Olympus

Advantages: many
Disadvantages: None

...JPEG movies with sound Exposure compensation: +/-2EV in 1/3-step increments Shutter speeds of 4 seconds to 1/2000 second User selectable ISO range from 64 - 10000 (6400 and 10000 in SQ mode only) Powered by the included LI-42B Li-ion battery USB Direct-print with any PictBridge compatible printer USB connectivity for PC and Mac Other Box Contents: Hand strap Instruction Manual Warranty Card LI-42B Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery LI-40C Charger Olympus Master Software CB-USB7 USB Cable CB-AVC5 Video Cable...

Nazuku 11.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Olympus FE-250

A poor offering from Olympus

Advantages: Takes AAA batteries and....er.....er...hmmmm.... takes AAA batteries
Disadvantages: Awful screen, not user friendly, feels cheap and nasty, made out of inferior materials etc. etc.

...I needed a new digital camera and fast and only having the ability to get to Argos (because of the late night opening times) the camera had to be available from Argos. The other criteria I set included a minimum of 12 mega pixels, face detection, a large screen, powered by AAA batteries and costing no more than £100. With the large number of cameras satisfying my criteria I thought I would have no problems in finding something suitable, it?s just a shame the Argos in Norwich is so poor and seems to have very little stock, so my choice was limited. Since my first and second choices were out, I only had the option of three other models and the one I decided upon (without doing any research whatsoever) was the Olympus X-42. I had previously owned an Olympus and I was more than happy with it. I knew the Olympus brand and knew...

yackers1 08.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Olympus X-42

Sounds good!

Advantages: 16 hours recording time, small
Disadvantages: Cannot edit recording at a later date

...When I was revising for my GCSE's I recorded all of my notes onto tape. I listened to these as often as possible: when eating my breakfast, when going to sleep or when I was making cards. I found that this was very effective although I did have two main problems. First of all, it was a nuisance having to keep changing the tape for each subject (I only recorded one topic of a subject per side of a tape and I was studying at least 9 subjects each with at least two topics. So as you can imagine I had quite a few tapes!) My second main problem was when I played it back when going to sleep, the tape continued to whirr after the speaking had finished. So, for Christmas, I asked for a digital voice recorder and I received the Olympus VN 1000. It is small and has a clip so you could clip it onto your top pocket etc. The voice recorder is...

bluejules 14.01.2006 · Read review
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Review of Olympus VN 1000

1000 Tattoos

Advantages: Beautiful photography, loads of tattoos
Disadvantages: The text at the beginning is boring.

...I became obsessed with tattoos at a very young age; I would look for tattoos on people and often ask them what their tattoos meant and why they got them. Predictably at about 14 years old I started to want a tattoo. I pestered my Mum for two years solid and when I was 16 she thought she'd call my bluff. She marched me into a tattooist and told me to pick a tattoo and get it done there and then. She thought I would wimp out but I didn't and I still love the tattoo I got that day. I guess some people are just meant to get ink. Anyway, I digress the point in hand is the fabulous book, "1000 Tattoos". I found this little gem in a bookshop that was closing down for the princely sum of £1.00 although on Amazon copies are selling from £17.30 to £52.39. ~~~~~~ The cover of the book has tattoo photos on the front and back, the back being...

donnabroom 03.09.2007 (04.09.2007) · Read review
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Review of 1000 Tattoos (Taschen) - Henk Schiffmacher

Olympus - the peak of cameras

Advantages: Superb Quality
Disadvantages: Expensive and big compared to the compacts

...not got a lot of examples to show, but will include some. Quite simply, the results are staggering. The Olympus lens produces sharpness that is a world apart from your average point and shoot cameras. Since you can shoot and save in RAW mode ( that is a camera setting, nothing to do with your state of dress or outside temperature ) , you can load your pictures on to your PC and alter just about anything. ! If you were a setting too over-exposed, RAW editing will perfectly adjust that for you. If you think the sky is underexposed but the field was overexposed, you can layer the shots and edit the different sections separately. The possibilities are endless. 5 Costs and Bits xxxxxxxxxxxxx A year ago, a camera of this capability would have cost you £1000 or so. At present, it is available all over the place for around £500. What...

trevorbrock 31.05.2007 · Read review
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Review of Olympus E-400

Sleek and sexy OLYMPUS

Advantages: Great image Quality, terrific design, very easy to use
Disadvantages: none

