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Summary: Great Pictures
Review: After doing much research, both online and in print, I chose the Olympus. I am very glad that I did. It takes great pictures. Clear and sharp. It is truly a point and shoot camera. Not many adjustments, which makes it very easy for my wife to use. The software that comes with it does a great job. Everyone loved the great pictures from the recent Niagra Falls trip. In short, an excellent value and great little camera.
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Summary: Good Camera but poor Olympus Support
Review: After spending several weeks comparing the D550 with several other 3MP cameras, I bought the D550 due to price and picture quality, although I was close to buying the Fuji Finepix 3800 mainly because of the 6X optical zoom. I don't regret buying the D550 at all. It takes great, clear, crisp pictures, especially at the SHQ resolution setting. However, I can only rate it at 3 stars due to the fact that Olympus does not see the need to furnish their customers with a decent paper copy of the user's guide for this camera. They do have a 178 page guide on the CD that comes with the camera that they expect you to print out on your printer. Unless, that is, you expect to sit at your computer taking all of your photographs. Calls to Olympus Customer Support and Technical Support to get a printed copy of the manual were a joke. The only way they'll give you a printed manual is if you give they your credit card so they can charge you $10 for it. Come on!, online manuals are fine for computer peripherals and the like that you use only while at your computer but this is a camera that you take outside and with you on vacations, etc. The least they can do is to provide their customers with a printed copy of what they need to use their product! Two hours of phone calls (mostly spent on-hold), to their Customer Support and Technical Support departments were futile. Hope I never have a technical problem with this camera. I'd hate to deal with Olynpus support again!
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Summary: Buyer Beware!
Review: After we had this camera for two weeks, my two year old got a hold of it and from her waist height (about 18") accidentally dropped it onto our hardwood floor. It cracked the case and therefore, totaled it. I don't think ANYthing dropped from such a short distance to a semi-soft surface should be rendered useless, but it no longer even turns on. Olympus repair refused to service it. Buyers with small children or hazardous lifestyles may wish to steer towards a more ruggedized manufacturer, or at least one who recognizes a faulty design. I'm NEVER buying Olympus again!
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Summary: Over exposure
Review: As an earlier reviewer had stated about problems with the camera we to are now experiencing the same problems. Pictures taken indoors in low light were fine. Anything with window light or light from a light fixture became streaky. Additionally, pictures taken outdoors in any kind of sunlight looked completely overexposed.We are now looking for a different make.
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Summary: Over exposure
Review: As an earlier reviewer had stated about problems with the camera we to are now experiencing the same problems. Pictures taken indoors in low light were fine. Anything with window light or light from a light fixture became streaky. Additionally, pictures taken outdoors in any kind of sunlight looked completely overexposed. We are now looking for a different make.
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Summary: A good value ...
Review: At closeout price of $199, this is a good bargain. It uses the regular AA batteries (four needed) which means you don't have to pay high price for the rechargeable and you can get regular ones everywhere in case your rechargeable run out. The down side of using AA batteries of course is the size and weight. The image quality is good to excellent. It produces very good 4x6 prints from Costco or Sam's Club digital prints. 8x12 is probably the maximum one will want to go. At this size, although some resolution and other image quality issue shows, the overall result is still good. At 11x14, the image quality is only ok to decent at close range. It looks better at more than 2 ft away, which is probably the distance most of the people will look at pictures of this size. Speaking of resolution, the 1,984x1,488 pixels only produces 2.95Mpixels, not 3Mpixels is an odd ratio. While is may not sounds like a big deal, it is if you are thinking to get this one vs some of the 3.2 Mpixles camera. The difference in pixels is larger than you think. More importantly, 1,984x1,488 is an odd ratio. Unless you always make prints at home, or crop every picture the way you want, the Costco or Sam's will automatically crop the top and bottom for you! The camera offers a 3:2 mode to "solve" this problem. But the big problem is it reduces the resolution to 1,984x1,312. Either you use the 3:2 mode or your crop it yourself, the effective resolution dropped to 2.6 Mpixels!! If 4x6 pictures are what you use the most, you should think of this camera as a 2.6 Mpixels instead of 3. Like others have mentioned, the flash is not designed that well. It pops every time because otherwise it blocks the optical viewfinder. BTW, you need to use the LCD viewfinder for the 3:2 mode. You cannot tell exactly what image area with the optical finder with 3:2 mode. The color is very good but the contrast level is a little too high. This problem becomes visible when you print it at 8x12 and very visible at 11x14. The white balance under sunlight or flashlight is quite good. Under other man made lighting conditions the white balance is less than ideal. Would I buy this camera had I known how it actually works? Yes at [less money[ but not at [more money].
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Summary: Love this camera
Review: Bought this one from Amazon this year and I have taken hundreds of pictures with it. Have even had some shown on our local TV news show. Easy to use and the pictures are outstanding!!! I LOVE this camera!!!
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Summary: Mel_dude
Review: Excellent camera for the money. I bough my on amazon.com. Used it during my trip to tampa, fl. Got some great pictures. Does not perrforms fairly in very low light environments. Overall a great buy.
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Summary: Decent first Digital Camera
Review: First off. This is my first Digital Camera. 2nd off, since I'm not very old, it's my first good camera (all the others were disposable Kodaks from CVS, heh). I am completely satisfied with this camera. It does everything and anything I ever wanted a camera to do. So many different settings to change to get the exact right picture you want, if you are not satisfied with the first one. After reading many of the reviews on this camera, I find that many are having problems saving their customized default settings, and turning off the camera, only to turn it back on and have to "RESET" everything. Key word being "RESET". The way to fix this and not having to keep "RESETTING" your customized defaults is as easy as 2 steps: 1. Turn on Camera. 2. Push the Menu button, move to Mode Menu (>), scroll downto Setup, and change the All "RESET" setting from its default of On, to "OFF". Simple enough. Other than that, this camera Owns, and this is one satisfied customer.
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Summary: OUTSTANDING!!
Review: Have tried & used a number of Digital cameras, borrowed a friends Olympus and was so impressed, bought the Camedia D550 for myself.
Have just returned from an overseas trip where a large number of 'pictures' were taken, I am so happy with the amazing results! The ease of use of the camera, almost as simple as "point & shoot", and the quality of the images is truly outstanding - could not be a happier Olympus customer!
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