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| Value for Money | 8.9/10  |
|---|---|
| Reviewer Rating | 8.6/10 |
| Overall Rating | 8.7/10  |
| Olympus E-520 Digital Camera with 14-42mm and 40-150mm lenses |  | £599.00P&P: £7.95 |
| Olympus E-520 Digital Camera with 14-42mm and 40-150mm lenses |  | £577.63Free P&P |
Full review by
lauraflora
on 13th Apr 2005
User Rating : 9
Respect :
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Good Points: Easy to use. Few buttons = little confusion. Clear LCD screen. Excellent quality photos, indoors and outdoors.
Bad Points: Flash drowns out features in very poor light & doesn't reach very far. Screen keeps failing. Battery life with rechargeable batteries poor (I use normal ones now, they last much longer).
General comments: The Olympus C-150 camera is brilliant if you don't like faffing about with buttons here there and everywhere. With the screen open or closed the buttons have different functions. I got the hang of this camera within hours, and I've got some brilliant photos off of it!!
On the other hand, it does lose power quite quickly, and the flash does wash out pictures in very low light. In moderate light it's best not to use the flash, you can just enhance the picture with a program on your computer afterwards if you have the facilities.
I have also had problems with the screen on this camera. I had to get it replaced after the screen stopped working altogether. The new one was fine for a few months, but now it has started to not show the picture you have just taken straight afterwards, which I can put up with, as it still works when you're taking the picture, and when you look at all the pictures together.
Altogether it's a great little camera, and has as much on it as I need. Besides, I don't tend to need to take many photos in the dark anyway!
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Review by
Playpalm
on 4th Feb 2005
User Rating : 9
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0
The Olympus C-150 camera was purchased just before Xmas for only A$80 which is an absolute bargain. Applications are easy enough to use once the instructions have been perused. However, the only complete instructions on how to use the much vaunted 'panorama' feature are printed in Japanese. Bugger! Even the official Olympus site does not disclose how to use the aforementioned feature. Any ideas guys? Otherwise I agree with previous comments on the need to get a battery charger and the problems w ...
Playpalm's full review | 135 words
Review by
TonyF
on 20th Sep 2004
User Rating : 5
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0
I bought an Olympus C-150 as my first digital camera one year ago. I should have saved some more and bought a more expensive model. The picture quality is ok in bright light conditions but in low light levels, quality drops dramatically. Its realy bad point however is the flash. It is useless. At anything more than a few feet the pictures are dark and muddy. It is practically impossible to take an indoor flash picture without redeye. Battery life is extremely poor. Its one saving grace i ...
TonyF's full review | 118 words
Review by
mjwalks
on 27th Apr 2004
User Rating : 10
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0
The Olympus C-150 is a good digital camera i bought it in 03/2004 for a price of £55 in a shop in swindon. It comes with a 16 mb picture card. well worth buying. good quility photos at good sizes.
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Review by
wroglet
on 19th Apr 2004
User Rating : 9
Respect :
0
Olympus C-150 - David C2 must be a voracious reader if he finds the instruction manual too short: it runs to 148 pages! Patience is rewarded though, because it covers every feature in minute detail. Since it has in common with the menus the drawback of small print, it's just as well it's viewable in Adobe Acrobat with the zoom-in facility.
On the whole this is an excellent camera for someone just starting on the digital trail; and unbelievably cheap. I agree that it's a shame there's no optical ...
wroglet's full review | 145 words
Review by
davidc2
on 29th Mar 2004
User Rating : 10
Respect :
+5
This Olympus C-150 is a perfect intro to digital photography. The camera is a *really* nice compact design, it's pretty simple to operate, and generally the quality of the images are very good.
You get the best results out of it when you override some of it's own settings and compensate exposures etc.
It only has a digital zoom and if I was starting again I'd go for one that had an optical zoom.
The manual is short (a bit too short?) but adequate and it comes with a foldy out start here ...
davidc2's full review | 180 words
Review by
roger1952
on 24th Jan 2004
User Rating : 7
Respect :
+2
I bought one of these Olympus C-150 and at first found it to be a fairly decent digital camera on the whole.
When I started taking more serious photographs the C150 simply could not handle it. On close ups you are OK at about a foot, anything less than that starts to get fuzzy, a real close up of about 5cm was terrible. Still at the price it is not a bad camera, I would not recommend it for anything more than an every day snapshot camera.
Photo quality was OK, but a little hazy/fuzzy around th ...
roger1952's full review | 169 words | 4 comments added.
Review by
donutadam
on 21st Nov 2003
User Rating : 10
Respect :
+10
I bought the Olympus C-150 camera from "Cameras2u" who i had never heard of before and so i was a little weary. However, they offered exceptional service and the camera was delivered just two days later and it was very well packaged. It took me approximatly one day to master the cameras functions, features and controls and inclueded with the camera I received a quick start guide which was very conveinient. Inclueded with the camera you get a 16MB XD card which holds 32 pictures on the second bes ...
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