...This Olympus FE-5000 with Resolution: 10 Megapixels, Optical Zoom: 5x and LCD: 2.7" with 16 shooting modes is a remarkable piece of equipment. it is sleek and stylish and will fit easily in your pocket.This is one of the cheaper digital cameras from the world famous brand. It has a great lens, which really helps in low light conditions. Its lens can capture light very efficiently. flash is pretty powerful for its size. Overall i would say if you have the budget to get one of these and you don't want to compromise the quality of your pictures, don't hesitate just go for it. Here's something that might interest you: All shutter delay times were about standard. A single photo took 0.32 seconds while five clocked 15.08 seconds. With flash, times were 0.55 seconds for one photo and 16.09 seconds for five. That's pretty good wouldn...

xenomorph1010 19.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of Olympus FE-5000

Olympus FE-370

Advantages: image quality
Disadvantages: none

...Camera Olympus FE-370 has a design of the automatic mode, you can use to specify the names of the shooting scene and you will be automatically by selecting one of the five permanent condition, landscape, night portrait, sports and macro to the desired. This camera also has a real camera is in all now. 16 to recognize the face and smile when you press the button and the camera will wait until the subject smiles before it in three consecutive images at once. Camera Olympus FE-370 has a sensor and digital image stabilization. Sensors to the image stabilization mode of life as a digital image stabilizer that second only to freeze action. Olympus camera, the FE-370 also showed that the effects of different settings in the same box with 4 preview on the LCD-FE-370. In addition to the three main camera on the previous mode, FE-370 camera...

ajun 29.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of Olympus FE-370

OLYMPUS VN-3100

Advantages: Record upto 36 hours, digital sound quality, compact device with mic
Disadvantages: Microphone not as effective as I thought

...The Olympus VN-3100 is known as a Dictation Machine, but I like to simply call it a portable voice recorder. In size it is not very big, thus being portable. It measures in at a length of 10 cm, a width of 3.5 cm and an overall depth of 1.7 cm. The top end of the the device has a depth of 1.3 cm and the bottom end which contains the batteries has a depth of 1.7 cm. The device is made in China, like many things are nowadays. The Olympus VN-3100 does not have a simple on/off button, but instead has a HOLD button on the top left hand side. To turn on the device you simply hold the HOLD button and pull it in a downwards direction. This in turn will turn on the device ready to be used. To turn it off push the HOLD button in an upwards direction. On the left-hand side there is also an area into which a USB cable is inserted in order to...

yassarikhan786 26.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of Olympus VN-3100

Pentax K1000

Advantages: Unlimited use
Disadvantages: Need to buy a flash separate

...In this age of high technology automatic electronic equipment it pays to take a step back to the simple things such as the Pentax K1000 camera. The fully manual 35mm SLR obviously requires complete user control but for the photographer who doesn’t want to be limited by a camera’s ability, this is the one for you. The only power needed is for the exposure meter from a small battery which is activated when the lens cap is removed. The built-in through-the-lens meter measures the average brightness of the ground glass at full aperture and then couples to the aperture, shutter and film speed settings. The shutter mechanism is completely manual meaning that the camera can still be used even when the battery is exhausted, with a little guess work for the exposure. The focal plane shutter extends from speeds B, 1 second to 1/1000...

hakkved 09.03.2001 (07.03.2001) · Read review
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Review of Pentax K1000

Olympus E-30. Still not up there with the big boys?

Advantages: Fold out LCD screen, Image Stabilization, Zuiko lens quality, Picture quality, Flash options
Disadvantages: Noise in low light, Too many buttons, Badly laid out, Too many gimmicks

...The E-30 is Olympus's own stepping-stone between the so-called "prosumer" models (what an awful word) and the E-3 professional SLR, being loosely comparable with the likes of the Canon EOS 50D, the Nikon D90 and the Sony Alpha A-350. It shares a lot of the E-3's features and has even overtaken the E-3 in terms of resolution, offering 12mp compared with the E-3's 10. Unfortunately - or fortunately, depending on your opinion - some of its features are things that serious photographers don't really want on their cameras and definitely push the E-30 towards the hobby photographers rather than the professionals. The E-30 doesn't share the E-3's weatherproof casing, in fact it is built from a plastic/fibre-glass composite material, which helps to keep the weight down and, surprisingly to me, doesn't make it feel cheap. It does look...

rabidbadger 05.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Olympus E-30