Olympus C-150

The Olympus C-150 is one of the easiest point and shoot digital compacts ever. It's quality is better than 2 mega pixels would suggest. The quality of its images are often on a par with a digital SLR. Comes with a good selection of s/w for a pc.

Love the camera but disappointed in its battery use. Have to buy the really expensive batteries to keep it going. Even bought a recharger to power the batteries and still takes only a couple of shots before the battery is drained.

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!

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 with indoor shooting. The battery drain is less than other digitals that I use. The indoor shots with the flash are very dark exposures.

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 is the above average LCD screen at the price. Menus are OK and it offers a range of photo quality settings to chose from.

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.

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 zoom - but there's a 3x digital zoom, which is adequate for those of us who aren't geeks or professionals.

Whilst the controls are commendably simple, it's extremely difficult to read what appears on the menus. They could do with a zoom!

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 quick start guide which is good for us impatient souls.

I'd agree it does eat batteries - don't they all? - but rechargeables sort that out quickly enough.

It's almost a third cheaper now that when I bought mine and at that price it's a definite bargain. Also consider the Canon A60 off Amazon though if you want an optical zoom and a full manual mode.

But if you read the manual and practice a little you won't be disappointed.

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 the edges.

It did not work too good on indoor low light conditions using flash, pictures were too dark.

If you take a photo on flash get within about 6 feet of subject to get decent results.

Battery life is very poor, even struggles a bit on ni-cads (ni-mh) compared to other cameras in its class.

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 best quality which is still exceptional. I bought with the camera (as a bundle package) a 64MB XD card which holds approximatly 164 pictures on the second best quality setting. After reading several reviews on high battery consumpion, I purchased a rechargable battery set with a charger and as the complete order came to over £100 I recieved free delivery. After saying that the average alkaline batterys have lasted quite a long time and i also have heard that you can buy a mains adapter for the camera when uploading images to your computer. I was able to take my first picture in a matter of minutes and uploaded it to my computer even more swiftly. The software inclueded with the camera is also quite good and offers more features such as calendars for example. I do prefer my own photo uploading software however as I am more familiar with it. The picture quality you will recieve from this camera is simpley outstanding. I was origionally intending to purchase a 4 MegaPixel camera or higher but when I recieved this camera and tested it out I was amazed at the image quality when I uploaded it from the camera. It was so good in fact that the TFT viewfinder on the rear of the camera did not do the image quality justice. The TFT moniter is quite large and is very usful for browsing through the pictures and deleting bad shots although it very unlikely you will come across any.