends, because i wouldnt wish this digital camera on my enemies. NEVER BUY THIS CAMERA. But if you do, spend the extra 20$ to get a smartmedia USB card reader. It will save you the agony of using the Serial port and the Camedia software, which are both horrible. Also buy rechargeable batteries, as from what ive seen, all olympuses like to eat batteries like theres no tommorow. I would just like to emphasize again, STAY AWAY FROM THIS CAMERA. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES BUY IT, ACCEPT IT AS A GIFT, ANYTHING. If this camera was free i wouldnt take it. Well i might just to stomp on it 30 times and break it just to save anyone the agony of having to use it.
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Summary: Great camera - especially for the price
Review: I've had my D-340R for about a year and a half and I love it. It has alot of great features, is easy to use and makes great pictures. In my opinion, Olympus has the best digital cameras handsdown. I've seen a couple of reviews saying the D-340R was slow in downloading to the computer - I think that must depend on your computer since I've had no problem with this. As far as draining batteries - it is a wise investment to purchase a battery charger and a couple of sets of rechargeable batteries. They last alot longer and can be purchased for about ... for the charger and ... per 4 pack of batteries (I got mine at Target). I think both the download speed and battery usage are universal with ALL digital cameras. My next digital camera will definately be an Olympus.
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Summary: Excellent camera, but the quality of the photo is lacking...
Review: I have owned an Olympus 340 for two years and I've been very happy with it...but I recently upgrade to the Olympus 3040 because the 340 just couldn't give me the print-quality I was looking for! Frame a photo from the 340 and you can tell it is a digital photo. Frame a photo from the 3040 and you would never know it was digital! So, I love this camera and it was a great camera for me to learn about digital photography and to see if I liked a digital camera more than my old 35mm. But, two years later, I've found the need to upgrade. However, due to the significant price jump, the comparisons to the 3040 are not totally fair! So I still give the 340 a rating of 5 stars because for the price I think it is a great option!
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