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Summary: Pros, cons, and tips
Review: I like my Olympus D-390, but here are some faults I find with it:- doesn't use power from USB when transferring photos to computer -- drains batteries instead!
- no optical zoom
- can't turn on menus when lens barrier is closed
- no dock
- no battery charger
- must wade through menus to get to scene selector (portrait, macro, landscape etc.) -- wish this was on a physical dial like on Canons Stuff I really like - price ($... Cdn at ...)
- self-portrait mode, where you can point the camera at yourself (is this mode unique to Olympus?)
- lens barrier, which doubles as power switch (lower-end cameras like Kodak's often don't even have a lens cap)
- quality: 2 megapixels are adequate for 5x7's Tips
- by default, all the settings reset when you turn the camera off. Set it so that it doesn't do this (see manual for details)
- set the flash to be always off! On one shot it made my mom look like a ghost. Besides, with it off, pictures will appear as in their natural light.
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Summary: Good for the money!
Review: I received this camera as a lovely gift from a friend. I was very impressed when I opened it...really classy and tiny looking with a nice, sleek look and the cute LCD screen. This camera is very good with picture quality! It beat my sister's ... digital camera with the quality! It records short videos (no sound) and does the auto-picture thing (set it and it takes the picture in 10 seconds). It has great options like the redeye mode, landscape mode, night mode, portrait mode, and more! You can even make your images black/white, sepia (old ancient look), or normal of course. Good customizations! The bad. The batteries don't last very long. I'll say in about 1 hour of use, dead. So get some good batteries or at least rechargable ones to save you money.
Another bad. The zoom. The zoom is almost pointless. First of all, it doesn't zoom very close. Second, the picture quality is just terrible with each zoom you do. Because of this, you're almost without a zoom. Oh well. Besides those 2 bad things, the camera is A-OK! Worth the money and a great gift for anyone. Really easy and fun!
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Summary: You Get What You Pay For.
Review: I recently got this as a gift and it is my first digital camera. I am quite pleased with the pictures and features. You get what you pay for. To an extent there is slightly more noise than most camera's in its class but this can be easily corrected with noise reduction software. With a little patience and practice you should be able to get satisfactory results. My advice is turn off the flash and take pictures in ambient light as far as possible and hold camera extra steady. The pictures are good enough for upto 5 X 7 prints. Normal 6 X 4 prints are very good. The reset function can be turned off. Please get in touch with me if any wish to see sample pictures. shinebob@hotmail.com.
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Summary: You Get What You Pay For.
Review: I recently got this as a gift and it is my first digital camera. I am quite pleased with the pictures and features. You get what you pay for. To an extent there is slightly more noise than most camera's in its class but this can be easily corrected with noise reduction software. With a little patience and practice you should be able to get satisfactory results. My advice is turn off the flash and take pictures in ambient light as far as possible and hold camera extra steady. The pictures are good enough for upto 5 X 7 prints. Normal 6 X 4 prints are very good. The reset function can be turned off. Please get in touch with me if any wish to see sample pictures. shinebob@hotmail.com.
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Summary: Warning! Battery Eater with Slow Shutter Speed!
Review: I recently went on vacation and used this camera (my Mother's) since mine was in the shop. I didn't have my rechargable batteries with me and boy did I pay - and pay and pay for new batteries over and over. (Four day trip!) Although the pictures turned out fairly good, the shutter speed was very disappointing to me. There was a good 2 or 3 seconds after pressing the button before the picture actually took. When you are trying to take a picture of someone snowboarding or skiing, in 2 - 3 seconds, that sucker is down the hill and you've got a nice picture of snow. I came home with too many pictures of snow!
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Summary: Warning! Battery Eater with Slow Shutter Speed!
Review: I recently went on vacation and used this camera (my Mother's) since mine was in the shop. I didn't have my rechargable batteries with me and boy did I pay - and pay and pay for new batteries over and over. (Four day trip!) Although the pictures turned out fairly good, the shutter speed was very disappointing to me. There was a good 2 or 3 seconds after pressing the button before the picture actually took. When you are trying to take a picture of someone snowboarding or skiing, in 2 - 3 seconds, that sucker is down the hill and you've got a nice picture of snow. I came home with too many pictures of snow!
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Summary: Keep Looking
Review: I use a Olympus D-360 at work and love it. When the D-390 came out, I was first in line to buy one. This camera is horrible. I prefer my daughters $15.00 Barbie camera. It's easier to use and takes better pictures.
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Summary: Excellent bargain camera
Review: I was looking for a decent but inexpensive digital camera and I gave this Olympus a try. I am very happy with this unit with one exception; it has a delay after you press the shutter button which means you have to be ready for action pictures. Once you get used to that, it will give you very good pictures and ease of use in a compact size. This is a camera for beginners or intermediate users. The memory cards seem to be a bit more expensive that competitors but in this price range, you probably won't buy many. In this price range this camera will be hard to beat.
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Summary: Fantastic camera for the price
Review: I've checked out many digital cameras in the under $250 dollar price range, and this one really performs the best. I've only had it for a small amount of time and already see how many times better it is than my older HP 1.3 mgpxl digital camera. It's xD picture card is very lightweight and small and is easily accessible. The auto connect USB has worked just as well requiring NO DRIVERS to install and transfer files. The Video Out port also has worked quite well in displaying pictures. The snapshot button to take the pictures does not have that awful delay that other digital cameras seem to be plagued with. The batteries do not last very long if you're using standard alkaline so NIMH is heavily recommended, or the lithium CR-V3. Even with the batteries installed and the xD media card, the camera was very lightweight and compact, easily slippable into a pocket. The pictures that I've taken so far have come out beautiful. Even the digital zoom did a pretty good job of maintaining picture quality while using it due to Olympus' good interpolation algorithm. At 2.5x digital zoom, the pictures still looked very printable. It also offers a lot of adjustable settings from white-balance, flash settings, contrast, brightness, other editable effects built-in, and program modes to manually get the optimal picture, or everything can be in AUTO mode to easily take the pictures. The interface is easy to use and efficient. The pictures tend to take a little bit of time longer than what I would like to store them (about 5 seconds) for the higher quality pictures, but even this is still reasonable. The 2 megapixels are enough for any casual user and the price ... cannot be beat. Overall I greatly recommend this camera for anyone looking for the biggest bang for the buck in this price range.
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Summary: Overall good camera for the money
Review: I've had mine for about a month now and I am generally impressed. I bought it primarily for taking pictures of stuff for auctions, but have discovered that it works well as a general purpose camera. In particular, it is good at catching quality pictures in less-than-ideal conditions. For instance, the other day I was out getting tossed around in a small boat on the ocean trying to take a picture of another small boat that was also getting tossed all around. Even though both the camera and the target of the photos were in constant motion, the images were sharp. It also does a pretty good job of balancing color in lighting conditions ranging from blindingly bright sunlight on the water to dark restaurants. I do have a couple gripes with it. Most annoying is that it forgets your settings, such as whether to flash, image resolution, etc, every time you turn it off. This is really a pain since in many case these settings are only available by navigating menus and if you want to quickly grab a picture you're stuck with it's defaults. Also, it really does eat batteries -- forget about using alkalines -- get several sets of 1850mAh or better NI-MH rechargables.
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